Headliners according to 6 music are....

[brettredmayne]

Radiohead where snore fest at Leeds this year

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[pie_and_a_pint]

Bowie and The Stones would be worth the ticket price alone.

[OneLittleFish]

To be fair, Coldplay were very good on their recent stadium tour. Got a super-cheap eBay ticket a few days before as I was on a training course for work the following couple of days and figured that Jay-Z and White Lies would beat sitting in my hotel room, and Coldplay turned out to put on a great show.

[MEGABOWL]

Same here. I think I'd find it a bit of a shame if I were to watch all three Pyramid Stage headliners - so if those were the three, then it'd suit me just fine

[Wooderson]

Stones I've never seen but come on, they're almost McCartney-esque in stature. The Pyramid field+ Satisfaction+Jumpin Jack Flash+Sympathy For The Devil+Its Only Rock And Roll+Get Off My Cloud+Brown Sugar+You Cant Always Get What You Want = win

[IamChappu]

Would def go and see Bowie again cos he is just sooooo damn good but I thought he wasn't doing much at the moment cos he had a health scare???

Rolling Stones - depends who else is on........

Coldplay - like them but not really the sort of band I'd go to see headlining at Glastonbury. Rather go and see them do their own thang (as long as not supported by Girls Aloud )

[phil the shrew]

To me the three headliners at Glastonbury's 40th should reflect a variety of music

Think their should be an act from the 60s/70's for nostalgia good sing along on the sunday night- Bowie/Rolling Stones/Paul McCartney

Act from the 90s/2000's - Radiohead, Pulp would be good and both bands have played a part in reinvigornating Glasto in the 90s

And a new act from last few years - of the big crowd pullers we'd probably be talking Coldplay (safe bet), Arctic Monkeys (bit more orientated at the youngsters)

Hopefully a similar spread of bands will be headlining the other stages too. I know Chemical Brothers are confirmed but from my point of view Orbital headlining one of the other big stages would be good.

[.jay.]

wasn't the bowie rumour officially quashed by someone high up in Bowies people?

i thought they denied he would be playing at the same time they said he would not be appearing as a special guest at Nine Inch Nails final ever performance in LA last month?

http://davidbowie.com/news/index.php?id=20090903

he is the pinnacle of my must see list of artists i want to see and have not seen yet but he is all but retired these days and has been for a some years now ever since his heart attack and his name is always bandied about when the festival rumour mill gets grinding and he just never materialises.

i would absolutely love for him to be one of the headliners but i just cant get my hopes up over these rumours anymore.

Edited October 5, 2009 by .jay.

[cabstar]

Did you think so? Hang on you weren't one of those knobs standing round having a shouted conversation instead of going to watch something else were you? I never understand that at a festival.

[youngatheart]

surprised no one has mentioned Travis they must be worth a punt

[MEGABOWL]

Sorry but Radiohead do absolutely nothing for me & I guess as a fan of Radiohead you are going to convince me how good they are, well please don't bother, in the 4 or 5 times I have seen them I would rather watch paint dry!!!!

[OneLittleFish]

surprised no one has mentioned Travis they must be worth a punt

[sortzcov]

Suppose someone has to pick up the litter from Monday onward....

[OneLittleFish]

To be honest, I'd be less critical towards them if Travis took the sound of their last two albums...

...and f**ked off

[Boosh]

(i actually really like travis... sshhhhh.... but headlining? no way.)

[sortzcov]

To be honest, I'd be less critical towards them if Travis took the sound of their last two albums...

...and f**ked off

[Vacant0]

Sorry but Radiohead do absolutely nothing for me & I guess as a fan of Radiohead you are going to convince me how good they are, well please don't bother, in the 4 or 5 times I have seen them I would rather watch paint dry!!!!

[tazzyb]

(unless you like La Roux, but if you do, I can inhale helium and sing over a £40 Casio keyboard's demo track if you want to pay me for it)

[Bluearsedfly]

Reckon Id avoid all three

[fortuneteller]

I swear Coldplay said in 2008 that they weren't going to headline Glasto again, at least for a long time. When Jay Z was announced and people wanted a response Chris Martin said something like "Jay Z is exactly who should be headlining Glasto, and we definitely shouldn't be any more."

They would be a bit of a safe/yawn choice wouldn't they? I like them, but still.

[eFestivals]

Rolling Stones

David bowie

Coldplay

According to Lamacq

That's defo wrong seeing as Bowie has already said he's not playing.

And so these things are exposed as nothing more than poor guesswork.

[Celtic bhoy]

No I watched half an hour then tried to get in to watch La Roux or Lost Prophets without success due to the sheer number of people there.

[denwyn]

Reckon Id avoid all three

[MyTwistedWords]

Why the.....?? I almost can't get the words out - why have you watched a band you hate that many times?!

[Bluearsedfly]

I can barely speak myself... Radiohead are the highlight of anything for me and certainly were at Reading fest this year.... everything else paled in comparison!!!

if you dont like them... STOP GOING!

Edited October 6, 2009 by Bluearsedfly