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Has the BBC ever mentioned an act as a potential headliner that hasn't then gone on to headline unless they had to pull out?

"It is difficult with female artists because there aren't enough headliners, but we're also creating them by putting bands [and] female artists on smaller stages and bringing them through all the time. "So I feel like the pool is going to be bigger soon. And who knows? Next year, we might get two [female headliners], and certainly I can say that the legend is female." Does "Next year, we might get two [female headliners]", suggest that maybe we have it wrong and theres only 1 female headliner this year? Edit: Realising we are currently in 2023 and not 2024 yet....

Maybe rumours is strong, they've certainly been talked about as potential headliners for well over a decade. On borrowed time due to health, it could be 24/25 or never

Some outsider options: Pulp: WHY did pulp not play this year!? It makes no sense... they were about, they were reformed, they were on tour, they have massive Glasto ties.... Pulp not even doing a surprise set on the farm somewhere over the weekend makes zero sense (outside of just not wanting too).... UNLESS they are down for something bigger..... 2024 headline? I don't think they will, but there must be a reason they didn't play this year Eminem: Rumoured to be in talks for last year in some of the press.... maybe he was actually in talks for 2024... Eminem Dre and Snoop headlining Glasto?! Take my money! Blur: Coming back too historic rumours that said Wembley 2023 and Glasto 2024. LONG standing rumour to be back on the farm in 23/24, didnt happen in 23... 2024? One of, if not the, greatest ever gigs on the farm (if you were there you know)... they will be back someday, 2024 fits. AC/DC: Again long standing rumours backed with comments about the festival being open to booking them and the band being up for playing. Support from Aerosmith doing the "surprise" set they never did. Would go nicely opposite 2 of Dave/Dua/ O Rod Rage Against the Machine: A boy can dream

Opposite Elton makes sense. Big clash to take some people away from the pyramid and what could be one of the biggest crowds they’ve ever had. Plus then josh homme can hop over for goodbye yellow brick road, which you would think would be Elton’s last song

Elton GnR Sparks Cat Stevens Royal Blood

Taylor Swift / Madonna / Beyonce 2 of those 3, if not all 3. Blur for the 3rd if not.

Active, doing something the weekend after, and '09 was a loooong time ago

Tom Jones?

Lots of people saying Chrome was rubbish and got through on Edge! I had Chrome, Opera, Firefox and Edge running.... Chrome was hands down the worst, got through on Edge (and then had payment rejected 6 times from different cards and timed out! the pain!). Wonder if its worth a poll on which browser people had success with. Also seemed to be a much higher success rate with Mobiles/ Tablets vs Desktops, different servers maybe?

Aerosmith?

BLUR!?!?! THE all time classic! If you were there, you know...

Aerosmith, Spice Girls or Cher for next year i think. Could very much see Cher or Spice girls in the Legends, with Taylor headlining the same day. Would LOVE Billy Joel What about someone like Andrea Bocelli? Never see him as a name mentioned! Imagine "Time to say Goodbye" being belted out Others: Kate Bush, Stevie Nicks (not sure on this one, as i think they will always hold out hope for full FM), Celine Dion, Roger Waters, Madonna (more likely full headline), Eagles (again headline more likely), Sting/ The Police, Ozzy, Bon Jovi, Phil Collins/ Genesis, ABBA Got LOADS to keep them stocked for the next few years. Or it will be Coldplay.... 😬

Macca Brass Against Wolf Alice

https://www.ventusky.com/ Awesome for weather

It was 2%, moving to a 7 day working week (so cutting out sunday O/T, meaning a real time wage cut) Also had condition attached that basically meant loads of jobs would be lost. Pure PR so they can say they offered something. TSSA and ASLEF getting involved too now by the looks of things

The comment wasn't meant to be insulting or anything, so I apologise to anyone who found it so. It was more meant along the lines of, "if you think its not fair if that happened to you, why would it be ok to happen to others." We do get it, the worlds been messed up, we have been lucky to have job security, I do get that. What i don't get is how people can be ok with paying the insane prices they pay for a train, these companies making 10s of millions upon 10s millions in profits. Bosses being paid out Millions in bonuses. Shareholders getting paid out close to £ a billion. AND then staff being sacked as they dont make enough money? That stinks. Voluntary redundancies have been a major thing on the railway throughout the pandemic, 100s - 1000s of jobs have already gone, the thought that the rail industry has been completely protected from redundancies is incorrect. "(which, is what would happen with the rail industry, you're not just going to get pulling into an office and fired, but you well know that)". Not enterally sure what you're getting at hear to be honest (sorry, its been a long day!), but if its implying that workers arent getting sacked, then its incorrect. 2500 network rail staff, 600 TFL staff, and ticket office and platform staff throughout the network are under direct threat. The offer on Thursday to the Unions was a wage rise (real time wage cut) with the condition of compulsory redundancies, among other things. If i've got that wrong and you mean we wouldnt just get sacked, then im sure the P&O staff (also rmt) say hi. I wish every working person could be able to be in a position to fight for their rights as a worker, we are lucky that we are in that position. With any luck, when the RMT, TSSA, ASLEF win, it will open the doors to other workers from every job to get what they deserve. Cider bus Cider? 👍🍺

No, workers shouldn't HAVE to go on strike to get protections, rights etc, they should just be given as a matter of course! People shouldn't have to strike to not get sacked while businesses make millions/ billions in profits. Workers shouldn't have to strike to get an inflation based wage rise. Workers shouldn't have to strike to be treated fairly in every level of a company from top to bottom. This isn't just the railway, this applies to all jobs! Also, Teachers, Nurses, Docs etc have all already been on strike for similar reasons to the railway. Strikes are the last resort, and absolutely horrible. But again, the train companies have been training managers in dispatching/ working trains and preparing for strikes since February, when they could have been trying to stop them, they didn't. They have been negotiating with the unions for pure PR this week, without going into details, all that offered was a real time wage cut for a lot of staff (offered Thursday), on the condition of compulsory redundancies. That is no joke and you didn't read that wrong. All they had to do was guarantee no compulsory redundancies, while negotiating other factors and the strikes would have been pushed back. They didn't. Lets get rid of this myth that next week is a busy week on the railway, it isn't. It is no busier than an average summer week. The week of strikes, outside of Jan/ Feb, is one of the quietest, not busiest as people seem to think, weeks it could have been held. 8500 go to Castle Cary station by train in the week (not day, week) of Glastonbury. That is around the same number of extra passengers Bath Spa railway station does for a Bath rugby home match in 1 day. There is no football on, no rugby, outside of cricket i believe, there are no massive sporting events. There are very little to no festivals going on out side of Glastonbury (Glastonbury takes all the equipment so most other festivals cant run at the same time). If The strikes were a few weeks later or earlier, they would have caused a much larger disruption. We all think this is a major busy week for the railway because Glastonbury is on, the reality is it isn't. Middle class elitism? We are comparing people loosing their jobs, loosing all their income, loosing their livelihood, to people taking a few hours longer to get to a music festival?? I LOVE Glastonbury, it is my favourite place on this planet, but its not more important than peoples lives. With all due respect to you, the only middle class elitism are from the people who would happily let 1000s of people loose their jobs so they could get to a music festival a few hours quicker....

Too add to this, GWR has said they aim to maintain all timetabled trains between Castle Cary and London Paddington throughout the course of Glastonbury Festival.

We should be trying to lift all workers rights and wages up to a better level, not dragging others down to a lower level. I work for the railway, I earn just under 16k a year. Not sure why you all think we are all on mega bucks, because we are not..... If your boss called you into their office tomorrow and fired you? Do you think that would be fair? Or would you fight it? You should be able to get a full refund, depending where you bought it. 👍

People are frustrated and annoyed due to the inconvenience, however there is an overwhelming understanding that staff are not to blame. There is massive support for staff from what i have seen this week. When people see train companies this week announcing massive profits (latest i saw was a £36.2million profit for 1 company, so adding every company together you will be in the 100s of millions profits), whilst being on much lower passenger count than pre pandemic, whilst claiming they need to sack staff as they arent profitable, it opens a lot of eyes to whats really going on. Also it was revealed the head of my company got a £1million bonus last year...... thats 40 jobs saved right there.

Check the refunds process with wherever you bought it. Obviously wait until after your finish your trip to claim it. If you got it from a train company, it might be under something like (company name eg GWR)delay repay. For trainline and other 3rd parties, google it or have a look on the app.

I've been working in a train station all week, expecting the public to be angry. I haven't had a single person speak negatively to me about the strikes. I have had a LOT of people talk to me about them in a positive manner. There is overwhelming support. Don't believe what the media tell you.

Offer was made by the train companies yesterday of a wage rise with the condition of compulsory redundancies, among other things. It was rejected out of hand. So unless there is some 11th hour negotiations, the strike is going ahead.