Reading/Leeds Festival

[IAceI]

For whatever reason - assuming I go - I'm massively psyched for 36 Crazyfists. Hope they don't clash with anything particularly awesome because I'd really like to see them live.

[Stevie B]

Bowling For Soup? AWESOME!!

[Colly]

I believe I would go see Bowling for Soup for sheer comedy purposes, much like when I saw Wheatus waaaaay back at V2001. Defo getting tickets this year anyway regardless of lineup, missed last year so well looking forward to it.

First time I've been on the board in about a month, but YI I still love the Nobby bongo picture.

[619 fan]

Just as a little tid bit that I'm sure many may not care about but The Ghost of a Thousand, at their gig last night, self confirmed themselves for Leeds/Reading this year.

[YI]

Apparently The Fratellis are self-confirmed. And Frank Turner, Offspring and Maximo Park are added to the 'strong rumour' list.

Also, it's basically 99% certain Radiohead will be headlining one of the days, as they dropped a massive fucking hint about it in an interview recently.

[YI]

UPDATES...I'm nerdy and bored, so trying to find Leeds Festival rumours, fuck yeah!

36 Crazyfists {Self-Confirmed}

Lost Prophets {Self-Confirmed}

Rise Against {Self-Confirmed}

Off With Their Heads {Self-Confirmed}

Anti-Flag {Self-Confirmed}

The Fratellis {Self-Confirmed}

Frank Turner {Self-Confirmed}

The Ghost Of A Thousand {Self-Confirmed}

Flobots {Self-Confirmed}

RUMOURS:

Arctic Monkeys

Kings Of Leon

Radiohead

Kaiser Chiefs

Friendly Fires

Florence & The Machine

The Rakes

White Lies

Bowling For Soup

Enter Shikari

Glasvegas

JACK'S "MOTHERFUCKING" MANNEQUIN!!! (Apparently from the man himself, but I haven't seen anyone else back it up as a 'self-confirmation' just yet...I would shit myself with glee, seeing as he's only done 2 sold out UK dates, I doubt his next time back would be a Festival, but it could be)

Placebo

The Offspring

The Zutons

Maximo Park

Edited March 19, 2009 by YI

[GA!]

There's a couple of good bands there, but not enough to consider going.

[Dingle]

FRANK TURNER!!! Awesome. And jacks mannequin!! Hopefully some more bands do it that I like though, but I'm still gonna go. YI, Los Campesinos! got any chance of doing it ya think?

[YI]

I'd be surprised is Los Campesinos! weren't there to be honest. I could see them getting a hefty boot up the bill, headlining Festival Republic (If Elliot 'fucking' Minor can do it), or midway on the NME stage or something.

Also, it wouldn't surprise me to see Frank Turner getting a shift from The Lock Up this year. The only thing is, Lock-Up/Festival Republic are roughly the same size, but given what the crowd was like at the Gaslight Anthem show (where he had a bigger fanbase/was fucking impossible to move during his set) I don't doubt he could put up a good showing in the NME tent. People really seem to underestimate (me included) just how popular he actually is. Yeah, he may not chart high, but christ, he has an abundance of fans (his crowd at the Lock-Up last year was just as big as I saw for the headliners, people spilling out the tent all over, etc).

A line-up appeared yesterday that had more 'weight' to it (like 'people in the know' backing as 'legit', and this is from a place that had last years first announcement about a week before) than all those other ones that crop up...I think it's proved to be bollocks (or at least some bands are just 'wild stabs in the dark') or at least I fucking hope so, as the first set of bands announced on it look fucking shit. :/

Edited March 21, 2009 by YI

[YI]

Little Boots and Black Lips...and apparently (from their management) Death Cab For Cutie are self-confirmed. WHOOOOO!!!!

Fuck even if Death Cab end up not playing, searching to find info (which I've seen posted at various forums by different people, but probably just people passing on info from one forum to another) I've found out they're putting out an EP of new material later this month.

Edited March 21, 2009 by YI

[Matt]

Kings of leon

Lost prophets

Fall Out Boy

?

Pigeon Detectives

The Subways

Arctic Monkeys

Kaiser Chiefs

Yeah yeah yeahs

Maximo Park

The Cribs

Vampire Weekend

Radiohead

Morissey

Weezer

?

Enter Shikari

Killswitch Engage

?

Bowling for soup

36 crazyfists

NME/RADIO1 Headliners will be Franz Ferdinand, Glasvegas and ?

Amongst those playing below (but not necessarily sub-headlining) will be TV on the radio, White Lies, Jamie T.

I think this may be the line-up that YI was referring to.

Ugh. Awful. Of those I wouldn't be fussed about missing any of them, but I wouldn't mind seeing Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, Radiohead, Morrissey, Weezer, Killswitch, Bowling for Soup and I suppose Franz Ferdinand. But if I didn't see any of those bands, I wouldn't be in the slightest bit disappointed. In other words, this year's lineup looks horrible.

[YI]

Kings of leon

Lost prophets

Fall Out Boy

?

Pigeon Detectives

The Subways

Arctic Monkeys

Kaiser Chiefs

Yeah yeah yeahs

Maximo Park

The Cribs

Vampire Weekend

Radiohead

Morissey

Weezer

?

Enter Shikari

Killswitch Engage

?

Bowling for soup

36 crazyfists

NME/RADIO1 Headliners will be Franz Ferdinand, Glasvegas and ?

Amongst those playing below (but not necessarily sub-headlining) will be TV on the radio, White Lies, Jamie T.

I think this may be the line-up that YI was referring to.

Ugh. Awful. Of those I wouldn't be fussed about missing any of them, but I wouldn't mind seeing Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, Radiohead, Morrissey, Weezer, Killswitch, Bowling for Soup and I suppose Franz Ferdinand. But if I didn't see any of those bands, I wouldn't be in the slightest bit disappointed. In other words, this year's lineup looks horrible.

No, that one was outed as bollocks straight off. I can't be arsed to find the one I saw doing the rounds, but it had Mars Volta on The Saturday, Placebo under Radiohead etc. And The Charlatans, Enter Shikari and someone else really fucking shit as NME/Radio 1 headliners (ewwwww)...but yeah, all of them released so far are absolute bollocks, seriously believe none of it. Yeah, when a band self-confirms, believe that (although some you take with a grain of salt as there's no real 'proof' as such, such as a message from Death Cab's management), but people who claim t have insider info are talking shit and taking wild stabs in the dark.

Oh and The Subways and The Cribs both WONT be playing, from the horses mouths...which is why everything 'leaked' so far is absolute shit.

[Stevie B]

So Franz Ferdinand have gone from Main Stage headliners to Radio 1 headliners in the space of two years

That's definatly one of the worse fake line-ups ive seen so far.

[Dingle]

As far as I'm aware, Morrissey hasn't done a festival? I hope that isn't the line-up, an I hope YOUR right that Los Campesinos! play it .

[NobBe Nobbs]

UPDATES...I'm nerdy and bored, so trying to find Leeds Festival rumours, fuck yeah!

36 Crazyfists {Self-Confirmed}

Lost Prophets {Self-Confirmed}

Rise Against {Self-Confirmed}

Off With Their Heads {Self-Confirmed}

Anti-Flag {Self-Confirmed}

The Fratellis {Self-Confirmed}

Frank Turner {Self-Confirmed}

The Ghost Of A Thousand {Self-Confirmed}

Flobots {Self-Confirmed}

RUMOURS:

Arctic Monkeys

Kings Of Leon

Radiohead

Kaiser Chiefs

Friendly Fires

Florence & The Machine

The Rakes

White Lies

Bowling For Soup

Enter Shikari

Glasvegas

JACK'S "MOTHERFUCKING" MANNEQUIN!!! (Apparently from the man himself, but I haven't seen anyone else back it up as a 'self-confirmation' just yet...I would shit myself with glee, seeing as he's only done 2 sold out UK dates, I doubt his next time back would be a Festival, but it could be)

Placebo

The Offspring

The Zutons

Maximo Park

Wow, I don't care about anything on that list.

I love my musical taste.

[YI]

Deftones (with stand in bassist) and Funeral For A Friend added as 'strong rumours'/self-confirmed.

People are bitching about the £175 price tag...saying that it's a £20 increase...I'm sure I paid around £170 off a ticket last year (with booking) and I really doubt I was charged £20 booking, as I'd have kicked the fuck off about it.

Edited March 29, 2009 by YI

[GA!]

People are bitching about the £175 price tag...saying that it's a £20 increase...I'm sure I paid around £170 off a ticket last year (with booking) and I really doubt I was charged £20 booking, as I'd have kicked the fuck off about it.

It's about £10 increase. I paid £162 from Seetickets last year.

[GA!]

Arctic Monkeys are confirmed headliners. Yawn.

[YI]

I'd happily see them. Yes, they're an 'obvious' choice, but come on, sometimes headliners have to be the 'obvious' choices. Apparently they're playing Friday Leeds, Saturday Reading. Which surprises me somewhat, as I thought they'd be Sunday Leeds, to 'send us northerners home happy'.

I paid £500 into my account this morning (and am now out of my overdraft for the first time in an eternity ). I hate having to buy 4 tickets, too much responsibility.

Edited March 30, 2009 by YI

[K]

This

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/7446/4255403.jpg

is floating round several forums, but it's proven wrong by the Arctic Monkeys website I guess.