2013 Headliners

[WillyVWade]

Black keys having a year off , Fleetwood cant physically play, WTT been ruled out due to Kayne, Biffy Clyro is a R&L exclusive, atoms for peace have said they wont be playing and finally if Mumford play it will be headlining the pyramid.

[TheSeventhOne]

"I've heard that they've booked destinies child to headline glastonbury, seeing as beyonce did glastonbury last year"

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

Just for one year at least, Foo Fighters need to fuck off. I'm not normally anti immigration but they need to stay in their own country and not come here so often. Robbing us of our jobs and taking our women

[willutalk]

there have always been heavier acts dotted about Glastonbury, you just need to look out for them

i agree that SOAD are more than that, but honestly, can you actually imagine SOAD playing Glastonbury? i can't. they'd seem so out of place. despite Glastonbury being one of the biggest festivals in the world, some bands are just better suited to other festivals, a-la System to Download and Reading and Leeds

[fatyeti24]

What's ruled Kanye Out? I'm sure he has other shows around the same time.

[willutalk]

"The Metal Stage". Make it happen.

[Englishdragon]

What's ruled Kanye Out? I'm sure he has other shows around the same time.

[fatyeti24]

His kid is due around the time of Glastonbury and the only shows he is booked for are close to home

[Redwinevino]

"The Metal Stage". Make it happen.

[LondonTom]

non of which, to the best of our knowledge, actually rules him out.

he's unlikely, i'll grant you. but then that was probably always so.

[mr gumby]

Saw Florence at Reading last year and she bored me to tears almost literally. Annoying human being.

[5co77ie]

Get foo's there

Edited February 5, 2013 by 5co77ie

[5co77ie]

I'd like to suggest an idea for a new hybrid supergroup - 'Rage Against Florence And The Machine'. Basically, Florence comes on stage, wafts her floaty outfit about a bit and wiggles her fingers mystically up towards the sky, then, whenever she opens her mouth and starts warbling, Zak De La Rocha runs out from the wings and screams obscenities at her until she cries. I'd pay to see that.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

I know people are suggesting it jokingly but the idea of genre specific stages really annoys me and would be a shame for the fest.

[fatyeti24]

They've been no one turned up - I bet Grohl doesn't forget that.

[5co77ie]

i walked past on my way to see England v Colombia. i wasn't the only one!

[fatyeti24]

so did I, then hid in the Bread & Roses as it hammered down and listed to Foo Fighters from there.

[5co77ie]

i went with the pissing rain and football option.

[mungo57]

Bollocks I am just gonna turn up at the Farm, with my guitar hero xbox games and offer my guitar hero services to Michael as an alternative Pyramid Stage headliner I can 100% about half the songs on expert should make for a laugh..... although GH has rather died nowadays...... Also if the Stones say no I can just do 2 hrs of 'Paint it Black' from GH III

[WillyVWade]

Bollocks I am just gonna turn up at the Farm, with my guitar hero xbox games and offer my guitar hero services to Michael as an alternative Pyramid Stage headliner I can 100% about half the songs on expert should make for a laugh..... although GH has rather died nowadays...... Also if the Stones say no I can just do 2 hrs of 'Paint it Black' from GH III

[SirDaniel]

For a festival claiming to be so enlightened and all-encompassing, there is a definite air of anti-metal sentiment. I'm not a huge fan anymore, but it's quite sad to see and entire genre full of talented artists cast aside due to some sweeping negative connotation.

And while I don't agree with the concept of stages geared towards certain genres, you'd be blind to suggest that it doesn't already exist to some extent.

Edited February 5, 2013 by SirDaniel

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

For a festival claiming to be so enlightened and all-encompassing, there is a definite air of anti-metal sentiment. I'm not a huge fan anymore, but it's quite sad to see and entire genre full of talented artists cast aside due to some sweeping negative connotation.

And while I don't agree with the concept of stages geared towards certain genres, you'd be blind to suggest that it doesn't already exist.

[Ed209]

I don't think there's any anti metal sentiment, hence why people don't complain when heavy acts do play, as they do throughout the lineup every year.

I'd say there's a desire not to change the festival to fit in certain genres. They should instead fit in to the already existing festival. Don't specifically book heavy acts, book then because they are right for where they are playing.

I'm also interested as to what stage is specifically, intentionally geared to acts of certain genres, as I've never come across it at Glastonbury.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

er.. Dance music?!

[SirDaniel]

If you're saying dance music is one genre, you might as well say guitar music is.

Edited February 5, 2013 by SirDaniel