Carling Weekend Line-up Announced
Posted by: Andy on Tuesday, 20th March, 2007Fifteen minutes before tickets for this year’s Carling Weekend went on sale, organisers announced that the festival will be headlined by Razorlight, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Smashing Pumpkins.
Other acts so far confirmed are, Nine Inch Nails, Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, Ash, Kings Of Leon, Interpol, Maximo Park, Gossip, Gogol Bordello, Lost Prophets, Bloc Party, Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, Funeral For A Friend, Angels & Airwaves, +44, Brand New, The Subways, Enter Shikari, The View, We Are Scientists, Biffy Clyro, The Twang, Klaxons, LCD Soundsystem and CSS.
The Carline Weekend takes place between August 24th and 26th at sites in Reading and Leeds, with 150 acts playing to around 80,000 people.
Though Razorlight are likely to be a fixture at this year’s festivals, the Chili Peppers and Smashing Pumpkins have announced that they will not make any other UK festival appearances.
The Pumpkins, as has been previously reported, announced last year that they had reformed and are working on mew material. Billy Corgan recently announced that the band will release a new album, entitled Zeitgeist, in July 2007. As well as Corgan, drummer Jimmy Chamberlain is the only confirmed member of the new line-up.
