Reactions to the latest Reading and Leeds announcements

It’s 7 o clock and Zane Lowe has just come on air for BBC Radio 1’s Reading and Leeds festival announcement. This was the second one in a series of announcements and I must say that the hype for this one wasn’t as big as the first one. Twitter was rife last time with people trying to guess who the headline act would be because it wasn't that obvious. Guesses ranged from Metallica to Paramore, but Blink 182 were eventually revealed to many people’s surprise. This time though, you could kind of tell who was going to be announced as headliners. It was, of course, the mighty Arctic Monkeys who are arguably the biggest band on the planet at the moment. Reading and Leeds have the richest history out of any festival in the world so Arctic Monkeys will go hand in hand with the big event.

"Hey don't listen to this vinyl! Come and listen to us at Reading and Leeds!" Is what Arctic Monkeys are probably saying here. 

Other acts that were announced ranged from dance, indie and even punk pop. Surrey band You Me at Six would have surely got a few people’s pulses racing seeing as they have a massive fan base. In fact, they are probably the biggest British punk pop band of all time. Indie bands Warpaint, the 1975, Royal Blood and Courteeners were also put on the bill and people generally seemed to react well to this. The 1975 get a lot of hate but most of it's just random nonsense that you shouldn't listen to. Personally, I'm glad that Warpaint are on there because I'm a big fan of them and I will definitely be seeing them if I go.

A lot of dance acts were also revealed so it seems that they will be in the appropriately named dance tent. These included acts such as SBTRKT, Netsky, Annie Mac, Pusha T and Krept and Konan. It’s no surprise that these dance acts have been announced early seeing as they the draw punters in. The festival organisers did it last year and fair enough to them for doing it again this year. You can’t really blame them to be honest.

Overall I thought this was a bit of an underwhelming announcement in terms of hype. However, the announcement certainly didn’t disappoint and it was an exceptionally pleasing one. Hopefully tickets won’t sell out until the next few announcements though because I (and many others I know) really want to go to this special festival.