Headliners 2015

[Fivefingerjohn]

She's also in the jay z would recommend it category along with kanye.

I think Kanye and Rihanna are meant to be touring together...might make it awkward for both

[willutalk]

If Rihanna plays give me a rope! She'd be a shite headliner.

[russycarps]

If Rihanna plays give me a rope! She'd be a shite headliner.

you've been speaking a lot of sense recently will

[JoeyT]

Would rather have Swifty than Rihanna

[Lois.]

Yeah I think I'd rather have T-Swizzle than Rihanna too. Saw her at R1BW once and she was quite dull. I'd happily take her and Kanye though if that were to happen.

[Chewie]

I think Rihanna would work - she is one of the bigest 'popstars' in the world atm

I wouldn't see her (and i'm sure a lot of people on here would) but it would provide some massive exposure for the festival as all the papers and radio 1 especially would go crazy over it

[Waapster]

If we *have to* have somebody in the Rihanna/Swifty genre, I'm going to back #teammadonna.One final blast before retirement.

[neil999]

you've been speaking a lot of sense recently will

i think you should take him under your wing...

[FuzzyDunlop]

Rihanna is not far off the bottom of the barrell shite performance wise. "Sings" a few lines, stops - points the mic to the crowd - sings the odd line.

But she has more tunes I'd recognise than most other pop acts.

Has more of a "fuck you" attitude too, which I like.

Edited March 4, 2015 by FuzzyDunlop

[russycarps]

this thread....I sometimes wonder if the glastonbury and V festival forums have switched places..

[willutalk]

you've been speaking a lot of sense recently will

Haven't I always been speaking sense russy?

No actually I joined these forums when I was 13 and a bit out of my depth and out of the wavelength of the people on the forums. Now 17 I think I'm a lot more understanding of good quality contemporary performing arts.

[The Nal]

this thread....I sometimes wonder if the glastonbury and V festival forums have switched places..

Headliners are shit this year hence this thread is also shit. 700 odd pages of the dullest acts on the planet. Repeatedly.

Meanwhile other good acts are creeping into the rumours page.

[robu]

I think Rihanna would work - she is one of the bigest 'popstars' in the world atm

I wouldn't see her (and i'm sure a lot of people on here would) but it would provide some massive exposure for the festival as all the papers and radio 1 especially would go crazy over it

Yeah, absolutely right -- Glastonbury gets so very little exposure and deserves so much more...

And just what we need, Radio 1 going crazy all over it...

this thread....I sometimes wonder if the glastonbury and V festival forums have switched places..

Amen, brother.

[Gnomicide]

Ever since she upset that farmer in Ireland by flasing her udders at his cows, Rihanna has been out the running.

Michael is a fully paid up member of the NFU*. Those guys stick together.

*Probably

[Matt42]

Ever since she upset that farmer in Ireland by flasing her udders at his cows, Rihanna has been out the running

*Probably

That interview with the farmer on BBC news still cracks me up to this day!

Just a passing comment, if Emily is right and says that the entire lineup is nearly booked. How exciting is it that we are in the dark and nearly 2,000 acts have been booked and I doubt we can even name 50 names that will (very likely) be there!

Edited March 4, 2015 by Matt42

[klipper]

Meanwhile other good acts are creeping into the rumours page.

Sleaford Mods this morning

[russycarps]

I'm going to choose to believe bigbilly from yesterday - mainly because he seems to suggest Blur to headline the Saturday, which I would very much like to happen.

As for who the Sunday headliner might be - massive and never played before (or never headlined before?) It's too much to hope for the Stone Roses, Fleetwood Mac would appear odd and I hear they are definitely not playing. Just hope it's not Queen...

queen with that whopper from america are brilliant!

[klipper]

Surely Fleetwood Mac don't have much chance if both eavii and them have ruled it out

I reckon Kanye could qualify as a the "not rumoured" headliner (as he wasn't really discussed at all as a viable option until about a week before the Brits if i remember correctly)

Anyway, I'm sticking with Foos, Yeezy, Swifty as my prediction, bit poppy and no british headliner though.

[neil999]

queen with that whopper from america are brilliant!

how many drugs and alcohols did you have?

[JoeyT]

I'm choosing not to believe "bigbilly" because at least when that nufc character from last year trolled he actually gave us names.

[eFestivals]

Surely Fleetwood Mac don't have much chance if both eavii and them have ruled it out

Yep, that's the idea I'm sticking with.

While I don't think it impossible that Mick Fleetwood would lie by saying they weren't playing when they were, I don't think that Emily would go along with it. It would require her to deliberately lie to her 'customers' in an attempt to make them spend their money on something they wouldn't need to spend their money on, seeing Fleetwood Mac at another location - and it's not like they'd be any benefit to Glasto from doing that, either. Only Fleetwood Mac would gain from that.

So I just can't see that happening.

[eFestivals]

It seems a bit odd that someone who's been a member since 2009 with so many posts would suddenly decide to take up trolling. But then if he didn't imply Blur I'm not sure I would have paid him any attention

Just because someone posts something and it might later be proved wrong doesn't mean it's trolling.

It'#s perfectly possible for someone to be told something is true when it isn't, and for them to believe that thing is true.

Something much like that recently happened with me.

[JoeyT]

True I suppose it's just the nature of the beast.

Neil, from a personal point of view do you have any prediction on when the line up will be released? I know Emily has said April so would an educated guess go for the same week as last year?

[neil999]

the 3 tour dates n a row would deffo rule out fmac anyway would it not?(not doing that anywhere eklse on tour i believe)

[eFestivals]

PS: just joining up some dots in my head, and letting you peeps in on it....

Someone has contacted me with some info which he claims to be from an excellent source. They've been in touch in the past, and that previous info stood up.

While I won't say here what they've told me they did get in touch at one point, specifically to tell me it wasn't Coldplay after I'd said it was. I foolishly dismissed that at the time, because of my (misplaced) confidence in my Coldplay sources. Within what they've told me is that Fleetwood Mac are not playing.

Along with all the other "it's not Fleetwood Mac" stuff from Emily, Mick Fleetwood, etc, it's going to take a very well placed source to convince me that it is them.