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31 songs!!!! Bit dull so far. Though I think it’s hard to tell initially as Backlash is baked into the reaction to this one.

Certainly is. I’m up for a bit of 54321, Do Wah Diddy and Pretty Flamingo too. Last setlist

Very tempted by The Manfreds

He told friends of mine he’s third top Avalon Saturday

Thanks for your efforts with both list and Clashfinder

No it didn’t. I think it would take a couple of mudbaths and a couple of years of disappointing headliners rather than 2016 where Adele and Coldplay did really well.

Ticket sales were always likely to be good off the last couple of festivals. Elton, Macca, Killers, Kylie etc all looked great on TV and it’s been Sunny. A couple of years of rain and disappointing music is the only thing that will really slow things down.

It is confirmation bias. You’re applying far too much weight to your own limited experience and your own completely subjective opinion. You’re doing so to the extent of accusing someone of outright lying in public.

Yeah exactly. Everybody wants validation for their own opinion when in the end it’s just a subjective opinion.

They’ve been filling stadiums consistently around the world for 15 years now. They’re among the biggest of the big by that metric.

Apart from the other two, dead right

This is the case with everything. The complainers shout the loudest. It also still somehow seems to be the case, in the year 2024, that some people out there are surprised that their own subjective opinion is not automatically shared by others.

She never said she’d got two female headliners. They said they had one definite and one they were working on.

Olivia Rodrigo, Sam Fender, Rihanna is where my ‘betting on 2025’ budget (£15) is going

I always took it as a challenge at festivals like that to smuggle in as much Vodka as I could. I still did it at TRNSMT last year even though I’m 47 and can afford to buy drinks from the bars. I just can’t be arsed queueing and, well it’s the principle of it.

My favourite thing about WG was their late night stuff. Deptford Soul, Motown etc. Good options that gave the night time slate a bit of variety. They should put that on Carhenge instead of the generic DJs they had any time I went past last year.

This makes no sense. Any gig anyone ever goes to could be the last one, or the last time they see that act. It’s also not clear how a Mobile Phone making an enjoyment more enjoyable increases with scarcity of said event.

Agreed. 2022 had Macca too, though there was still plenty of debate about the other two headliners. The post-Covid catch up meant that was stacked across the whole bill. This time last year we were wrapped up in a huge debate about female headliners when in fact last year had 3 massive headliners that were all in different ways a bit of a coup for GFL. This year is back to a more standard line up, we’ll see in the coming years if it’s a signpost but for now it doesn’t mean the festival is losing its lustre.

100%. Its just down to subjectivity who’s disappointed and who’s happy at this stage.

The full set I watched on YouTube from Paris had Clocks, Politik and In my Place on it

I’m happy to join you in that conviction! 😁

I thought Holly Humberstone would be there. She’s in Switzerland on the Friday but could still be added.

BC Camplight confirmed to a friend that he’s third down Avalon on Saturday

Agree with this. Seems crazy to me.

That argument does stand actually. Sorry.