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to wonder who the hell this line-up is? (Leeds/Reading)

122 replies

KicksLikeASIeepTwitch · 30/08/2021 03:28

Feeling old.
I know I am probably not the demographic but have spent last 5 minutes scrolling Who? even more than I did the Strictly Glitterball line-up! Grin
canvas-story.bbcrewind.co.uk/readingleedsfans/

Mostack
Becky Hill
Declan Mckenna
The kid laroi
Bebadobee
Sports team

Never heard of any of them. Is it just me?
Ah, I thought, I will look at the headliners...
Catfish and the bottlemen. Nope. Never heard of you.
Disclosure. Also not.

I was quicker listing those I had heard of...Stormzy, Lewis Capaldi, QOTSA, Liam Gallagher, Two door cinema club, Wombats and Mabel.
Even then, I could only give you a couple of songs.
KSI, Dababy, Doja cat, Postmalone and Madison Beer, my kids have mentioned in passing but the rest...not the foggiest.

So 7 acts from a two day festival. No FOMO over here.
How many do you know?
Any song recommendations I should have heard already? (there are some links on the beeb which I might listen to if my insomnia continues).

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WhenSheWasBad · 30/08/2021 08:33

YungBlud was amazing (if extremely sweary, I know I’m old).

If recognise quite a few from the line up. Everyone oneborn has listed. I did need to make an effort with new music though. Not easy with young kids at home and a full time job.

Any radio stations anyone would recommend? Radio 6?

ClareBlue · 30/08/2021 08:35

Isn't this how it's meant to beGrin
We have children in their 20s and contemporary popular music is another world. And us calling it that doesn't help bridge the divideSmile

Gingernaut · 30/08/2021 08:37

I only heard of Sports Team when Liza Tarbuck played them one evening.

The rest? Never heard of them.

ACPC · 30/08/2021 08:38

My teen dc and their friends all listen to 90s/00s music and no wonder. Even the so called 'top' musicians around now are very average. Ed Sheeran and Stormzy wouldn't have cracked the top ten if they had came out earlier. No offence to them or their fans, they are good just not anything special imho

GingerAndTheBiscuits · 30/08/2021 08:39

Reading/Leeds has definitely shifted its demographic and that’s affected it’s musical choices (and how many I’ve heard of!). The festival market is so huge since I first started going that what was once covered by Reading/Leeds is now catered for by festivals like Download, Slam Dunk, Bloodstock, Boardmasters. Latitude shared a lot of bands with R/L by the look of things this year.

TreesoftheField · 30/08/2021 08:40

Muse are 90s aren't they? I had their first album 20 years ago..

SleepOhHowIMissYou · 30/08/2021 08:43

@TreesoftheField

Muse are 90s aren't they? I had their first album 20 years ago..
Origin of Symmetry was early 2000s, not 90s.
SleepOhHowIMissYou · 30/08/2021 08:44

@hellcatspangle

Foofighters?

Who formed in1994...I assume the poster meant 2000 onwards. So I'll offer Arctic Monkeys (2002)

Yep, agree on Artic Monkeys.
Baxdream · 30/08/2021 08:47

@Tabithtiger Foo fighters are a 90s band. They played Reading in 1995.
I went for years from 96. It was definitely a more alternative festival then with almost all rock bands.
I'm quite surprised at the line up now!

Confusedandshaken · 30/08/2021 08:47

Lol. It's the generation gap. You are officially old.

OTOH a young friend of ours has just got a job working on an upcoming Genesis project. She was amazed that we had heard of them!!

Demelza82 · 30/08/2021 08:48

It's not for you though is it? Also, for obvious reasons they're not going to get international acts easily. Large scale Rock and indie have been largely killed off by the music industry in recent years with regards to the charts. You are better off with mid range festivals like Kendal Calling, Victorious etc.

Give Beebadoobee a chance though, she's very good - 90s inflected female indie

SleepOhHowIMissYou · 30/08/2021 08:50

Victorious also had Miles Kane and Jade Bird who are both doing pretty well in recent years . Not a massive fan of Miles but Jade's stuff is pretty fresh (albeit with a country vibe) and I find her a bit Kim Deal(esque) in that she's there for her talent (not a meat puppet).

NurseButtercup · 30/08/2021 08:50

I haven't heard of the bands you've mentioned, but if I was you I'd be doing my research via YouTube, Spotify or Apple Music?????

SushiGo · 30/08/2021 08:50

I know most of those just from listening to radio 1 in the car.

Couple I don't, I agree you do need to make an effort to keep up with new music.

Neverrains · 30/08/2021 08:51

I haven’t heard of most of them, but as a 37 year old mother of 3 I don’t think I’m their target demographic, so I wouldn’t really expect to have heard of them.

RubyFowler · 30/08/2021 08:51

I have been thinking similar OP. I've sometimes stuck radio 1 on and honestly manage about 3 songs which always sound the same! Lol I sound like my dad!!

I think in the old days Top of the pops etc was family viewing and we had radio 1 on in our rooms or in the car so my parents would know for example who Oasis and Blur were.

Where do people listen to music if they keep up these days? I do listen to stuff on Spotify if someone recommends it but you obviously have to know what you're searching for iyswim.

ChicChaos · 30/08/2021 08:51

I like Becky Hill, she's probably the only most successful contestant from The Voice that I can think of (she didn't win it).

Demelza82 · 30/08/2021 08:53

@WhenSheWasBad

YungBlud was amazing (if extremely sweary, I know I’m old).

If recognise quite a few from the line up. Everyone oneborn has listed. I did need to make an effort with new music though. Not easy with young kids at home and a full time job.

Any radio stations anyone would recommend? Radio 6?

6 Music always, just the best one out there supporting muti-genre, older, indie and new music.
rattusrattus20 · 30/08/2021 08:53

Sam Fender played, he's a youngish rock type (also very handsome), but musically he's nothing really special, if you thought that Oasis were derivative then you've heard nothing, every one of this young chap's songs echoes with unsubtle lifts from other well known tracks.

I don't mind the Scottish chap on the set list, Gerry Cinnamon? he's not super young though.

both of these are very retro sounding acts, possibly aimed at kids and parents in equal measures.

ACPC · 30/08/2021 09:01

I do think it's important that young people have their shot at upsetting us oldies, it's just a shame they're upsetting us because the music is bland! I'd love another big thing to happen for them. A 2020 punk, rave etc

Nomorefuckstogive · 30/08/2021 09:01

Becky Hill - was on The Voice, I believe - good voice, pop tunes.
Declan Mckenna - love him, worth a listen. Great tunes and lyrics.
The kid laroi - no clue
Bebadobee - also pretty good - melodic.
Catfish and the Bottlemen - heard of them, but no tunes cone to mind.
Doja Cat is great, but she cancelled earlier in the year, so didn’t perform.
Quite like the Wombats.
Love Stormzy and Post Malone.
This is as a result of driving my just turned 17yo and listening on the car stereo!
I’d recommend catching up on Stormzy’s Reading performance on iplayer - amazing!

June2008 · 30/08/2021 09:04

You missed Gerry Cinnamon off your list, and I'm kind of surprised that no-one else has mentioned him either. Saw him at Brixton Academy and off to see him again in Brighton next weekend. Amazing, although at 45 I'm probably not the usual demographic!

Pippapet · 30/08/2021 09:05

When I look at current compilation CDs I have no clue re the artist or the song but if I buy the CD and play it, I know probably 85% of the songs (and like most of them!) I just don't know the artist/band. But I have heard the songs.

There have been so many "ahh!" moments when I hear a song that I know and like quite well and it's by someone I never heard of.

I think the difference today is that "back in the day" (ha) the bands and artists spent time building a mainstream fan base, and the promotion those days was simpler, mainly magazines/music newspapers and TOTP, so it was set out for you, whereas now you need to search for info and also the market is saturated with so many artists, different genres and self-promotion.

TheRabbitStoleMyHat · 30/08/2021 09:17

Becky Hill is great, surprised you haven’t heard of her as she gets played on the radio all the time. The Kid Laroi is some Australian kid pretending to be an American rapper. I’ve heard of Disclosure, Sam Fender, Yungblud. I listen to Radio 1 in the car a lot and Jo Whiley in the evening plays a lot of new music. We always have the radio on at home though.

supermoonrising · 30/08/2021 09:20

I browsed it as well. Thought it was just me!
It was quicker listing those I had heard of...Stormzy, Lewis Capaldi, QOTSA, Liam Gallagher, Two door cinema club, Wombats and Mabel

You did better than me, I only know the first four on that list!

I think it’s because Reading is (was) a rock festival and rock in its is basic form of young guys playing loud guitar based music with guitar, bass, drums, and vocalist is basically finished. Hence Liam Gallagher who hasn’t had a big hit for twenty years being a headliner.

What’s replaced it is a diverse bunch of genres whose acts excite a lot of excitement among their fans but have never and probably will never cross into mainstream discourse and consciousness the way the bands of the 90s did.

“Old school” pop rock basically retired about 15 years ago.
What’s left is chart pop like Adele, Swift, Coldplay. Hip-hop hip hop and more hiphop, electronic dance music, heavy use of sampling, and then dozens of niche genres.