Ladbible X Whatsapp
  • iconNews
  • videos
  • entertainment
  • Home
  • News
    • UK News
    • US News
    • Australia
    • Ireland
    • World News
    • Weird News
    • Viral News
    • Sport
    • Technology
    • Science
    • True Crime
    • Travel
  • Entertainment
    • Celebrity
    • TV & Film
    • Netflix
    • Music
    • Gaming
    • TikTok
  • LAD Originals
    • Say Maaate to a Mate
    • Daily Ladness
    • Lad Files
    • UOKM8?
    • FreeToBe
    • Extinct
    • Citizen Reef
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • LADbible Group
  • UNILAD
  • SPORTbible
  • GAMINGbible
  • Tyla
  • UNILAD Tech
  • FOODbible
  • License Our Content
  • About Us & Contact
  • Jobs
  • Latest
  • Topics A-Z
  • Authors
Facebook
Instagram
X
Threads
Snapchat
TikTok
YouTube

LAD Entertainment

YouTube

LAD Stories

Submit Your Content
Furious Reading & Leeds festivalgoers are demanding refunds after last minute line-up change

Home> Entertainment

Published 18:53 12 Aug 2022 GMT+1

Furious Reading & Leeds festivalgoers are demanding refunds after last minute line-up change

The fans of this particular rock band were not happy

James Hilsum

James Hilsum

Featured Image Credit: Dean Fardell/Alamy Live News Feed/Alamy Stock Photo/PA Images/Alamy Stock Photo

Topics: Music, UK News

James Hilsum
James Hilsum

Advert

Advert

Advert

The word ‘rage’ is being emphasised in Rage Against The Machine, after the band announced they would be cancelling the UK and European leg of their tour.

They broke the news on Twitter after confirming that lead singer Zack de la Rocha would be unable to make the journey across the Atlantic due to sustaining a leg injury he suffered on stage in July.

RATM will still tout the US and Canada, and are currently in the midst of three shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

But that will not be much consolation to those heading off to Reading and Leeds at the end of this month.

Advert

One would think that a suitable replacement would be found for the rock band, but festivalgoers have turned to a different genre and replaced them with pop band The 1975.

It has caused plenty of anger from frustrated festivalgoers, with one saying the 'replacement was nowhere close to the same music genre'.

Meanwhile, another RATM fan added: "My partner and I bought two tickets to see Rage, travelling to Reading all the way from Glasgow.

"Train tickets already booked. Now they're saying we can't get a refund for line-up changes. The 1975 are not a suitable replacement."

Advert

RATM advised their fans to 'contact your point of purchase for refunds to any headline shows'.

The debate around whether or not festivalgoers should receive a refund continued on Twitter, with one saying: “It’s a festival, it’s not about one specific act. Go and watch something else, experiment, party, have a good time and meet new people. So much to do other then watch Rage Against The Machine.”

Rage Against The Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha.
REUTERS/Alamy Stock Photo

However, someone else was more sympathetic to the plight of RATM fans and said: “You see the state of the lineup? If I was local to Leeds or Reading I would have got a ticket just to see them as they hardly ever tour. I’d imagine a lot are in the same boat.”

Another user made a rather amusing football comparison, commenting: “If you bought a ticket for a west Brom game and he played the under 17s, what would you say? You’re still watching west Brom, but not what you paid for is it?”

Advert

Aside from The 1975, The other headline acts over the three days at Reading and Leeds include Dave and the Arctic Monkeys.

LADbible has reached out to Festival Republic for comment.

  • Reading Festival issues apology to Lana Del Rey fans after she walked off stage when her set was cut short
  • People can't get over Reading And Leeds Fest 2000 line-up compared to this year
  • Police found body in Jay Slater search '20-minute walk away from last place missing Brit's phone pinged'
  • Image taken before man, 26, was killed by punch after blow-up doll hit girlfriend was 'one frame away' from catching killer

Choose your content:

2 hours ago
6 hours ago
a day ago
  • 2 hours ago

    Viewers hooked by 'masterpiece' detective thriller with 96% Rotten Tomatoes score that has just landed on Netflix

    All three seasons of this hit crime comedy series have just landed on Netflix

    Entertainment
  • 6 hours ago

    50 Cent takes another blistering swipe at Diddy following rapper's shock verdict

    The rapper took yet another swipe at Sean Combs on social media

    Entertainment
  • a day ago

    Kesha said infamous red carpet incident with Jerry Seinfeld was the ‘saddest moment of her life’

    Jerry Seinfeld said 'no thanks' to Kesha during a red carpet event

    Entertainment
  • a day ago

    Movie fans say they still think about ‘traumatising’ but ‘amazing’ film 14 years after watching

    The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brady Corbet and Michelle Trachtenberg

    Entertainment