14 for me. I’ve Kendrick Lamar and belly cds and was supposed to go to see Dream Wife a few months back. My marra who went reckoned I’m older than the entire band ffs!
The line ups terrible but it’s harsh to compare it to lineups they had 15 years ago. The festival business has evolved hugely in the last decade. There’s now something like 500 in this country taking ticket sales of over 1 billion quid. The pool of bands to chose from decreases with the growing amount of festivals so whereas Reading / Leeds May have once been battling with say a dozen festivals, they’re now competing with hundreds. I’ve never been but if their festival is good in terms of service, safety, logistics etc then that’s normally enough now to keep the punters happy.
I usually put a bus on for one of the days, but don’t think I’ll be bothering this year. If only KOL guaranteed to play their first two albums.
Iirc they never used to play sex on fire or would save it til very last as they got fed up with people turning up just for that then pissing off
Not true mate. I bet they’ve played it every gig since they went massive. Me and the wife often check their setlists, and they always pander to their new fans. Lucky if they play 5/6 songs from the first two out of 20+.
Half true They were moaning about it and considered dropping it but kept it You have just reminded me what a great tune Red Morning Light is. Not sure what year that was on the FIFA soundtrack but that was the first KOL song I ever heard Kings Of Leon reveal they considered dropping their biggest song from live show - NME
Their first album was tremendous. Red morning light, califonia waiting and spiral staircase me favourite tunes off it.
18, but I couldn’t name a song by most of those. The demographic used to be around 16-40 when I started going. I last went 3 years ago and it was nowhere near as bad as that. They had in their wisdom gotten rid of brown (quiet) camping though, with the result that there was nowhere to camp by Thursday afternoon. I feared it was in terminal decline by then. I can’t decide if their numbers are dropping cos the bands are shit, or if they can’t attract bands cos the numbers are dropping. How can you be called Reptilia and like all that nonsense?
People are allowed to like more than one genre of music mate, and to call the above nonsense is daft to be honest.
They have 7 albums so 3 songs per album is about right. Pretty sure they opened with sex on fire at Leeds a few years back and made some comment that some people could leave now.
Just being facetious there mate. I used to think I’d be going to Leeds forever but times change. It was always the rockiest festival after download, but I guess the demand is no longer there.
FOB, Panic!, 'Teeners and Skepta are class, all the rest are fucking toilet. Think I'll give Reading a miss this year. That is a hideous fall from grace.
