Razorlite to headline Reading?!?!?!?
That's what Michael Eavis (if that's how its spelt) said on TV today. SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!! I will not be in the least bit surprised if it is true, what with Franz Ferdinand headlining last year. Eugh...Razorlite truely are the blandest of the bland and I damn well hope the other headliners make up for it.
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He actually said it????
It's hillarious how weak the reading line-up is in terms of big names compared with newer, supposedly, less established festivals.
Not that big names mean quality, but christ, Razorlight.
They're tryna do this more on the cheap than last time; Franz headlining and Audioslave replaced by Towers of London.
Fuckit this year.
There is a history of at least one
blandish headliner
The Darkness
Kaiser Chiefs
Linkin Park
etc
only in recent
years, reading used to have a quality line up! the last 6 or 7 years have been pretty awful though!
This,
should be on the festivals board, I say.
Hmmm
festival board is beyond pointless.
Reading
almost always has a GREAT line-up.
One poor headliner doesn't make a bad line-up
I've heard rumours
that Smashing Pumpkins are reforming to headline Reading. That would MORE than make up for Razorshite's presence. The headliners were awesome the other year: Iron Maiden, The Pixies, and The Foo Fighters (although I didn't acctually see them). Basically, I'm not gonna get my hopes up, or lose hope, until there is an officially announced line-up.
Pixies
Pearl Jam
and The Pumpkins in consecutive years would make me VERY happy.
it could be worse
i'd see them. when heavily under the influence.
America would be ace at Reading.
it would be fun.
you lot are miserable
even if the mainstage headliners/acts aren't good
there's usually something in the NME/carling tents to amuse me
i don't care
Reading is such a shit festi. Just drunk teens and smelly mud...
Pretty much
Sponsored by another faceless american pisswater company.
here here
Its also a weekend away for robbing chavs who sepnd their entire weekend pilfering iPods, mobiles, cash and booze from 16 year olds who are stupid enough to bring them to festivals (not the booze though, you need that to get through the weekend)
not getting out much these days sean?
lighten up
do I know you?
Or are you just using my name for personal effect?
yeah, idiots..
...who'd bring cash to buy food, drink and general survival bits and bobs with them when living in a field for 5 days?
FOOLS I SAY.
I think he meant
the kids who go these days are more likely to take useless crap like iPods, phones and other shiny electronic goods which are n't really needed at a festival. The demographic is a lot more "middle class child" these days, they pointed that out during the BBC's coverage of the last one and ran a particularly hilarious story on it.
And its more like 3 days in a field, you get there on a Thursday night, fri+sat+sun then leave on monday morning. You could well do it without any food, just some water and maybe a £6 burger on saturday, and definitely no ipod or mobile phone.
My mate was featured on that
Quite funny.
Taking iPods is ridiculous, who does that?
It'll be fuckin wireless internets next.
You remember it?
Do you perchance remember the girl who said "I'm trampy boho!" in the most horrific upper class accent? That voice haunts me to this day... Does anyone else remember her?
There's loads of kids like that though
I don't really mind them. They're there to fill the capacities I suppose.
I don't mind them too much
As long as they stay away from my tent and stuff. I was just wondering if you remember that particular girl from the report, I don't expect anyone to though, it was a while back now.
razorlight headlined
v last year and totally stole the show, its about time you geeks got your heads out of your arses.
who did they steal the show from like?
Katie Melba or someone?
i love reading
its (for me anyway) 90% about who you are with like
Katie Melua
is FIT. I hope she plays Reading.
Sorry to break it to you...
But Razorlight sux.
shut
up.
I was there. it was RUBBISH. it was full of IDIOTS who have no idea what good music is. The whole weekend I heard people actually debating whether to see kasabian or radiohead. As if that's a debate!
I left the silly twonks on the main stage to see the cooper temple clause in a tent. They were *fantastic* and I dont regret that decision what so ever.
oh no!
people are posh!
burn them!
and HOW DARE THEY LIKE MUSIC AND FESTIVALS?!
YES!
It made my toes curl and my fists harden.
That was about^^^^
The trampy Boho girl.
Ok, you misinterpreted my post
So I'll explain better. It was mostly against minority that go to the festival to basically rob tents. the crime figures for the weekend are always bollocks. Few reported crimes say the organisers? Firstly, its impossible to find anyone/anywhere to report thefts, and secondly, what can you do about it in a field of 100,000 people. I'd say at least 50% of the tents around me at Leeds in 04' showed some kind of evidence of having had people other than the occupants in there (be it thieved stuff, or possessions strewn in front of the tent)
Granted, you need cash and a mobile, but the amount of people you see flashing an iPod (a pretty ridiculous concept at a music festival) or a digital camera or assorted electrical goods is incredible. The combination of the two makes you worried for what you've got in your tent (I know people who've had their food for the weekend, their booze and their train tickets robbed, seeminly replaceable things but a pain in the arse anyway) And at a festival, it just seems contrary to the point, i.e. to enjoy yourself.
At effloresence_sean btw
incidentally, you guys railing against the posh people there, its not just posh kids, its just anyone gullible enough to bring expensive things with them...
anyone who says "festi"
doesn't deserve an opinion.
just sayin'..
This old chestnut again
I take it that if anyone's posting that they're unhappy about a Reading headliner, it's because they want to go to Reading. Right? Well...
There's four stages and it's physically impossible to watch more than one headliner (well, you could run between stages catching one song of each, but that's no way to relax at a festival). So, like, you just need one of the others to be a band you like and you're sorted! Therefore the problem is...?
except they stagger the headline sets
and the mainstage headliner plays for 2 hours.
Wrong (ish)
All headliners finish at 11.30. But yes, in that time you could watch the last two headliners on the Carling stage for instance.
But generally only one of the acts (the 'legend') gets a 2 hour slot - it's usually an hour and a half.
What's Michael Eavis
got to do with Reading anyhoo? He's Glasto. I'm confused.
It's all good
and to be expected as the average age of people at reading is about 21. Just like Franz Ferdinand last year. But it doesn't matter - you just go and check out the second stage, usually someone much better, and hold out for the other nights when you get gems like Pearl Jam! Which are there to please us old timers who go year after year and have a laugh and escape boring work (26)
21??
id say nearer 19
its getting younger each year
I'd say its pretty much bang on the legal drinking age.
Its all getting a bit 'My first festival at the moment'. It was my first and I was... 15? at the time.
same here
but i think its always been like that.
Better Reading than V
Slightly less cynical but a lot broader in therms of style and quality... for now at least.
Well, I'm 34
...and it doesn't bother me. Having said that, the average age seems to have crept up the last 2/3 years. Time was that people of my age stopped gigging after a certain age, but now more people are still doing it...
i think theres more older people there
but also more younger people.
to recap: there are more people.
i wait with baited breath to see what happens to the prices/lineups/capacities when guitar music goes out of fashion again.
Not much I'd expect
There'll still be enough people who latch on and don't follow the next big trend to keep it at capacity and the prices up at the levels they are now.
Don't believe me? Its the same concept that keeps the stereophonics around...
Either the original poster has got it wrong
or Eavis is spouting about other festivals which he doesn't have anything to do with, and should be roundly ignored.
I'm sure Eavis has some idea
of what's going on for other festivals but he's not exactly in a position to be confirming anything. Someone probably put the words in his mouth anyway.
I'm sure it's true though. Makes perfect sense. Will probably be them and someone else similar but slightly less famous on the friday then more credible headliners rest of weekend.
a link would be nice to back it up
but my guess would be that someone asked eavis abour razolit's chances for glastonbury, and he said "nah, theyre already booked to headline reading"