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Presumably Michael’s use of the term ‘bands’ includes solo artists?

The founder of Glastonbury Festival has said he is hopeful some of the bands from the 2020 lineup will return to the bill next year - including "the big names". In an interview with ITV News West Country, Michael Eavis said he hopes next year's festival will be the best yet after a two-year break due to the pandemic. The event - which sees almost 150,000 punters flock to Somerset - was cancelled in both 2020 and 2021. It meant that despite being due to headline, Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar and Paul McCartney did not make it to the Pyramid Stage. But now Michael Eavis has revealed there will likely be at least some familiar names on Glastonbury Festival's 2022 lineup. "We've got the big names coming back I think - the same bands that I think we had lined up three years ago, or hopefully, fingers crossed," he said. "It's not all about the bands though, that's the thing. It's all the other stuff we do that makes the show work - it's why we're so successful I think." Diana Ross was also due to perform the Sunday 'legends' slot in 2020 with other acts on the line-up including the Pet Shop Boys, Dua Lipa, AJ Tracey and many more. https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2021-08-26/same-names-as-2020-lined-up-for-next-years-glastonbury-festival

Fantastic. Good on you for taking her. Nobody’s too old to rock & roll!

I mentioned it a while back, to little acclaim

She’s not wrong

Lots of Pyramid subs sell out arena tours. Lorde’s tour is at smaller venues (apart from Ally Pally).

$625 to see Bon Iver? Bloody Nora

You’ll have the option of standing on the pitch or using a smallish area of seating accessible from the pitch, towards the back.

First band I saw live, never seen them since, so looking forward to it. My second band was Black Sabbath a few months later

Details are on the Upcoming Gigs thread

https://www.gigsandtours.com/tour/foo-fighters?src=ffreturns22&pre=ffreturns22

Lie Lady Lie

FFRETURNS22 presale 10am tomorrow

I’m not saying Macca couldn’t play another night if he’s doing it next year, but if he’s already signed a contract for the Saturday then I’d imagine any other potential headliners being brought to the table would have to work around that. Last year Emily said Macca had something special arranged for his set. If that involved special guests, some of whom may already playing the Saturday, then I guess that would also make it unlikely he’d consider moving the date.

But he also wants yer Aerosmith dudes up onstage too, as arranged two years ago, and they’re still playing the Saturday

Depends if and when Macca signed on the dotted line for 2022. If he’s just rolling over from 2020, like many others, then I can’t see him doing any other night other than the Saturday. I can’t imagine he’d be asked to do the Sunday instead because they’ve bagged Reg as a replacement for the original Sunday headliner, but it suits Reg to do the Saturday instead.

They’ve got a few: ’The Wombatting Song’ ’Remember You’re a Wombat’ ’We Wish You a Wombatting Merry Christmas’

I used that phrase once or twice last year and the pop kids made it clear that it most certainly wasn’t a thing.

That’s 25 years late by my reckoning

Or possibly like some other acts, Reg won’t drop his fee

My sense of taste has weirdly gone the other way - even fairly bland seasoning can make it difficult for me to eat. Thought that it would have rectified by now, 8 months on, but seems worse than ever.

More chance of Billy Ray Cyrus playing than Billie Eilish

But how many festivals is she doing?

I believe they're thinking of having some added entertainment next year

When a headliner pulls out or isn’t now available, they don’t necessarily replace like with like, it’s about who’s available - and let’s face it Reg is certainly touring in the UK at the time, with a convenient gap in his itinerary