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Betting odds slashed on classic Guns N Roses line-up festival headline shows
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 16 November 2015
Bookmaker Betfair reckons that the classic line-up of Guns N Roses – Axl Rose, Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Duff MacKagan and one or both drummers Steven Adler and Matt Sorum – will headline next year’s Download, Reading and Leeds festivals.
The company has given odds of 2/1 on Download and 6/5 for Reading and Leeds. There are also odds of 25/1 that the band will be announced as the Saturday headliner at Glastonbury.
There have been rumours of a classic line-up GNR reunion since, well, ever since the mid-90s really. But people seem to think it’s actually happening now. Frontman Axl Rose has continued to perform under the name, of course, with a fairly fluid line-up of contributors, and in 2008 released the long-awaited album ‘Chinese Democracy’.
Earlier this year it was reported that the band had enough new material recorded for “two or three” more albums. But shortly afterwards, guitarist DJ Ashba announced that he was leaving the outfit. And since then there has been a steady stream of reports that the classic line-up reunion was definitely on.
