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MEGABOWL

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  1. Problem is what they did with the screens. Too clever for their own good, when the people at the back just need to see the band as much as possible. I went to the TRNSMT gig a couple of weeks later as did a few others I know up here and you could literally split whether they enjoyed it or not based on how far forward they were. Everyone stuck further back complained about the overly artsy screens. Me and my mate had seen the complaints on here and made sure we were down the front, where it was incredible.
  2. Totally agree. One of my all time favourite bands. I really don’t want them to reform though. It would suit their story and their reputation better to leave it.
  3. Well this was all a bit stupid
  4. Guess or you’ve heard something?
  5. I don’t really get how anyone can go to a Pyramid headliner set unprepared for what they’re going to play, or assuming they’ll just play e.g.the first two albums when they’ve done 10. An hour on Setlist.Fm and a streaming service and you’re up to date. Doesn’t take long and you may even discover some new songs you like.
  6. She never said the big American act that had just called was female though, that was an assumption made elsewhere. On the October interview she said one Female headliner and a Female legend. I agree with you they worry too much. It’s just the way of the world though that anything she says gets twisted and the Internet runs with it. You’re probably right that they’re better saying nothing because ‘maybe we’ll have 2 Female headliners next year, fingers crossed’ becomes ‘Glastonbury WILL have 2 Female headliners’ followed by outrage when that happens. She could just stop doing interviews or say nothing beyond ‘we hope we’ll have a really good line up’ but then do we obsessives really want that? I do sometimes wonder if there’s an element of teasing too, using the same tactics O’Leary uses to keep Ryanair in the public eye. An interview that generates a bit of publicity is free but done well can go a long way
  7. Similarly I like Adventure but can’t stand Hymn. Would love Every Teardrop but they seem to have dropped it looking at the setlists. At least Magic pops up regularly which is a great song IMO. Martin hates Speed of Sound so can’t see that happening. Something Just Like This is nailed on I reckon, as is Charlie Brown (wristbands go blinkblinkblink!). The surprises will be interesting, have to go some to top 2016 on that score.
  8. Coldplay are just about the biggest, most consistent ticket shifters around. Judging by the Pyramid crowd in 2011 and what I know from my kids/other people’s teenagers they’re big with the kids now they’ve gone all pop and do songs with BTS and the like. They’re absolutely massive.
  9. MEGABOWL

    Dua Lipa

    There is, but I’m pretty sure they’re capable of listening to more than one Dua Lipa song
  10. One of my dream bookings but one that I think won’t happen
  11. https://www.efestivals.co.uk/forums/topic/244093-2024-headliners/?do=findComment&comment=6715757
  12. 100% agree on the last bit. I think it would make sense to emulate some of the stuff Williams Green had after headliner time-Northern Soul, Guilty Pleasures, Motown, that kind of thing. Give people who want something different to what the SE Corner offers another place to go.
  13. In the last 24 hours I have listened to Olivia Rodrigo Coldplay x BTS Rianne Downey The Big Moon Holly Humberstone Oasis Taylor Swift Sigrid Kendrick Lamar feat SZA Dua Lipa
  14. I wouldn’t be in anyway surprised if that was the 3. With Styles (and Rihanna actually) it’s simply a case of if they want to. I’m sure the festival would book them in a heartbeat.
  15. That wasn’t aimed at you specifically mate. Just an observation.
  16. I heard that. He and Jackson ‘the edgiest edgester’ Browne.
  17. It’s interesting to see how people of different ages treat music. I’m 47 and I see in some of my friends this self assurance that their music taste is not just an opinion, it’s better. They’ve been around a while (getting less open-minded) whereas the kids don’t know what they’re talking about. You can see how it happens. In the 90s I was an Indie kid so I’d buy NME and Select and listen to Steve Lamacq and you got siloed off into a particular type of music. Same when I then got into pills and Dance music and you had to buy the right mags and go to the right record shops and be seen in the cool clubs. You become part of the scene. There was a kudos to being the first to hear something. Kids don’t do that now. We’ve had an influx at my work of folk in their 20s who are gig and festival-goers and when you ask ‘what type of music are you into?’ none of them have a ‘type’ because they have instant access to all the music ever and listen to whatever they feel like. Nobody gets anything ‘first’ because if someone recommends a track they can be listening to it within 5 seconds. They’re open to whatever and will go and watch all sorts of different stuff at festivals. You know what, they’re doing it right.
  18. If you say so. Then where’s the precedent for Glastonbury festival being successful while filling the Pyramid with ‘edgy’ acts?
  19. That would only make sense if you were comparing Main Stages. Glastonbury would have to shut about 70% of the festival to be like those festivals. They need to sell over 100000 tickets because they need money to fund the festival. Given ticket prices these days there is absolutely no guarantee it would sell out especially if they start arrogantly thinking they can book whoever they want to headline. That type of hubris is the road to ruin. They’ve got a formula that currently works. They’ve been booking the biggest names possible for 30+ years now while proving a huge variety in the headliners on alternative stages and catching every up and coming act possible somewhere on the line up. They didn’t book Oasis/The Prodigy/Blur/Radiohead/REM/Shakespears Sister in the 90s because they were cool and edgy, they booked them because they were massive and what the kids were listening to at the time. The idea that booking a load of acts to headline that aren’t popular enough will lead to it still selling out but with some sort of more alternative crowd is just a total myth with no basis in history.
  20. The idea that one of the biggest music festivals in the world has to be ‘creative’ or ‘imaginative’ or ‘edgy’ is just self indulgent bollocks. Sorry. They need to sell over 100000 expensive tickets.
  21. Thats a phenomenal list. That just makes the bookers-and remember what they pay-look like they’re very very good at their job.
  22. Squeeze were really good on the Pyramid on 2016. I’d go and see Heart too.
  23. She played 13 songs in an hour in 2022 because, you know, there are pauses between songs and sometimes she talks. Like there would be if she headlined
  24. One or two should be plenty especially if she can get a guest or two involved e.g. shes had Natalie Imbruglia up to do Torn before, or could get Lily Allen again. Complicated is a given, who knows, maybe Avril will be about. Just looked and Eilish did 20 songs (3 shortened, 1 extended). Rodrigo has enough to match that.
  25. She easily has the material. Two huge albums to go at which include three Number 1s and another 4 songs that have made the top 10. Chuck in the Hunger Games song, a High School Musical track and a cover and she’ll fill 80-90 minutes no problem even before we start thinking of guests. Plenty of other acts have headlined off 1 or 2 albums.
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