2013 Headliners

[beau1]

why couldnt it happen?!

[willutalk]

I thought the Cure were very dull. I was at Reading this year and the crowd were like frozen particles. I ended up going to Foster the People and Maccabees who of which would be great for Glastonbury. Curemay have been good in their day but now they are at Other Stage headliner standard. All the songs sounded the same as well.

[The Nal]

Green Day playing The Emirates on June 1st

[gazza_20]

Green Day playing The Emirates on June 1st

[jump]

That's been out a few days mate. Not sure wether they'd go Glasto, surely they'd have to headline and The Rolling Stones is the only band I can see them playing under and your talking 5hrs on one stage taken up at least with just them two.

[The Nal]

That's been out a few days mate. Not sure wether they'd go Glasto, surely they'd have to headline and The Rolling Stones is the only band I can see them playing under and your talking 5hrs on one stage taken up at least with just them two.

[gazza_20]

If Green Day were announced they would headline regardless of if they Stones are playing or not but I wouldn't rule out an unannounced appereance like Pulp & Radiohead did if they keep up this secret show thing.

[hawkzred]

I thought the Cure were very dull. I was at Reading this year and the crowd were like frozen particles. I ended up going to Foster the People and Maccabees who of which would be great for Glastonbury. Curemay have been good in their day but now they are at Other Stage headliner standard. All the songs sounded the same as well.

Edited August 28, 2012 by hawkzred

[gazza_20]

Oh right. Cant see them not headlining a stage, Stones or no Stones. They looked great at Reading at the weekend.

[01seb]

Friday

Pyramid

Daft Punk

Dizzee Rascal

Editors

The Vaccines

Other

Mumford and Sons

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Saturday

Pyramid

Radiohead

Bloc Party

Sigur Ros

The Shins

Other

Smashing Pumpkins

The XX

Sunday

Pyramid

Stone Roses

NGHFB

Plan B

Vampire Weekend

Other

Placebo

Two Door Cinema Club

Thoughts?

[Spindles]

Thoughts?

[The Nal]

Bloc Party followed by Radiohead sounds like something they'd torture terror suspects with if water boarding was unsuccessful.

[Gnomicide]

flo taking a year off...

[Gnomicide]

Never liked Daft Punk but now have an even greater aversion to them thanks to that blood advert...

"Play some Darft Pank"

[Gnomicide]

Obviously it's no real way of measuring a band but amongst others, I saw a Prince tribute act at The Mathew Street Festival on Sunday and they were excellent. I'd definitely go and see Prince if he was on.

[TheNewUnion]

I am always slightly concerned with the "it'll be the Rolling Stones" thing, because it never fails to disappoint. Next year may be the year, may not and therefore I am hedging my bets and going for the exact same lineup I got at Optimus Alive

The Stone Roses

The Cure

Radiohead

With backup from the likes of Mumfords, Noah and his Whale, Caribou, LMFAO (I do think they'll play), and pretty much everyone from the Heineken stage on the Sunday of Optimus, being

Metronomy, The Kills, SBTRKT, Mazzy Star, The Maccabees, Warpaint, Miles Kane, Eli "Paperboy" Reed (because it was ace).

I'd also love to see Depeche Mode, and I expect a big pop act and some Dub Step act of other depending on who is big next year.

[gazza_20]

Anyone listened to the new Melvin Benn Reading and Leeds interview on NME?

The question on The Stone Roses came up and he said they weren't on his list and he feels Michael Eavis is wrong that he'll get them to headline glasto.

Also says he has two headliners already, one to go but they know who they want and think they want to as well. The 3rd one they want I reckon must be Biffy Clyro - They did Download and IOW this year, they aren't really V Fest anymore, they've done RockNess this year too, Reading is directly their crowd, defo not a band they'd need to book way in advance for them to jump at the chance.

One I think is Blur, the other I'm not sure.

[Spindles]

@TheNewUnion, it is a tradition on these forums for us to steadfastly believe that the rolling stones are definitely playing this year and then for that belief to drift off the closer we get. There is a very strong chance that they will never headline glastonbury, however this will never, ever diminish the belief.

[dan05delaney]

Having seen Green Day a few times they could easily headline, they have the energy, the songs everyone knows... Ok may not be a typical headliner but what is now a days

The other name I've had in my head and think its a matter of time before it happens, Fpo Fighters... We all know Dave Grohl likes to get about and it the only(?) festival they haven't headlined yet, they have played before if I remember right... Could easily pull off a greatest hits set, they could probably do an acoustic set on a random stage (they did at V07 before headlining)

[gazza_20]

Having seen Green Day a few times they could easily headline, they have the energy, the songs everyone knows... Ok may not be a typical headliner but what is now a days

The other name I've had in my head and think its a matter of time before it happens, Fpo Fighters... We all know Dave Grohl likes to get about and it the only(?) festival they haven't headlined yet, they have played before if I remember right... Could easily pull off a greatest hits set, they could probably do an acoustic set on a random stage (they did at V07 before headlining)

[gazza_20]

would glasto book something like arcade fire, radiohead and the rolling stone?

it's not a prediction, it's just a would they

[Spindles]

That's a lineup that has been popularly suggested in this thread.

[MEGABOWL]

@TheNewUnion, it is a tradition on these forums for us to steadfastly believe that the rolling stones are definitely playing this year and then for that belief to drift off the closer we get. There is a very strong chance that they will never headline glastonbury, however this will never, ever diminish the belief.

Edited August 29, 2012 by MEGABOWL

[01seb]

Melvin sounds pretty confident that Stone Roses aren't playing Glasto. Thank god imo, I don't like the Roses at all.

I'm thinking perhaps the Arcade Fire/Radiohead/Daft Punk trio is likely and would be Glasto's strongest bill of headliners in a long time imo.

[Spindles]

@Megabowl, me too. You could probably add "daft punk" speculation in as well. It is tradition.

@01Seb. I think that that would be the ideal lineup for a large chunk of the regulars on this forum. If they managed to book those 3 I think it would be hard for 2013 not to be viewed as the thing that ME says every year: "The best glastonbury ever!"