Headliners 2016

[Gnomicide]

3 minutes ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

Never a truer word spoken

Nods (really fast and for ages)

[willd255]

Regardless of whether you like her or not Adele is a huge booking, she's the biggest artist in the world and deserves her place. It's the Coldplay/Muse bookings that are uninspired 

[mufcok]

3 minutes ago, willd255 said:

Regardless of whether you like her or not Adele is a huge booking, she's the biggest artist in the world and deserves her place. It's the Coldplay/Muse bookings that are uninspired 

Bang on

[Guest]

Slayer are right shite, but there's something about getting absolutely bladdered and going mental to them up the Park while Adele is on the Pyramid (shit news to wake up to this morning btw) that really really appeals to me.

[home to you]

We need to bump the Park thread sharpish

[Wooderson]

The mass capitulation to the "biggest artist in the world" fallacy is crazy. She's sold a tonne of albums. And? Since when does that mean that's great for the Sat night headliner? Don't remember hordes of people clamouring for her to play over past while. 

Accepting that this is the natural route the festival should take isn't me. Soz.

[Guest]

Is anyone going to actually watch Adele?

[The Nal]

3 minutes ago, eastynh said:

Is anyone going to actually watch Adele?

Not a whole lot of people on here it seems but the field will be rammed. As it will be for Coldplay.

Id rather be in the longdrops for the duration but cant deny its a massive massive booking. 

The mass capitulation to the "biggest artist in the world" fallacy is crazy. She's sold a tonne of albums. And? Since when does that mean that's great for the Sat night headliner?

She sold out a world tour in minutes and her shows have been getting rave reviews. Shes the biggest touring act in the world at the moment. 

Edited March 19, 2016 by The Nal

[CaledonianGonzo]

2 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

The mass capitulation to the "biggest artist in the world" fallacy is crazy. She's sold a tonne of albums. And? Since when does that mean that's great for the Sat night headliner? Don't remember hordes of people clamouring for her to play over past while. 

Accepting that this is the natural route the festival should take isn't me. Soz.

Though inverse also applies. It shouldn't be a barrier to her playing. 

[Wooderson]

The more years it carries on that we have the "huge but awful" bookings at the top of the bill the fest is losing something.

[Gucci Piggy]

1 minute ago, Wooderson said:

The more years it carries on that we have the "huge but awful" bookings at the top of the bill the fest is losing something.

Yeah they should never have booked U2.

[willd255]

Surely the beauty about Glastonbury is there's a million things on at once? Go enjoy one of them and stop complaining. It's a great booking. 

[willd255]

5 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

The more years it carries on that we have the "huge but awful" bookings at the top of the bill the fest is losing something.

Out of interest, bar Radiohead, who would have been a better, realistic booking?

[Wooderson]

3 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Though inverse also applies. It shouldn't be a barrier to her playing. 

If Back Street Boys or Celine Dion had been announced in the mid 1990's would you have defended them/her? Maybe I've got this "great music in a field thang" all wrong Cally mate.

Would the same smug comments be trotted out... "Huge booking, undeniable, 80k, packed field, Glasto showing their commercial strength, the kids love it... Shite tho, I'll be nowhere near it."

?

Im not against "pop" btw. Not against Adele. Find her charming and endearing, with a clear love for the festival. She'll be miles better than that cretin West last year. Nor am I arguing she shouldn't play.

Im as offended by the "great booking, fucked if I'll be there tho" commentary as I am with the sales = justification angle.

[Wooderson]

1 minute ago, willd255 said:

Out of interest, bar Radiohead, who would have been a better, realistic booking?

I've done this a couple weeks ago already, the pitiful bias inherent in your query notwithstanding.

[Mardy]

I've been having a ponder this afternoon, and I reckon the problem for me is not the bookings for headlining the Pyramid, they'd be daft not to snap her up if she's interested, it's more that lots and lots of the other main stages (Other, WH, Park) also seem to be in this arms race for popularity/household names.

Fine, put Adele/Coldplay on the pyramid, but put a real alternative on at the JP or even the Other. I really don't think a group of mid 50s with their biggest hits 30 years behind them are really an alternative to Adele. 

 

Sure put the mainstrema on the Pyramid, but be more adventurous on the other stages.It's not all about the ratings

Edited March 19, 2016 by Mardy

[fatyeti24]

11 minutes ago, Will-2609 said:

Yeah they should never have booked U2.

Or Blur. 

[Andeeroo]

7 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

Would the same smug comments be trotted out... "Huge booking, undeniable, 80k, packed field, Glasto showing their commercial strength, the kids love it... Shite tho, I'll be nowhere near it."

And trotting out the 'music for real music fans' bullshit isn't smug?

[Wooderson]

5 minutes ago, Andeeroo said:

And trotting out the 'music for real music fans' bullshit isn't smug?

At least quote me correctly if you're going to frame what I said as "bullshit".

[Guest]

WHERE ARE THE SWEDISH STAGE GREASERS!?

[Guest]

15 minutes ago, Mardy said:

I've been having a ponder this afternoon, and I reckon the problem for me is not the bookings for headlining the Pyramid, they'd be daft not to snap her up if she's interested, it's more that lots and lots of the other main stages (Other, WH, Park) also seem to be in this arms race for popularity/household names.

Fine, put Adele/Coldplay on the pyramid, but put a real alternative on at the JP or even the Other. I really don't think a group of mid 50s with their biggest hits 30 years behind them are really an alternative to Adele. 

 

Sure put the mainstrema on the Pyramid, but be more adventurous on the other stages.It's not all about the ratings

I think New Order is the perfect alternative to Adele. 

On one hand you have the current biggest artist about now, with a load of pleasant enough if somewhat bland tunes headlining Pyramid. Then on the other you have the electro pop legends with a spanking new album, which will appeal to dance heads and indie kids alike. New Order have tweaked the hits just enough to not piss off the purists, while giving them enough grunt for the kids to have a right good boogie.

It is the perfect combination really imo.

Edited March 19, 2016 by Guest

[CaledonianGonzo]

15 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

If Back Street Boys or Celine Dion had been announced in the mid 1990's would you have defended them/her? Maybe I've got this "great music in a field thang" all wrong Cally mate..

I don't think that comparison really bears up to much scrutiny. Truth told,  I dunno if there are many past equivalents here. She's already an archetype, her own thing. You can recognise her in silhouette. 

The closest I can come to - having discounted everyone from Peggy Lee to Joe Cocker - is a hypothetical situation where Amy Winehouse didn't die and came back with a blockbuster album post Back To Black. Would you begrudge that a headlining slot?

[shoptildrop]

6 minutes ago, eastynh said:

I think New Order is the perfect alternative to Adele. 

On one hand you have the current biggest artist about now, with a load of pleasant enough if somewhat bland tunes headlining Pyramid. Then on the other you have the electro pop legends with a spanking new album, which will appeal to dance heads and indie kids alike. New Order have tweaked the hits just enough to not piss off the purists, while giving them enough grunt for the kids to have a right good boogie.

It is the perfect combination really imo.

Couldn't agree more as Adele playing pyramid has meant one less clash as we want to be at New order, given we don't know who's going to be playing Park, JP and WH plus all the smaller stages I think there will be enough to go around

Edited March 19, 2016 by shoptildrop

[dentalplan]

30 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

The more years it carries on that we have the "huge but awful" bookings at the top of the bill the fest is losing something.

You were one of the peeps that said the festival was dying and needed rescuing a couple of years back because there was no marquee name and relatively smallfry Arcade Fire and Kasabian headlining.

You've also put your weight behind the idea of Madonna headlining a bunch of times, IIRC.

Luv yer Wooderson, but you wheel out some right hypocritical nonsense when you're not happy with a headliner.

[CaledonianGonzo]

18 minutes ago, Mardy said:

Fine, put Adele/Coldplay on the pyramid, but put a real alternative on at the JP or even the Other. I really don't think a group of mid 50s with their biggest hits 30 years behind them are really an alternative to Adele. 

Yeah. It's a weak booking in its own right, but as an alternative to Adele it's lousy.