Future Headliners?

[PDAD]

Bump.

Chase + Status

Florence

The Vaccines

Foals

Black Keys

You me at Six (i'm sorry)

Paramore

QOTSA

Pendulum

And hopefully if they ever reform, LCD Soundsystem...

Edited November 5, 2013 by PDAD

[kwassa1]

I hope The Vaccines never headline. I liked the first album, but everything since has been total garbage

[Muppetmark]

And hopefully if they ever reform, LCD Soundsystem...

[PDAD]

you win life with that thought.

[kaosmark2]

And hopefully if they ever reform, LCD Soundsystem...

[the wonderwhy]

I hope The Vaccines never headline. I liked the first album, but everything since has been total garbage

[kwassa1]

Melody Calling is SWEET

[rafflesia]

2014

Queens of the Stone Age

Paramore

Near Future (2015 or 2016)

The Black Keys

Florence + The Machine

Mumford & Sons

Not Too Far, But Not Right Away (2017 or 2018)

The Vaccines

Foals

30 Seconds To Mars

Highly Plausible in Years After (2019 or 2020)

Vampire Weekend

Two Door Cinema Club

Missed Their Chances (Never, obviously)

Kaiser Chiefs

Interpol

Bloc Party

Yeah Yeah Yeahs (maybe not, huge in US)

I did not include You Me At Six,

Chase & Status in purpose and own desire.

Edited January 9, 2014 by rafflesia95

[Matt42]

Next time Chase and Status play... unless they rapidly decrease in popularity.

[Andre91]

Enter Shikari. One day.

[the wonderwhy]

Vampire Weekend have got to be in the same category as The Vaccines really

[rawaudioinput]

Could see The Vaccines being bumped up to headlining in 2015 with C&S the year after

[dentalplan]

Way I see it:

• Mumfords - already a headliner but they're probably not gonna be that relevant to R+L crowd now.
• Foals, Florence, Chase and Status could all probably headline on their next album promotion.
• Vaccines and Black Keys (and Pendulum if they return) also but I get a feeling they're more album dependent and could sub then headline on the next one.
• Two Door, Enter Shikari, YMAS all need to stay on track, move up to larger venues, and could headline in two albums time or so.
• Vampire Weekend and 30STM have probably both hit a ceiling. I couldn't see either doing it - 30STM may have already peaked and Vampire Weekend don't look to have grown much in the six years since album one.
• Obviously never know what's gonna happen but, if their successes aren't 'flash in the pan' Alt-J, Disclosure, Bastille, Jake Bugg, Skrillex and The 1975 could well be names worth considering in a couple of albums time. Obviously we have to live in hope that a new generation of music saviours can come through and stop this happening.

Edited January 9, 2014 by dentalplan

[Gucci Piggy]

It's funny how shit music is right now in this regard. Even the acts that are close like Foals and The Vaccines seem like they should never be headlining major festivals. There are literally no bands around I can see becoming the next Foos/Muse.

[rafflesia]

Obviously we have to live in hope that a new generation of music saviours can come through and stop this happening.

[rawaudioinput]

It's all dependent on how certain acts grow; if you saw Depeche Mode when they released Speak & Spell/Just Can't Get Enough you could never imagine them being the band who released Violator. Bands like The 1975, Bastille, etc. may not be the most promising of prospects for the future of music but they are in their relative infancy and one day they may be capable of producing an album of real intent

[dentalplan]

True. The Vaccines were an offence to music on their first albu but have gradually improved.

This is probably where we fawn over Royal Blood and tip them to headline eventually.

[Gucci Piggy]

Is it just me that also thinks no new bands' names sound like headliners? I realise how stupid that sounds, but bands like 'Foo Fighters' and 'Muse' and 'Radiohead' and 'Kasabian' sound like big bands. 'Two Door Cinema Club' and 'The Vaccines' certainly don't. The fact that the four I mentioned have always been big bands since I got into music probably helps that, mind.

[Tobieski]

I think the success of Vampire Weekend was really dependant on the last album, and although Modern Vampires was a brilliant album it surprisingly recieved little public attention, I think if they're lucky they might sub in the next couple of years, but that's it for them sadly.

Enter Shikari and BMTH seem like the only two plausible heavier acts that might reach a headline spot.

FIDLAR should, but probably won't. I could see The Orwells getting pretty large too

Edited January 9, 2014 by Tobieski

[dentalplan]

FIDLAR should, but probably won't. I could see The Orwells getting pretty large too

[thetime]

It's all dependent on how certain acts grow; if you saw Depeche Mode when they released Speak & Spell/Just Can't Get Enough you could never imagine them being the band who released Violator. Bands like The 1975, Bastille, etc. may not be the most promising of prospects for the future of music but they are in their relative infancy and one day they may be capable of producing an album of real intent

[dentalplan]

[thetime]

Still my fave Radiohead song.

[rawaudioinput]

The only thing I do find peculiar is that in a time of such economic distress, social deprivation, youth unemployment, political apathy and anxiety of the personal identity the majority of popular music consists of utter escapism. AM is pretty much the furthest you could get away from social commentary; to be honest the way I feel about AM I reckon is quite akin to the way people felt about hair metal just before Grunge came along, I find it irrelevant to the point of abhorrence.

[Babyquack]

I reckon White Lies are just becoming the great live act they are capable of being. Hopefully this will inspire the next album to be huge and maybe in the future we might see them even higher up in the bill