Reading festival

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Confirmed so far - Apart from the nu-metal crap, doesn't look too bad:

 

Friday 22nd Reading, Saturday 23rd Leeds:

Linkin Park & Blink 182.

 

Saturday 23rd Reading, Sunday 24th Leeds:

Blur & White Stripes.

 

Sunday 24th Reading, 22nd Leeds:

Metallica & System Of A Down.

 

Also announced this afternoon were 16 more bands, but their day, slot and stage times are still to be announced, as are the rest of the bands that will make up the festival. Those bands so far officially confirmed are: Sum 41, Beck, Placebo, Doves, The Streets, Elbow, The Music, Courtney Love, Good Charlotte, Polyphonic Spree, The Datsuns, AFI, The Mars Volta, Hundred Reasons, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and The Cooper Temple Clause.

 

And we'll finally get to see chubbhead if we go <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

[SteveP]

Not sure I'll do Benicassim again this year but here's the line up

 

Adult.

Ama

Andy Fletcher

Badly Drawn Boy

Blur

Calexico

Chicks on speed

Ciëlo

Client

The Coral

La Costa Brava

Crossover

Das Pop

Death in Vegas

The Delgados

Echoboy

Ellos

Erlend Oye & The Full Effect

The Faint

The Flaming Lips

G.D. Luxxe

Grado 33

Green Velvet Dj

Groove Armada

La Habitación Roja

Dj Hell

Highfish

Jet Lag

JJ72

Jori Hulkkonen

Juniper Moon

Katerine

Kitbuilders

Kruder

Laika

Layo & Bushwacka!

Louie Austen

Magas

Miss Kittin

Moby

Moloko

Múm

Placebo

The Postal Service

Romina Cohn

Schwarz

Seth Hodder

Sexy Sadie

Si Begg

The Soft Boys

Souvenir

Sr. Chinarro

Steve Bug

Suede

Suicide

Tahiti 80

Terence Fixmer

Tiga

Todd Terry

Vacaciones

 

http://www.fiberfib.com

 

Placebo, Suede, The Coral and Badly Drawn Boy look like the stand out acts.

 

it is a great place for a festie and different to anything over here, would say the line up isn't as strong as last year, but if anyone's interested or would like to know how to get there and costs, just PM me.

 

The other festival in Barcelona is ok, take a look on http://www.primaverasound.com/