2014 Headliner predictions

[JC-Mo'Fucka]

I reckon the foo's price themselves out of it nowadays. They only seem to do big pay days like reading, hyde park, wembley etc and we all know glasto aint keen to fork it out.

[Matt42]

I reckon the foo's price themselves out of it nowadays. They only seem to do big pay days like reading, hyde park, wembley etc and we all know glasto aint keen to fork it out.

[suzie sue]

The kinks?

[ghandi]

The kinks?

[dentalplan]

If it was anything like Ray's performance on Hootenanny, I think Kinks headlining would go down as the worst ever.

[ghandi]

The man can barely stand up let alone do a two hour performance, do they even have enough material? As said his performance on Hootananny was laughable at best.

[suzie sue]

A Well Respected Man

Dedicated Follower of Fashion

Stop Your Sobbing

Sunny Afternoon

Autumn almanac

Do It Again

The Hard Way

Low Budget

Dead End Street

Waterloo Sunset

Sleepwalker

Celluloid Heroes

Where have all the good times gone?

Apeman

Too Much on My Mind

Days

Plastic man

Till the end of the day

Tired of waiting

Waterloo sunset

Encore:

Lola

All Day and All of the Night

Victoria

You Really Got Me

Edited January 2, 2014 by suzie sue

[ghandi]

Fair enough , but don't see them as headline material, he's done the oldie slot in 2010, so it wouldn't happen anyway.

[Wooderson]

Waterloo twice is a overkill, no?

[suzie sue]

Haha maybe not!

But give me them anyday of the week ahead of the k bands, Metallica or abba

[ghandi]

I thought that in 2010 he was lamenting his recently passed freind and co writer, he went on about it enough, they even had to hook himoff the stage, he wasn't best pleased either , not that i am clued up on the kinks band members. Was very funny at the time.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

Fair enough , but don't see them as headline material, he's done the oldie slot in 2010, so it wouldn't happen anyway.

[LondonTom]

are they not a k band?

[suzie sue]

Fri: arcade fire, the pixies

Sat: the kinks, kasabian

Sun: prince, elbow

[Winslow Leach]

Have I entered some alternate dimension where The Kinks are still a viable Glastonbury headliner?

I love them to pieces but it is not going to happen...

[suzie sue]

Prob most important 60's British band after Beatles & Stones

[morph100]

Arcade fire

Kylie

Eagles

[Bobs]

Without trying to piss on anyone's chips, technically the reforming of the kinks being 'better than ever', could mean a percentage of 2% in comparison to 1%, it wouldn't be a lie, nor would it be likely.

[JoeyT]

Would not be surprised if Rhianna was Sunday night headliner.

Bad times.

[CaledonianGonzo]

There's an interview in this month's Uncut magazine with Ray and Dave and it does look like The Kinks getting back together again isn't a complete impossibility. It looks like there have been some conciliatory gestures in that direction.

They'd have the songs to headline, just maybe not the stage show / live chops, but if he was struggling to find someone else I'm sure M. Eavis would at least consider them

[ghandi]

Now my brother and i were having this conversation over xmas regarding who of the " older" set if you like, who were in our view big enough to capture the publics imagination to headline we still available or around . We had The Strones, we've had Stevie Wonder, Paul mcartney, Bruce etc . They can't get Led Zep and it seems like Bowie or any of the Flloyd are unable to do it. It seems now they have exhausted this era, i never had even considered the Kinks as viable in my mind, but i guess you could hold a case for them. But it now seems we are entering the era of the new " famous" if you like groups, singers, such as Beyonce , Mumfords et al. It seems the festival will be struggling to find acts that have sustainability with more than a few albums to put together a real hits set in the future, but possible because i am of that age now when the likes of Mumfords don't seem credittable in my eyes. Now that's a worrying thought.

[russycarps]

Now my brother and i were having this conversation over xmas regarding who of the " older" set if you like, who were in our view big enough to capture the publics imagination to headline we still available or around . We had The Strones, we've had Stevie Wonder, Paul mcartney, Bruce etc . They can't get Led Zep and it seems like Bowie or any of the Flloyd are unable to do it. It seems now they have exhausted this era, i never had even considered the Kinks as viable in my mind, but i guess you could hold a case for them. But it now seems we are entering the era of the new " famous" if you like groups, singers, such as Beyonce , Mumfords et al. It seems the festival will be struggling to find acts that have sustainability with more than a few albums to put together a real hits set in the future, but possible because i am of that age now when the likes of Mumfords don't seem credittable in my eyes. Now that's a worrying thought.

[ghandi]

The Brit pop era, are we considering the like of " Oasis", Blur and " Pulp" in this, all of whom have already headlined?

Who is left in the lot that would " fire" the publics imagination such as them? Would "The Stone Roses" be considered as such, i am not sure, possibly or am i determining these as " Brit pop2 incorrectly?

[FloorFiller]

i always wonder who'll be our long-standers from this generation of music - like, who'll still be around in 30+ years that'll have us (or the next generation of festival goers) chomping at the bit when they're announced to headline Glastonbury. it's hard to think that any of our acts now will have the same effect as the likes of the Stones or McCartney or Bowie, or even be around long enough to find out

[russycarps]

i always wonder who'll be our long-standers from this generation of music - like, who'll still be around in 30+ years that'll have us (or the next generation of festival goers) chomping at the bit when they're announced to headline Glastonbury. it's hard to think that any of our acts now will have the same effect as the likes of the Stones or McCartney or Bowie, or even be around long enough to find out