MEGABOWL

Massive set of headliners IMO, whether it’s Madge or Stevie. Nice balance too. For all the usual pissing and moaning about Coldplay they’re pretty much the most consistent ticket shifter in the world, aren’t doing any other festivals, aren’t even currently doing any UK gigs next year, will get a huge crowd and go over really well. Dua is at exactly the right point in her career, has a volley of proper bangers, female, very good live from what I’ve seen. Female legend and one Female headliner is a positive. Madge or Stevie, both are huge all time legends. They may not be right at the top of the game but have enough hits to level Worthy Farm and both will have an event feel (especially Madge). Look at what other festivals that pay a lot more have got this year and GFL are punching again.

Absolutely excellent at TENSMT last year. Downey was very good in the Abbott role too.

That is Glastonbury reflecting trends in real life. It was going to be a huge presence on Social Media no matter what.

Yeah this. Glastonbury reflects trends in the outside world much more than it drives them.

Ok that one’s good

Watching her Rock in Rio set on YouTube slid me straight from ‘like a few songs’ to ‘definitely going to see on the Pyramid 100% no question.’ https://youtu.be/CdqFhYDTPs8?si=_0jsS-FB7cknjc6z

Oh yeah, but despite that they’ve played almost everywhere else since without going back. Cant find it right now but I thought Damon said something once about doubting whether following 2009 was a good idea

I actually don’t think Inwould go if they headlined. 2009 was so utterly special and such a specific moment in time it couldn’t be matched. Doubt it’s them though. Taking Coachella coin and getting a bit of American visibility is one thing. But then going back on ‘wanting to do new things’ as far as playing somewhere they probably shouldn’t play again and have never seen all that keen to seems a stretch.

Not their best effort but if the timings were right timings I could get a decent weekend out of that.

Yeah I got that totally wrong. I blame night shifts.

It really was. Pyramid field was flagged up from Cat on

The National can Saturday or Sunday. They’re in Belgium on the Friday but they regularly do 3/4 straight nights

It was surprisingly easy to watch Noel from a very decent spot, go off for a toilet trip and some chocolate bars then head straight back to my mates for Macca

Especially given the weather. The BBC broadcast from the farm that weekend was heartbreaking. Lauren and Clara sat on socially distanced hay bales in front of a perfect orange sunset.

The only way I can’t see that happening is if she’s been lined up to headline next year. But given how much she enjoyed it first time round, taking a sub slot somewhere she knows before maybe topping Reading next year seems very plausible.

I don’t think it does need to be consistent. I think they can pretty much do what they want.

Got to be honest, I was always surprised at how that Emily interview became ‘there will be two female headliners.’ I never took it that way at all, I heard it as one Female headliner and a Female legend.

Well slap my ass and call me Judy. Putting aside initial ‘can it possibly be as good as 2010’ reaction this is monstrously good news.

Wait this is really happening?

Agreed, which is in some ways the plaster we need to rip off. If Bruno Mars and Green Day were booked nobody would be lumping them together, but that still happens to ‘female headliners.’

Depends what age group you’re talking to. It’s actually a really big set of headliners in terms of streams, chart positions, popularity etc. Plus let’s rip the ‘two female headliners’ plaster off and let those who will be upset be upset about it. At the same time those needlessly upset about last years headliners (because they should have bumped up a random Female act and binned one of the stadium sellers they had yadda yadda) can celebrate.

It’s always interesting to see how experiences can vary. I mean, it’s a big field, there was probably 60k or so there, there’s going to plenty of different nights being had. I loved it though we were pretty near the front. When they played Charlie Brown, which hadn’t been released at that point, everyone around us just kept dancing even though nobody knew it 😆 I loved Elbow too. In fact was stood next to Coldplays Guitarist for most of that. After three days of rain that whole evening in the sun was an absolute joy. I went to LCD Soundsystem in 2016 (and I don’t regret it even though Coldplay looked even better than 2011) but will definitely be there this year

I saw their 2011 set and if they fill that field with a similar overwhelmingly happy and positive vibe you’d have to work really hard not to have a great time. Thats what sticks in my head from that set, not any particular song but one of my favourite atmospheres ever at WF.

If they’ve not got Madge I reckon Emily will do what she was hoping to do and we’ll get all 3 on the first poster.

If it isn’t her it’s a Rog and Pete 2015 level curveball