2014 Headliner predictions

[FloorFiller]

Radiohead of course!

[Matt42]

I think Arctic Monkeys will still be around headlining festivals in like 2025.

Alex Turner will be one of the frontmen that people obsess over for a while...

Edited January 3, 2014 by Matt42

[FloorFiller]

I think Arctic Monkeys will still be around headlining festivals in like 2025.

Alex Turner will be one of the frontmen that people obsess over for a while...

[CaledonianGonzo]

Noone who's started out within the last 5 - 10 years will though now. Music is too nice - no-one is angry enough (or the ones that are aren't making music or don't have the right contacts/money to get noticed).

If there's no equivalent of 'Ghost town,' 'Between the Wars', 'Margaret on the Guillotine', 'Anarchy in the UK', 'Ohio', 'Slash N Burn' etc in the state the world's in now, then what fucking chance we got.

And even if there was, the public are too apathetic to notice it anyway.

[Matt42]

that's only ten years away though. i mean acts like the Stones and McCartney who have had 30 / 40 / 50+ year careers

[LondonTom]

Muse, Kasabian, Arcade Fire, The Killers 2030 Reform show

I watching something on Sky Arts the other about Vinyl and how they wasn't orginally made to last in the 50s/60s as the record companies didn't expect any of the artists to still be in demand after a couple of years.

Intresting idea that

Edited January 3, 2014 by LondonTom

[FloorFiller]

Muse, Kasabian, Arcade Fire, The Killers 2030 Reform show

[Matt42]

I wonder if muse are soon gonna drop an album with no high notes, and be labelled as the "Biggest change in musical direction ever"

[CaledonianGonzo]

Educate me! I'm all ears. (or eyes I suppose).

[dentalplan]

i always get the feeling that Radiohead could just implode and disappear up their own arses at any moment. i love them to bits but they seem like the type of band who know when to bow out gracefully rather than continue into their 70's

Edited January 3, 2014 by dentalplan

[GlastoSimon]

Fair do's. I still stand by what I said though. PJ Harvey isn't an artist that has started out in the last 5 - 10 years, for a start.

Plus I'd argue she was the exception and in a massive minority.

Edited January 3, 2014 by GlastoSimon

[LondonTom]

I wonder if muse are soon gonna drop an album with no high notes, and be labelled as the "Biggest change in musical direction ever"

[ghandi]

As i've said before those artists that are now on their say 7th 8th album need to be doing it 10 -15 years down the line to be considered as those in the ilk of the Stones, Etc , but they never will as these artists were around in the time of Music change and lifestyle change when people had as has been said had something to say, yes angry especially in the UK, the Soul side of things is another matter but Stevie Wonder aside none of the rest could headline the Pyramid. Radiohead like um or loath them( and i love them) have that longevitity, though even Thom has thoight of winding it up. Can bands stand the test of time anymore, i am not so sure with todays throw away society.

[Winslow Leach]

As i've said before those artists that are now on their say 7th 8th album need to be doing it 10 -15 years down the line to be considered as those in the ilk of the Stones, Etc , but they never will as these artists were around in the time of Music change and lifestyle change when people had as has been said had something to say, yes angry especially in the UK, the Soul side of things is another matter but Stevie Wonder aside none of the rest could headline the Pyramid. Radiohead like um or loath them( and i love them) have that longevitity, though even Thom has thoight of winding it up. Can bands stand the test of time anymore, i am not so sure with todays throw away society.

[ghandi]

Thanks Awfully i thought so too

[Winslow Leach]

As i've said before those artists that are now on their say 7th 8th album need to be doing it 10 -15 years down the line to be considered as those in the ilk of the Stones, Etc , but they never will as these artists were around in the time of Music change and lifestyle change when people had as has been said had something to say, yes angry especially in the UK, the Soul side of things is another matter but Stevie Wonder aside none of the rest could headline the Pyramid. Radiohead like um or loath them( and i love them) have that longevitity, though even Thom has thoight of winding it up. Can bands stand the test of time anymore, i am not so sure with todays throw away society.

[Winslow Leach]

As i've said before those artists that are now on their say 7th 8th album need to be doing it 10 -15 years down the line to be considered as those in the ilk of the Stones, Etc , but they never will as these artists were around in the time of Music change and lifestyle change when people had as has been said had something to say, yes angry especially in the UK, the Soul side of things is another matter but Stevie Wonder aside none of the rest could headline the Pyramid. Radiohead like um or loath them( and i love them) have that longevitity, though even Thom has thoight of winding it up. Can bands stand the test of time anymore, i am not so sure with todays throw away society.

[Winslow Leach]

Triple post!? Cor blimey, sorry all.

[sifi]

Jack White will still be going with some band.

[The Nal]

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

[Tuna]

kinks would be great. the performance may lack, but the atmosphere... yes please

[foolee]

Arcade Fire, Kasabian, Eminem

[innerspeaker]

Kasabian and The Stone Roses for me, although I have a funny feeling Kanye West could be there!

[FloorFiller]

Other two - reckon Elbow and The Eagles. Other stage headliners - Kasabian

[Dan R]

Kasabian are an outright mainstage headliner at any UK fest I reckon. They've headlined every other major festival successfully and with a new album theyre not gonna play anything lower.

Im always suprised when people expect glastonbury headliners to bigger than everywhere else.