headliners in years to come ?

[WS_Jack_III]

I don't see the problem with selling your music for someone to use

I'm not saying there is.

[CHRLY]

I'm not saying there is.

The other guy made out like there was

[WS_Jack_III]

The other guy made out like there was

I'd rather hear The Black Keys on the adverts than whoever won the X factor last year.

[MEGABOWL]

Been saying for a while now it'd be great to see Glastonbury go back to giving acts a chance to step up. They used to do it quite a lot, not all of them really became regular headliners (Moby, Skunk Anansie) and some did (KOL, Coldplay, Muse) but that's the gamble. It'd be fun to see the squealing if 2015 was headlined by e.g. Rudimental, Foals and Bombay Bicycle Club but I think the Eavii were scared at the reaction to 2008 so it'll never happen

[Sawdusty surfer]

There some ex bands out there that could easily carry it off if they decided to reform.

[CHRLY]

I've always dreamt that LCD will reform and headline one day, would be so good

[Sawdusty surfer]

There some ex bands out there that could easily carry it off if they decided to reform.

Sorry to quote myself (is that bad form? ) but most of the bands I have in mind might reform except that the main man wouldn't be up for it....The rest of them might be. Probably enough out there to keep the Pyramid in headliners for quite some time.

[CHRLY]

That's why I don't believe the kinks would be a good headliner

[Woffy]

Just had a quite scroll through.

Did nobody say Daft Punk.

I'm not having the new album at all, but i saw them do this in 2006 and it was PHENOMENAL!!

[Amy Lawn]

Jake Bugg,

No, not really, I just want to post this video, I hurt myself laughing.

[Woffy]

Jake Bugg,

No, not really, I just want to post this video, I hurt myself laughing.

That is the best fucking thing i've listened to in AGES!I think i'm gonna follow Jake Bugg on Twitter...if he's on there...and recommend he reads some Socrates and see if he gets the joke. Or at least comes back from the library confused.

Bless him.

[CHRLY]

Jake Bugg,

No, not really, I just want to post this video, I hurt myself laughing.

http://youtu.be/JQOQjniux8E

Hahha yeh I had to watch that before, hilarious

[dentalplan]

Jake Bugg,

No, not really, I just want to post this video, I hurt myself laughing.

I read in eFests' interview with him that he'd stopped talking to the NME. That was three weeks ago. He didn't hold out for long.

[Amy Lawn]

When his singing career dries up, he'll have a lucrative enterprise as the world's number 1 Jake Bugg spoof act, he just has to say what he says now.

[dentalplan]

Sorry to quote myself (is that bad form? ) but most of the bands I have in mind might reform except that the main man wouldn't be up for it....The rest of them might be. Probably enough out there to keep the Pyramid in headliners for quite some time.

I think you've misunderstood the OP's point. The concern is about new bands coming up and not getting the chance to headline, not filling the headline slots with as many reformed bands as possible.

[Woffy]

When his singing career dries up, he'll have a lucrative enterprise as the world's number 1 Jake Bugg spoof act, he just has to say what he says now.

Yeah, but imagine if Jake Bugg comes to that realisation himself, he'd just tie himself up in such a dope addled, self-deluded labyrinthine mass of backward-looping confusion he'd probably implode back in on himself and create such a massive-ladrock-george-formby-sized blackhole it'd swallow the LHC and all of Ocean Colour Scene with it.

The NMEuinverse would be fucked forever.

Or something.

I'm not drunk. Honest.

[jmarmer]

Alicia Keys? grand piano, strings. backing singers, visuals, lighters aloft, etc, etc. Not my cup of tea but would be a production.

[stardustjunkie]

Maybe one day Skinny Lister will be big enough to headline and I can say "I personally know two people who headlined Glastonbury!". That'd be pretty cool.. and unlikely.

[A Guy Called Matt]

I really like Jake Bugg's music - but live he is so so so so so very dull.

[russycarps]

Looking at these suggestions the future of the festival looks grim. Hopefully most of the headliners in years to come have yet to release an album yet.

[FloorFiller]

hahaha that Jake Bugg video is gold. what an absolute fool. one minute thirty of saying absolutely fuck all

[ghandi]

FFing hilarious

[Bisque]

Have The Prodigy ever headlined before?

[FloorFiller]

Have The Prodigy ever headlined before?

they have, in 1997

[Morse Code]

Haven't read all pages but haven't seen Sigur Ros mentioned yet. Would be perfect for a headline slot at Glastonbury.

Perhaps more likely choices though would be Biffy Clyro, Florence and the Machine, The XX, Elbow, The Flaming Lips, The National and Black Keys.

Less likely as we stand but possible after another album or two would be Alt-J, Ed Sheeren, Ellie Goulding, Jessie J, Laura Marling, Two Door Cinema Club.

Big current 'pop' names who haven't done it yet, Lady Gaga, Rhianna, and Kanye West.

Not all if these will be to everyone's taste but some of these are already big enough / will be big enough. And of course the naysayers will tell us what a list of MOR shit music that represents but I reckon the same conversations will have taken place about future headliners at any point since the festival started....