2013 Headliners

[Ed209]

Just seen the Stone Roses at Heaton Park and they were amazing, no doubt that they would be one of the best Pyramid headliners of recent times, forget Muse, U2, Coldplay, even Ian sounded great, listening to John Squire was only what I can imagine what Hendrix would have sounded like, Heaton Park as a venue was shit, 45 mins queue for the bar, long queues for toilets, only allowing the first 20,000 people in the arena wristbands to get in the front part of the arena.

Roll on Glastonbury 2013, hopefully with the Roses are rightful headliners.

[eFestivals]

I've heard it was an amazing gig, but I think you're the only person there who didnt think Ian Browns singing was total shite. The reviews out already said he was at new levels of woeful.

I've just read the Mirror's one - said he wasn't too bad.

[fatyeti24]

i think you'd struggle to find anyone who cared what Brown's voice was like!

great night, i sang myself hoarse on his behalf. it didn't rain, it wasn't muddy where i was, beer was a long wait and 70 odd thousand people seemed to be having the time of their life.

[mike46]

On the train back to London now, just read reports about Ian's voice but I didn't notice anything, although in fairness we couldn't even hear him over the crowd!

Epic gig,

[Ed209]

The Guardian wrote

his voice can still stun you with its sheer inability to hold a tune, particularly in the company of such fantastic musicians.

Twitter reaction was fairly terrible as well. However everyone has said it didn't matter because 75000 people were singing every word back at him

[she bangs the drums]

The Guardian wrote

his voice can still stun you with its sheer inability to hold a tune, particularly in the company of such fantastic musicians.

Twitter reaction was fairly terrible as well. However everyone has said it didn't matter because 75000 people were singing every word back at him

[she bangs the drums]

From the Sun

Reni’s drumming is something to behold — and worth the ticket price alone.

There were question marks about how he’d cope back on the big stage, but he more than answered them.

A lot has been said about Ian’s ability to hold a tune — but he sounded spot on to me.

A solid two fingers up to any critics watching, having Reni giving him a guide on backing vocals did the trick and he held the stage in style.

Red flares burned in the crowd — raising a few worried eyebrows. Glasto’s Michael Eavis even looked in fear for his beard at one point.

Edited June 30, 2012 by she bangs the drums

[she bangs the drums]

Though you can make your own mind up here:

[fatyeti24]

from the beeb:

"It becomes clear that Brown's vocals are still rather wayward"...

wayward..

http://www.bbc.co.uk...t-arts-18656304

now, I quite like a bit of a singalong myself, but I think a whole set where the songs are being sung by the audience is too much

[MEGABOWL]

from the beeb:

"It becomes clear that Brown's vocals are still rather wayward"...

wayward..

http://www.bbc.co.uk...t-arts-18656304

now, I quite like a bit of a singalong myself, but I think a whole set where the songs are being sung by the audience is too much

[Ed209]

Thats strange because I've seen him at Leeds a few years ago and he sounded really awful, but thought it sounded good last night. he is never going to have the greatest singing voice but no one who was with me or around me commented about it.

Maybe the Guardian writer was expecting a voice from X-factor and I know they have been on a mission to slag off the reunions over the past few weeks

[Ed209]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqoEYn3ZxnE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This singing is definitely woeful. Basically he knows whether to go up or down, anything else is a bonus

Anyway this gig was much more about the moment than it was about quality of the performance. Everyone says Squire was incredible though

Edited June 30, 2012 by Ed209

[Ovechkin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqoEYn3ZxnE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This singing is definitely woeful. Basically he knows whether to go up or down, anything else is a bonus

Anyway this gig was much more about the moment than it was about quality of the performance. Everyone says Squire was incredible though

[MEGABOWL]

That's worse than I thought. They can't let him do that on national TV surely? The TITP coverage could be interesting anyway.

[arcade fireman]

Michael Eavis is among the thousands watching on, and appears overwhelmed to see their refound love for the music. He tells Virtual Festivals: "We would love to have The Stone Roses headlining Glastonbury next year, if they are still together."

[Vieuphoria]

Excellent news.

[Ovechkin]

Didn't he say in january that the headliners were already booked?

[guitarbhoy1888]

Didn't he say in january that the headliners were already booked?

[The Mean Bean]

Surely everybody know how little of a shit any of the punters give about Brown's vocals?

[Ovechkin]

the stone roses were announced for TITP last december so would have been booked before then

my point is that they could be one of the acts booked in january to headline ;-)

Edited June 30, 2012 by Ovechkin

[rug568]

i don't see why everybody is obsessed with brown's voice.

He is not the reason why the stone roses were a great band.

[fatyeti24]

the ones who moan loudest about the singer's voice also seem to be the ones who didn't buy a ticket and go to the gig and hear it (not necessarily on here). it's a strange world sometimes!

[fatyeti24]

what... the people who might not want to see a band with a shit singer didn't want to go..?

not that strange

[rexclark]

Who's whinging? People are merely pointing out that Ian Brown is an attrocious singer. Yes the fans will of course not give a fuck and will enjoy it anyway but it doesn't mean that others can't comment on the fact that the lead singer in The Stone Roses can't actually sing. Fair play to him, he's made a fortune out of his limited talent purely because he's Ian Brown.

[fatyeti24]

Who's whinging? People are merely pointing out that Ian Brown is an attrocious singer. Yes the fans will of course not give a fuck and will enjoy it anyway but it doesn't mean that others can't comment on the fact that the lead singer in The Stone Roses can't actually sing. Fair play to him, he's made a fortune out of his limited talent purely because he's Ian Brown.

Edited June 30, 2012 by fatyeti24