Headliners 2016

[brettredmayne]

7 minutes ago, zero000 said:

6 music saying they've got a massive festival announcement this morning. Everyone brace yourselves for Latitude booking Radiohead...

Thsts an awful thought

[FuzzyDunlop]

14 minutes ago, zero000 said:

6 music saying they've got a massive festival announcement this morning. Everyone brace yourselves for Latitude booking Radiohead...

Latitude do announce today.

Do BBC have a habit of announcing bookings for festivals other than Glastonbury (and BBC stuff like the big weekend)?

[DJ Cull]

Damm, the National at Latitude are a UK festival exclusive

[zero000]

Well I was completely wrong!

The Radiohead dream lives on!

[DJ Cull]

Does New Order headlining Latitude affect  their chances of Glasto Other stage?

[FloorFiller]

1 minute ago, DJ Cull said:

Does New Order headlining Latitude affect  their chances of Glasto Other stage?

Nah not at all - shared Alt-J last year 

[Woffy]

No UK festivals for Radiohead was the rumour wasn't it?

[DJ Cull]

Just now, Woffy said:

No UK festivals for Radiohead was the rumour wasn't it?

Except Glasto

[FloorFiller]

1 minute ago, Woffy said:

No UK festivals for Radiohead was the rumour wasn't it?

From one source. The other said they're playing. Although yeah, the first source is almost definitely correct unless it's outdated and something has happened late on

[Woffy]

16 minutes ago, DJ Cull said:

Except Glasto

Heh.

 

Edited March 3, 2016 by Woffy
Saw Neil's response on the RH thread

[FloorFiller]

3 minutes ago, thatcrazypenguin said:

I still reckon these supposed sources are just designed to keep the debate going and traffic to the site, if anybody in the know so much as let slip such a closely guarded thing as the glasto headliner they'd have to be in a position to know the info, and people who know the info and leak it would most likely be putting their jobs on the line....whod take that risk just for the sake of informing the efests community and there admins? Just using simple logic here. 

More then likly...noone has a bloody clue but we can all have fun guessing again eh?

And yet The Daily Mail were reporting Muse, Adele and Coldplay as the headliners months ago, and stuff about the headliners and acts leaks every single year. It's not as if one single person knows the headliners and so can be pointed out and fired when they leak. I'm not sure how it all works but clearly there are people in the know willing to dish out the information to certain people

[eFestivals]

10 minutes ago, Woffy said:

Heh.

@eFestivals Neil, any response from your mystery RH source yet?

As I've just posted in the RH thread, nope.

But I do hope - just hope - to have an update next week. I might hear nothing.

[Woffy]

2 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

As I've just posted in the RH thread, nope.

But I do hope - just hope - to have an update next week. I might hear nothing.

Yep. Just realised and was editing my post as you posted.

Thanks. 

[eFestivals]

1 minute ago, FloorFiller said:

And yet The Daily Mail were reporting Muse, Adele and Coldplay as the headliners months ago, and stuff about the headliners and acts leaks every single year. It's not as if one single person knows the headliners and so can be pointed out and fired when they leak. I'm not sure how it all works but clearly there are people in the know willing to dish out the information to certain people

the stuff from months ago that the Mail got wind of (just as I did) was what bands were being told Glastonbury were looking to do - but not necessarily what's going to actually happen.

We know that Adele was dithering to some extent, but what no one seems to know with certainty is which way that dithering has gone.

Everything I've heard recently has strongly suggested that Adele has since signed up to headline and that's very probably right, but I wouldn't bet my kid's life on it.

[Woffy]

3 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

 

We know that Adele was dithering to some extent, but what no one seems to know with certainty is which way that dithering has gone.

Everything I've heard recently has strongly suggested that Adele has since signed up to headline and that's very probably right, but I wouldn't bet my kid's life on it.

D'you reckon that was as recently as just after her tour opener gig...which apparently went well?

[paulmuchmore]

Not the festival, but Van Morrison announced as the headliner for the Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza.

Does that rule him out of appearing at the festival?

[Gnomicide]

Far from certain on this but didn't Robert Plant do both in one year?

[Winslow Leach]

11 hours ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

Never heard of this "Grandaddy" before. Should I listen?

You'll recognise AM 180.

[FloorFiller]

Wasn't Van Morrison supposedly playing last year but it didn't end up happening (and if memory serves me, Burt Bacharach was drafted in late to possibly fill his vacant slot?). Maybe he's agreed to do this year instead 

[eFestivals]

14 minutes ago, Woffy said:

D'you reckon that was as recently as just after her tour opener gig...which apparently went well?

I don't have anything solid to indicate either way, tho I lean towards her having signed up for Glasto before she started her tour.

[LeeGalvin]

47 minutes ago, DJ Cull said:

Damm, the National at Latitude are a UK festival exclusive

Oh no, really?

I'm starting to think that there'll be no act I want to see at this year's Glasto. 72 hour rave in the SE corner it is then!

[Matt42]

I think the whole "dithering thing" acts do with Glastonbury is they probably get a lot of acts verbally agreeing they will do it - but it takes a while for things to get penned

i refuse to believe the stones only decided to do it the morning of the announcement in 2013. I reckon they had a 'yes' for a very long time - it would be so risky to wait that long on a headliner.

if Adele was indecisive she probably said yes a while ago - but things weren't all booked up until more recently. I refuse to believe Glastonbury waits that long for acts. It's surely suicide if an act they chase for months says no

[FloorFiller]

Well The Who were clearly booked pretty last minute last year so it seems they held out for a long time in the hope that Prince would say yes. If a huge act like the Stones, Adele or Prince makes you wait then I definitely think you'll wait in the hope that the final answer will be yes, which I imagine more often than not it is

[JoBalls]

The Maccabees, The National and New Order headlining Latitude. 

The National are exclusive as someone has said above... Could we get the Maccabees pop up somewhere? 

[SwedgeAntilles]

3 minutes ago, JoBalls said:

The Maccabees, The National and New Order headlining Latitude. 

The National are exclusive as someone has said above... Could we get the Maccabees pop up somewhere? 

Maccabees had a decent slot last year so doubt they'll be back so soon.