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Post by DaveyC on Mar 31, 2008 11:54:19 GMT -5
I like the new 'History' section of the official website - shows a load of lineup posters back to 1972. What was wrong with 2001 though?
Oh, and for the sake of this thread, The Killers have been confirmed. More to come...
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Post by Nik on Mar 31, 2008 12:46:38 GMT -5
hmmm, the sites crashed (well, I can't get on it) for the lineup announcment. Booking tickets looks set to be fun  |
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Post by Nik on Mar 31, 2008 13:06:52 GMT -5
Taken from efestivals:
The headliners for this year's festival will be Rage Against The Machine – only English shows (Reading Friday/Leeds Saturday), The Killers – only UK festival shows (Reading Saturday/Leeds Sunday), and Metallica – only UK festival shows (Reading Sunday/Leeds Friday).
The full announcement (but not the full line-up - there's more to come over the coming weeks) is as follows:
The Main Stage at Reading on the Friday and Leeds on the Saturday has: Rage Against The Machine, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Fratellis, The Enemy, Biffy Clyro, Serj Tankian, Dizzee Rascal, Taking Back Sunday, Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly, and Anti-Flag.
The Main Stage at Reading on the Saturday and Leeds on the Sunday has: The Killers, Bloc Party, The Raconteurs, Editors, We Are Scientists, Dirty Pretty Things, and The Subways.
The Main Stage at Reading on the Sunday and Leeds on the Friday has: Metallica, Tenacious D, Slipknot, Feeder, Avenged Sevenfold, and Dropkick Murphys.
On the Radio 1/NME Stage at Reading on the Friday and Leeds on the Saturday are: A special co-headline between Babyshambles, and The Wombats, and also appearing Vampire Weekend, and MGMT.
On the Radio 1/NME Stage at Reading on the Saturday and Leeds on the Sunday are: Manic Street Preachers, Bullet For My Valentine, Justice, and Foals.
On the Radio 1/NME Stage at Reading on the Sunday and Leeds on the Friday are: The Cribs, Conor Oberst, and Pendulum.
The festival will feature a full line-up of over 150 acts over the weekend on six stages.
Tickets are on sale from 6:45pm tonight (Monday 31 March), when the first line-up announcements are made. The price is £155 for the 3 days with camping, day tickets are £65, campervans £10, lockers £15, and early entry tickets £10.
To buy from See Tickets for Reading or Leeds click here.
Reading Festival takes place at Little Johns Farm, Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, and Leeds Festival takes place at Bramham Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire. Both festivals happen on Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th August.
...now i;m trying to book a friend a ticket....joy
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Post by T8 on Mar 31, 2008 21:54:14 GMT -5
tried and failed to get my mates tickets. it sucks! o well not alot i can do. they will have to get off ebay or wait till the other tickets are on sale from people who fooked up their credit card numbers and put in wrong details
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Post by DaveyC on Apr 1, 2008 15:49:45 GMT -5
All HMV tickets are gone now too apparently  |
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Post by Fat Reg on Apr 1, 2008 17:54:05 GMT -5
I haven't seen tickets on sale in HMV for years. Always liked getting it in my hand in exchange for cash... I reckon there's enough bands so far to keep my interest going for this summer: QOTSA, Serj, Raconteurs, Metallica, Tenacious D and Slipknot should be plenty to fit in between pub crawls and fine foods.
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Post by DaveyC on Apr 3, 2008 12:59:27 GMT -5
"READING & LEEDS WEEKEND TICKETS SELL OUT 01.04.2008
A total of 200,000 tickets sold in 24 hours marks this year's tenth anniversary for Leeds and twentieth for Reading as an extra special event.
The UK’s only three day, dual site festival is headlined this year by Rage Against The Machine, The Killers and Metallica with a host of exclusive performances, huge names and the coolest up and coming bands over six stages.
Melvin Benn, Managing Director of Festival Republic said, “'I am over the moon! Absolutely thrilled. 20th year since we took over Reading after it had been bankrupt. 10th year since we created Leeds. The UK's biggest selling festival with the best bill on the planet this year sells out in less than 2 hours. Whoever is talking about a slump in festival popularity is talking rubbish. Long live Reading and Leeds!'”
Keep your eyes peeled for further announcements to the bill and get ready for the greatest rock n' roll show on earth over the August Bank holiday."
Or put another way.. that's £31 million ticket revenue and £1.4 million in booking fees in 1 day. Mmm.
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Post by Fat Reg on Apr 3, 2008 18:38:54 GMT -5
I think the crucial point is 200,000 tickets - how crowded is it going to be if that's the case? Unless there's a little bit of exaggeration. Last year, Reading had 80,000 capacity. If Melvin's telling the truth, it must be up by 20,000. Still, there'll be more room in the pub while all the kids are watching bands...
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Post by Royston of Royston Vasey on Apr 6, 2008 11:29:38 GMT -5
I managed to get tickets for sunday only on day of release. as far as i'm aware they are still available. I think maybe the 200k tix sold includes all the event - weekend for both sites, and day tickets sold also. so in my line of thinking - 80k each site for weekend, 20k each site for day tickets... not so bad i feel
just my o.o2 on the subject
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Post by T8 on Apr 10, 2008 19:32:44 GMT -5
I got tickets 4 my mates as they went back on sale tuesday morning |
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Post by Fat Reg on Apr 11, 2008 18:33:31 GMT -5
"Back on sale"? Hmmm, so how "sold out" is it? There'll be further "releases" of tickets for sure.
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