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There are some decent shows on the list but Mitski clashes with PJ Harvey. It has become the mid-tier of summer concert series like BST and Somerset House. It is like booking a show at Apollo, but at a more inconvenient location.

PJ Harvey already played Primavera sets in 2011 and 2016 that were around similar sounding albums. The same at Glastonbury in 2016. So I assume the performance and amount of crowd noise will be similar this time. I wouldn't be surprised if her 2024 setlist is actually a bit more accessible than the the one from 2016. Her request of doing festival main stages suggests she is going to mix the two sets from last year, but who knows. Personally I am not concerned at all by the type of music played on a big or small stage, but I agree that quieter music makes me more annoyed by crowd noise. However that also depends on position in the crowd and sound system, so I'm not sure there is much point of singling out PJ Harvey.

The lineup looks good for those on-site. A good mix of genres and good artists. In my opinion the headlieners are superior to Guns'n'Roses and Arctic Monkeys (but not Elton John), so depending on the weighting, that's better than last year. As I will be watching on the BBC, I am slightly less excited about the poster. It is just that most artists on the poster are already established, or I've seen them live, so there is less incentive to watch them on TV (although I'd go watch them in person). I'd rather watch Green Man or End of the Road on TV, but that's not possible!

They did book them, just in February instead of June. For people living in Barcelona, it makes sense that not every show in the city is in June.

One more time, it seems! You may be correct, but for most of us, it is just more anonymous internet information, and you have to admit it doesn't help for that information to be buried in 511 pages, with an equal amount of people saying "Madonna is a lock" for no reason at all.

It is funny how people are defensive about Reddit and Discord providing reliable information, when these websites are actually filled with either conspiration theories or at best innocent teenage conversations like those chat rooms I used to visit in the mid 90s. There might be reliable info out there, but it is far from obvious! The idea that we might offend/scare the leakers if we don't believe them is quite ridiculous! Now the Stevie Wonder rumour is perhaps the only thing that makes sense since someone correctly predicted the BST lineup. I have no idea why people think Madonna dropped out. That makes no sense at all and I don't understand where this comes from. The only thing that is clear is that most headliners should be semi-obvious by now since all other festivals have announced. So we're likely to get the same headliners as other big events in June/July such as BST, Werchter or Roskilde. In other words Dua Lipa, SZA and Kings of Leon, and/or touring stadium bands that have a gap and did not play last year, such as like Coldplay. Everyone else is like 10 times less likely. What stage PJ Harvey is going to play? Does it make sense for her to sub SZA? And Pulp subbing for Dua Lipa?

Think it will be SZA / PJ Harvey, back to back.

Bonnie Prince Billy is Sunday according to his tour dates.

Not really, misconduct and abuse doesn't just disappear over time.

"[Arcade Fire] Win's actions are certainly questionable they are really no different to some of our beloved acts such as [X] and [Y]; and dozens of other acts that have controversial moments whether involving sexual misconduct or not." Just to say that I find this to be a very dangerous slope. Essentially this could be read as "sexual misconduct is OK, because so many people are doing sexual misconduct". I don't accept this at all. I think Win's action are bad, and what other musicians have done feels really irrelevant. I understand that this is a Glastonbury forum, and Glastonbury may have booked other questionable acts. But then all I can see is that then we should question those bookings as well, not accept this as the normal.

The Idles discussion is just quite dull. I think it is perfectly fine to discuss the artistic quality of headliners, but with EOTR 100 bands clashing with each other, and clashing with other great festivals happening in the UK on the same weekend, one band just doesn't change much in the bigger picture. I am now curious about who are Idles, but I'm not sure I've learned much (never heard them before).

Great lineup! Just sad it is conflicting with both Supersonic Festival and Moseley Folk Festival. But I can see Sleater-Kinney + Yo La Tengo at APE, Camera Obscura in June, Slowdive next week, Lankum in May, so I have that covered already.

Lankum can definitively headline. Not only they have sold out Roundhouse but that was several months in advance. They could have played 2 nights. Also they play in the same venues as other headliners from the past few years, so there's certainly no issue with them playing the main stage per se. If people don't like them, that's fine, but I don't see the issue. If Lankum are the band announced for both Moseley Folk Fest and EOTR that would be quite funny, because obviously last year Supersonic Festival booked Lankum on the exact same weekend, so it would suggest some internal back-and-forth between the two festivals. Of the suggested headliners, Sleater-Kinney are the smallest for sure; the Roundhouse show last year was ~75% capacity. However, they put on a good show, so I certainly do hope EOTR do book them.

I quote posts to follow a thread/topic. I am not sure what you're talking about.