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Full Reading 2008 Line-up

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by vilhelmvilhelm

The wombats followed by the enemy....

OFFICIAL.

FRIDAY

The Killers
Bloc Party
Editors
Paramore
Less Than Jake
Plain White T's
We Are Scientists
British Sea Power
The Subways
Foals

R1:
Manic Street Preachers
Modest Mouse
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong
The Ting Tings
The Rascals
Alphabeat
I Was A Cub Scout
The Rumble Strips

Lock-Up:

Gallows
Thrice
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Every Time I Die
Circa Survive
The Blackout
Poison The Well
Set Your Goals
The Ghost Of A Thousand
Broadway Calls
Blackhole

SATURDAY

Rage Against The Machine
Queens Of The Stone Age
The Fratellis
Babyshambles
NOFX
30 Seconds To Mars
Dizzee Rascal
New Found Glory
Hadouken
The Young Knives

R1:

The Cribs
Pendulum
Guillemots
The Automatic
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
The Paddingtons
Lethal Bizzle
The Kills
Art Brut
Cajun Dance Party

Lock-up:
Alkaline Trio
Pennywise
Goldfinger
The Mad Caddies
Skindred
Streetlight Manifesto
Sonic Boom Six
The King Blues
The Cat Empire
The Grit

SUNDAY

Metallica
Slipknot
Bullet For My Valentine
Machine Head
Enter Shikari
Serj Tankian
Madina Lake
Story Of The Year
Fightstar

R1:

The Enemy
The Wombats
The Go! Team
Les Savy Fav
The Courteeners
Frank Turner
Los Campesinos!
The Dykeenies
Blood Red Shoes
Tokyo Police Club

Dance:

Justice
MSTRKRFT
Digitalism

vilhelmvilhelm | 26 Mar '08, 11:04 | Send note | Report this | Reply

that's great


sunday seems a bit weak.

sure there'd still be plenty to see tho.
anyone up for pelting the enemy with poo?


The lock up stage

on day one is amazing.


i'll

second that!


Pretty good line up I suppose

but there is no way I'd want to part with £160 for that


ditto


If that's true

then I'm saving myself £150 or however much it costs these days.

What the fuck's up with having dance tent on only one day? Surely it used to be on two?


the dance tent

is the lock up stage on the other two days, i think it's been like this for a good few years now.

i probably wont be going.


i saw his yesterday

but where did it come from? it seems realistic, but i want official proof, and for les savi fav to clash with bullit for my valentine not machine head...


Digitalism -> MSTRKRFT -> Justice

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ME! :D


happy brithday ME


No, ME.


^ i agree, the first day for the lock up stage

looks great.

it's tooooooooooo much money tho toooooooooo many mediocre bands


NO ME!

(is the sunday your actual birthday? maybe i'll bake you some cakes!)


nofx, goldfinger

pennywise, rage
my legs are gonna be sore!!


plain white

bastard Ts on the main stage?! fuck off


See also

soon to be covered in piss.


dont you dare!

i want to see them.
:(


is this official?

where from?the lock up stage looks amazing.well the friday anyway


:O

:D


Pretty good

But despite living in Reading I'd rather spend £160 seeing the 1/5 of the line up I like at their own headline gigs. Sunday doesn't interest me much at all, certainly for over 50 quid and most the stuff I like clashes on the previous two days.


only the carling stage missing

and that had some pretty ace bands on last year.if this is official then i am happy.


carling stage

is the only stage worth going on at the end of the day. not looking too bad at the moment. fingers crosssed. my mate bought me an early bird ticket before i could say i didn't really want to go.


There's the

Unsigned stage at Leeds which is sometimes good to check out if there's nowt else worth watching.

Carling aren't sponsering it this year so I guess the 'Carling' stage will be called something else, if it's there at all!


there's only

about 3 bands i haven't seen and that i would want to see. really not worth the money! bestival yesplease.


queens of the stone age

above the fratellis and babyshambles?

hmmmm.


I've no doubt...

... that placing the Fratellis before QOTSA will lead to the heaviest bottling in Reading history.


looks quite good to be honest

especially presuming there will be a lot of good stuff on the Carling Stage. Better than last year anyway and I had a pretty good time last year.

Always amusing dissecting the line-ups.

Who the hell are Plain White Ts?
Who the hell are Madina Lake?
Are The Fratellis the band that have that really annoying song?

I reckon The Fratellis and Babyshambles will get bottled by the dirty metallers.


The Paddingtons?!

I DID not know they were still around.


awful


but though you swear that you are true

i'd still pick my friends over you!


awful

seriously bad


Utter bilge

The entire thing.


So much crap

But Queens of the Stone Age followed by RATM would be amazing.

You know Metallica would kill live as well. They don't do nothing by halves.

I won't be going though. I just hope Les Savy Fav in a tent is really shit.


^^^

Just like Foals should be in a tent, not on the main stage.


^this

i cant understand why they have put foals on the main stage


NOAHFX!!!!


I can't help wondering

how Modest Mouse feel. Sold about 10 million albums, massive in the US, guitarist used to be in The Smiths, incredible back catalogue, indie-rock pioneers, can sell out the Royal Albert Hall...but can only play just above Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly and Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong at Reading.


i think the first half of that paragraph

would mean im not really arsed about reading festival


the latter are utter shite

poor modest mouse.


Looks gash

But I can see why Queens followed by Rage would appeal to loads. Already the thought of five thousand sweaty 16 year olds descending on the Dance Tent two minutes before Justice start is enough to make me vomit all over myself


It appeals to me.

Well, the 16 year old inside me. QOTSA have never once let me down live. And I reckon they'd be as good the 6th time as the 1st.


......THE BIZZLE!

theres alot of pap on this line-up but also alot of stuff i would LOVE to see.
im not too optimistic about the atmosphere/people there though.
it's aboy from 15 to 30 festival.
TROLLEY TROLLEY TROLLEY
urgh


I'm 16

And I can assure you that I will be flocking towards Justice. Stereotypes are gay.


still though

where did you find this?


his mum


This is just a compilation

of loads of rumours and guesses on various other forums (namely Reading Festival Online and Efestivals).

It definately isn't the line-up. Although I'm sure many would feature this year, the stages/slots are complete guesswork (except perhaps the main stage headliners).

I know from Reading Fest forum geekery over the last 3 years that the Lock-Up isn't even booked till April at the least anyway.


way too ruin my mood :(

that lockup stage for friday looked/looks brilliant


Can't imagine QOTSA and Slipknot really that high up

Surely both peaked in terms of popularity sometime ago?

Tickets didn't exactly fly for Slipknot's comeback show at the Astoria a few years ago.


so?

the fratellis sold out like five nights at brixton academy or something.


But I hate The Fratelli's and won't defend them

Plus Reading is a 'rock' festival supposedly.


Really?!

Bloody hell.


so did Hard Fi

and Bob Dylan

ouch


i dont agree

both are massive in the uk.i cant wait to see slipknot :D (if they do play that is)


i think slipknot will draw in more people

purely as they havent sold out brixton or whatever for a while. ive never seen them and am not a massive fan, but id watch them at reading


Here's hoping the carling stage pops up with a few good names

The rest looks pretty shit. Stupid me for buying an early bird ticket.


Loc Up: Friday & Dance: Sunday

both look great. The rest - 'meh', bar the occasional Slipknot / Les Savy Fav


I don't know if that is right though

as the dance stage is normally on a Saturday at reading.


RATM

Alphabeat
DIOY,Y?
Les Savy Fav (just to see what fuss is all about)
Tokyo Police Club (for that single)
Justice

then home

no. I shall give it a miss.


i'd say the same really

+ modest mouse.


very impressed

pretty strong line up, shame the festival itself sucks balls


There's not one band

on that lineup that I'd be excited about seeing, having seen them either before, or just not bothered.

If I was 16 or obsessed with the NME i'd probably be wetting myself at the lineup. Far too much money too, I'd rather go on a week's holiday!


dont be daft

im not 16 or obsessed with the NME but i think its a good line up.you've seen RATM?


I was being flippant

but point taken. No I haven't seen them, but I'm not really as into them now I was when I was a bit younger. Still, I'd rather not pay $150 just for them.


^ i can kinda see what you mean

i like a few of the bands playing, but the only ones i've not seen before are MSTRKRFT, Poison The Well (who are both playing headline shows soon anyway) and Circa Survive (who i'm sure will play again)


yeahhhh i cant wait to see poison the well :D

its in a couple of weeks.8th of april i think.


Rage and the Cribs clashing

that would be horrible but its probably likely.
Les Savy Fav would no doubt make my weekend.
I do hope the kills, LC! and QOTSA do play.


PTW, London Barfly, 11th April

I'll be there. But i'll also be here.


It's okay...

but there's nothing there that gets me excited at all. Disappointing.


This has gotta be a joke?

Cos Alphabeat are on there.


That Friday Lock-Up stage is incredible

Not that i'll actually be able to SEE any of the bands, just hear them as a distant, muffled rumble.


lol

@ Pendulum


Who cares about the bands anyway

It's the drunken/come down conversations with groups of strangers at 3 in the morning that festivals are for


And also

Is it just me or do Editors play every festival ever?


that was to the strangers bit

not editors.editors are ok.but strangers are better.i wish i would learn to reply in the right place.


You did

My Editors comment should probably have been in response to the original post


why the hell would you pay £150

just to have "drunken/come down conversations with groups of strangers at 3 in the morning"? You could go to your local park for that.

(checks profile, '16', oh).


because you get a lot of bands that you like in there as well

(checks profile, '16', oh).

erm what?


yeah i know

i just wanted her to say something.i hate that though