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I’m either going with Friday morning, or it not actually dropping this coming week at all.
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3 minutes ago, gooner1990 said:
Has Raye been ruled out yet?
Because Emily mentioned her about 5 or 6 times......
(Possibly not headliner but I wouldn't be surprised if she plays)
Playing a festival in Denmark on the Saturday - so not ruled out based on dates/logistics
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1 hour ago, FloopFiller said:
ORod most likely not playing or yeah, she’d be getting the headliner gig. Not doing any festivals this year so most likely gonna headline Glastonbury along with a bunch of other festivals in the near future rather than do Glastonbury as another one off.
I don't think O-Rod is playing, but she also didn't play any other festivals in 2022, except Glastonbury. In fact, of around 100 shows in her career so far, G2022 is the ONLY festival she's ever played.
But none of this matters, because SZA is headlining.
If you can tell the quality of bookings by the type of people they annoy, Glastonbury 2024 looks set to be an all-timer. Almost by accident (having had 2 headliners pull out), we could be on for:
- Coldplay - 10th most listened-to act in the world, and a world festival exclusive.
- Dua Lipa - 8th most listened-to act in the world, and a likely world premiere for most of her upcoming album/set/show.
- SZA - 13th most listened-to act in the world, and the most streamed album of last year.
- 2/3 female headliners, plus a female legend.
The haters are going to hate it - can't wait for the poster drop...
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Just now, Mcbatesman said:
I think they'll be a 2nd Manchester date added though
And the initial PJ rumours were for London on 28th and 29th
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1 hour ago, Krisesk said:
Her website (might not have been updated) has her down as playing Denmark on the Thursday and then free up until July 2nd.
As long as she appears. Think she would be good!
Then her website is out of date - announced a show in Bedford yesterday, for Sat 29th
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23 minutes ago, incident said:
Taking that source as correct, BST looks like this:
Fri 28 June - Stevie Wonder
Sat 29 June - SZA
Sun 30 June - Kings of LeonFri 5 July - Andrea Bocelli
Sat 6 July - Robbie Williams
Sun 7 July - Shania TwainFri 12 July - Stevie Nicks
Sun 14 July - Stray KidsPlus one other TBA.
The 5th+6th were already announced. So far the 14th+7th have been proven to be correct, and so it seems likely the others are.
I think I read elsewhere that the TBC (for Saturday 13th July) was Kylie?
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34 minutes ago, DareToDibble said:
I said this to a friend yesterday. By now we've normally had more self confirms too. I mean on here we think we know the headliners due to some insider info but outside of here I wonder how many ticket holders know anything.
Aren't the eFest detectives (and detectives in other parts of the internet) having quite a good year? I don't think there will be much on the initial lineup poster that's a true "didn't see that coming" - not for most on here at least. I feel like everybody who's a possibility has been discussed and is known on here to be in the frame.
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1 minute ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:
Jane's Addiction headlining Woodsies would offer up a decent option on any of the nights
Supposed to be a UK exclusive at Bearded Theory (although we know there are ways around that)
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2 minutes ago, FloopFiller said:
She could always just do what she did with Lizzo and claim that there’s a fourth female headliner even though it’s clearly just a sub.
Or claim (as has been done many times before) that the Sunday Legend is a fourth headliner. Dua Lipa + Female Legend = 2 female headliners.
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Tickets for Adele in Munich average well over €250 - a very small number at the very back around €100, the vast majority of seating around the €300 mark, and floor standing averaging €400. That's ignoring the VIP packages (which exist as well).
Across 10 dates of 80k people each, that's a gross of about €200m. Nice work if you can get it.
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29 minutes ago, Ben7amin_ said:
A friend just told me Cast are playing Glastonbury, he knows some of there touring people. Asked what stage and he shrugged his shoulders.
I'm sure they are probably the kind of act to excite people who have not listened to any new music since the 90's.
Have not done any checking on it as in all fairness it wasnt that exciting news to me.. Sorry Cast.
Having now checked them on Spotify they do have a few big tunes. Flying, Finetime, Walkaway etc. Etc.... but still probably a smaller slot somewhere
They are supporting Liam Gallagher on some of his Definitely Maybe run in June, so are definitely around and touring.
They actually have more hits than I remember - at least half a dozen I'd be able to hum along to.
Classic Avalon-type band for a blast from the past...
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50 minutes ago, glimmers_of_hope said:
Totally agree, I think she is fantastic. Dependent of what the next album does you would feel she is on an upwards trajectory but it is a big jump from Brixton size venues to Glasto headliner. You would think next tour would be Ally Pally, maybe a couple of nights but that would put her at about the same size as The National which is Other stage headliner territory. If she nailed that and carried on going then yeah it isn't impossible in the further future but would be a path to get there.
I don't disagree on the Glastonbury trajectory - but she is already way beyond Ally Pally level. In 2022, she did 4 massively oversubscribed nights at Brixton - so that was already 2x Ally Pally or 1x O2 capacity-wise right there. And that was before Boygenius, Eras Tour support, multiple Grammy wins, SZA collab, etc.
My guess is that if she announced solo dates tomorrow (we can but wish), she wouldn't struggle to shift 50k tickets in London (so 5x Ally Pally, or 2-3x O2).
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31 minutes ago, 4AssedMonkey said:
Adele - 1 & done
Beyonce - 1 & done
Billie Eilish - May be back c. 2026/7
Dua Lipa - This year
Lady Gaga - No chance
Madonna - Seemingly won't if she isn't this year
Olivia Rodrigo - Not yet, maybe next year?
Pink - Pyramid couldn't accommodate her show and she is supposedly ruthlessly money driven
Rihanna - No new music/touring plans for years
Taylor Swift - Had the chance and took the Eras dollars instead. May have missed the chance in 2020.I agree - depressing state of affairs really. Small pool and many we could fairly comfortably discount IMO.
Ariana Grande maybe? Big enough/current enough but would she appeal to a festival audience?
Could you argue that Mariah Carey and Shania Twain are big enough globally?
Think SZA and Doja Cat will be on this list very soon (if not already). The way Lana Del Rey is going, she is probably big enough - if they fancy another try with her.
Mitski is heading that way based on streaming numbers - still a way off, but that's exactly the kind of 'bump up' headliner I think they should be doing.
Then you have Florence, Lizzo etc - not quite that level.
Looking at the list of Spotify most streamed acts (there is a fantastic site here for the data nerds BTW - https://kworb.net/spotify/artists.html) - there aren't many you could add. Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj, Selena Gomez, Katy Perry, Halsey, Miley Cyrus - but all are either non-touring, or not quite the level - it's hard to see many of those being realistic Pyramid headliners (even if a few do have history with the festival).
The other one is Phoebe Bridgers - who now has multiple grammys, collaborations coming out of her ears, and successful albums both solo and part of a group. Assuming her next solo album goes quite big, I can well see them bumping her up - again, exactly the sort of thing they should be doing IMO.
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1 hour ago, JoeyT said:
Prediction buddy.
I think the next announcement will be a Dua Lipa stand alone given the slip-up a few weeks ago. Wording of that in my opinion doesn't suggest it's part of a wider poster drop.
The longer we go on without an announcement of any sort suggests to me that headliner wise it won't be very inspiring. If you've got what you consider to be a coup you (and the artist I'd imagine) would want it shouted from the rooftops rather than swallowed up in a poster drop.
I would agree, if it weren't for the fact that the "leaked" sentence clearly seemed to be the last sentence of a press release - kind of "notes to editors" at the bottom - rather than the headline of the release.
So I read that as a release announcing somebody else, with "notes" at the bottom which talk about other headliners and allude to Dua. My guess on the "somebody else" is Stevie Wonder or a smaller stage headliner, given the groan-fest that would greet a standalone Coldplay announcement.
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12 hours ago, Alex DeLarge said:
The Last Dinner Party genuinely seem to have come together as an actual band, toured together then got scouted and are now being pushed by their label. Of course the label is going to push a band they've signed. What would make them seem inauthentic if they were making TikTok friendly pop/dnb in the vein of PinkPantheress/ Piri/ Kenya Grace and their album was full of features by Clairo and Beabadoobee.
Hmmm - but how did they get onto the support bill for the Rolling Stones at BST in 2022, despite not having released any recorded music? Unsigned bands with no releases do not magically show up supporting the Rolling Stones - they have had some kind of helping hand…
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All of this lot are in the UK a fortnight before Glastonbury- just announced for Black Deer.
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38 minutes ago, mouserat said:
Do we think this is the only factor holding things up? I was wondering last night if the possibility of dropping a poster with lots of names first - rather than just a standalone announcement of one or two headliners - means there are acts elsewhere on the bill holding things up too.
I think we won't get much (and certainly not Dua) until a poster drop in early March.
She is at the Grammys this weekend, then releasing the second single from her album in 2 weeks from now. Presumably an album announcement, and likely a tour announcement to come very soon as well. Then it's the Brits on 2nd March. I'd imagine they will get most of that out of the way before doing the Glasto announcement - which means it'll be a few weeks rather than a few days.
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How much do we reckon Adele will be asking for tickets for her Munich shows? £200+ for anything on the floor, I reckon.
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18 hours ago, assorted said:
I presume acts now give themselves a day to get into or out of the UK so i think these dates rule them out as much as I’d love it - similar I think Doja Cat is out for this reason (and Heart).
I think some of this depends on where on the bill (and therefore when) they are due to play. Last year, The Japanese House couldn't do an evening slot in Luxembourg, then a lunchtime Other Stage slot the following day (although that would have always been hard, even pre-additional Brexit hassle).
If (for example) Body Count were in a 5pm slot at Hellfest one day, then a reasonably late (or even very late, a la Truth Stage 3am) the following day - that is completely doable.
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2 minutes ago, fullfathom5 said:
You'd think BST would want to get these on sale ASAP
For a couple of them, they might as well go straight to the seat filling sites. Selling KoL out (even at the lower capacity) for presumably the best part of £100 a ticket, is surely going to be a struggle!
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25 minutes ago, Ben7amin_ said:
They are the support for the Green Day stadium shows, correct? So are busy on Glastonbury Saturday (with Green Day at Wembley), but potentially free on Friday and Sunday.
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3 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
I quite like them, but the 2nd through 4th singles are all noticeably weaker than Nothing Matters.
Absolutely - Nothing Matters is clearly their standout song.
I did think they were really good live though, and they seem to have the entire UK music media behind them!
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A couple from today's announcements, in roughly the right place at roughly the right time.
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The Last Dinner Party just announced a pretty big UK tour for the autumn. Seem to be everywhere at the moment - quite enjoyed their set opening Woodsies last year, but not sure they have the tunes to back up all this hype.
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How many sets do we think Frank Turner will end up doing in total?
He managed 5 last time he played (in 2019) - Avalon, Strummerville, Greenpeace, BBC Introducing and the Stone Circle - only the first of which was billed when the full lineup initially came out.
He's also now going for a world record in May - 15 gigs (in different cities) in 24 hours.
I reckon somewhere, there's a man in his early 40s Googling "what's the most anybody has played at Glastonbury in the same year", and thinking about how to beat that....