Frequently Asked Questions - Lineup
Who is playing? How many stages are there? When is the lineup announced?
- Is it just all bands performing or are there any DJ's?
- Are there any competitions this year for unsigned acts to perform at Reading festival?
- Can there be any chance of [X] playing if they are already confirmed for [X] Festival?
- Who do you think will headline Reading Festival XXXX?
- Why is there an indie sunday rather than a metal one? What happened to all the heavy rock acts?
- Is it true [X] are playing 2 sets?
- Will a list of timings be announced so that we don't miss bands on other stages etc.. ?
- Do you when the full line up will be announced???
- Will there be more bands announced to be on the main stage?
- When is the artist [X] playing?
- Are there more acts to be announced?
- How many acts will be announced on monday?
- Roughly how many different genre tents are there per day?
- It said headliners will be announced at the same time as ticket release, how often will more bands be announced?
- Will the lineup be released before the tickets go on sale, or at the same time?
- Just wondering, How much do reading / Leeds pay the headliners of the main stage?
- When will the line up be offically announced for Reading Festival?
- I heard that [X] was playing Reading Festival, is this true?
- Any ideas on what times bands are going to be on stage?
- Is there been any news of a schedule of events or do I have to go onto each thing individually on the official site?
- Can you get an itinerary kind of thing with what time bands are playing
- What is this years line up so far?
- Who has confirmed for Leeds Festival
Bands and DJs
Not as yet
Depends if they are exclusive to that festival or are headliners
Headliners rarely get shared (if at all) and if they are exclusive, chances are they will be exclusive but mistakes do happen e.g. Faith No More were meant to be an exclusive headliner at Download but they turned out to play in the tent at Reading
Check out the latest rumours page, we'll let you know there
Why not? We know the lineup tends to mean that Sunday is the heavier of the 3 days. It still is this year. Eminem has headlined Sunday previously. Melvin Benn had this to say:
Wait for the final lineup to be announced. Even then, it's not 100% untill the band play 2 sets on the day.
LIke last year, we hope so
Over the coming weeks and months
First announcement 15 minutes before tickets released
More should be released
Look at the lineup poster. If they are not there yet, we don't know.
Over the coming weeks and months. We will be first with confirmed acts.
A lot
Sorry but that doesn't make any sense.
Main stage - any genre
Dance stage - dance
Lock-Up stage - punk N.B. the dance stage is also the lock-up stage but on different days
FR stage - any genre
BBC Intoducing stage - any genre
Depends - maybe every week or every few weeks.
Just before 7pm on 30th March. The lineup is always released moments before tickets go on sale.
No one knows the exact figures but a 7 to 8 figure price tag is often banded around. Decent headliners will get at least £1m
It will be towards the end of March, on a Monday. Maybe even start of April.
We do not know when the official Reading Festival lineup will be released until closer to the date.
Rumours are never true until they are up on the poster. In fact, Reading Festival rumours aren't true until a band have played a full set on stage.
Nope - not until FR produce a timetable but if you look at previous years, you should be able to link the acts to this year and get a pretty reasonable list going.
We have got information the Reading Festival 2008 lineup if needed.
Depends what "events" you mean?
This will be released in the weeks running up to the festival.
Officially, there is no confirmation of bands playing as yet (forReading Festival 2009). However when we do have information, you can see the official Reading Festival 2009 Lineup.
In the time between now and then, you can check out the Reading Festival 2009 rumours.
This is a Reading Festival site! Also, they both have identical lineups so any news/rumours regarding the lineup for Reading will apply to Leeds. http://www.strictlyleeds.co.uk is the Leeds version of this site.
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