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Lauren Laverne confirmed it on the radio with the announcement.

Third top Saturday has been confirmed to be Michael Kiwanuka.

Gonna have to stop you right there - the 2008 lineup was awful, jam packed with indie landfill throughout and was a grim vision of how the music scene looked in 2008. Thankfully the 2009 lineup came back swinging and remains one of the better ones in recent years, but that 2008 lineup (and 07 before it), uck, grim times and not at all surprising that it struggled (although obviously the headliners + rained off previous festivals didn’t help).

I think it’s far less Emily’s fault and more a combination of the hardships brought on by COVID, Brexit, it being a sh*t touring year for acts, and the fact Glastonbury has pretty much exhausted the well of ginormous name acts willing to play for less than they’d get elsewhere and so they’re having to go back to old familiar names. The scheduling this year is pretty janky and makes the lineup look worse than if we’d have gotten a traditional first poster imo, but given we know the struggles they had behind the scenes securing the third headliner etc I’m not surprised some of it looks a bit iffy. Hopefully this is just an adjustment period and not a sign of the struggles the festival is gonna face going forward, but I do think the mega star studded lineups of the last fifteen years might be a thing of the past, or at least to that same insane standard.

Saturday night headliners are shocking but they’ll all (Gossip aside) pull hefty crowds I’d have thought. Obviously unpopular choices to music nerds like on here but to the masses that’s some big popular names to choose from. Just frustrating that they’ve chosen to put Coldplay/Jessie and Disclosure/Peggy on the same night as I’m sure they’d each draw similar crowds which leaves f**k all for the rest of us. Terrible scheduling.

Idles such a big booking for the slot that they had to be called up a week prior to the lineup announcement to be offered it when plans A through F didn’t work out.

I’m FAR more excited about the prospect of LCD > Dua than I was LCD > Coldplay. Feel like Coldplay fans have far more tendency to camp up front of the Pyramid for long spells to guarantee a spot, and if 2016 was anything to go by, pay little interest to who’s on before if they’re not familiar. Think a Dua crowd will be more responsive to some electronic dance punk, even if it is being yelped at them by a guy who could be their dad, and I’ve gotta assume a large portion of the crowd will be massively off their tits as well which will help things. Think it’s gonna be an absolute blast.

Never even heard of these before Thursday but along with Balming Tiger this has the potential to be the most fun set of the weekend. Obviously not an act I would ever see in any other instance so already up there as a must see for me.

They’ll come with the full lineup, and hopefully means they’ll be on fair early doors to avoid a clash. Gonna be such a party.

No defending those Saturday night headliner choices though. Total shite. Even Jessie Ware who I like is just a totally uninspired 2022 bump up who I don’t really fancy ending my night with, although might end up doing through lack of choice.

Yeah we really were putting a lot of faith in those Pyramid sub/Other headliners delivering the goods, maybe too much so, and although I’m seriously stoked about LCD > Dua, it’s hard to argue that they’re a strong or even suitable sub, and the others aren’t exactly premiere bookings either even though I think Simz and Burna Boy are cool choices (Idles and Disclosure much less so…) Chaka missing is baffling, and I’m now wondering if money was the issue when she was apparently booked and then bailed from 2020.

Biggest issue with the lineup I think is how overly familiar so much of it looks. Obviously this is far more of a problem for regulars than first timers, but there are a lot of acts there from 2022 and other recent festivals who’ve been bumped up the lineup - Idles third Other to Other headliner, Little Simz Holts headliner to Pyramid sub, Burna Boy Other sub to Pyramid sub are just three from 2022, and then there are all the other Glastonbury/UK festival standards filling a lot of the rest of the lineup - Disclosure, Paloma Faith, Paul Heaton, Two Door Cinema Club, Anne-Marie etc. This year seems a bit of a crap touring year overall so that obviously comes in to play, but it really does feel like the goodwill and low budget just isn’t going as far anymore.

Most circle pits ever recorded in a four minute timespan.

Eh, think you’re overestimating just how popular The National are to a wider audience. Their Pyramid sub slot and the mass head scratching that came along with it suggests they don’t have a lot of people’s ears outside of their core fanbase. They’ll do fine, but they’re hardly gonna pack out the field, even with a weaker Pyramid headliner on at the same time.

Literally just the one guy above and he’s being over dramatic about Glastonbury‘s pulling power because of this years lineup. Foos could easily still do it. I don’t think it will be them next year, but if the festival asked I’m sure they’d agree.

Yeah that would certainly make a lot more sense, but with Glastonbury who knows these days - weird scheduling all over the place.

Yeah headliners look to be in order.

Playing before London Grammar on the Sunday according to Guardian article.

Lana last year.

Although a lot of the lineup is banging, I’m not so much of a fan of them putting acts like Peggy Gou and Fatboy Slim headlining there now instead of acts we used to associate with the Park. Feels like, much like Holts of recent years, the unique identity is slipping in favour of it just being another stage at the festival. Small quibble mind - hope to spend a fair bit of time there. Barry Can’t Swim seems destined to be the ‘why the f**k are they playing that stage so early with little competition’ act of the festival. Will be heaving.

Not sure if it’s been mentioned here yet but seems Idles were a very last minute booking hence their flip flopping over whether they were playing or not. Somebody asked one of them after the lineup dropped and he said they were still in talks as late as last week. Might lend some cred to thinking SZA was supposed to top Other originally but bumped to headline and they’ve filled the gap.

They played last year and have done nothing of note since. Never made sense that they’d be back this year.

I’ve parroted this a few times now but yeah, Emily literally said post-2022 that there was never gonna be another lineup as strong as that one again. I thought she might’ve just been hyping up how good that lineup was, but seems like she could see the struggles that were gonna have henceforth what with their limited budget and acts suddenly demanding more post-Covid along with Brexit f**king everything up, and it’s quite apparent with a lot of the lineup with certain acts looking one or two places too high and certain big names of old no longer being booked.

Yeah you’re definitely right about that. Emily argued that Lizzo was a fourth headliner last year - really think she’d struggle to do that with one of the subs this time.