Flo

[Bisque]

anyone who doesn't think that headliners were already booked well before Xmas clearly has no idea about touring or booking.

I think most of us are clueless on here.

[Ommadawn]

anyone who doesn't think that headliners were already booked well before Xmas clearly has no idea about touring or booking.

That is most definitely not the case.

[ghostdancer1]

That is most definitely not the case.

having been involved with bookings for a few festivals, i know it is certainly the case for several that occur later than Glastonbury.

you only have to look at the many festivals already announcing their headliners before Xmas or in January to know that is the case.

many big bands plan world tours a year in advance.

i know that mid-level acts are shopped around to festivals/promoters in the Autumn. Nick Cave for instance had his agency contacting promoters in September 2012 for summer 2013 gigs/festivals.

a friend's band played early in the Acoustic Tent last year and knew in January that they were playing, and they're basically nobodies in the grand scheme of things.

maybe Glastonbury is unlike basically every other festival going and leaves its headliner bookings until a few months before the festival, during which headliners will have already planned their whole summer, but I seriously doubt Glastonbury's planning is that shambolic to be honest.

Edited February 22, 2015 by ghostdancer1

[Ommadawn]

Well, I don't have any experience in booking bands for any function whatsoever but I do know of a number of Glastonbury headliners who weren't booked into well into the new year.

Maybe because Glastonbury doesn't pay 'the going rate', they have to wait for bands to explore all other possibilites before committing to appear.

[ghostdancer1]

fully signed off, perhaps, but they would have been in discussions many months before that and likely had deposits or preliminary agreements in place too. they would very much be the exceptions, rather than the rule going by other festivals and acts planning their tours.

[Spindles]

The Glastonbury man documentary (centred around the 2000 festival) had them still seeking to fill all the slots for Headliners in February and them gnashing their teeth over whether they could get the Chems (who eventually headlined) at the time of the NME awards. In fairness that was the last year of the old organisation before Melvin Benn came in and the fence came up, so no doubt things have become more organised since then.

[ghandi]

It would be nice to see any documentaries regarding the actual running of the office / festival that were perhaps older than pre 20's, without searching you tube I've not seen anything on here.

[Spindles]

I think the best of the pre-2000s is the "Goode vs Eavis" BBC one, which had a really good insight into some of the pressures the festival was under in it's earlier days.

[russycarps]

but why

the single only narrowly made the top 40, the album ain't gonna promote itself. Unless there's a jolly good reason, it'd be pure insanity from her team to let her only do Glasto when this record has the potential to do such big numbers

my suspicion that she's doing BST as an exclusive grows with every UK announcement that passes without her name included. only explanation for me

Hang on, so this massively popular act with her huge comeback single that everyone has been eagerly waiting years for, barely made the top 40?

I see.

[theouterlimits]

Hang on, so this massively popular act with her huge comeback single that everyone has been eagerly waiting years for, barely made the top 40?

I see.

Yes, because people are preordering the album which comes with an instant download of the single.

Conscious record company decision not to go for a high charting single. Few artists who sell lots of albums have hit singles any more.

You will of course remember the David Bowie single when he did the comeback going to #6 on the charts. Had it not been an album preorder incentive, I'm sure it would have been #1. Florence's new single is obviously less of a big deal than Bowie but it's the same principle.

Edited February 23, 2015 by theouterlimits

[eFestivals]

So, who thinks it's Flo then...?

[Mardy]

hehehehe, I love you Neil

You little tease

[FuzzyDunlop]

So, who thinks it's Flo then...?

I think whatever you tell me to...

Or at least I get the wrong end of tge stick about!

[FloorFiller]

So, who thinks it's Flo then...?

so it isn't? if so that's great (but incredibly surprising) news

[Mezhyp1]

So, who thinks it's Flo then...?

I'm often wrong, so yep I think that Florence and the Machine are headlining Glastonbury 2015

[dentalplan]

So, who thinks it's Flo then...?

I was kind of keeping it a secret but yes, I do.

[TomViolence]

Aye, I think it's Flo

[hurdy]

I was kind of keeping it a secret but yes, I do.

Ha ha ha

[Andeeroo]

The fact that Neil has just said that he has no new info on who the headliners are, only on who it isn't and the fact that he's asked the question above makes me think that Flo is only sub headlining.

Probably doing some wildly incorrect Maths there.

[FloorFiller]

The fact that Neil has just said that he has no new info on who the headliners are, only on who it isn't and the fact that he's asked the question above makes me think that Flo is only sub headlining.

Probably doing some wildly incorrect Maths there.

that's the conclusion i came to

[Gucci Piggy]

Coldplay and Flo ruled out as headliners in one day would be pretty damn nice. If Flo isn't headlining I would expect a BST headline rather than a Glasto sub.

I still think she'll headline, though.

[FloorFiller]

she's still up as a SR whereas Coldplay have been moved to an R so i may have misread what Neil said there (or she could be subbing, which id still find very weird)

[LondonTom]

Today is a good day!!

(I reckon she will be there still but subbing.)

[FloorFiller]

Swift headlining the Sunday (as originally thought) and Flo subbing whoever is on the Saturday (Elton?) would do me just fine

[Matt42]

*awaits efest article*