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Reading and Leeds Festival Confusion

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SlightlyJaded · 11/09/2020 12:47

Hello

Quick one. DD and a billion of her mates are going to Reading this year (god help us all) for the first time. She keeps saying that the artists down for Leeds Festival are 'much better' but I think they all play both. Can anyone confirm?

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Ginfordinner · 11/09/2020 12:49

This year?
As far as I know they play both.

SlightlyJaded · 11/09/2020 12:51

Yes 2021

That's what I keep telling her. She says I'm wrong...

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Thanksitsgotpockets · 11/09/2020 12:51

Usually they play both with very slight differences to the lineup.

WhatALearningCurve · 11/09/2020 12:52

It's the same lineup - they just play on different days at each site. On some of the smaller stages where it's unsigned acts you might get some variations but the whole point of it is that it's the same festival on 2 sites

SlightlyJaded · 11/09/2020 12:53

Ok. I'm right and she's wrong.
Thanks for confirming.

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Goingtogetflamed · 11/09/2020 12:55

Surely it’s not happening this year?

BarbaraofSeville · 11/09/2020 14:55

Not this year, it would have been a couple of weeks ago. Yes, the line up rotates as it's on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and then they'll swap and go between 2 sites, so any particular act will do Friday at Leeds and Saturday at Reading or whatever, but as a PP says, some smaller acts may only do one, but the headliners are going to do both.

Next year, they're making noises about having extra stages and more acts but whether or not it happens I don't know - obviously Covid has to properly go away, but there's the logistics to consider.

DP is in the industry and keeps saying they don't have the stages , equipment, crew etc to make it all happen, especially as a lot of people are desperately trying to find work in other industries as you've got mass redundancies and freelancers going off to do other things going on right now.

Not everyone will come back or stay in business, especially if it all stays shaky over the winter and at the beginning of next year's festival season.

earlydoors42 · 11/09/2020 15:43

2021 is next year

SlightlyJaded · 15/09/2020 12:18

Yes - sorry for confusion. 2021 is what I meant.

@BarbaraofSeville. Agree. DS is a live event producer as well so he is very vocal about it all being up in the air at the moment. But you try rationalising with a hormonal, cabin-fevered, band obsessed teen. If things don't go to plan, they don't - but at least I can reassure her that one site isn't 'better' than the other.

Ironically - the artists that she was most upset about playing Leeds were just rumours from a poster that 'leaked' online - and none of them appear to be playing either! (*Arctic Monkeys / Tyler the Creator / Slothai) so the whole drama has gone away all by itself...

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