Headliner predictions 2017

[Cornelius_Fudge]

7 hours ago, jparx said:

I'd purposely tank my reputation and form an underground society full of 1.5 rated peeps. 

I like it.

There should be a 2 or Below Bar for those who are "keeping it real" and "telling it like it is" and anyone who uses the 'YOLO' expression. We should get the Eavii on the phone, set it up pronto

[eFestivals]

14 hours ago, mufcok said:

What's your thoughts on the other 2 at this point, Sheeran and Foo Fighters?

both quite possible, i'd guess.

[RossTC]

Guy at work yesterday with connections to the Eavii seems to believe Kings of Leon are Saturday night headliners. I gave him a skeptical look but he insisted that's true! 

[jackarmy]

13 minutes ago, RossTC said:

Guy at work yesterday with connections to the Eavii seems to believe Kings of Leon are Saturday night headliners. I gave him a skeptical look but he insisted that's true! 

Grim, but entirely plausible. 

Fits the trend of re-booking boring, stale guitar bands: The Who, Muse, Coldplay, etc...

[5co77ie]

10 hours ago, monkey1989 said:

Yello for west holts headliner!

that'd be great

[brettredmayne]

20 minutes ago, RossTC said:

Guy at work yesterday with connections to the Eavii seems to believe Kings of Leon are Saturday night headliners. I gave him a skeptical look but he insisted that's true! 

I just can't imagine the King's if leon been at the top of the list to book at the moment . 

More a desperation booking

[Bradders]

Thought the same about Muse though.

[thewayiam]

1 hour ago, jackarmy said:

Grim, but entirely plausible. 

Fits the trend of re-booking boring, stale guitar bands: The Who, Muse, Coldplay, etc...

Yeah if that's true the it's majorly shit. They are past it by more than a couple of years.

[dentalplan]

4 hours ago, Cornelius_Fudge said:

I like it.

There should be a 2 or Below Bar for those who are "keeping it real" and "telling it like it is" and anyone who uses the 'YOLO' expression. We should get the Eavii on the phone, set it up pronto

It would just be full of people who said that Radiohead were shit.

[ghostdancer1]

31 minutes ago, thewayiam said:

Yeah if that's true the it's majorly shit. They are past it by more than a couple of years.

just had their first US no.1 album last week and yet another UK no.1.certainly not as big/relevant as they used to be but hardly "past it".

i'd rather see them than Muse, although I wouldn't see either if I can help it.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Pigeon costumes a go go if Followhill and the lads turn up.

[northernbro]

They'd get gaga as sub and book returning headliners Kings of Leon, I doubt it

[CaledonianGonzo]

The more I read things like this....

http://www.nme.com/news/music/mark-ronson-2-1195936

The  more I'm starting to think that Gaga is gonna be headlining.

[Hugh Jass]

31 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Pigeon costumes a go go if Followhill and the lads turn up.

I'd rather they just booked the Pigeon Detectives instead.

[CaledonianGonzo]

If it freed up one of the headline slots for someone even halfway listenable, then yup.

[Avalon_Fields]

4 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

I'd rather they just booked the Pigeon Detectives instead.

Now that's desperation!

[ConorC]

9 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

The more I read things like this....

http://www.nme.com/news/music/mark-ronson-2-1195936

The  more I'm starting to think that Gaga is gonna be headlining.

That stage was hammered that night in shangri la, couldn't move. Place would've gone mental if she'd appeared.

[Rubber Soldier]

29 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:

Now that's desperation!

This is a banger and I won't hear a word to the contrary. 

[Cornelius_Fudge]

1 hour ago, dentalplan said:

It would just be full of people who said that Radiohead were shit.

Haha, at least we'd know they were safe and sound 

[thewayiam]

2 hours ago, ghostdancer1 said:

just had their first US no.1 album last week and yet another UK no.1.certainly not as big/relevant as they used to be but hardly "past it".

i'd rather see them than Muse, although I wouldn't see either if I can help it.

It doesn't take that much to get to no.1 these days.

1 hour ago, northernbro said:

They'd get gaga as sub and book returning headliners Kings of Leon, I doubt it

I'd doubt it too.

1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

The more I read things like this....

http://www.nme.com/news/music/mark-ronson-2-1195936

The  more I'm starting to think that Gaga is gonna be headlining.

Nah, sub.

1 hour ago, Hugh Jass said:

I'd rather they just booked the Pigeon Detectives instead.

This! The Kingz of Leon Tribute act is better than the proper thing now.

[FloorFiller]

1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

The more I read things like this....

http://www.nme.com/news/music/mark-ronson-2-1195936

The  more I'm starting to think that Gaga is gonna be headlining.

 

2 minutes ago, thewayiam said:

Nah, sub.

i duno, a high profile act being at the festival the previous year is usually a good indicator of them being in talks to headline the following year, but i still think/hope she'll be a sub, and moreso i'm starting to think it'll be to a huge headliner on the Sunday (Foo Fighters, U2, Fleetwood Mac, whoever they've booked) rather than Sheeran

[Hugh Jass]

2 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

 

i duno, a high profile act being at the festival the previous year is usually a good indicator of them being in talks to headline the following year, but i still think/hope she'll be a sub, and moreso i'm starting to think it'll be to a huge headliner on the Sunday (Foo Fighters, U2, Fleetwood Mac, whoever they've booked) rather than Sheeran

My thinking is that they've got their eye on someone big and Gaga is line to either headline or sub depending on whether they can pull it off.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Gaga being a relatively weak headliner would be balanced out somewhat by a Foos / Mac / U2 style heritage-y #3.

If #3 is Leon and the lads then the wole top tier starts looking a whole lot less substantial. 

Edited October 27, 2016 by CaledonianGonzo
wole?

[FrancisH]

To be honest I'm pretty convinced she's headlining now... I just really can't see Glastonbury foregoing the whole female headliner drive after making such a clear statement about it - and second to that it wasn't just aimed at female acts currently massive enough to headline, but generally about giving female acts who might not be considered 'big enough' a platform to large festival headliner status.

[CaledonianGonzo]

We know that Adele agreed to headline 2016 whilst there in 2015, i.e. long before 25 came out.

Gaga being there this year pre-Joanne has a wee bit of a similar feel to it.

Obviously radically different outcomes in terms of album sales, though.