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"Reading Festival"

Who's planning on going this year then? The band line-up this year looks absolutely superb, with a little bit of everything to keep the moaning people with specialised 'tastes' happy. Below is the bandlist, courtesy of efestivals.com:

Linkin Park - strong rumour
The Offspring - strong rumour
The Prodigy - strong rumour
Andrew WK - strong rumour
Blur - rumour
Embrace - strong rumour
Foo Fighters - rumour
Garbage - rumour
Incubus - strong rumour
Jimmy Eat World - strong rumour
Mudvayne - strong rumour
Muse - strong rumour
New Order - rumour
Queens of the Stone Age - strong rumour
Red Hot Chili Peppers - strong rumour
Sex Pistols - strong rumour
Slipknot - strong rumour
Vex Red - strong rumour
Weezer - strong rumour
Alkaline Trio - strong rumour
Face To Face - strong rumour
Hot Rod Circuit - strong rumour
Saves The Day - strong rumour
The Get Up Kids - strong rumour
Weapons of Sound - strong rumour
A - strong rumour
Alien Ant Farm - strong rumour
Deftones - strong rumour
JJ72 - strong rumour
Less Than Jake - strong rumour
Reel Big Fish - strong rumour
Silverchair - strong rumour
Sum 41 - strong rumour
The Cooper Temple Clause - strong rumour
The Electric Soft Parade - strong rumour
The Hives - strong rumour
The Streets - strong rumour

Pretty cool, huh?

Small Frog wrote:
> Yeah, but Slipknot kinda cancel them out. In fact, the confirmation of Slipknot playing cancels *every* good band out.

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And they go and put them higher up the schedule than quality bands with half a brain/ear for music like Incubus and Hundred Reasons! For ****'s sake.

Good to see the Foo Fighters headlining though. They are Great.

Prodigy, Offspring, and The Streets. Looks like I'm going on the Sunday, then.

The Prodigy is the only band I'm interested in seeing out of that lot.
I think I'll pitch a tent in my garden, invite loads of Mancs round to get drunk and try to pee on my tent, smear myself in mud for 2 days and be too scared to eat in case I need to pinch one off in those chemi-crappers.

Yeah, but Slipknot kinda cancel them out. In fact, the confirmation of Slipknot playing cancels *every* good band out.

Pulp are playing. It will be great.

Ok everyone, here's the current confirmed line-up:

Main Stage
Friday 23rd August
The Strokes
Pulp
Jane's Addiction
Weezer
White Stripes
Dandy Warhols
Mercury Rev
Saturday 24th August
Foo Fighters
Muse
Ash
Sum 41
*special guests to be announced
A
Less Than Jake
Andrew WK
Sunday 25th August
Prodigy
The Offspring
Slipknot
Incubus
NoFX
Puddle of Mudd
Hundred Reasons

Radio 1 Evening Session Stage
Friday 23rd August
Feeder
Saturday 24th August
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Sunday 25th August
Spiritualised

Dance Stage
Friday 23rd August
none announced as yet
Saturday 24th August
none announced as yet
Sunday 25th August
The Streets

Again, this is courtesy of efestivals.co.uk

Personally, I don't think this is as good as the original rumours suggested, but then, hey, theres always special guests...

They're apparantly going to announce the full line-up on Radio 1 tonight at around 8pm.

POP.

Tickets are available for sale today, approx £85-90, and the final bandlist should be announced this evening.

Possible headliners are:

Elvis Presley
Nirvana
Jimmy Hendrix.

Might be someone else, though...

The be quiet, you fool. I was asking the people who have been before. If you haven't, why the hell would I want to know that?

Moron.

Small Frog wrote:
> Out of interest, how many people on the forums have done the Reading
> festival before? I haven't myself, so I'd really like to know what
> sort of stuff to take as 'survival' gear - what does it make sense to
> bring with you?

I have no intention of going ether!