Lineup 2015

[the wonderwhy]

Yeah fuck The Black Keys

I get the feeling The Strokes will be about next year, I'd chuck them in as a bit of an outside bet

[Yellow_Fellow]

Nah I'm pushing this one now - they're not a headliner anymore. They're a sub.

[the wonderwhy]

Yeah just like SOAD are a headliner

[Yellow_Fellow]

it's like musical context isn't black or white :^)

[TenInchToenaiIs]

Strokes subbing Jack White

Mmmmm-hmmmmm

[Gucci Piggy]

Let's also have Metallica subbing The Black Keys and Muse subbing The Prodigy

[Gucci Piggy]

Muse VII? Yes I think they could as long as they're not at any other English festival but I'm not sure why anyone would be excited for it. You got the second best set (second to Showbiz in full) you could possibly get so what else do you want? Matt's show tunes?

We got the best set we could possibly get (well, the first half) but I'd buy a fucking ticket. Init.

[rafflesia]

Strokes subbing Jack White

Mmmmm-hmmmmm

That actually happened at Governor's Ball. So could be a possibility?

[Tobieski]

The strokes didn't headline Governor's ball?

[dentalplan]

Thy both got the same set length but they didn't play last, so it'd be up for debate.

They wouldn't sub Jack White though. Jack White wouldn't headline a major UK festival bar Bestival.

[Yellow_Fellow]

Thy both got the same set length but they didn't play last, so it'd be up for debate.

Coheadline

:D

[the wonderwhy]

When other Matt was going on about expanding the site (which is never going to happen) it got me thinking that they might try to keep the co-headliner thing going. Saying 'look, you're now getting four headliners over three days, which no other festival really offers' is a cheeky way of them being able to justify another price hike, and therefore is a way of increasing income without having to increase capacity or add another day (neither of which are plausible)

Just a thought.

[TheSilence]

Surely price won't dramatically go up any time soon?

[the wonderwhy]

Dunno. If they've got four headliners every year they might decide to do it.

[lightning1000]

Dunno. If they've got four headliners every year they might decide to do it.

If there's a demand for tickets then they'll raise the prices. They used inflation as a reason for a £20 a ticket increase in 09. I'm done with this fest anyway, had a good 13 year run but it's just not for me anymore.

[mattgimmeshelter]

If co-headlining becomes a thing now, the co-headliners will get weaker and weaker every year.

I'd rather they only did the co-headliner thing when they have two bands that want to do it and one headline spot.

[Yellow_Fellow]

If co-headlining becomes a thing now, the co-headliners will get weaker and weaker every year.

?????

[mattgimmeshelter]

?????

They will soon realise they don't need two headline sized bands, after a while they can just get two sub sized / third down acts and put them together and call it a co-headline.

[TenInchToenaiIs]

look at all this conjecture

(I learnt that word from Phoenix Wright:Ace Attorney)

[mattgimmeshelter]

look at all this conjecture

(I learnt that word from Phoenix Wright:Ace Attorney)

Great game series

[Yellow_Fellow]

conjecture

a man after my own heart

[lightning1000]

Great game series

Do you think it could headline T next year?

[kaosmark2]

They will keep raising prices until they have several successive years of selling badly (note, not selling out doesn't mean selling badly). They might try USING things as excuses, but they'll just be excuses.

[Tobieski]

Pretty sure tickets go up in price every year anyway, I think a drastic rise in prices would cause too much of an outrage.

[Gucci Piggy]

They're already booking w*nk headliners. If they start having four every year it'll reduce their choices for following years and they'll end up even shitter.

I hope one year they have Blink, Green Day and Paramore headlining. I actually don't hope that but anyway. Actually fucking hell they have two of them this year. I'm done.