Dreadful Headliners NOT Confirmed

[Funkyfairy!]

What a strange board and topics at the moment

Isn't Glastonbury all about different genres of music, it's about trying new things (not just the predictable). Glastonbury is not about 'whats trendy' or whats not. That is truely what is so awesome about the whole weekend

Those who don't like the headliners please get back in your boxes, feel pleased for those that are happy, and try something different - you may find you open you minds, let yourself go, get out of your 'pigeon hole' and actually have fun without worrying what you look like and if you fit in.

Failing that go find another stage to sulk at !

Yes Glastonbury is full of middle agers, youngsters, oldies and those inbetween... there are no boundaries and everyone should respect everyone. The Festival does not belong to one age group or musical taste

I'm not a huge fan of any of the headliners. Saw U2 last year (just because a group of friends were going) and actually they put on a darn good show. The thoughts of some of their tracks at the Pyramid makes me smile - some classics whether you like Bono or not. I'm not a Muse fan, but may be there seeing them so I can make up my own mind. Stevie Wonder - now I know he is huge, grammy winning, massive... never been 'into him' but listening on U tube I sure will be there

Finishing with 'Happy Birthday to ya, Happy Birthday '..... historic

[deardo]

How anyone can describe Stevie Wonder as dreadful is beyond me. It shows a supreme lack of taste given the wonderful contribution he has made to music through a career of coming up for fifty years and he provides a very real link back to the dawn of popular music. Shame that some people are simply too fixated on the here and now to understand how little about popular music they really do understand.

[sifi]

Surely taste is an individual thing. Stevie Wonder may be to your taste but not his. Personally i wont be watching him as i dont like his music.

Edited February 12, 2010 by sifimaster

[Langdale Wolf]

Surely taste is an individual thing. Stevie Wonder may be to your taste but not his. Personally i wont be watching him as i dont like his music.

[Tugger2k]

That is entirely different from defining someone as dreadful though, isn't it? I'm not a huge Muse fan, but I wouldn't describe them as dreadful just because I don't like them.

[Filthy]

I can't help but think that we might all save a lot of time - and save efestivals some hard disk space / bandwidth - if the Stevie fans amongst us could perhaps agree on a standard text responding to those individuals who think he shouldn't be headlining. Anyone fancy a pop at first draft? We could have it posted somewhere and just link to that post, or something like that. I think it'll just save a lot of time and fuss in the long-term.

[sonny]

What a strange board and topics at the moment

Isn't Glastonbury all about different genres of music

[sammysundae]

i respect that as headliners, they are all great artists in their own way. but my own way, i'm tempted not to watch any of them.

i might watch all of them, who knows? all i'm saying is that these aren't any bigger headliners than usual and i'm getting fed up of the ridiculous over-hype that surround glastonbury headliners every year when it usually turns out to be no more exciting than the year before.

i'm not fed up, just a bit disappointed.

given the level of hype there was this year, muse and stevie could easily have been expected to be second headliners.

[Tugger2k]

i respect that as headliners, they are all great artists in their own way. but my own way, i'm tempted not to watch any of them.

i might watch all of them, who knows? all i'm saying is that these aren't any bigger headliners than usual and i'm getting fed up of the ridiculous over-hype that surround glastonbury headliners every year when it usually turns out to be no more exciting than the year before.

i'm not fed up, just a bit disappointed.

given the level of hype there was this year, muse and stevie could easily have been expected to be second headliners.

[sifi]

i keep hearing this.

under who precisely?

[Steve P]

given the level of hype there was this year, muse and stevie could easily have been expected to be second headliners.

[Tugger2k]

I've come up with a list.

I won't bother reproducing it here because the bands on there have split up and the solo artists are for the main either dead or retired. But mainly dead.

[MEGABOWL]

i respect that as headliners, they are all great artists in their own way. but my own way, i'm tempted not to watch any of them.

i might watch all of them, who knows? all i'm saying is that these aren't any bigger headliners than usual and i'm getting fed up of the ridiculous over-hype that surround glastonbury headliners every year when it usually turns out to be no more exciting than the year before.

i'm not fed up, just a bit disappointed.

given the level of hype there was this year, muse and stevie could easily have been expected to be second headliners.

[sifi]

even thinking of dead ones, I'm not sure if anyone (yep, ANYONE!!) deserves/is worthy/whatever to headline more than Stevie Wonder

maybe as worthy, but not any more worthy

ok... Hendrix...

that's it

Edited February 12, 2010 by sifimaster

[Tugger2k]

JHE was on my list of possibles. I've also got the Doors here. And the Beatles.

Oh - Elvis.

[eFestivals]

i keep hearing this.

under who precisely?

Oh c'mon, you're not that daft, surely?

It's very obviously the case that Muse were originally meant to be the Sunday headliner - the "young person's band" that Michael had spoken of as the Sunday headliner.

Saturday was due to be headlined by the Stones, until they binned their tour (very probably due to Ronnie's drinking).

Stevie Wonder is clearly a fill-in. A very very good one mind, but not the original plan.

So with headliners of U2, the Stones, and Muse it would have been indisputably much bigger headliners than normal.

Would many people have complained? Yep, I'm pretty sure around the same number. There's a definite desire by a large number of attendees this year for Glastonbury to be an imitation of Reading.

f**king nutters.

Edited February 12, 2010 by eFestivals

[sifi]

Note, I said only "possibles". I think the Doors would be better suited to a Saturday night slot myself.

[sifi]

Stevie Wonder is clearly a fill-in. A very very good one mind, but not the original plan.

Edited February 12, 2010 by sifimaster

[Tugger2k]

Oh c'mon, you're not that daft, surely?

It's very obviously the case that Muse were originally meant to be the Sunday headliner - the "young person's band" that Michael had spoken of as the Sunday headliner.

Saturday was due to be headlined by the Stones, until they binned their tour (very probably due to Ronnie's drinking).

Stevie Wonder is clearly a fill-in. A very very good one mind, but not the original plan.

So with headliners of U2, the Stones, and Muse it would have been much bigger headliners than normal.

Would many people have complained? Yep, I'm pretty sure around the same number. There's a definite desire by a large number of attendees this year for Glastonbury to be an imitation of Reading.

f**king nutters.

[Ed209]

Leaving out dead people, the only groups/artist alive today who in my opinion could play on a par or above Stevie Wonder is:

Pink Floyd (not really realistic)

Led Zeppelin (always was a bit pie in the sky)

Rolling Stones

David Bowie (Already headlined)

Paul McCartney (Already headlined)

and now I'm struggling

I should add that I would have the Stones supporting Stevie, but thats my personal opinion

Edited February 12, 2010 by Ed209

[GlastoEls]

Not too bothered about any of the three to be honest - but there's, er, twenty other stages to hit..

Edited February 12, 2010 by GlastoElliot

[sifi]

Lame.

[sifi]

Pink Floyd (No longer exist. Have only played together for fifteen minutes in nearly thirty years)

Led Zeppelin (No longer exist. Have only played together for a few hours in nearly thirty years)

Rolling Stones

David Bowie (retired, dicky ticker)

Paul McCartney (Already headlined)

[Yokel Again]

Headliner threads are so boring.

3 very very strong headliners., whether they are to your taste or not is irrelevant to everyone but you.

I will be watching Stevie for sure, and will happily watch either of the others if there's no-one else I fancy on (unlikely). This is the best way for it to be.

[4AssedMonkey]

I've been completely bemused by the number of people both on here and elsewhere who don't seem that impressed by the Stevie Wonder announcement and can't work it out. I'm unhealthily excited about it and if it had been the Stones instead, I wouldn't have been arsed. Much, much prefer Stevie Wonder.

Anyway, in my puppy-like excitement I created an iPod playlist of all the Stevie tracks that have featured in his recent live shows, plus some of my personal favourites and it's just over 3 hours long. I was in the car with the missus for a longish drive recently and put it on, expecting some grief (she being one of the "Stevie Wonder? Uh?" nay-sayers in my life). To my surprise, she's singing along and having a wee boogie in the passenger seat. So I say, "Didn't think you liked Stevie Wonder?" and she says "I didn't realise all these songs were all him."

Think we may have stumbled on the root of the problem. Ignorance. Perhaps some people just remember the 80's pop stuff and think that's it. Perhaps many don't realise the massive Motown tracks are his and aren't aware of the highly prolific 70's period. Or pehaps they are just a bunch of cocks.