When the Reading & Leeds Festival line-up was announced and Blink 182 were the first headliners to be unveiled, a lot of people were grateful that it was a rock-oriented band even if they are a reformed dinosaur rather than anything fresh. Tomas Doyle, however, didn’t take any positives from it at all and so he mounted his soapbox once again…

I fucking hate Blink 182. “Oh how can you hate Blink 182, Tom? They’re a really big and important band and that.” First things first, loads of stuff is big, that doesn’t make it important. Michael McIntyre is big but at an artistic level he is colossally unimportant and colossally unfunny – just like Blink 182.

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Reading Festival is a great festival. We go every year. We get drunk and we see as many bands as is feasibly, possibly doable. Occasionally, we remain lucid enough to actually take note of what’s going on around us and it’s at those moments that we made mental notes that we forget.

Anyhow, here are some things that happened that we’re going to talk about. Some of it is directly about bands but some of it might seem like constructive criticism that we should probably send straight to the promoter for him to ignore completely. We prefer it when you ignore us completely, so here goes.

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With the August Bank Holiday weekend rapidly approaching, Reading & Leeds Festivals are once again upon us. As with every year, Reading & Leeds have a bit fat dollop of heaviness in among the landfill indie, so for this week’s Sunday Slaylist we’ve put together a Spotify playlist of the hardest and heaviest from their 2013 line-ups.

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So today Green Day were confirmed as the third and final Main Stage headliner for Reading & Leeds Festivals 2013. That’s it. Move along. No other news here.

These new additions join a line-up that includes the previously announced headliners Biffy Clyro and Eminem, as well as Deftones, System of a Down, Bring Me The Horizon, Fall Out Boy, and some other bands who aren’t really inside the Thrash Hits remit. Tickets are on sale now for £197.50 (plus fees, parking, camping, and a load of other extras that will push your ticket price above £200 for the weekend) over on the official Reading or Leeds Festival sites respectively.

After releasing 21st Century Breakdown in May 2009, Green Day have done stuff like create a Broadway musical based on American Idiot and they’ve planned a live album. They’ve also released a box set of 21 seven inch vinyls and had a gig filmed in Munich. You can win that box set and a pair of tickets to watch that gig right here!

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Green Day
21st Century Breakdown
Reprise Records
15 May 2009

by Raziq Rauf

While 2004’s 12 million-selling, generation-defining American Idiot was timed to perfection – released at the height of anti-Bush confusion – the appointment of the righteous and celebrated Barack Obama last year suggests Green Day should have much less to rally against.

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Not sure what you should be getting up to in the next four weeks when you’re not dodging outbreaks of Swine Flu? Thrash Hits has some recommendations.

Sweet Drunken Bank Holidays ahoy! That’s what we like best about May – two four-day weeks, and two three-day weekends. They’re the perfect excuse to do even less work and spend even more time eating, drinking, listening, watching, and shoving metal into every orifice we’ve got going. We’ve picked 3 albums, 3 tours, and 3 events to help you select when, where and how you choose to stuff yours.

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Green Day have announced they’re touring the UK’s arenas in October 2009 in support of their eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown.

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Green Day announced their new album title to be 21st Century Breakdown at the Grammy Awards. It is expected to be released in May through Warner Bros Records.

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Various Artists
Kerrang! The Album ’08
Rhino Records
29 September 2008

by Vincent Danger

Kerrang! has always followed the latest and the greatest rock music around. That’s why you should put your trust in their choice for a mixtape because, let’s not beat around the bush, that’s exactly what this is.

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