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Betting on the headliners


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I can't answer that I was only 9 then, I wouldn't be surprised if it was Oasis fans.

It was. :lol:

That was the year that Glastonbury properly changed, too. They succeeded in turning it from one thing into something else.

That something else could quite accurately - in a comparitive sense, at least - be summed up in the following words...

to make Glastonbury into a bald headed hooligan lout festival.

Really! :lol:

I'm sat here laughing my head off at just how well that applies, and that there's a really strong basis in-fact to tie it all down to the Oasis fans that year.

The reality is of course slightly different to that - there's a whole range or different things - and yet the part that those Oasis fans played in it all can't be ignored as an irrelevance.

I'd never thought of any of that until now - it was how your words got my thoughts going. :lol:

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It was. :lol:

That was the year that Glastonbury properly changed, too. They succeeded in turning it from one thing into something else.

That something else could quite accurately - in a comparitive sense, at least - be summed up in the following words...

Really! :lol:

I'm sat here laughing my head off at just how well that applies, and that there's a really strong basis in-fact to tie it all down to the Oasis fans that year.

The reality is of course slightly different to that - there's a whole range or different things - and yet the part that those Oasis fans played in it all can't be ignored as an irrelevance.

I'd never thought of any of that until now - it was how your words got my thoughts going. :lol:

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No problem haha. Out of interest then, how was it in 2004? Thats nearly 10 years later when a lot of people had lost interest and they weren't the big new band anymore, your Oasis fan who went in 2004 would be the one you would get today I'm guessing (although to a larger extent today if it was an exclusive).

Its funny actually, this reminds me of some guy last year on here who was going to Glastonbury, and he said he was leaving on the Saturday or Sunday (whichever night it was) to go to see Kasabian play. That I did find obscene. Kasabisan seemed to have attracted a lot of Oasis fans though when they split up for some reason. Them ones will generally be the knobhead ones, who need a new band to follow and get pissed to. My favourite bands after Oasis are The Stone Roses, Pulp and Blur though, unfortunately for me, gigs are few and far between these days.

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If Prince is the 3rd headliner, this year's line up might be hailed as good as last years (to the public). If it's Eagles, then it will go down like a lead balloon - well this is how I think it'd go anywhere. Funny how one act can change the publics perception of the festival.....

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If Prince is the 3rd headliner, this year's line up might be hailed as good as last years (to the public). If it's Eagles, then it will go down like a lead balloon - well this is how I think it'd go anywhere. Funny how one act can change the publics perception of the festival.....

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I do agree with you, Eagles as a headliner will not boost the viewing figures on TV at all, and I think that is important for the festival these days. Why would they do that, eavis likes them yes, but that's a tad self indulgent. Eavis may be bald, and wear shorts all the time, but he's not an idiot. Very few viewers, and indeed festival goers, would ever have heard of them other than Hotel Califorina and the theme tune to Hitchikers. It would be one of the smallest crowds on the Pyramid for a Saturday headliner ever. Eagles are irrelevant to most people these days, the cool kids, the regular festival goers, music lovers, I just don't see what the attraction is for anybody other than the eagles obsessives, of which there are few these days.

Prince on the other hand....

My money's on the Purple midget

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What is it in that post that's controversial/not true. Not trying to be controversial at all, just expressing my opinion on things

I do think that Eagles headlining would not be good for the festival. When was the last time Gladto took such a big gamble on a headliner. Beyoncé? JayZ? They weren't controversial at all, they were / are absolutely massive when they performed and were outside the normal rock based headliners the festival was used to. But they weren't a gamble at all, they were guaranteed to get a massive audience, and a massive TV audience at that

I just can't see the same with the Eagles, very few people would have heard their music

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