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  1. 1 hour ago, fraybentos1 said:

    They're the biggest British band of the last decade surely? Multiple sold out arena tours and headlined most other UK fests. Only reason against I've heard on here is Matt Healy being a twat. 

    Hopefully they get the chance one day. Probs should have been 2023.

    I’m not even a fan but it does seem weird that it hasn’t happened 

  2. On 2/9/2024 at 12:54 PM, fullfathom5 said:

    It was great where I was down the front. Problem is, if you stand at the back at any festival, you won't get the same atmosphere and are basically watching it on screens.

    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.

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  3. On 2/11/2024 at 6:54 PM, Quark said:

     

    Saw something on Twitter about this today. Think it was summed up quite well as "we'd all love to see REM reform, but at the same time it would take away a little bit of what we love about them".

    They've been so adamant about not doing it and being collectively happy with how they signed off that, as much as I'd be in line to see them, I genuinely hope they don't. It'd be nice to see them stick to their guns.

    Personally I don't think it'll ever happen. You might get a one-off song at some kind of big charity event or something like that, but I don't see them doing any new music or a reunion tour for the dollar.

    Plus I've just started Tony Fletcher's biography of them that goes right from the beginning to the separation, and I don't want to have to buy an updated edition.

    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.

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  4. 19 hours ago, gigpusher said:

    I don't know that much derided Radiohead set was similarly career spanning. They even played Creep but if you only liked the first 2 albums and an artist has gone on to have 8-12 albums the small number you like won't be enough to sustain your interest. I think it's better for people to accept that for themselves though rather than blame the band for it. They moved on and you didn't move on with them. It's absolutely fine that happened in both directions but don't whinge because they refuse to go into some time machine and go back 20 years for the night at a festival. Go and see something else instead.

    Similarly when people go to artists solo sets and complain that they are not playing their more famous band material when they are clearly doing the solo stuff to take a break from the more famous band.

    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.

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  5. 18 hours ago, fraybentos1 said:

    I understand that she never said 2 confirmed but she did a podcast essentially focused on this second act and how they'd phoned them up recently etc etc.

    I think they worry too much. Anyone with half a brain can see the effort they make with gender diversity. Some things are out of their control.

    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

  6. 15 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

    Crap, entirely missed Something Just Like This after banging on about it for ages. Think Speed of Sound is wishful thinking, but Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall hasn't been around on this tour much either.

    Adventure of a Lifetime can get in the bin for me, as can Hymn for the Weekend. Think latter-day Coldplay's biggest problem is that for every massive hit I like, there is one which is just tosh.

    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.

  7. 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.

  8. 5 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

    But everyone is going to think there's a lot of people from Merseyside at Glastonbury, which is fair.

    There is, but I’m pretty sure they’re capable of listening to more than one Dua Lipa song

  9. 12 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

    Tears for Fears would be fantastic there, but also probably wouldn't get booked to sub the Pyramid, which is a shame. Somewhere Saturday afternoon or third down Sunday feels like my guess.

    Everybody Wants to Rule the World
    Secret World
    Pale Shelter
    4 No Small Thing
    Sowing the Seeds of Love
    Change
    The Tipping Point
    Mad World
    Break it Down Again
    10 Woman in Chains
    11 Head Over Heels / Broken
    12 Shout

    One of my dream bookings but one that I think won’t happen

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  10. 5 hours ago, clarkete said:

    There are definitely more than two posters  that would have been there, I can think of a few I'm pretty confident of other than you. 

    I loved the original, as I loved a lot of the anarchic things that happened in the past (I always bang on about the Archaos year personally), but everyone knows the festival had to evolve or die. 

    I'm one of the posters who was pleased they recycled the Cineramageddon cars into carhenge in 23 - lord knows they've given more than enough time, energy and entertainment to the festival to have a pop at creating something that 150,000 visitors won't have seen before.  I just think they could have made more use of the space for playing some music at the same time. 

    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.

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  11. 8 hours ago, Kaboom Boxer said:

    Fun topic. Mine would be:

    • Muse
    • Dave
    • Broken Bells
    • Outkast
    • The 1975
    • They Hate Change
    • Brooke Combe
    • Kanye West
    • English Teacher

    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

  12. 20 hours ago, Aromaticmusic1 said:

    Could he possibly do it next year? I think that would be really good then if maybe like Harry, Rihanna, fender 

    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.

  13. 1 hour ago, Skip997 said:

    I don't think age has anything to do with it.

    I'm fairly unusual among many of my mates of a similar age. Most of them have a very varied range of musical tastes.

    Each to their own of course.

    That wasn’t aimed at you specifically mate. Just an observation.

  14. 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.

     

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  15. 4 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

    Non of those acts have ever been edgy, with the exception of The Prodigy

    If you say so. Then where’s the precedent for Glastonbury festival being successful while filling the Pyramid with ‘edgy’ acts?

  16. 14 hours ago, Skip997 said:

    Of course they should be creative and imaginative, otherwise it just becomes another Leeds/Reading/Download/Latitude/Coachella/APE etc, etc

    Why do they need to sell over 100,000 tickets? I've always said Glastonbury will sell out regardless and IMO a couple of years of imagination and creativity, re headliners (and the Pyramid lineup overall) would change the dynamic for the better.

     

    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.

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  17. 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. 

  18. 2 hours ago, Alex DeLarge said:

    I'm genuinely trying to think of "creative" headline bookings the festival has made in the past twenty years: Jay Z was one. 

    Since 2004 we've had: Oasis, Paul McCartney (x2), Muse (x3), The White Stripes, Coldplay (x2), Arctic Monkeys (x3), The Killers (x3), The Who (x2), Kings of Leon, Jay Z, The Verve, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Blur, Stevie Wonder, U2, Beyonce, The Stones, Mumfords, Arcade Fire, Kasabian, Metallica, Kanye, Adele, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Ed Sheeran, Stormzy, The Killers, The Cure, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, Guns n Roses and Elton. 

    Tbh, I think the festival's headliner pool has been much more diverse recently. In the early 00s it was either classic rock, indie rock, or alternative rock. 

    Thats a phenomenal list. That just makes the bookers-and remember what they pay-look like they’re very very good at their job.

  19. 2 hours ago, northernangel said:

    Yes Billie did, she also has longer songs in general though given her albums are longer and her set was 1hr 20 minutes. Again, Billie has 1hr 40 minutes in albums whereas Olivia has 1 hour 15 minutes.

    That's 25 minutes less album time so working on that theory and like a mix of the albums then Olivia with no covers is about an hour. Allowing for two covers she does you are maxing out at an hour 15 so if she gets given 1hr 20 say under the top headliner then she's down very well.

    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 

  20. 1 hour ago, northernangel said:

    How many songs do you want to make it work though?, we've had a lot of acts over time where it's like why so many covers. There is no point in starting to include tracks now to fill a set that weren't used before. Complicated and Sticked will do.

    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.

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