As is often the tradition when you’re about to play a big UK festival, a band decides to play a warm up show. US punk rock legends Green Day have decided that that is one tradition they’re going to adhere to, and as a result the trio have announced a show in London next week!…
In recent years, there has been fairly slim pickings in terms of traditional rock bands (and even less so in terms of metal bands) on the bill at Reading and Leeds Festivals. This years lineup had already shown some signs of reversing this with the likes of Green Day and Biffy Clyro as headliners, plus…
After much speculation, on Monday the final headliners for the last of the UK’s major Summer festivals, Reading and Leeds 2013 were confirmed. After releasing three albums over the course of the last year, none of us should be overly surprised that US pop punk legends Green Day were confirmed to join Eminem and Biffy…
After pulling off quite a surprise with their choice of Eminem as first headliner for the 2013 installment, the organisers at Reading & Leeds have returned to slightly more familiar territory for their second choice of headliner. Having headlined at Sonisphere Knebworth in 2011 in their festival headlining breakthrough and after sub-headlining Metallica at the…
The organisers of Reading & Leeds have certainly pulled a swerve ball from their bag this year as the first headliner announced for Reading & Leeds Festival 2013 edition is none other than Detroit rap megastar Eminem. Having headlined at Reading & Leeds back in 2001, this will be Eminem (real name Marshall Mathers)’s second…
