Reading/Leeds 2008

- bo -

Anybody planning on heading over to any of these 2 festivals this summer? Anyone here ever done them before? This year's festivals are on the 22nd-24th August.
Tickets go on sale Monday evening coming (31st) with the official line-up announced about half an hour before they go on sale. And they sell out in a matter of minutes too. Price is £155 (€195-200)
I think Im gonna try get a ticket but Im not 100% sure I'll go, having trouble trying to get someone to head with to it. So I'll either sell it off (which should be easy) or else just grow a pair and go it alone which does seem a bit weird to be honest...though I still have Rock Am Ring with a few mates so it wont be a complete disaster.

This is the rumoured line-up, which most people believe to be mostly true, although I dont think it's 100% as Bullet For My Valentine are down for the Sunday but have been confirmed to play the Download Festival.

FRIDAY

Main Stage:

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


Radio 1 Stage:

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

Main Stage:

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


Radio 1 Stage:

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

Main Stage:

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


Radio 1 Stage:

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

Mushy

I have a genius idea for this that, if it works, its gonna be so cool! I'd try and get a job there for it, as the Campsite Assistant person(CAT). Sounds cool, get to see majority of bands for free, have a laugh I'm sure.

WAs actually gonna start this thread myself here. Dont think I'd pay to go over though, as sterling is too expensive and all that. Thats the only problem there, otherwise, I think its quite a cool lineup.

Mainly would want to see QOTSA there!

Third_Echelon

Went to Reading in 2000. Had a great time. Easy to get to and the line-up is always damn good.

Saw Rage Against The Machine and Slipknot that year as well!!!

speedboatchase

Jaysus, now thats a lineup! :eek: And we get... REM

Mossy Monk

The new REM album is quite good. Wouldn't mind seeing them live this year.

speedboatchase

They're a great band, one of the best bands of the last 20 years. But IMO there best days are well behind them, they haven't been relevant this decade and I just can't get excited at the prospect. Would've preferred Jay-Z like Glasto have this year

Toast

50 Cent being bottled and chaired off Readings main stage was one of the funniest things I saw at a festival.

Mossy Monk

Idiotic considering 99% of bottles hit other people in the audience.

Toast

There was a lot of backstory to it though. Basically a couple of months previous to it happening 50 cent had walked off at a gig in New York after someone had chucked one bottle (empty) at him. This was a guy whose claim to fame was being shot six times. Reading already had a pretty long history of bottling people who didnt fit in with the festivals rock attitude so it was a pretty forgone conclusion 50 was gonna get destroyed. Evidently he knew this as him and his crew took to the stage throwing water bottles (full) at the crowd. Probably not the best plan of action as the largest storm of projectiles I ever saw was chucked at him. Think the opening sequence of Gladiator except with bottles instead of arrows. In fairness to the crowd the majority of the bottles chucked at him were empty, he played for 20 minutes until someone chucked a camping chair at him and he walked off.. not before chucking his microphone into the crowd and skulling some poor chap.

Mental Mickey

Any chance of Metallica coming to our little island this year??

- bo -

So back to the actual point of the thread...is anybody getting ticlets tomorrow evening?
Im thinking if I can use my Debit Card I might buy 2 and try get one of my mates to come to it, if nobody wants to then I'll just sell 'em off.

Mushy

Metallica have a tour announcement scheduled for tomorrow night....wonder where this one is going:rolleyes:. So give i ttime for Irish date then, prob by end of week after.

Bo, I'm gonna see the lineup, then see will I apply for the job! Thats it really, dont like having to switch to sterling and all that for anything, find it awkward.

Timans

Mushy wrote: »

Metallica have a tour announcement scheduled for tomorrow night....wonder where this one is going:rolleyes:. So give i ttime for Irish date then, prob by end of week after.

Bo, I'm gonna see the lineup, then see will I apply for the job! Thats it really, dont like having to switch to sterling and all that for anything, find it awkward.

I want to go but I don't know how I am going to afford it. I have literally no money.

Furious-Red

Thats one hell of a line up. would love to head over

- bo -

Missed out on tickets. Gutted. Every f*cking site crashed or had none available and I was on it 15 mins before they went on sale.

zuroph

keep trying, and tomorrow the site needs to be checked regularily, what happens is credit cards get declined during business hours and the tickets are put back on the system. also, people will have booked more tickets than they are entitled to and orders are cancelled. this happens every year, keep checking.

i bought mine in the presale!

zuroph

- bo - wrote: »

This is the rumoured line-up, which most people believe to be mostly true, although I dont think it's 100% as Bullet For My Valentine are down for the Sunday but have been confirmed to play the Download Festival.

FRIDAY

Main Stage:

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


Radio 1 Stage:

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

Main Stage:

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


Radio 1 Stage:

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

Main Stage:

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


Radio 1 Stage:

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

this line up was bo11ox, was started on the unofficial reading forum as a "wishlist" poster, then someone pretended it was real, and it spread across the net from there!! i know the guy who made the first poster.

here is the real poster

Mushy

Tis a pretty sweet lineup alright. Would love to go to Reading on Friday/Leeds Saturday...4 bands I really wanna see there(will be seeing most of them(3/4 at least) elsewhere in Europe anyway, but still, its QOTSA!

I've also lost a hell of a lot of respect for BFMV...what the hell they doing on the NME stage?

zuroph

i wanted to go to pinkpop, but this is so handy for me to get to. cheap ryanair flights, mate lives in reading so can stay there the first nite, and the last nite. going to the campsite by taxi on the wednesday leaving sunday nite or monday morning. tuesday to tuesday flights

Dermo

I'm heading over to Leeds again this year, working as a CAT again. Can't wait to see RATM and QOTSA!! Going to be another excellent year

Mushy

Dermo wrote: »

I'm heading over to Leeds again this year, working as a CAT again. Can't wait to see RATM and QOTSA!! Going to be another excellent year

But its £185....I know ya get that back, but still, dont think its really worth it then.

oblivian

i wana go what the best way to get a ticket

zuroph

oblivian wrote: »

i wana go what the best way to get a ticket

sold out. so ur left with ebay, or touts outside, or...

get there early on the wednesday and queue outside the main entrance, every year they hold on to some tickets and sell them there. you need to get there early though.
http://forum.readingfestivalonline.co.uk is the BEST place for information.