Yahoo News Reading and Leeds 2019 lineup: Fans react to The 1975, Foo Fighters and Post Malone being announced as headliners
The headliners for this year’s Reading and Leeds festivals have been announced, with Foo Fighters, Twenty One Pilots, The 1975 and Post Malone topping the bill.
Tweeters have reacted with mixed emotions, some praising the line-up for giving acts that have never headlined a festival before a chance, while others have criticised the selection for featuring lesser-known acts.
We’re Headlining Reading and Leeds and I’m definitely not crying rn
— matty (@Truman_Black) 21 November 2018
The1975 headlining #ReadingandLeeds. That festival is becoming a joke 😂
— Ste_Mac (@the_meave) 21 November 2018
Reading and leeds line up disappointed me once again
— hollie wilson (@_holliew_) 21 November 2018
this is absolute wank lol i defended reading and leeds last year for their marginally okay lineup but quite frankly this is actually disgusting pic.twitter.com/0L24IvO330
— milli 🌙 (@cryguys) 21 November 2018
reading/leeds line up looking goooooood
— Jess Roberts🕊 (@jessdiana01) 21 November 2018
The 1975, Bastille and Foo Fighters are headlining Leeds/Reading, pic.twitter.com/CuqVrQmymk
— Jacob (@joavickers) 21 November 2018
How I feel about the Reading and Leeds announcement. pic.twitter.com/8ZtelzeIxP
— Tom Bodington (@tomthebodz) 21 November 2018
Aight leeds/reading is looking pretty amazing already
— Śam-Bůkä (@samesquirrel) 21 November 2018
I didn’t think last years line up could have been beaten on terribleness, but here we are with the worst line up in Leeds and Reading History.
I mean what the fuck...
One good act, the Distillers. Once the greatest festival in the UK reduced to hipster garbage pic.twitter.com/yDaSpuUIfv— PatChampYoutuber (@PatChampYoutube) 21 November 2018
foo fighters playing Leeds/Reading oh it has to be done
— katy (@katysmith_98) 21 November 2018
Perhaps the most startling statistic being shared concerns the lack of female acts who have headlined the festival – in the last decade, only one female fronted group (Paramore) have topped the festivals’ main stage.
Unlike last year’s initial line-up announcement, which only included one female act, this year’s features Hayley Kiyoko, Billie Eilish and Stefflon Don, along with the groups Pale Waves, PVRIS and the Distillers.
Reading and Leeds have a female headliner challenge
— comrade james (@morereverbpls) 21 November 2018
I love the headliners for Reading & Leeds, but very male heavy. Makes me think @RitaOra had a point when she says bookers just don't book enough women at festivals. @BBCR1
— Freya Thompson (@freyacharlotte) 21 November 2018
Another white washed straight white male centric reading and Leeds line up 💤
— Em (@emilywallace__) 21 November 2018
Foo Fighters return to Reading and Leeds comes six years after they last appeared on the main stage. Their latest album Concrete and Gold went to No 1 in the UK last year.
Meanwhile, The 1975 will be making their headline debut, following on from the release of their forthcoming third album A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships. Post Malone and Twenty One Pilots, two acts from America, will co-headline the third day, neither having headlined the festival before.
