Festival Republic stage (ex Carling Stage)

[Ali p]

The new bands stage has a new name....

this off the offical website

"Not content with booking the headliners of the summer, including exclusive performances from the likes of Metallica, Rage Against The Machine, The Killers and The Last Shadow Puppets, we are proud to announce the line-up for the first Festival Republic Stage.

Packed with all the new names you have read about throughout the year, the stage is the first port of call for anyone looking to see the next big things now.

Over the weekend, NME cover stars Glasvegas, chart topper Wiley, the Kerrang tipped Elliot Minor and many more will make the first Festival Republic Stage another arena of rock history in the 20th year of the modern Reading Festival and the 10th year of the Leeds Festival.

The Festival Republic stage features Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Elliot Minor, The Kills, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, The Audition, Wiley, Late Of The Pier, All Time Low, Glasvegas

Plus: Black Acid, Black Kids, Black Tide, Cage The Elephant, Collapsing Cities, Emmy The Great, Fight Like Apes, Fighting With Wire, Florence And The Machine, Friendly Fires, Ida Maria, In Case Of Fire, Johnny Foreigner, Jubilee, Los Campesinos!, Louis XIV, Lovvers, Natty, Sergeant, TeenagersInTokyo, The Rascals, The Teenagers, These New Puritans, Twisted Wheel, White Denim, White Lies, Wild Beasts, You Me At 6"

[Fat Reg]

Hyperbole overload! "Arena of rock history..." indeed. "20th year of the modern Reading Festival..." - so nothing before Mean Fiddler counts, eh?

Still, The Kills should be worth checking out, but I saw Black Kids at Wireless last week - took less than one song to see how shite they were. Take a trip to the bar when they're on... Dunno about the others, mind. Anyone got any ideas?

[DaveyC]

Shall try and catch some of Black Tide's set me thinks

[Nik]

Emmy the great are brilliant (Don't know if they're really people on here thing mind) Saw Fighting with wire several years ago (4...maybe 5) and I remember them so they can't be too bad......yeah that's all I know

[DAN]

Black Tide for sure, only caught a coupla songs at Download but was impressed. Otherwise its looking like a lot of record company buy ons to me.

A few bigish names there but a lot of the usual signed but with sod all out kinda stuff.

And no Hot Leg...bugger.

[Catfood]

I'm looking forward to seeing Black Tide, I missed them at Download due to them clashing with Zebrahead. Fighting With Wire were pretty good at Download too, so I will be checking them out again. Of the other bands, ummm, Fight Like Apes sound pretty good but nothing else takes my fancy.