Headliners 2015

[rzwodezwo]

Does anyone have a link to the 2013 headliner rumours-thread? Wanna re-read some stuff.

[mr gumby]

The XX were brilliant!! Another big album and I can't see why they won't be headlining - 2016/2017.

I, for one, would be delighted to hear that they're playing the Pyramid in 2017!

[Keithy]

I love XX and I'm 41 ffs so sod that grown up comment lol

I'm 38 and I love the XX

#xxconfessions

[Keithy]

I, for one, would be delighted to hear that they're playing the Pyramid in 2017!

Was 2017 the next fallow year? Or was that just a rumour?

[mr gumby]

Was 2017 the next fallow year? Or was that just a rumour?

Pretty sure it was officially confirmed.

[Icewulf]

The XX don't really do anything for me and I don't really understand the hype. Not sure why, because everyone I know absolutely loves them, so I must be missing something...

[Matt - Ed Banger Records]

No chance half way back for the XX was quite spread out. Elton was the most packed I've seen people had to climb on the bars.

I was nearish to the sound stage for Elton and it wasn't particularly packed out, but I guess sometimes that happens in crowds, get some bottlenecks further out and it doesn't seem too bad further in, had a similar thing with The Prodigy, seemed packed until you got toward the first barrier then it was a lot more sparse

[Keithy]

Yeah that rings a bell as remember someone mentioning that will be a barren summer. Not glastonbury, no major sporting events.

[Matt - Ed Banger Records]

I think 2017 could see me heading to Sonar for the first time

[Keithy]

I thought we'd exhausted all living, available artists for the Sunday headliner. But we've missed one. So for the sake of completion......James Blunt? :-p

[JoBalls]

Don't know about you but I was going crazy over them when I was 13/14

I just feel now that I know bands who do what they did better? If you get me? But when I was freshly a teenager they were one of the forefronts when the inevtiable 'I love indie' stage starts.

The XX released their first album what, 5 years ago?! And you were 13/14 then? I'm sure I've seen you say somewhere that you're in your twenties?

[mjsell]

I was nearish to the sound stage for Elton and it wasn't particularly packed out, but I guess sometimes that happens in crowds, get some bottlenecks further out and it doesn't seem too bad further in, had a similar thing with The Prodigy, seemed packed until you got toward the first barrier then it was a lot more sparse

Not a truer word could be spoken, crowds are a fickle beast. Every year I think I crack them with new techniques and every year they throw up some surprises. I bet everyone has their own action plan. There's a research opportunity in the formation of music crowds.. If only I had the time

[youngatheart]

im sure its been covered but has paul macartney been been ruled out surely a good shout if not..

[Matt42]

The XX released their first album what, 5 years ago?! And you were 13/14 then? I'm sure I've seen you say somewhere that you're in your twenties?

Nope, 18.

[Keithy]

Not a truer word could be spoken, crowds are a fickle beast. Every year I think I crack them with new techniques and every year they throw up some surprises. I bet everyone has their own action plan. There's a research opportunity in the formation of music crowds.. If only I had the time

I think sometimes everyone just assumes it'll be packed at the front so hang a bit further back.

[mr gumby]

I thought we'd exhausted all living, available artists for the Sunday headliner. But we've missed one. So for the sake of completion......James Blunt? :-p

If we're going for outlandish theories, how about a reunion of Appetite-era Guns 'n' Roses?

[Matt - Ed Banger Records]

I have a system for Brixton Academy now and the Big Top at Bestival, always starts to free up once you get past the first few metres or so, can just be a pain to get through, a pain to get out and only so many times me sheepishly saying 'I'm really sorry, I couldn't just squeeze past could I?' can happen before i feel like I'm annoying everyone around me

[Keithy]

If we're going for outlandish theories, how about a reunion of Appetite-era Guns 'n' Roses?

That would be great. Wonder if they'll ever bury the hatchet.

[Bignews]

Nope, 18.

i get the impression people think you're much older, you get so much stick on here for being over enthusiastic

[ltfckimbo]

i guarantee you that most people who'd consider themselves in any way fans of music know Purple Rain, Kiss, I Would Die 4 U, When Doves Cry, Raspberry Beret, Little Red Corvette, I Wanna Be Your Lover, 1999, Let's Go Crazy... the list is endless.

The ironic thing about this is that anyone who considered themselves 'a fan of music' when he was current and releasing those records would have considered them all to be tacky pop shite. Now, despite not really adding anything of note to that list he's some sort of legend to some of today's 'fans of music'. Its like fucking Springsteen allover again!

[kalifire]

I've got a funny feeling about today...

[Waapster]

I've got a funny feeling about today...

1000 pages?

[festhead]

can it be....

[FuzzyDunlop]

I've got a funny feeling about today...

I've said it will be a wednesday (only as the stones and metallica news were both on a wednesday), but can't see it being today... Next wednesday

Edited March 25, 2015 by FuzzyDunlop

[zero000]

No go on the Shaun Keavney interview folks, unless Mark Knopfer is headlining .