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4 minutes ago, Rodders2023 said:
Christina is more of a global star, even without a massive hit in a while, you’d be hard pressed not for the young lot at the festival not knowing the song she did for a sharks tale, seeing her in the film burlesque and the songs from that, then my age group mid to late 30’s not knowing her songs like fighter, dirty, can hold us down, I’m Beautiful plus the bubble gum pop she did the in the late 90’s.
she’s in the same bracket of the other solo women like Beyoncé rhianna swift that could be considered for me
You can’t seriously think Christina Aguilera has the current mainstream popularity of Rihanna, never mind Beyoncé or Taylor Swift?! Perhaps at her peak, but certainly not now.
Nor would I personally say she has their respective back catalogues, albeit that’s personal opinion.
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1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
O-Rod 2025
Yeah, as we thought, she’s about to go stratospheric again based on Vampire!
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2 hours ago, gigpusher said:
I’m 46 in 2 weeks and paid to go and see his last arena tour. He’s a lyrical genius and Psychodrama is one of the best albums of the last decade.
This. “Black” and “Lesley” are absolutely incredible tracks.
The idea that most of the British public don’t know Dave is hilarious as well. I’d say he’s basically as safe a bet as Sam Fender to headline the festival in the next few years - doubt either will be next year, but would be very confident both will happen at some stage.
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17 minutes ago, spcdust said:
Who knows who it will be at this point but after a 7-year gap FF could certainly be in the frame? It's really governed by who is touring, and where they currently are on that tour and nowadays Glastonbury likes really big commercial hitters to headline The Pyramid which does reduce options significantly. FF, their full crew, and staging will all be in the UK, and Glastonbury dates are free.
Pulp - can't see it as they'll be long off the road by this time next year and, however much I like them, not sure they are a Pyramid Stage Headliner act based on the current direction the festival bookers seem to be going.
Taylor Swift, I could certainly see that, appreciate she's in Ireland the night before but, without checking her schedule, her tour may have two stage sets meaning one could be ready to set up at Glastonbury? Is Rhianna touring next year or taking time out with newborn?The staging is a big part of why it won’t be Taylor, the current tour she’s doing is an absolutely huge production and is about a 3.5 hour long set. She’s not cutting the production down and rehearsing a circa 2 hour one stage show mid tour purely for Glastonbury. That’s before the fact that she’ll almost certainly add another Dublin date given demand.
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Could well be missing something, but is there any reason why Adele couldn’t be potentially one of the “female headliners”? She’s obviously got the Vegas residency currently but that’s meant to finish soon and would be 8 years since she played it next year, and has released new music since then.
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If i ever see that balloon group again i will actually do unspeakable things
Waiting in a queue since 4am, they turn up hours later and then float past us and in. We got set up at midday!! 8 hours in the queue and when we got near the "end" someone gleefully told us "we only arrived at 6, good this isn't it"
Loved every minute of the festival when we got in, but i'd like to be able to somehow raise the point with Glastonbury, because stood there for 8 hours watching new arrivals push past was a joke
Upon getting in I took just the tents from our group and ran ahead to try save some space as we'd agreed with another group of mates that we were meeting that we'd camp in Dairy (nightmare journey across the whole site). Actually ran past them as I was jogging past the Pyramid. Took a lot of effort for me not to subject them to a barrage of abuse! It turns out it was just two women on their own...I actually took a snap on my phone to show the rest of the group.
...or as one of our group suggested - the real culprits held the balloons all the way in and then once through the gate kindly passed them to these women safe in the knowledge they'd slyly avoid any backlash.
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Anyone else share in the hatred of the two people with a Zebra and Monkey balloon? We arrived at Gate B around 3:45 and started queuing and then were also victims of the late arrivers/queue jumpers so didn't actually get through the gate until near 11:00. The people that stood out most evidently though were these two with their balloons as you could so clearly notice their progress. They were about 200m behind us in the queue before it bunched up yet they got through the gate about two hours before us. Bastards.
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Kanye West
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It's an interesting mix of views...
for me, I beleive that a main stage headline act should have musicians - as in people who play instruments. I don't beleive a headlining artist at glastonbury should have a backing track generating 90% of the sound you hear.
Given that situation - I'd also like it if the 10% that is live is either in time, or in tune, or both.
But, despite all this many, many people have enjoyed his performance. To me this is baffling, and raises questions about what makes a 'performance'. Perhaps it's a 'whole is greater than sum of its parts' situation... or somehow the above is ok because he's a celebrity, or none of the above is of any importance at all.
Does the audience have any interest in how the music is created during that 'live' show, because from a raw musical point of view it really was as poor a performance as you're going to see on that stage?
I know it's a bit of a cliche, but at the end of the day the "instrument" is his voice. As others have said, he uses things like auto tune as an effect - people slagging him off for that almost appear to be deliberately missing the point!
He could have done it all with a live band, he's done things like that in the past. However for his Glastonbury set he opted for a backing track.
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Kanye West
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As a Kanye fan I was really looking forward to this and was intrigued to see if he could win over all the petitioners/trolls etc. At the time whilst there I thought it started absolutely brilliantly with Stronger/Power/Ni**as in Paris and began to think it was going to go down as an 'I was there moment'. Admittedly I agree the atmosphere did drop in the middle but I thought he saved it at the end. I actually thought the staging/lighting looked brilliant as well. Plus the whole appearance that he'd stormed off only to end up above the crowd in a cherry picker was genius...playing up to his media portrayal perfectly before a perfect 'Fuck you' to the boos that started to appear. Whilst he's phenomenally arrogant, the guy is clearly self aware, I just get the feeling he couldn't give any less of a shit if people dislike him or his music.
Just started watching it back now as well and to be honest, regardless of the lull (which I've admittedly not got to yet) that opening three songs was incredible.
Also, as a side not, it genuinely baffles me how anyone can find Lee Nelson funny.
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I think in the end the stewards woke him and moved him on for fear of him getting sunstroke!
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Did anyone see/get a photo with that guy who fell asleep/passed out drunk in the Park last year and ended up getting surrounded by Tuborg cups?
He was about five cups deep from all sides and sleeping like a baby!
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yeah seems that way! people on here often mention them being reopened (it;s how i've found out about them, anyway) so best to keep an eye out, although this late on it's probably unlikely that they'll reopen again
Yeah, I thought that would probably be the case. Suspect they'll all be shut now permanently.
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William Hill reopened last night but then closed again soon after. don't think any others are open at this moment in time
Cheers, will have to keep an eye out in that case. Do they just sporadically open and shut them then?
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Long time lurker, first time poster. I know people obviously had bets on it being Coldplay prior to the announcement that it definitely wasn't them, but I was just wondering if anyone knows of any betting websites who are still taking bets on possibly headliners or will it be too close to the announcement now?
2024 Headliners
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I mean, she had the most watched Super Bowl half time show of all time literally this year. Rihanna’s still absolutely massive, and would be definitely one of the biggest bookings the festival has ever made.