Bands performing below there normal billing

[abu hamster]

Chilli's

Thats all!

[TheSeventhOne]

I'll be avoiding them like the plague if they play.

[Zacko]

Doesn't Eavis hate them for some silly reason? Seem to remember reading they even offered to play for free a couple years back.

[preacherman_1]

by Chilli's I assume you mean RHCP?

Last I heard of them they ahd split up, that was about 2 or 3 months ago I think.

[Zacko]

by Chilli's I assume you mean RHCP?

Last I heard of them they ahd split up, that was about 2 or 3 months ago I think.

Edited April 12, 2010 by Zacko

[OneLittleFish]

Doesn't Eavis hate them for some silly reason?

[abu hamster]

Who else could it be?

[finchey]

I'll be avoiding them like the plague if they play.

[Davness]

Who else could it be?

[ampersand]

Who else could it be?

[Joem]

Couldn't think of anything worse!

[Langdale Wolf]

Personally, my money is on Coldplay

[ampersand]

Couldn't think of anything worse!

[Macca3031]

Don't think ME hates them, I seem to remember the rumoured offer was to headline for free but they already had (better) headliners booked. Don't know how true these rumours are though, wasn't there one about RATM offering to play for free in 08 but ME refused, hope that one isn't true, can't quite believe it myself as I'm sure it would have messed up their £1m R&L gig.

[vicky=)]

But then surely out of the orbital, faithless, hot chip, CB grouping someone will have to play lower?!

I had a dream last night Basement Jaxx played but it ended in fire. not so good.

[Breeze]

I had a dream last night Basement Jaxx played but it ended in fire. not so good.

[sifi]

I don't think Eavis hates them.

He just thinks they play music that is for children. Five year olds, I think he said.

[ampersand]

I don't think Eavis hates them.

He just thinks they play music that is for children. Five year olds, I think he said.

[russycarps]

so why did chipmunk and ndubz play last year?

[ampersand]

to keep people with dreadful music taste happy.

People like you, in fact.

"I wanna fall from the stars

Straight into your arms

I feel you

I hope you comprehend"

Lyrics almost Shakespearean in their power and beauty.

[sifi]

so why did chipmunk and ndubz play last year?

[0rbita1]

Much as I'd normally bow to the wisdom of the hamster - REALLY Abu?

I like RHCP. Never quite clicked with their more punkish 80s stuff but 'BSSM' will forever remind me of my student days (and 'Under the Bridge' may well be my fave track of all time) and 'Californication' + 'By The Way' both had highlights despite being diluted to try and make the band the next cross-genre cash cow supergroup (an experiment that has hopefully be forever executed and buried after 'Stadium Arcadium').

But live? Saw them live a few years ago at the Man City stadium though and was hugely disappointed. To me they treated it like a low-grade warm up for the Hyde Park gig a few weeks later. Terrible set-list, generated no atmosphere at all, had a big pop at the crowd for not liking support act Chicks on Speed (who were f*cking awful) and played the rest of their set in a childish strop after alienating the fans who'd paid a shedload to see them. Found the whole idea of AK lecturing other ppl about their behaviour highly amusing too...

Just find it impossible to believe they'd even consider taking second billing to anyone tbh, or that ME would be any more enamoured with them playing now then he was a few years back.

[Langdale Wolf]

But live? Saw them live a few years ago at the Man City stadium though and was hugely disappointed. To me they treated it like a low-grade warm up for the Hyde Park gig a few weeks later. Terrible set-list, generated no atmosphere at all, had a big pop at the crowd for not liking support act Chicks on Speed (who were f*cking awful) and played the rest of their set in a childish strop after alienating the fans who'd paid a shedload to see them. Found the whole idea of AK lecturing other ppl about their behaviour highly amusing too...

[0rbita1]

I think I was there for that one - around 2004? James Brown also played?

[Langdale Wolf]

Yeah, he dialled in the same performance at Glasto a month or two later. Chicks on Speed inviting people onto the stage to have a go at them and security then stopping people from doing so remains a highlight.