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13 minutes ago, elias said:
£35 tickets. Well done Mr Heaton.
Absolutely excellent at TENSMT last year. Downey was very good in the Abbott role too.
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6 hours ago, northernangel said:
Not sure this makes sense? Emily's approach helping Glastonbury into a social media place is why everyone does it now?
Right so Glastonbury were forced to used social media as they do now because people took pictures of themselves at the festival?
No one is that people of the normal people and who use social media don't attend Glastonbury. Glastonbury sold out every year before it needed to jump on social media 'trends' as you've put. Their own hashtags and such links makes them appear on socials differently and that became the new 'cool way' to be to find everything related which has just grew and grew. Glastonbury could make all their posts without any of that and still sell and attract well over the standard for interest interest.
That is Glastonbury reflecting trends in real life. It was going to be a huge presence on Social Media no matter what.
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5 hours ago, stuie said:
Which just happened to be the same time social media started to become a really prominent feature of our lives everywhere, not just at Glastonbury because of Emily.
Yeah this. Glastonbury reflects trends in the outside world much more than it drives them.
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12 hours ago, Suprefan said:
This better?
Ok that one’s good
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3 hours ago, FloopFiller said:
Dua absolutely banged at Primavera a couple of years back so I’ve no doubt she’ll nail her headline set at the farm. Think it’s gonna be one of those instances of the Glastonbury performance truly cementing her place in the big leagues and silencing the ‘is she big enough/can she do this?’ brigade.
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
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30 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
I dunno about 'all that keen'
Damon is very much in the circle of trust alongside yer Jarvis, Chris, Guy and Thoms.
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
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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.
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16 hours ago, Suprefan said:
Not their best effort but if the timings were right timings I could get a decent weekend out of that.
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3 hours ago, foolee said:
They look to be free for the Saturday as well so think Saturday is still on.
Yeah I got that totally wrong. I blame night shifts.
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3 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
Even trying to do that after Cat / during Blondie / before Lil Nas X was tough work...
It really was. Pyramid field was flagged up from Cat on
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The National can Saturday or Sunday. They’re in Belgium on the Friday but they regularly do 3/4 straight nights
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11 hours ago, Harmonic Prospector said:
With the hour changeover and the prospect of a 2-3 hour Macca set, I think you can safely assume that people needed to empty their bladders and get refreshments too. I doubt those up front for Noel who left the pit after his set weren't in the field for Macca too.
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
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20 hours ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:
G20 would never have been surpassed
21 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:G20 would have been an all-timer.
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.
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2 hours ago, northernangel said:
I fully believe O-Rod is going to sub.
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.
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1 hour ago, stuie said:
Previous years have had the legend there, as that's been talked up to be the 4th headliner. On the year the 4th headliner isn't a woman, just insert any woman in that position on the poster? It needs to be consistent at least.
I don’t think it does need to be consistent. I think they can pretty much do what they want.
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1 hour ago, Gnomicide said:
It was "Who knows, next year we might get two".
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.
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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.
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Wait this is really happening?
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54 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
People will still show their arses by moaning that Dua Lipa and O-Rod are too similar with too little to differentiate them, when theyre fundamentally very different propositions.
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.’
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3 hours ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:
Outside of these forums, how do you think a trio of Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa and Coldplay would go down?
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.
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6 hours ago, Neville Street said:
It’s always interesting to see how the same thing is experienced differently by us all. I know that’s obvious from the discussions in here.
My memory of 2011 was that Coldplay were poor, they were preceded by the most amazing collective experience of Elbow in the fading sunshine (I think!), Guy downing pints, reverse Mexican waves, singalongs, etc., and then Coldplay blanded the evening to a disappointing conclusion. I’d walked away from U2 the night before due to the barracking from Bono (Brit Floyd were immense in Acoustic) and didn’t go to Beyoncé (Kool & The Gang on WH were great, but perhaps Beyoncé would have been a good one to have seen). Left that year thinking that the Pyramid headliners had been underwhelming.
After that, I almost had to be dragged to Coldplay in 2016 which was the polar opposite of 2011. Absolutely incredible moving engaging 2 hour party. We were a long way back, but the atmosphere was stunning.
Enjoyed 2016 so much I went to the current tour in Glasgow (feels like a decade ago, but was actually August 2022). Will be there again at WF if they are there this year.
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
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16 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:
Even if Coldplay don't sit anywhere in my all-time list of favourites, there are very few artists who will likely pull me away that evening from them.
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.
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Just now, CaledonianGonzo said:
Doubt it. I expect its the third headliner they want to nail down and announce - if they've got Madge, she's a Macca or Elton sized headline act that makes the papers and builds up goodwill among the ticketholders.
Comparatively speaking, Dua and Coldplay are a bit more ho hum and may not even warrant their own announcement in the way last year that Arctic Monkeys and GnR just appeared on the poster.
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.
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26 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
I mean, realistically who else is there?
If it isn’t her it’s a Rog and Pete 2015 level curveball
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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.