FestivalJamie

Explosions are great but Sleaford mods... Yeah the festival is better off without them

Maybe she'll fly across the audience in a boat 🙂

I can recommend 'Nobody Gets me'

As someone who didn't get a Glastonbury ticket and to put this into perspective, I am 23 and I know SZA (I don't actively listen to her music). But she's had some huge hits among my generation. All the stars, Good Days, Kiss me More (with Doja Cat) and Kill Bill are a few of the most viral songs that I know, produced by any artist. My only issue with her is, apart from those viral hits, I think lots of her other songs are very unrecognisable and indistinguishable. For Glastonbury it is in my opinion a great choice for a progressive headliner to move the festival in the right direction. I can understand every reason to book SZA over a rock band. I know some people were suggesting The National/Foals would get a bigger crowd than SZA, but I just don't think that's true. Foals are well known on the scene in the UK and always pull a big crowd, but the National played Sziget to one of the smallest headline crowds I saw that year at the festival. At 70million monthly listens she's no small artist

I reckon it could be SZA instead of Lana or Dua Lipa.

If R&L gets any of: Rodrigo/ Lorde/ Paramore next year as headliners, then I would go for the first time in about 8 years. If Dua Lipa ends up being the female headliner then I probably won't bother, and I think she's the most likely one.

Is Olivia Rodrigo really in the mix? Is she not too big for Reading/Leeds?

Oh... that's a lot weaker than I was expecting without Jungle in there

Ella Eyre is for me the wildcard in this line up. She hasn't played a show for years!

Mumford and sons?

Not a headliner but on at the top of the poster?

I've only been to Sziget once- in 2019 - but I really enjoyed it. But even back then people were saying things had been cut back compared to previous editions. I remember just thinking it was crazy with all the different stages, a chinese puzzle maze !? (on a festival, like what?), a big inflatable light up exhibition, a beach with fire shows in the evening, the colosseum stage, LGBTQ+ stage and all the decorations and little things around the site. (I do remember thinking the food offer was terrible though). I haven't been back since and don't think I will ever go back. Especially after what you are all saying here, that it's just falling more and more down the rabbit hole. And the names this year are really poor. Last year saw a lot of criticism for the line up, although I thought it was actually quite decent and there were a few names I personally liked in there (Billie, Florence, Lorde, Girl in Red, Imagine Dragons etc), but in this edition I don't think there's anyone that I'm bothered about seeing. It's a shame the way the festival has gone, and it's also a shame to see so many European festivals completely falling away this year (Lollapalooza, Standon), so I'm just not sure how the industry will continue to develop over time.

I would say Lana is definitely the likeliest name as she's at Reading and they often share headliners with Sziget. I would expect Raye in the undercard too. For me, the current line up is really lacklustre and having Becky Hill as one of the higher names is really something which shows how weak it is this year (for an international festival). I think they will bulk it up with some decent undercard but I don't think anyone should expect anything ground-breaking.

As said above there's unfortunately a small pool of female (or female led) acts which fit the 'style' of Ynot/tramlines/Truck/Kendal, especially when you are looking to fit the headliner spots. I've always been one pushing at Reading/Leeds for more higher-placed female names and in that scenario I don't really find 1 of 6 headliners female particularly satisfactory. However, on the other hand bookings are made based on a) what's available and b) what is going to shift the most tickets at the most reasonable price. I think Superstruct should look to have a more diverse line up in general, not just fixated on the headliners. One of the best bands I've seen at Truck was wolf alice and it would be good to have them back, I just don't know if they are available. I think Chvrches or Girl in Red would be a nice booking for a headliner too- Paramore or Avril Lavigne as well, but I think they are probably too expensive.. As much as I like the big moon or Kate Nash they are recycled quite often. Dodie played Superstruct a few years back which was a nice change up (although the crowd was horrendous). Anteros were a really good female led band which used to be present but sadly aren't around anymore. And I don't know what's happened to fickle friends either. But yeah, the top lines of the poster aren't the most diverse..

Given the festival's international status and market, it tactically makes sense to place your strongest names in the first announcement, as has historically been the case, with supporting/boosting names in the following 2 announcements to supplement the first wave. Given the festival attracts an international market ( see announcement of Goldband for people in the BENALUX) - the marketing team is going to want to announce the strongest names as early as possible, to prevent people booking their summer festivals elsewhere. Most internationals aren't booking a trip to Budapest last minute- this will be planned months in advance. Of course, wildcard names are always possible but I would put my bets saying that we have received the strongest names of this year's edition already. It isn't a surprise people are looking to sell and go elsewhere when the first announcement is potentially one of the worst they've ever announced. A rock headliner will still be added, probably a female headliner (or at least strong female name such as Raye), but I wouldn't expect anything groundbreaking moving forwards at this point. They also regularly throw in Macklemore at the last minute too to try and boost ticket sales.

I am camping and what is this about shuttle bus fees?

If Girl In Red is not on the Saturday, are we still waiting for the 'main' Saturday night headliner to be announced? as she's currently on the top of the poster..

Also the festival is beautiful. It's got the best atmosphere of any festival I've been to so far

She's really good as well. Could play Sunday evening slot which Ellie Goulding played in if they manage to get her. But not sure if the line up is complete yet..

Another terrible announcement. And there I was thinking Jungle or Parcels might get announced today... The festival's marketing strategy is really poor. I would actually say poor ticket sales last year are down to a poor marketing strategy, as last year's line up was so much better than this. They are going to struggle big time with this line up. Are we assuming Girl in Red is Saturday night headliner?

The line up this year is decent, but it's nothing outstanding. But compared to the other Superstruct festivals it's way ahead. The headliners this year are stronger than last year, but the undercard is missing some of those more funky names we had last year like Pale waves & Friendly Fires. I'm probably going to go as it's a nice festival, so let's see if they have any more names in store. Girl in Red would be a nice addition as she's touring this summer.

To be honest the Sziget line up is really sub-par this year and I'm not sure it can be saved at this point

Girl in Red!! Amazing! But the only one I'm interested in on the line up, so not worth it just yet for me..

Given she didn't do Reading last year as part of her festivals run, and the new album should come out at the end of this year, I'd put her as a strong candidate for a 2025 headline slot.

Main stage 2025: Lorde