kingcrawler

It was still dark for all of The National last year but pushing it back half an hour would mean the subs could play in darkness too. There’s not exactly loads of houses directly around the site either, it’s literally next to an airport. They wouldn’t headline but The Walkmen are playing in Portugal the week before this, get them booked. It’s a shame LCD won’t be playing as a New York day with them, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Walkmen would have been fantastic.

The Elton sub that we really don’t want.

I think BMTH could do it at this point. I don’t think they’d pull a massive crowd but as an alternative to a pop act on the Pyramid they’d be fine and they’ve proven they can headline major festivals now. The fact that they were twice only booked for afternoon Other stage despite having popular albums and playing arenas says a lot though. I’m sure Ghost are a bigger band worldwide than Foals but they don’t have anywhere near as much crossover appeal with a Glastonbury crowd. I wasn’t there but Foals seemed to be pretty busy this year and I’d guess the majority of people at the festival who aren’t fans would know who they are, their genre and maybe even a song or two. I genuinely don’t know any Ghost songs and I reckon loads of people would have no clue who they were. I’m all for the festival taking risks and doing something different, if anything the bookings are often a bit too safe, but as Matt says there’s just no evidence of Glastonbury even attempting something like this.

If Bring Me the Horizon can’t get near Other headliner despite being a genuinely big band with plenty of radio play then no chance Ghost will be doing that. I could see them playing opposite the legends slot in the same way they had Babymetal/Bring Me the Horizon on the Other stage in 2019 but nothing more than that.

Not officially ruled out as Sunday is still open but Moderat being in Prague and then Istanbul makes them seem pretty unlikely unfortunately.

I read an interview with Yannis where he said their R&L sets will be their only UK ones this summer, so if it’s not Foals or LCD then we’re nowhere near guessing them. There’s a rumour that Biffy Clyro are headlining Victorious on the same weekend as this, they’re probably a bit big and not an interesting booking for me at all but I could see it happening.

It could just be because they’re at TRNSMT.

1. Arctic Monkeys - The Car 2. Beach House - Once, Twice, Melody 3. Just Mustard - Heart Under 4. Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia 5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down Track: Arctic Monkeys - Body Paint Gig: Paul McCartney - Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury

Few names on there that haven’t popped up anywhere yet, there’s still plenty of time but I’m surprised we haven’t seem Father John Misty or PJ Harvey announced anywhere. Plenty on here I agree with though. I have Lana in for Doja Cat and a reshuffle of days and the same Other and WH headliners. A bit like this year, we seem to lack an obvious older, classic WH headliner like George Clinton, Earth Wind & Fire etc.

He did both twice apparently! Fair play, the man knows his hits.

If we based everything on here then Fred Again…, Taylor Swift and Wolf Alice would be the headliners. There’s always going to be a big crossover with certain headliners (Kendrick, Radiohead, Swift etc) but there’s also plenty of acts who people generally aren’t as bothered about who go on to pull big crowds (Eilish, Sheeran, The Who). Guns N Roses will probably have the smallest crowd of the three headliners but it’ll still be bigger than Kendrick’s and maybe even Billie Eilish’s too.

The queue for their merch at the Hydro is the biggest I’ve ever seen. I waltzed up to the cloakroom and bar with no queues at all but the merch stand looked mobbed.

Islands in the Stream got three outings across two years, Kenny Rogers played it twice and then Dolly Parton the year after.

They are but it’s two main stages which alternate, so they’ll be on about 6pm.

I think this looks good and pretty realistic too. Maybe someone like Suede or The Vaccines in there too as a sub.

That’s Foals confirmed for Reading and Leeds on Friday and Saturday, I think they make a lot of sense as the Sunday headliner here. Not too many other big acts on there that I’d expect to crossover though, maybe someone like Wet Leg as a sub? Noel Gallagher, LCD Soundsystem (if they are playing Ireland around then), Foals seems like a decent enough balance compared to last year.

Death Cab still have plenty of tickets to sell for their tour here next year, so if there is any UK dates then I think they’d be announced after that. I’m expecting one night in London at most though.

Nope, it won’t let me edit it unfortunately.

Yeah seemingly when you presave the album it says December 12th, some posts about it on that thread.

We’re heading towards Adele being scared of the dark territory again.

Pretty much bang on 11pm on Sunday. The Twilight Sad were on 7-7:45 then The Cure around 8:10-11.

If anything I think they’re a bit smaller now than they were when they headlined JP in 2016, albeit they seemed big for that at the time. I think they’d be a strong Park headliner and would be a good fit for that but as you say, definitely nothing bigger than that now.

Some interesting names for Mad Cool that I don’t think we’ve seen anywhere yet. Sigur Ros, Lil Nas X, Genesis Owusu and Gayle all seem like possible Glastonbury booking. Have the Yeah Yeah Yeahs announced anything yet? I thought they might have popped up at Mad Cool but they seem awfully quiet so far.

That’s one of the few times I remember an exclusive not being true actually being addressed by a festival, though how true the story they gave was is hard to tell given we knew it was Metallica long before the announcement. https://gigwise.com/news/90871/