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15 minutes ago, Zoo Music Girl said:
I do wonder if Pulp might have asked to be held back given yesterday's news (I know he wasn't playing with them but out of respect). Am I massively clutching at straws?!
I hope you're right.
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10 hours ago, scaryclaireyfairy said:
I think we were just past the barrier. It sounded fine, screechy but fine, but there was a total disconnect twixt band and crowd. The bullshit art shown on the big screens rather than the band ensured that.
In, at that point, 21 years, I'd never "officially"* heard Let Down live before. How apt.
*I won't die on this one but I'll pummel ruddy hard, Let Down was played at TiTp '96 but wasn't on the set list. I didn't dream it.
You and I were both at that TiTP show, our first Radiohead gig if I'm not wrong. I found a review of it online a few years ago which listed both Electioneering and Lift as being played that night, but not Let Down. However all the setlists you can find online don't mention any of these songs alas, and the bootlegs, which are great don't have them either.
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10 hours ago, scaryclaireyfairy said:
As a long standing Radiohead fan, Radiohead. '17 was dismal compared to '03. I will die on this hill so be prepared to fight.
You know I'd say this, but 1997 is still the one for me. My favourite Glasto set ever, pipping Mr Bowie by a whisker.
Probably due to a mixture of me thinking the new album was so amazing, and also it was a sweet relief to just stop.... from the slogging around in the rivers of mud of three days, forget all that for a couple of hours, and take in the performance. Shame there isn't a nice HD video of this one.
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12 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:
Pulp as Other headliner would be a sizable get. Question is - who would you want them against?
I'd see them against any of AM / GnR / Elton in a heartbeat.
Personally I think they should headline, but the festival seems to have other ideas presumably.
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21 minutes ago, gfa said:
358 laughing faces and not 1 thumbs up or something is quite impressive
Some of these ludicrous comments must just be right wing bots right?
No other explanation for comment saying they "love" Pink Floyd, and to not understand the logo?
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On 1/21/2023 at 1:49 PM, Florian Saucer Attack said:
They never actually broke up. There was just long periods of inactivity and endless delays in making Chinese democracy
I think the day most, if not all ? the other members of the band left / were sacked by Axl back in the mid 90's, was the moment the band broke up.
Just because Axl continued to use the name for years afterwards, doesn't mean Axl and his session friends / bucket headed guitarists were GnR in anything other than legally owned name.
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8 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:
Can’t believe Pink Floyd caved to the woke brigade.
Apparently a lot of morons have been moaning about this on social media would you believe. Completely oblivious to the significance of the logo in Pink Floyd's canon, "why have they used the rainbow colours" etc. etc.
You couldn't make it up.
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5 hours ago, Hugh Jass II said:
GnR are one of the most successful rock bands of all time.
You don't like them, which is fine, but that doesn't make them a joke.
To be fair to Neil, GnR have been pretty much the definition of a joke since all the other members left in the 90's after the Illusion albums. Basically Axl and a bunch of session muso's for donkey's years, not to mention a guitarist who wore a KFC bucket on his head. Didn't he spend years and years promising a new album as well, and it took until 2008, it was bloody awful by all accounts, and since then zip again since. I haven't been a fan since the early 90's but I'm assuming Slash and Duff being brought back in was a purely business decision, didn't they all hate each other with a passion?
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14 minutes ago, p.pete said:
Affinity is great, but that classic headline was a looong time ago. You could probably say similar things about Chemical Brothers or Mik artistic. Maybe one of the best secret sets, but that was a long time ago too. They're great and all, but they have a great future behind them - I don't see what current appeal they have (happy to hear otherwise, but as said above they're headlining smaller festivals). They were always brilliant, and Jarvis is an icon, but never one of the biggest acts in the world. Wasn't their headline set a bit of a bump up? They may have smashed it out of [The Park], but even then it was a bit of a stretch (i.e. they wouldn't have headlined if someone else was available presumably)
They headlined in 1995 as a last minute stand in for the Stone Roses, and again in 1998.
Who knows if they would / could have headlined in 2011 but they had to play the secret set, due to the fact they were advertised as exclusive to the Wireless Festival at Hyde Park that was the weekend after Glasto. Plenty of acts headline who have very little current appeal. Even the great David Bowie headlined in 2000 when he hadn't been flavour of the month for a very very long time and many questioned the booking. See how that turned out.
Presumably there would be a lot of people getting very excited if Blur were to headline again, and I don't see much difference between them and Pulp, with regards to relevance over the last 20 years, apart from one rather average Blur album in 2015. No doubt Oasis would headline in a heartbeat if they reformed as well.
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15 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
On the other hand, subbing the Arctic Monkeys is the most piss-easy job at the festival.
True.
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8 minutes ago, Superunknown said:
Well Emily Eavis hasn’t come out and said they’re not headlining no. But bands that are headlining festivals like Neighbourhood Weekender generally aren’t big enough to headline Glasto.
They’d make a good sub.
They are one of those bands, Jarvis in particular it seems that seem to have an affinity with the festival historically. Not to mention one of the all time classic headline performances, and also one of the best, if not THE best secret Park set ever.
They would make a fantastic headliner, even if in pure size terms in might not make the most sense. If they were to sub AM, to me at least it would almost be an insult.
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Is there anything concrete to suggest Pulp won't / can't headline?
Surely a far better headline prospect than either AM or GnR.
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8 hours ago, Matt42 said:
Flop to who? I don’t think many people from efests went. A bit like how AM’s last headline set got bad reviews on here from people who weren’t even there.
I was there and it was extremely boring. Would imagine it would be even more boring this time around. I missed half of Portishead for it too, which is a crying shame.
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Haven't bought that many albums this year, but a fan of the following.
For me the 3rd Fontaines album head and shoulders above anything else I listened to all year.
1. Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia
2. Suede - Autofiction
3. The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention
4. Just Mustard - Heart Under
5. Arcade Fire - WE
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Brilliant gig in Leeds.
The Twilight Sad were immense as always, my favourite band of the last few years, never seem to show up on the farm though sadly.
The Cure were fantastic, great setlist, new songs sounded pretty good too. Only slight downer was that they played the "Disintegration" encore, but didn't play Prayers for Rain inbetween Plainsong and Disintegration, as they have done the last few weeks.
When they came out for the second encore Robert said someone had sneezed on him the last couple of days and he was struggling with his voice, maybe this was why they scratched it from the set. Hopefully this won't affect the rest of the UK dates. Seeing them the first night at Wembley so hoping for a few different songs.
At least they didn't scratch about 40 minutes like they did in Manchester a few years ago. That was a strange gig!
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1 hour ago, scaryclaireyfairy said:
Where are we putting Pulp?
Saturday Pyramid headliner.
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15 hours ago, scaryclaireyfairy said:
You guys, I listened to/watched recent live GnR. I’ve had tears of incredulous laughter running down my face for minutes. There’s bad and there’s whatever the addled pub singer that was.
I don’t care who and what looks likely. That cannot happen. I’ll go out of a limb and say I’d rather see Honking Flo. And I can’t stand her.
Wow, I was up for GnR it until you sent me that clip. Really embarassing from Axl. Time has been particularly cruel to him. Or drugs. Probably both.
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16 hours ago, Skip997 said:
No problem with Elton playing, just let's have artists in the appropriate slots. I don't like him, but he is a legend, get him in that slot, free up the headline slot for someone more contemporary.
I didn't get to see either due to clashes but Bille and Kendrick are the sort of booking they should be looking at for headliners. Saw Billie in 2019, she was very good.
So definitely not Eminem then.
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16 hours ago, kingbadger said:
QOTSA could sub any of those headliners easily. Dreading the inevitable clash between Elton and QOTSA or The Prodigy on Other
The Prodigy most likely. Every time they headline Other there is somebody I can't miss at the Pyramid. Oasis 1995 and Blur 2009 spring to mind if I'm not wrong.
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1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
Could Guns'n'Roses play at 4am on the Hell Stage?
Rabbit Hole, confirmed.
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3 hours ago, tigger123 said:
There are few more nostalgic songs than sweet child of mine. Played at basically every wedding, everyone gets their air guitar out etc, I think they fill the legend slot brief pretty perfectly.
I’m not convinced they will do the legend slot to be clear but having initially dismissed it as a possibility, the more I think about it, the more I think they would be a good fit for it, especially as them being a headliner just doesn’t feel quite right to me (and others based on some of the comments on this thread)
Regardless of whether any of us think GnR are a good fit for Glasto, the fact remains that if they play any festival in the world, they headline, period.
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See still have all categories available. They may well struggle to sell the second date to anywhere near capacity. Can't see too many fans wanting to double dip at those prices!
I wonder what % of tickets they need to sell for Sunday to make it profitable for all concerned, what with the stage, infrastructure etc. already being in place.
Still, Im hugely surprised they sold out the first date so quickly.
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Gotta be honest, it's a stupid call. She ain't headlining, period. If they wanted her on the top line, give her the top job, if not, then don't.