Headliners 2016

[CaledonianGonzo]

Current version of The Beach Boys:

 

I mean.....who even are these people?

[oneeye]

10 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Current version of The Beach Boys:

 

I mean.....who even are these people?

The cast of Breaking Bad II?

Maybe someone like Mark Knopfler? (Tea time slot that is, not headliner)

[russycarps]

No Dennis no care.

The only beach boy who actually surfed. Cool as fuck. Pacific ocean blue is a tremendous album too

[drakeyyy]

Fri:           Pyramid:    Muse + Kendrick

                Other:        Gorillaz + Disclosure

                 WH:           Basement Jaxx

                 JP:           White Lies

Sat:          Pyramid:    The XX + Adele (headlining) 

                 Other:       The Prodigy + Nero

                  WH:          Bjork

                  JP:         Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Sun:       Pyramid:        Coldplay + ELO + Bombay Bicycle Club + Kool and the Gang (legends slot)

               Other:           New Order + The Last Shadow Puppets

              WH:             Roots Manuva

             JP:                Bloc Party

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No sound logic about any of these predictions just a few punts!

[Andy0808 v5]

6 minutes ago, drakeyyy said:

Fri:           Pyramid:    Muse + Kendrick

                Other:        Gorillaz + Disclosure

                 WH:           Basement Jaxx

                 JP:           White Lies

Sat:          Pyramid:    The XX + Adele (headlining) 

                 Other:       The Prodigy + Nero

                  WH:          Bjork

                  JP:         Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Sun:       Pyramid:        Coldplay + ELO + Bombay Bicycle Club + Kool and the Gang (legends slot)

               Other:           New Order + The Last Shadow Puppets

              WH:             Roots Manuva

             JP:                Bloc Party

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No sound logic about any of these predictions just a few *unts!

 

FTFY

[hoils]

Stick that c**t Love with his plastic palm tree shite on t'Other and Brian on the Pyramid at the same time. Let the people decide! 

[Ben Holland]

Everyone has different tastes but Muse will go down a storm if they play again. Its guaranteed. Never seen them play live and be anything other than class.

don't like them....go see somebody else (if they play) Iv seen them loads already but it would take something very special indeed on other, west holts or elsewhere to stop me watching them again.

[mungo57]

My 2p on the NIN list:

- The Fragile

- with teeth

- downward

- pretty hate

- year zero

- hesitation marks

- the slip

- ghosts

 

 

And now to do my favourite band:

- Lateralus

- Aenema

- Undertow

- 10000 days

 

not to say that 10k days is shit, I love all of Tool's albums, it's just my least favourite (while still being fucking excellent)

Edited November 22, 2015 by mungo57
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[LeeGalvin]

1 hour ago, drakeyyy said:

Fri:           Pyramid:    Muse + Kendrick

                Other:        Gorillaz + Disclosure

                 WH:           Basement Jaxx

                 JP:           White Lies

Sat:          Pyramid:    The XX + Adele (headlining) 

                 Other:       The Prodigy + Nero

                  WH:          Bjork

                  JP:         Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Sun:       Pyramid:        Coldplay + ELO + Bombay Bicycle Club + Kool and the Gang (legends slot)

               Other:           New Order + The Last Shadow Puppets

              WH:             Roots Manuva

             JP:                Bloc Party

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No sound logic about any of these predictions just a few punts!

Not bad, not bad.

Friday the weakest day there, but I'd probably check out Gorillaz to see if they could make up for their Pyramid stand-in. Some annoying clashes on Saturday, but it'd have to be Bjork on West Holts. Sunday would be a no-brainer for me with New Order closing the Other.

[stuartbert two hats]

I've always been a Beach Boys fan, but I went through a phase in the naughties where I saw Brian's band three times and 'The Beach Boys' once. Mike's band actually wasn't that bad, in fact the vocal aspect was superior in some regards. I'm not particularly keen on the tone of Jeff Foskett's (Brian's band's falsetto singer) voice and let's be honest, Brian Wilson himself hasn't had a particularly pleasant voice in about 40 years now.  On the other hand, Mike watches the pennies and you can hear it. Keyboard parts instead of live acoustic instrumentation really hurts some songs, particularly Pet Sounds tracks and I think there are fewer vocalists, so some of those arrangements don't work as well, but that's not often a problem to be honest.

When it came to track selection, Brian leans more on the fun, surf and cars formula than you might think and Mike delves into the more obscure parts of the back catalogue than expected. I'd expect a 2016 festival set to be pretty much identical, except The Beach Boys aren't likely to play anything off one of Brian's recent solo albums, which are pretty much all inferior to that recent Beach Boys album.

Yes, Mike Love is a dick. Yes, a 'Brian Wilson' show would be better than a 'Beach Boys' show, but neither could be the authentic live article, since a great slice of the Beach Boys best records were chock full of session musicians anyway. I'd go and see 'The Beach Boys', absolutely.

Edited November 22, 2015 by stuartbert two hats

[Harmonic Prospector]

3 hours ago, russycarps said:

No Dennis no care.

The only beach boy who actually surfed. Cool as fuck. Pacific ocean blue is a tremendous album too

Agreed. Dennis was a badass and Pacific Ocean Blue is an amazing album.

Watching the Beach Boys without any of Brian, Carl or Dennis would just feel wrong. I know Brian was a passenger during their reunion a couple a years ago but you could probably say the same for the rest of them too as it was Brian's fabulous backing band that brought all those songs to life musically and vocally. 

 

However I'm with Getofamylawn when someone calling themselves the  Beach Boys is on the pyramid stage on a sunny afternoon and it is going to be very hard to resist no matter how purist we see ourselves. 

[maelzoid]

1 hour ago, mungo57 said:

And now to do my favourite band:

- Lateralus

- Aenema

- Undertow

- 10000 days

 

Not much to argue with here. I may well swap the bottom two, but the difference in quality is fairly trivial.  I'm inclined to rate Lateralus as the best album of this new millennium.

[maelzoid]

A Beach Boys line-up without a single Wilson is not the Beach Boys. End of story.

[mungo57]

7 minutes ago, maelzoid said:

Not much to argue with here. I may well swap the bottom two, but the difference in quality is fairly trivial.  I'm inclined to rate Lateralus as the best album of this new millennium.

Oooooh that's one hell of a statement.

its definitely in my top 5 since 2000 - phenomenal album but I can think of at least 1 album I enjoy more that would rank above it......... 

Steven Wilson (solo) rankings:

- Hand. Cannot. Erase.

- grace for Drowning

- The Raven that Refused to sing (and other stories)

- Insurgentes

again..... I love them all but like Insurgentes the least 

[brettredmayne]

2 new Coldplay songs 

 

 

 

[kingcrawler]

I like the first one, can definitely see why they got Noel in to play the solo on the album. The second one just sounds like they've tried to remake Where the Streets Have No Name but it's obviously not as good. 

Both are still much better than Amazing Day though!

[LeeGalvin]

I just watched that Adele at the BBC thing... well, there's no denying she's got a lot of talent. Her voice is fantastic live and she's got some great hits, but I do wonder whether 90 mins of ballads (with the odd exception such as Rolling in the Deep) is really suitable for a Pyramid headliner. The more I think about it, the less convinced I am of her as a possibility.

[Mezhyp1]

Remember the countdown on Foo Fighters website? Well it was a link to a new 5 song EP called Saint Cecilia 

[FloorFiller]

39 minutes ago, Mezhyp1 said:

Remember the countdown on Foo Fighters website? Well it was a link to a new 5 song EP called Saint Cecilia 

had a feeling it was gonna be an EP. fingers crossed it's better than... well, almost everything on Sonic Highways. doesn't really put them back in the picture for Glastonbury though

[CaledonianGonzo]

Bands releasing an EP a few months after an album are usually just getting rid of the songs that didn't make the cut.  A few years back they would have been the b-sides to the singles. 

[Chazwozza]

Foos on the Friday then.....

[FloorFiller]

1 minute ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Bands releasing an EP a few months after an album are usually just getting rid of the songs that didn't make the cut.  A few years back they would have been the b-sides to the singles. 

i thought the same, but in the statement released it says the EP was 'put in to action' in October (whether that means written from scratch or just means recording old unused songs i'm not sure)

2 minutes ago, Chazwozza said:

Foos on the Friday then.....

according to Neil they don't seem to have any plans to tour Europe in early summer so it's looking unlikely

[paulmuchmore]

The letter from Dave says they're going to have a break now after a very busy past 2 years. Even says he doesn't know if they'll ever be back together again (of course they will!) So I think they're out of the equation for 2016, and will do 2017 if they're touring again. 

[across97]

What do people think about the Libertines headlining? Played a surprise set  this year and seemed to go down quite well, and they've been rumoured ever since the reunion. Not quite sure it would happen, but would anybody be shocked to hear that?

[Mezhyp1]

6 minutes ago, across97 said:

What do people think about the Libertines headlining? Played a surprise set  this year and seemed to go down quite well, and they've been rumoured ever since the reunion. Not quite sure it would happen, but would anybody be shocked to hear that?

Absolutely gobsmacked