Kanye west confirmed

[South]

People are unbelievable.

My sentiments exactly*

*possibly my most pointless post for a long time, not even sure why I broke my lurk cover!

[klipper]

On a more positive note to all the complainers, who remembers watching this for the first time...

[willutalk]

While your analogy is more accurate. You know exactly why people are hating on Kanye and very few of them have actually listened to his music.

Therefore supposedly being uninformed.

I think this is very different to politics.

I suppose, you're always gunna get people like that, and I have been guilty of doing so but I now always check what an artist is like before putting a definitive point on it.

[guypjfreak]

tis good fun tho lol

[Justiceforcedave]

But he didn't sell out the big chill

*End of joke reference*

[filmguy]

At least the narrow minded muppets who are going to let their tickets go means that more broadminded music fans will get to go.

[FloorFiller]

On a more positive note to all the complainers, who remembers watching this for the first time...

me. love that performance. remember being quite disappointed that the yelps on the album version weren't quite as pronounced. pretty nuts that he did that performance not long before the album was released and yet a lot of the lyrics are completely different. Yeezus really was thrown together at the last minute

also, Ben Affleck looks like he's about to break down in to tears at the start of that performance. always makes me laugh when i watch it

[deschwah]

the festival isnt as good as it used to be you know

[willutalk]

Why are we all in such a bad mood. We should be cracking open the champagne and celebrating!

He's a fresh headliner, big status, gunna put on a hell of a show! He's not Coldplay. People are pleasantly surprised year in year out at Glasto and he's only one of our headliners, who of which play a very small role in proportion to the whole event!

[fatyeti24]

the festival isnt as good as it used to be you know

I remember when it was all fields..

[brandycoke]

On a more positive note to all the complainers, who remembers watching this for the first time...

Don't know much about him, so I just watched that for the very first time.

Have to say, a bit underwhelmed by it tbh.

[The Placid Casual]

I'm glad I have here to fall back on at times. Someone just used the argument, 'He's shite at music'. Good one

[willutalk]

the festival isnt as good as it used to be you know

Ahh shut up! (In the kindest way possible )

The festival is moving on with the times with these two headliners. They are still not young by any means. I think the festival is having a slight diversion from the usual British, If not traditional American headliners. I can see a big legend headlining 2016. But you can't have ultimate 70s headliners year in year out, and presumably that's what it used to be?

[hjglasto]

Wonder how many people moaning about Kanye were angry when they thought it was Coldplay. Like him or not, at least it's interesting.

[Alcatraz]

Ahh shut up! (In the kindest way possible )

The festival is moving on with the times with these two headliners. They are still not young by any means. I think the festival is having a slight diversion from the usual British, If not traditional American headliners. I can see a big legend headlining 2016. But you can't have ultimate 70s headliners year in year out, and presumably that's what it used to be?

Tbf, think deschwah was having a bit of fun

Plus its an excuse to post this

[klipper]

also, Ben Affleck looks like he's about to break down in to tears at the start of that performance. always makes me laugh when i watch it

This. Same here haha

[klipper]

I'm kinda conflicted on whether i want him to have hov guest, WTT is imo some of kanye's weakest work and I'd rather here more kanye classics than "run this town" and the like, but damn they do work great together on stage

Also when can we start compiling dream setlists?

[FuzzyDunlop]

On a more positive note to all the complainers, who remembers watching this for the first time...

Just heard that tune and seen that performance for the first time. I just found it boring to be honest.

[Martin Ashford]

I couldn't name a single number but anyone who can stir up this amount of bile must be worth checking out. Full credit to GFL for consistently proving Glastonbury is NEVER a mundane middle class festival.

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[DeanoL]

Don't really care who the headliners are but I think it'll be one of the least busy headline slots in a long while. Jay-Z, Beyonce and Metallica were experiments in headliner genre that worked because, while it might not be the sort of music your average Glasto goer listens to, they're renowned for putting on a brilliant show and being top of their game.

Kanye... right now is renowned for being a whiny git. He's going to be relying entirely on the music to pull people in, in a way those other acts weren't.

[sheffieldlady]

We are getting closer to being at the festival and a large amount of people who are complaining will no doubt be watching Kanye on Saturday evening. Sure he moans a lot and posts lots of pictures of his wife naked.. but he will no doubt but on a brilliant show (and I would expect a couple of special guests making an appearance to!).

But the reactions on the likes of Facebook / Twitter have been a joy to read. I like the petition already doing the rounds for him not to play, pretty sure that happened with Metallica to!

[mb'satglasto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNVbFQHf9L8&index=17&list=PLc70fg9UHuOwdc55E44EmZf7ygfRT_N9p

Any chance he'll play this? Zero. ah well.

Edited March 17, 2015 by mb'satglasto

[mrtourette]

I couldn't name a single number but anyone who can stir up this amount of bile must be worth checking out. Full credit to GFL for consistently proving Glastonbury is NEVER a mundane middle class festival.

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It's a reasonable booking but don't go OTT - before Wireless last year the last UK festival he headlined was The Big Chill, which was pretty damn middle class. There's nothing particularly edgy or dangerous about his music, if there was he wouldn't be headlining the Pyramid, and like Metallica he only appears different to the safe and middle-class environment of the Pyramid stage.

Still, like you say props to the festival for continuing to book a wide range of genres as headliners.

[CHRLY]

Hahaha, been an entertaining read this. Don't care for him that much anymore but I'm inclined to see him if there isn't someone else on that I like, we'll have to see. Brilliant booking though - those Facebook comments are hilarious.

[dumski]

I do have to wonder what is going through the minds of the people who seem actively furious and offended by the booking. Genuinely bizarre.

You speak the truth