Reading Festival Lock Up with Billy Talent, Rise Against, Bouncing Souls, Polar Bear Club

Contributed by chrisafi. Posted by aubin on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 1:00 PM (EDT)

The Lock Up Stage at Reading Festival, run by Mike Davies, host of the BBC Radio 1 Punk Show has been announced for 2009. The Friday show will be headlined by Billy Talent and then Rise Against on Saturday.

The stage will also include: Bouncing Souls, Mad Caddies, Polar Pear Club, Leftover Crack, The Bronx, A Wilhelm Scream, Chuck Regan, Alexisonfire and Anti-Flag. British acts set to appear include The Ghost of a Thousand, The Plight, The Computers and Snuff.

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Billy Talent

The Ghost of a Thousand

Snuff

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mikexdude (April 28, 2009)

I want new music from Polar Bear Club.

badbrain (April 28, 2009)

Nothing they've put out is as good as Supporting Caste

mikexdude (April 28, 2009)

I disagree.

badbrain (April 28, 2009)

I disagree with your disagreeance!

Rudy87 (April 28, 2009)

I second that
new record, Ahoy!

PastorRichards (April 28, 2009)

I'm having a déjà vu here..

LinoleumMagazine (April 28, 2009)

I would love to see Snuff again. Who wants to loan me about 2 grand?

baldsteve (April 28, 2009)

If you find 4 grand can I go with you?

LinoleumMagazine (April 28, 2009)

Don't you have that fancy government job? Skip some house payments and let's go see Snuff.

Actually my taxes help pay your salary, so hook a brutha up!

baldsteve (April 28, 2009)

Oh man, I've got a sweet picture from work today, what's your email again?

I would be all about it, however I'm currently having my basement remodeled, that will last longer than a trip to see SNUFF.

Skipping house payments isn't an option.

LinoleumMagazine (April 28, 2009)

I'll email it to you. Check your junk mail if you don't get it.

baldsteve (April 28, 2009)

check your inbox

2Kings (April 28, 2009)

i'd kill to see snuff

baldsteve (April 28, 2009)

Snuff are great, but I'd really like to see Guns N Wankers.

badbrain (April 28, 2009)

I can show you a wanker

baldsteve (April 28, 2009)

you have my email

ffwoodycooks (April 28, 2009)

Mad Caddies should be in the subject line. Theyre better than any of those bands up there.

nocigar (April 28, 2009)

they are good, but you are wrong/

badbrain (April 28, 2009)

God damnit, now they're remaking Drop Dead Fred. Continually shitting on my childhood

baldsteve (April 28, 2009)

The original is awesome, just because of Rik. The new one is going to star the british Dane Cook.

nocigar (April 28, 2009)

There's a British Dane Cook? I didn't think you could get a more annoying Dane Cook.

baldsteve (April 28, 2009)

russell brand. he is just as shitty

LinoleumMagazine (April 28, 2009)

Dear God! I wish that guy would fucking die. How does anyone actually like him?

I think I would rather watch Dane Cook.

LinoleumMagazine (April 28, 2009)

Have you seen Bad News? If you haven't you'll have to go to Amazon or Ebay and buy that shit asap! It's only available on VHS, but totally worth hooking up the VCR for.

ffwoodycooks (April 28, 2009)

im waaaaayyy more pissed about the Videodrome remake

k-dubs (April 28, 2009)

Polar Pear Club, eh?

consider_the_ravens (April 28, 2009)

Bouncing souls, billy talent, a wilhelm scream and rise against? thats a good line up.

MattRamone (April 28, 2009)

Snuff, Chuck Ragan, the Souls, the Bronx, and Wilhelm? How the fuck did they manage to get so many good bands at such a shitty festival? Did someone screw up?

ffwoodycooks (April 28, 2009)

its not that bad of a festival. some of my favorite bands have played it.
also, fuck yourself with arusty pipe for not including the Mad Caddies.

MattRamone (April 28, 2009)

I never really listened to them. Someone once compared them to Dropkick so I thought "welp, not for me!" and wrote them off.

And huge festivals like that are for assholes almost kind of by default of how many people are there.

ffwoodycooks (April 28, 2009)

i hate dropkick (and most irish punk) thats a shitty comparison.
and, just becasue a lot of people are there means it sucks?

MattRamone (April 28, 2009)

It just means that if you cast your net wide enough there's going to be a ton of pricks, just going on percentages alone.

Now when you factor in how much it costs to get in and how much bro culture looooooooooves music festivals, well, yeah. Not my thing.

ffwoodycooks (April 28, 2009)

well, yeah i get what you're saying. all it takes is just one popular, shitty band to play and a whole gaggle of morons will go.

baldsteve (April 28, 2009)

Yeah, and we get Virgin Fest.

fuuuuuck

ffwoodycooks (April 28, 2009)

fuck you, my state gets Connecticut Brotherhood Fest (guess what kind of bands play there).

MattRamone (April 28, 2009)

Floorpunchers? Or Christians?

Probably both.

ffwoodycooks (April 28, 2009)

floorpunch isnt together anymore, duuuhhhh. but, its just a shitload of hardcore (and only 1 or 2 bands are good)

MattRamone (April 28, 2009)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_Festival

The REAL Virgin Fest. As in a festival with mostly virgins.

Also, I can't imagine anyone who has sex is old enough to listen to Family Force Five, holy shit.

nocigar (April 28, 2009)

hahahaha Reliant K would play there, what a bunch of purity freaks.

givemeamuseumandillfillit (April 28, 2009)

This is the worst lineup in a long time, but it's still pretty consistant. There's always been alot of stuff covered on here on The Lock Up/Concrete Jungle stage.

Gaslight played their first euro-gigs ever last year, so did hi-fi handgrenades and Frank Turner played for the second year in a row.

nocigar (April 28, 2009)

that Anchor Down EP is fucking awesome. I can't stop listening to "World War 1"

baldsteve (April 28, 2009)

that's the second recommendation of that... I'll grab it

LinoleumMagazine (April 28, 2009)

I just got some spam in my email and the headline was

"Paris Hilton smacks paparazzi with black dildo".

Not gonna lie, I was tempted to click on it.

ChadReligion (April 28, 2009)

This would be cool if the stage wasn't 20 feet high and fifty feet away from the crowd

chrisafi (April 28, 2009)

Stage is about 6ft off the ground. You obviously don't know what you are talking about

spazm (April 28, 2009)

Uh, the stage will also also feature:
The Aggrolites, Streetlight Manifesto, The Bronx, Chuck Ragan, Thursday plus a few more:

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/reading/2009/lineu p.shtml

Holy_Balls (April 28, 2009)

billy talent sucks.

mill83 (April 28, 2009)

Billy Talent headlining THAT lineup?! Really?

"Hey, we're Billy Talent, and we're just as surprised to be playing last as you!"

Damo (April 28, 2009)

the only bad thing about living in yorkshire is since that AWS and leftover crack will play their warm up gigs for this fest nowhere near here since the 2nd half of the fest is in Leeds.

twats

givemeamuseumandillfillit (April 28, 2009)

First time I'm not going, in 8 years.

Boring lineup.

9sublime (April 29, 2009)

I don't think Billy Talent are headlining the stage on the Friday. Look at the line up poster - they are on the same line and in the same font size as Anti-Flag, not above them. The NME stage announced Lost Prophets after initally annoucing Gallows and AFI I think on the same line and in the same font size.

I'm still holding out for Rancid.