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11 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
TBH if Madge is truly out then that's who I'd put my money on. There's a hella gotta circumstantial that puts her in the frame for it.
Shes similar to Lizzo last year in that she would be a strong sub and if you can get someone else bigger as well great. But she could definitely headline, especially as she’s more of an Eilish sales-wise than a Lizzo. I’ve just got a sneaky suspicion after noting how much she’s still selling even before she’s started her tour.
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From recent times Foals on the Other in 2022 stands out. Their set and lighting was really spot on.
The Cure in 2019 was beautifully staged. Lullaby was beautiful. Helped on the sensory front by being the best sounding set I’ve ever heard on the Pyramid.
https://youtu.be/KAi2hQWf7oc?si=xsA-GcLxs1689sHa
But let’s be honest, the answer is Coldplay 2016. I wasn’t even there but go to about 1:10…..
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Just tried to put a cheeky tenner on Olivia Rodrigo and both bookies suspend the bet as soon as I try and put it on.
Probably doesn’t mean much beyond showing how little money causes the Glastonbury betting markets to clag up but there we are.
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5 hours ago, Superscally said:
...but that's all you can hope for with a band of seven or eight albums. I'm very happy if there are three or four good tunes on a U2 album now. Its all you need to keep a live show fresh too. They would smash a headline set, and a decent size crowd would love it, but no way they get given it, or there's a heap of moaning that they shouldn't have.
Yeah that’s very true. Good point. They were never going to keep at the level of that first 3.
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15 hours ago, Superscally said:
There's still loads of great tunes since Sex on Fire. They haven't released a bad album, just not hit previous heights.
There is, they’re just not consistent. Theres 3 or 4 per album.
I saw them in Glasgow in 2018 and enjoyed it a lot more than I expected. Not a headliner at Glastonbury anymore though. They haven’t got enough mass appeal songs for ‘turn up-play-thanks-get off’ to carry.
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47 minutes ago, northernringo said:
I don't think so, O-Rod's tour dates came out ages ago so they won't have suddenly become available.
Drake is Canadian and there's no way Emily is bigging up a booking of Imagine Dragons like that on the radio.
I'd say it was either Madonna, or Stevie W (if Madonna had already fallen through by this point).
Just because Rodrigo’s dates were out there doesn’t mean there’d been any kind of contact with Glastonbury until recently. I was just pulling other names out of the air but ID are big and haven’t played before.
My point stands, ‘American’ and ‘big’ means an awful lot of acts.
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19 minutes ago, mouserat said:
I still reckon Emily counts legend as a headliner so it's Dua + female legend + two non-female headliners.
That’s how I see it. Certainly nothing in there that says two Female headliners+female legend.
The ‘big American act’ could be pretty much anybody. It could be Olivia Rodrigo (just because her tour dates have a gap doesn’t mean anything was booked ages ago), Imagine Dragons, Drake, anyone. It may not be anybody everyone on here will perceive as huge but Emily is delighted about.
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43 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
The "We must fix this successful festival that manifestly *isn't* broken by booking shittier acts cos people are too used to having good ones" thought process that crops up here every few months would be baffling if it wasn't so f**king funny.
A Forum fave to fill the quiet periods. Part of the inevitable annual Efestivals cycle.
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26 minutes ago, mouserat said:
Beginning to think Emily's comment about a female American headliner should be discounted. These are the female American artists with new albums expected this year (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2024_albums), filtering out acts that are nowhere close to Pyramid headliner level:
Jennifer Lopez (no current tour dates)
Ariana Grande (no current tour dates)
Cardi B (no current tour dates)
Katy Perry (no current tour dates, previously played lower down so maybe not big enough?)
I'm not convinced any of them make sense, which makes me think the female American comment a while back from Emily was about Madonna but it fell apart. I'll be stunned if the lineup is announced and there's a name which gets the reaction she hinted at.
If you’re referring to the BBC interview back in October she didn’t actually say the big American act they’d just had a call from was female. If you mean something else Emily said then ignore
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41 minutes ago, Colorblindjames said:
Wait to you find out how Beatles or Elvis fans behaved. Or was that different because they were male acts?
No. What a strange question. You’re looking for sexism where there isn’t any.
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I really like what I’ve heard of Swim School, hopefully they’ll plot up at Worthy in 24.
Roosevelt isn’t exactly new as such but would be new to the Big G, and I’d love that to happen.
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13 minutes ago, Blisterpack said:
I know I’m probs in the minority but ….LDR is actually a bit sh*t isn’t she? Bit unfair that I suppose but she’s no better than ok. I think people have been well and truly duped my mediocrity there.
Got no strong opinions either way but what I did learn this year is some of her fans are insane.
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27 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
Sinatra's mistake was not being a middling UK dance act from the early 1990s.
Curse his ill health in later years for denying us those planned Snap and Utah Saints collabs
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5 hours ago, Skip997 said:
Would have been dreadful, unless you fancied a snooze
Hit with those down votes
You’re going to get a lot of downvotes if you keep slating music others like. It comes across as very closed minded.
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Lana Del Rey instead of any of last years headliners was never going to happen. A perfectly understandable decision even before she didn’t manage to play her own set properly.
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12 hours ago, Mark H said:
The obvious stand in is Bruce. Rumoured by some [shite] news outlets and I just don’t buy that the back to back nights thing is a deal breaker. Macca is 8 years older and played back to back stadiums shows on his tour last year (and a show in Frome the night before his Glasto set).
What Macca did isn’t really relevant. Springsteen used to do back to back shows but on this tour he isn’t doing it once, even when it’s multiple nights at the same venue. He’s far from obvious, and that’s me talking as someone who’d like it to be him.
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On 12/28/2023 at 11:24 PM, Gnomicide said:
So... 6 months on, now it has had time to nestle a little firmer into the memory banks, how do people view Elton's set?
I didn't comment on the thread at the time but I really enjoyed it, probably more than I expected to. I've enjoyed a fair few other Pyramid headliners more (I don't think anything will ever top the Stones for me) but yeah... it was pretty spectacular.
A 7/10 for me. I was possibly too far back to really get into it. Good setlist but from the Pyramid headliners I’ve seen I enjoyed (deep breath) REM, Radiohead, Stevie Wonder, Coldplay, Rolling Stones, The Cure, and McCartney more. Possibly GNR too.
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18 hours ago, O'Doyle Rules said:
Random but watching Frank Sinatra on BBC4 atm. Would he have been the greatest legends act had he been around this day and age? Or perhaps maybe even headliner or nothing?
That would have been amazing
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3 hours ago, FloopFiller said:
Had a look through the last twenty or so years of headliners and… not really! Glastonbury doesn’t really tend to book headliners until they’re pretty solidified as sure-fire headliners in the making, and even when they have taken ‘risks’ in giving the bump up to acts for one of their first headliner gigs (Coldplay, Radiohead, Muse, Arctic Monkeys, The Killers. Kings of Leon, Mumfords, Stormzy etc) it’s paid off as the act has gone from strength to strength both before the festival happens and after.
Even with Houdini not doing the numbers most people predicted, Dua’s album would have to be a pretty big disaster for her to look like a crap booking in six months time, and she’s got more than enough goodwill from Future Nostalgia to see her through a potential disappointing follow up.
Dua had a proper smash hit in the summer too, Houdini ‘only’ getting to number 2 isn’t going to hold her back any. Shes absolutely a headliner.
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4 hours ago, kalifire said:
Well thank f**k for that.
Edit: I'm only half kidding. Robbie would be an absolute blast (in the legend slot, not headlining), I'd just need to make sure not to look at him or his trademark smugness would irritate the everloving sh*t out of me.
I agree on both fronts. I think he’d be a brilliant legend slot booking who would do a superb job. I just can’t stand him and would be absolutely nowhere near. -
1 hour ago, Gnomicide said:
Cheers, that was it. I'd forgotten the "headliner" bit to be honest. So basically only Metallica have broken the exclusive tab?
Thats about it yeah. It’s very rare indeed.
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21 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
Yup. Or Chaka showing up elsewhere on El Pointo. Seems a done deal.
One after their other on the Sunday would be very nice (Barry Gibb/Nile Rodgers and Yusuf/Blondie style)
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10 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:
...Thought for a moment the two of them were having a battle for the inadequate sanitation facilities!
Or a chair. Either they both want it or one wants to sit and the other is getting annoyed. Can’t decide which would be which.
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Yeah I left it way too late for that, saw the kerfuffle online, now it’s ‘well that second kidney was overrated anyway’ prices on Resale sites.