Talk:Reading and Leeds Festivals

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82.28.32.80 (talk) 12:15, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

message: Headliners should be confined to only the last bands of each day, not the penultimate bands i.e. 3 bands per year, not 6. I will try and dig up the posters from previous years to rectify this, unless anyone has any objections? Also, any idea as to how this has happened?Joy.discovery.invention (talk) 00:05, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Headliners II

message: Reverted the addition of them to the 1991 headliners.  They played, yes, but they certainly didn't headline - Nevermind had yet to be released and they weren't the famous band they would be a year later. Morwen - Talk 15:47, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Nirvana

message: I've added a lack of citation header as a lot of the article is unqualified - I realise that a large part of this is due to recent edits refering to the 2006 weekend, but a lot of the statements such as  
"The same year in 2006, Muse headlined the second day of Reading. Frontman Matt Bellamy later said it was the best gig they had ever played."
"Most of the throwing was commited by Slayer fans who felt an "emo" band shouldnt be playing after the heavy metal band. Though it should be noted that the majority of the crowd were supporters of the My Chemical Romance."
If you know of sources for the info, please do cite them!  Firetrap  (talk • contribs)  10:54, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Lack of Citation

message: An IP had edited to add:-
* 2007 (Rumors): Razorlight, Smashing Pumpkins, Metallica, Linkin Park, Kasabian, Lostprophets, Green Day, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Guns N' Roses
I deleted as there was no source, and Wiki isn't a crystal ball. Y control 08:31, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 2007 Rumors

message: send more paramedics are playing there http://www.readingfestival.com/displayPage.asp?ArticleID=3344&URLID=65
Should this be added? --213.7.48.114 18:00, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Send more paramedics

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message: I think the list should be deleted until it can be verified. I was at the festival in '79, '80 and '81 and know for a fact that Slade, Gillan, and Rory Gallagher weren't headliners. I can't vouch for the other years, but this level of inaccuracy in one three-year period doesn't bode well for the rest of the list. Doozy88 13:16, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: List of Headliners

message: we arrived and took our position in the que at approx 7am to be told box office will open between 8-9am,at 9am we were sheperded into a holding area and held until box office opened at 12,only then to find only 20 people let through at one time,considering there must have been over 2000 people there its now going to take a long time to get to the box office! at approx 2.30-3.00pm they decided we had been waiting to long [we had moved about 20 meters]and let everybody through the gate at once to get in line for 6 yes 6 windows at the box office,after being crushed a dozen or more times by mindless idiots at the back,who thought that if they pushed hard enough they would get to the front quicker,a lot of people had to be pulled out, through either being petrified of being crushed to death or simply fainting because of the crushing.the organisers and security were both informed of what was happening,then saw it for themslves, as another surge came and three people went down as a barrier was pushed over,it was only the fact that adozen of us had to push back the other way, to stop these three people getting crushed,a lot of this was brought about by security removing safety barriers which was supposed to be able to make us move quicker,but in fact made the situation a hundred times worse,as now we had no way out other than trying to climb a 6 foot fence! and after 12 HOURS of queing we finally got to the windows. fact 1; no concerns about public safety after removing vital barriers,fact two;no adequite medical personel,fact three; no provision for toilet needs whilst waiting,and i have no doubt, after contacting them  if any person from the health and safety executive had been there, they would have closed the box office down without a second thought as it was becoming a very dangerous place to be.the organnisers must take full responsability for the chaos, it could have been made so much safer,if they had thought about it properly,and had safety fencing arranged  into lanes for us to go into rather than one big open area were everyone was being directed into. it was just chaos which no one was able to sort out.at least 10 people needed,medical treatment,they were left at the side whilst security staff looked on, unconcerned.82.34.179.163 (talk) 20:23, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  safety and organisation 

message: I'm kinda new to Wikipedia editing and such, but I'm not a complete retard...
If you look over the history, you can see 134.225.254.250 repeatedly vandalising this page with obscure comments and also pure malice ("reading festival will only let ppl carrying reading uni cards in" and "music from so-and-so was shit") are two things that spring to mind.
So I realise this IP is owned by reading Uni, and its probably just 1 immature person from 12,000+, but can we not ban just this IP just from editing this one page? How do i request that?
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.146.231 (talk • contribs) 21:43, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You cannot ban an editor from a single page, you either ban them from all pages or protect the page in question so that non-registered users cannot edit the page. At the moment the IP has only received one recent warning for their actions so a ban would not be granted. Once they have been warned 4 times and are currently active then you can make a request at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism for a block. Keith D (talk) 22:54, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism? 

message: There are absoloutly no sources for this what so ever. It appears to be just 1 disgruntled fan (im guessing with a preference for rock music). The fact that just 1 leg of the festival did not immediatly sellout is not remarkable at all. I moderate on the offical forums and theres no mention on their of any 'speculation' either. Suggest this part is delete. Reue (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 11:48, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  2009 speculation 

message: Changed it from '3000' to '100' because I was there...Definitely was NOT 3000, or anything like that.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.134.95.157 (talk) 02:14, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The FF'ers 

message: Thin Lizzy didn't play in 1979 - If my memory serves correctly Gary Moore left the band a few days earlier and they had to pull out. Scorpions were drafted in at the last moment, and went down a storm with the largely Metal audience.
I know 'cos I was there.
78.32.193.115 (talk) 20:05, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scorpions Headlined in 1979 

message: When does the f**king noise stop? I'd like to get to sleep.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.164.188.106 (talk) 21:51, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Times 

message: I recently learnt of the incident that happened in 1992 regarding the band, L7 - the lead vocalist threw a bloody tampon into the crowd after it got rowdy. That's a pretty strange occurance. Would it be worth adding a paragraph that mentions that to the article? Haha, thanks. Louisalena (talk) 15:30, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  L7 1992 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Is this festival still a rock music festival? It appears to be for all genres now, not just rock.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by EpicSmatty (talk • contribs) 18:57, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genre 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The statement "Both Reading and Leeds will have an increased capacity to 110,000 people and will feature 2 main stages instead of one - this is following the announcement that will be unveiled on 8th Feburary 2018" in bottled off is untrue. The last mention of changes like this are around 2008 at the latest. The lineup wasn't even released on the 8th of February. And February is spelt wrong. Dpop909 (talk) 20:03, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I've completely deleted that sentence because it doesn't fit in that section. I have no prejudice against it being re-added in an appropriate section if it can be reliably sourced. —KuyaBriBriTalk 20:32, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 13 February 2018 

message: "2009: Kings of Leon, The Nonce, Radiohead"
hmm, one of these acts MIGHT not have been a headliner in 2009, i wonder which?
2A02:8388:6180:7580:F0F5:A1C7:578B:AA1C (talk) 20:32, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Headliners 2009 

message: What happens with all that waste? 65.60.208.179 (talk) 15:16, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abandoned tents