Frankly Mr Shankly

To be fair that’s not exactly a fair comparison, it was Lana’s first UK date in 4 years & she rarely tours. Sza is doing it off the back of a massive tour last year that included 4 sold out nights at the 02.

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds / Rihanna / Sam Fender

Perfect 10 is getting some unnecessary hate in my opinion, might not be his finest work but for a tongue in cheek sing a long tune it’s great.

Well, that’s made not having tickets this year easier to swallow. Some gems dotted around, but on the whole one of the weaker lineups of recent years. The other stage headliners in particular stand out as beige beige beige.

If we’re going down the route of it being a ‘surprise’, Ariana Grande has to be in the conversation. New album out & she’s the sort of artist that could drop last minute tour plans and still sell them out instantly. (I think it’ll be SZA, just putting another name out there that is female & possible)

Music for Men was an absolute beast of an album, one of the best of the 00’s. I’m glad they seem to be getting some recognition for being more than just a one hit wonder.

I’m not sure I’d consider LCD anymore ‘dancey’ than Beck to be honest…

I’ll agree on Tina.

Because when Glastonbury’s plans have fallen through in the past, ‘exclusives’ and other shows haven’t stopped them, e.g… Metallica in 2014 who were ‘exclusive to Sonisphere’ and The Who in 2015 who cancelled a gig in Paris to do Glastonbury. I’m not saying I think Green Day are playing, but I wouldn’t write it off completely based on them being ‘exclusive’ elsewhere, as it’s happened before.

I think of George Michael & Prince as the two stand out Glastonbury ‘moments’ that could have been, but sadly never will be.

Metallica were ‘exclusive’ at Sonisphere in 2014 too.

New tune is superb. Wouldn’t expect anything less. Here’s hoping for some tour dates soon.

Michael Jackson confirmed.

It does, but it was the original plan. - could have gone down as possible the best top two pairing in history.

That Metallica info came from Neil & it wasn’t true. Metallica were never doing the other stage. They offered to headline & Glasto turned them down (thinking they had Prince), Metallica signed on with Sonisphere as an exclusive, then had to do some serious back tracking to get Sonisphere to agree to letting them do Glasto when Prince fell through. - I know this because a friend worked in the Sonisphere team at the time. - it was Glasto already being sold out and the huge publicity/tv coverage that caused them to agree to it. Glasto also pushed hard for Prince in 2011, but he ultimately chose to do Hop Farm festival instead at the last moment. Beyoncé was originally booked to sub, as she did at T in the Park that year too.

Yep, he gave them the run around in 2014, 15 & 16. They bent over backwards to try to make that happen, shame it never did. edit: actually he’d been giving them the run around for years. In 2011 they thought they had him, then he went for Hop Farm festival instead, which resulted in Beyoncé being bumped up to headline.

Prince. I seem to recall the Who outright saying they were replacing Prince after he walked away from talks. The same thing happened the year before when Metallica were booked when they were supposed to be exclusive to Sonisphere.

Madonna doesn’t mime either, she does exactly the same as what Dua was doing - backing track to cover the shortfalls/dancing moments.

I don’t necessarily disagree, but Kylie headlining with a full production/fireworks would have also been great. Certainly preferable to the Killers, but each to their own. Yes Janet was terrible, but on paper she could have been the ‘legend’.

Kylie should have headlined 2019. They didn’t need the Killers & they could have easily put Janet Jackson in the ‘legends’ slot.

Their very first live dates were in late August 2017, and I’m fairly certain their first UK date was in London in 2018. So nope, it wasn’t them.

Because when she agreed to do Glastonbury previously it was in the middle of a scheduled European festival tour, she wasn’t doing Glastonbury as a ‘one off’ or special event, it was just another date on the tour. Since then she’s decided to do a stadium tour, that as it turns out happens to be the highest grossing tour in history. It’s not exactly hard to see why Glastonbury doesn’t factor into that…

He could, they are friends. But, IOW is in June, BST is in July…

Is there an announcement expected today?

It’s entirely possible it isn’t their fault this time, but them posting a story that says ‘next story is not our fault’ like some sorry drama fuelled teenager isn’t professional either.