who is going to replace u2?

[Filthy]

Faithless are gash and nowhere near Pyramid Headliner status.

[fred quimby]

In Great Glasto spirit get a U2 tribute band to do the slot and everyone have a party

Edited May 25, 2010 by fred quimby

[Bernsville]

You heard it here first.........

Robbie Williams.

I'll get my coat....... TAXI!

[Josepipe]

Faithless are gash and nowhere near Pyramid Headliner status.

[Halcyon]

Faithless are gash and nowhere near Pyramid Headliner status.

[sven mk 2]

If they end up promoting somebody from the current line up surely it has to be The Flaming Lips otherwise Pixies would be nice.

[_danny_]

Apparently Michael Eavis is in negotiations with Sarah Ferguson for Prince to appear.

(via @gashead on Twitter)

[lea7784]

Chems would be amazing

[Josepipe]

Apparently Michael Eavis is in negotiations with Sarah Ferguson for Prince to appear.

(via @gashead on Twitter)

[davwa]

Well, i know this may be a bit controversial (and gay, but as i am a homo then thats fitting) but i think that they should ask Kylie to fill Bono's slot! She had to unfortunately cancel due to ilness, so she should feel Bono's pain, and she has been quoted as sayin that she would like to appear at a uk festival this year in the papers recently! PERFECT!!! Now get it dealt with Mr Eavis!!!!

[eggyrocks]

Prince is by far the best option and with him being in Europe (apparently - there is still NO official announcement from Prince that he is doing the three European shows between 4th-10th July).

I still cannot see it, but if he does - I'll be beyond excited.

He's (again apparently) signed up to Roskilde so that kind of goes totally against the anti-recording / photo's policy of Prince - there is no way he can monitor it at a festival.

[davwa]

Apparently Michael Eavis is in negotiations with Sarah Ferguson for Prince to appear.

(via @gashead on Twitter)

[c1-more]

Personally Gorillaz would be the one for me. Chems would be awesome as would Bowie

[Guitargeek4]

Everyone talking of Bowie and Led Zep... IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN!! They would have been booked in a flash, if they could play, for the original line up.

It's gonna be:

Dizzee Rascal

Flaming lips

Faithless

Coldplay

Radiohead or

Chemical bros.

Thats my guess for order of likelyness too.

[Redwinevino]

Pavement?

[Dog Burger]

Everyone talking of Bowie and Led Zep... IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN!! They would have been booked in a flash, if they could play, for the original line up.

It's gonna be:

Dizzee Rascal

Flaming lips

Faithless

Coldplay

Radiohead or

Chemical bros.

Thats my guess for order of likelyness too.

[suki]

RAGE RAGE RAGE!!!!

they are playing a couple of weeks so they will be nice and warmed up, hopefully they won't have some shitty exclusivity clause in their contract with download. I think if Micheal Eveis is in in charge then they would book them but Emily has rubbish generic pop, x factor taste so she will want Kylie :-(

Please god not coldplay, wtf have they produced of merit recently (or ever).

faithless would be good headliners but chemical bros would better.

I think you'll strggle to find many people that would not want to see rage, the same could not be said of kylie, bowie, coldplay etc...

[Redwinevino]

Prince is by far the best option and with him being in Europe (apparently - there is still NO official announcement from Prince that he is doing the three European shows between 4th-10th July).

I still cannot see it, but if he does - I'll be beyond excited.

He's (again apparently) signed up to Roskilde so that kind of goes totally against the anti-recording / photo's policy of Prince - there is no way he can monitor it at a festival.

[sizzlefee]

Gorillaz.....

Lady Gaga

Tbh i didn't care about U2 and was going to be seeing Groove Armada anyway!!

[King Fuzzyfelt]

Stones! Number one and all...

[Guitargeek4]

Taking into account the short timescale, previous form and who's available, I think you're absolutely spot on, other than I don't think Radiohead are likely.

[18Alex18]

Surely the ideas of pushing everyone up one or moving someone from another day/stage and then getting someone new in towards the bottom of the line up is a bit of a cop-out considering that U2 were probably the highest paid artist at the festival.

We pay the money for tickets to fund the lineup - basically what a festival is, is a huge number of people giving a huge amount of money to one person who then uses that money to try to book a lot of artists to play - it is the expectation of the paying people that most (as much as is possible) of their money is used to book artists. As we assume that the money that was going to be paid to u2 was within the budget for booking artists surely they should try their best to re-use that money to book another big act - even if they want to move Faithless to be the friday headliner - they've not really got any excuses to find a new artist to fill Faithless slot - you could probably get 2 second headliners for the money they were going to pay U2 so I don't think it would be too much of an ask for them to use part of that money to get one more quality act in towards the top of the lineup.

[Bort]

Prince is by far the best option and with him being in Europe (apparently - there is still NO official announcement from Prince that he is doing the three European shows between 4th-10th July).

I still cannot see it, but if he does - I'll be beyond excited.

He's (again apparently) signed up to Roskilde so that kind of goes totally against the anti-recording / photo's policy of Prince - there is no way he can monitor it at a festival.

Edited May 25, 2010 by Bort

[eggyrocks]

Pretty sure he's confirmed for Roskilde, which is a blooming excellent festival

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