Porcelina

Bleachers in Kingston on Wednesday - blew the bloody roof off. The E-Street Band would be proud.

Even nearly a year later, Frankenstein does very little for me. There's something hollow about it. I think it's the real lack of Bryan's drums that takes the pulse away from the majority of tracks. Laugh Track meanwhile, is my favourite since TWFM. Coat on a Hook is the only filler.

Assumed that tour had been advertised as such - would definitely have sold my ticket, as a casual fan. The Smile at Hammersmith last Sunday were absolutely magnificent - easily the best I've seen Thom & Johnny play together since The Park in 2010. I'm not sure how well it will work in Ally Pally on a Saturday night - the Apollo was the ideal venue for that vibe.

Will get a much more engaged crowd than 2017 following the various Taylor/Aaron collaborations. Hopefully will get a 90 minute slot instead of the usual 75.

Maybe there are some acts who can't be announced until after ticket resale, due to contractual commitments elsewhere? E.g. Stevie and BST.

I'd love her instead, I spent £125 for the GUTS tour at the O2. Hopefully 2025 instead. Noah probably could do it. Imagine a sub headline slot would have been more likely if he was available though. All I'm saying is this forum isn't necessarily hugely representative of where the puck is culturally in 2024. Feels like there's been a pretty big shift in the last 2-3 years - partly tiktok fuelled, partly Gen Z beginning to take the baton.

Even the first half of Radiohead felt like a flop in 2017. Not a huge SZA fan, but she's a lot more relevant than half of the other potential names that have come up over the last few months.

I mean, she has the 8th most listened to album in the UK on Spotify this week, despite it being over a year old, and has been hanging around these charts consistently for months. Not to mention Kill Bill was absolutely huge on TikTok/Reels.

Just give the Other Stage opening slot to Feeder. New album out in April and currently touring. Would fill the field, play the hits and send everyone off happy enough.

Bruce sounded fine there in 2016, we were quite far back. Coldplay in 2022 was reasonable enough too - certainly no worse than an arena.

Strange, was my fourth time seeing them and comfortably the worst. Atmosphere felt really disjointed, but it down to the recent bereavement. Rachel seemed all over the place and the house light situation set a weird tone from the off.

There is no way that Emily Eavis is booking a sex offender to play. It would absolutely go against everything the festival has tried to build up with more female representation. The backlash would be unprecedented.

She had the single biggest hit of 2021 and could have played 10 nights at Hammersmith. Tickets were impossible to get.

Olivia may have agreed to sub but also be available to bump up, if someone else fell down. She is too big for it, but perhaps Sunday subbing to Stevie or Coldplay and then saving the headline slot for the first stadium tour would work. Clearly she was way too big for Other Stage 5pm in 2022 - by rights she should have already been subbing the Pyramid. The festival going for Stevie over here is so conservative that it's almost detrimental to the brand. The festival transitioned to the millennial crowd extremely well, but there's not very much to get excited about on the rumours if you're at 20 year old at uni - which was when me and my friends all became lifelong customers.

Do we have any reason to believe this newly-created account, other than goodwill?