Stage splits are out confirming big changes at this year’s festival, Lola Young has withdrawn from the festival.
Lola Young has pulled out of Reading and Leeds due to an ‘unavoidable scheduling conflict.’ Given that she has been on the line-up since December it seems somewhat of an eyebrow raiser that there is a conflict. Unless this is some sort of family or medical related thing you really have to question what else you could break this sort of a contract for. Lola singing ‘Messy’ would surely have been one of the moments of the festival.
Stage splits have landed
Wow, what a difference a year makes. The timing splits confirm The Chevron Stage is being used more like the old East/West Main Stage higher up in the bills so there will be no repeat of the sonic carnage from last year. Amazingly, unless there are some proper surprise sets this year there are points where a DJ at the new Smirnoff Stage is your only alternative to the Main Stage. If you didn’t fancy Bring Me The Horizon or Travis Scott then underground dance is your only other option. Whilst we still expect to have a great weekend we are not going to lie, the potential stage clashes have all gone about as badly as they can go and we are going to be very disappointed about not being able to see some of the main acts we were looking forward to.
This absolute doozy of a collision is already making us want to throw up at the thought of having to make a decision. Enter Shikari may well suffer against exciting young things Wunderhorse and House of Protection. If I were The Pill I would not be impressed by the scheduling, they are a brilliant new guitar band but look likely to get slaughtered in the crossfire here. We would have genuinely loved to be at all four of those.
We are also extremely disappointed that we will be missing out on Heartworms, pretty much anyone other than Chappel Roan and we would have been there. (Update 30th July – this clash has been altered. See our preview articles for each stage.)
This is the other big shocker. We really wanted to support the fantastic jasmine4t at the festival, but we have never seen Bloc Party live and were looking forward to that. Again, at another point of the day we would have loved to see Nemzzz as well, he has been involved in so many good tracks this year (30th July update – This has also changed slightly with jasmine4.t now overlapping with The Royston Club)
We will be breaking all the stages down over the next few weeks and working out our plan of action. This is the stuff we were most looking forward to before the stage splits bought reality crashing down upon us:
Reading Indie Life 
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