Reading n Leeds 2016 goes stellar with This Feeling and BBC Introducing Stages
Reading and Leeds Festival – it’s ALL happening. BBC Introducing and This Feeling #JackRocks stages announced and tickets are selling out!
Reading & Leeds 2016 boasts the biggest names, sounds and festival moments, with five headliners Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foals, Biffy Clyro, Disclosure and Fall Out Boy – over three days (26th to 28th August Bank Holiday). Rock n Roll’s most unmissable Bank Holiday weekend includes White Room (who played our ArtBeatFest night last Autumn), Blossoms, Nas, Slaves, Little Simz, Savages, A$AP Rocky, Rat Boy, Die Antwoord, The 1975, Two Door Cinema Club, Maximo Park, The Sherlocks, Chvrches, Big Narstie, The Vaccines, A$AP Rocky, Nas, Good Charlotte, Fetty Wap, David Rodigan, Charlie Sloth and over two hundred more stars of seriously escapist entertainment. It’ll be a right laugh, literally, some of the biggest TV stars of comedy (including our Comedian Of The Year tip, 2015, Dane Baptiste) are on the bill. Look out for pop-up surprise sets too which the likes of Wolf Alice and You Me At Six have previously graced.
The last chance to experience this year’s line up are for Leeds and available, subject to availability at http://leedsfestival.com/tickets - please note that Reading Festival is completely SOLD OUT, and with the newly added This Feeling #JackRocks stage being worth the cost of a Leeds Festival weekend ticket, alone, it's probably best to get IN a.s.a.p.!
BBC Introducing Stage
The nationwide radio champions of new music, BBC Introducing are key in the millenium’s "teenage years", which are about to break out a tsunami of home grown, world class musicianship. With local shows able to be hands-on with the buzzes of their nearby venues, this is a celebration of BBC Introducing’s influence. Artists respect and love these presenters for the support. This year feels especially essential for catching tomorrows stars early doors.
TheZineUK faves, Coquin Migale, will headline at Reading Festival on Friday and Leeds Festival on Saturday. Their debut album, ‘Munro’, is caustically pleasurable adventure in Alternative British Rock. They’ve been a sensation at various festivals this year (including The Great Escape Festival where their appearance in front of the nation’s key media and industry figures, on End Of The Trail Records stage was so over subscribed that the crowd spilled into the street!). At time of writing, they've just been in interview about their LP with sensation-spotter, Huw Stephens, on Radio 1 who is such a fan that he had them on his ring tone.
Coquin Migale : 'Gold;
Another of the same End Of The Trail Records Stage's rising star turns, SuperGlu, will headline Leeds on Friday and Reading on Sunday. Heck, we liked their set that day so much that we recommended them for another show along the road needing a last minute band). One hell of an infectious experience, SuperGlu will make you grin from ear to ear. Try keeping still during their show. We dare you.
Saturday at Reading and Sunday at Leeds will be headlined by Fronteers, one of the bands who made last month’s This Feeling stage at YNot? Festival such a magnet for new music. (Scroll down for TF at Leeds Festival!). Mightily well done to this Hull outfit who DIY kick-started their own story by uploading to YouTube and getting queries from then onwards. Take care, 'Full Moon' (video below) may affect you like a full moon!
There is a great genre clash of excitements who are becoming obsessions, on BBC Introducing stage over the weekend.
Already fans of Sonny Green, Strong Asian Mothers and more on this list, excitement is palpable at TheZineUK HQ! With This Feeling faves The Shimmer Band, Jordan Allen and (manically tipped by The Glass Collectors show, also) The Wholls it feels like the stars of DIY music (artists, labels, clubs, media) are aligning right now. We salute you, BBC Introducing Stage stars; Airways, Arctic Lake, Avalanche Party, Beau, Cameron AG, CaStleS, Dusk, Eat Fast, Faux Pas, Happy Accidents, Hardwicke Circus, Haus, High Tyde, K.O.G And The Zongo Brigade, Lawrence Taylor, Mouses, Mowbeck, Muncie Girls, Night Owls, Paris Youth Foundation, Ten Tonnes, The Tin Pigeons, Tiny Giant, Tusk, Vexxes and We Were Giants.
Bonus! On Thursday 25th August, Legendary local independent recond label, Dance To The Radio, gets the Leeds Festival party started on the BBC Introducing Stage with Blood Red Shows, The Wytches, FREAK, Blackwaters and Forever Cult playing live.
Jack Rocks / This Feeling Stage (Leeds)
The entire This Feeling / Jack Daniels UK tent line up are ones to watch, and some music fans won't be leaving The Zone much over the weekend. Above; Cabbage (c) Tarquin Clark
Leeds Festival has hit the JACK-pot. If there was a Festival Within A Festival Of The Year Award, then 2016’s clear winner is This Feelings x Jack Rocks x the most exciting new bands saving the very circuit that Britain needs the Music Venue Trust for!
Get ready to fall in LOVE with Bang Bang Romeo (c) Tarquin Clark
A game changer is in the house. Or rather, in the field! Some of the brand new names coming to Leeds Festival with This Feeling are the word of mouth, newer wave, obsessions of the punky, rebellious DIY underground.
Crazy scenes and stage invasions for the "Clash-like" vibes of community around Sisteray, one of This Feeling's bands at Leeds Festivals, they kicked off this year tipped #BigIn2016 and are fulfilling that prophecy. Image from Camden Rocks Festival (c) Caffy St Luce.
Most Libertines fans will probably already be aware of Trampolene, one of the Jack Rocks / This Feeling stage headliners (alongside Broken Hands and Baby Strange), but everybody should tune in to this band. Swansea's finest are what rock band musical obsession was made for. (Oh, and by the end of this video, whether you're a boy or a girl or undecided, you will want to be 'Tom Hardy'),
Paves, Baby Strange, TRASH (below, image by Tarquin Clark), April and so many more that you could explode with excitement are bringing the UK’s most rock n roll travelling circus to the Leeds Festival Weekend.
Gird your loins. Do NOT miss Asylums. Their newly released debut album, and FUN-tastic live show really does emit 'Killer Brain Waves'.
They play This Feeling on Sunday (but also appear on the JagerHaus at Reading Festival on Saturday, more about that stage - keep reading) Image below from #JackRocks/TF (c) Tarquin Clark
This Feeling / Jack Rocks bands rock! Go get em; Broken Witt Rebels, Carvella, Casanova, Cessna Deathwish, Cupids, Dantevilles, Foggy City Orphan, Heavy Suns, Hello Operator, JACKALS ROSE, JUDAS, Liberty Ship, Medicine Men, Same Streets, Secret Company, Strange Bones, The Assist, The Barmines, The Blinders, The Chessmen, The Escapades, The Jackobins, The Jacques, The Mexanines, The Strawberries, The Time Sellers, The Wired, Willow Robinson and YVES
JägerHaus (Reading)
With a genuine focus on making our #Britz16 beliefs (THIS is the year to make a mark on, with the millennium turning sweet 16) come true. Reading Festival welcomes Jägermeister, bringing the all-new JägerHaus, unearthing fresh thrills and partying until late!
We love Abbie McCarthy of BBC Introducing (also creator and presenter of the sold-out-every-month Good Karma Club). Going from strength to strength to strength as one of our favourite new music supporters, presenters, live music promoters and all round wonder women! She is one of their (Friday night) DJs on what is a highly buzzing bill.
Kicking off the opening party on Thursday is BBC Radio 1's Daniel P Carter and BBC Radio 1Xtra's DJ Target, who will get you started on the right foot for the festival.
Taking over on Friday are British punk-rockers Gnarwolves with a DJ set from Phil Taggart of BBC Radio 1. They'll be joined by Hinds with a DJ set, Demob Happy, Get Inuit, Waco, The Academic and even more DJ sets from Killing Moon DJs.
Providing the tunes on Saturday is powerhouse duo Matrix & Futurebound and bass music outfit Koven, presented by Viper:Live, along with a DJ set from Murkage and a performance from rising grime star Elf Kid.
Also hitting the stage will be Star.One with a DJ set, the aforementioned and essential Asylums, plus FREAK, The Kenneths and extra DJ sets from Blinding and 37 Adventure DJs.
Sunday will go off under the helm of a DJ set from Shikari Sound System and reggae-fusion team The Skints. You can catch a DJ set from Lower Than Atlantis and more performances from KIOKO, Rocky Nti, Man & The Echo and The Rupees, along with more DJ sets from Alcopop! Records and Deja Bruh.
Basically, If you have got a ticket for Reading or Leeds Festival this year, you are in for one heaven of a weekend! Updates / time tables / apps / social media etc via leedsfestival.com and readingfestival.com