Headliners 2016

[PiratePete]

1 hour ago, eFestivals said:

I doubt it.

Tho I reckon it'll be marked (as it always is) by demands for an international men's day.

No need - the other 365 days of this year belong to us. 

[FakeEmpire]

And International Men's Day is on 19th November.

[fatyeti24]

1 hour ago, russycarps said:

I'm sure I was at faithless's last ever gig in 2010. 

 

Couldn't you have made sure? Maybe taken a gun or something? 

[Helephantelope]

I see Carole King is doing BST on 3rd July, anyone think she'll be at Glastonbury too?

[Woffy]

12 minutes ago, Helephantelope said:

I see Carole King is doing BST on 3rd July, anyone think she'll be at Glastonbury too?

Glastonbury Festival International Old Folks Weekender, 22 to 26 June 2016.

[gerardfenton18]

wishful thinking i know ,although everyone and there granny are dead set that it's adele for the saturday slot,

how often if at all does glastonbury throw a complete curve ball that no1 else has seen coming?

 

[jonodillieono]

10 minutes ago, gerardfenton18 said:

wishful thinking i know ,although everyone and there granny are dead set that it's adele for the saturday slot,

how often if at all does glastonbury throw a complete curve ball that no1 else has seen coming?

 

The Who was a bit of a shock when Neil dropped that bomb

[Wooderson]

1 hour ago, Woffy said:

Glastonbury Festival International Old Folks Weekender, 22 to 26 June 2016.

What year in the fest's history did it turn? I mean turn from a fest that inspired the young, to one that coddled the old.

[Amos Trask]

5 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

What year in the fest's history did it turn? I mean turn from a fest that inspired the young, to one that coddled the old.

The year they booked McCartney imo.

The realisation that a headline booking could generate a huge spike of income on and off site.

[The Nal]

Rod Stewart in 2002 had the teenyboppers burning their Backstreet Boys tshirts and smashing open the piggy banks rustling around for Glasto ticket money.

[stuartbert two hats]

3 minutes ago, Amos Trask said:

The year they booked McCartney imo.

The realisation that a headline booking could generate a huge spike of income on and off site.

So just after the super fence, almost.

[russycarps]

12 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

What year in the fest's history did it turn? I mean turn from a fest that inspired the young, to one that coddled the old.

2002

[Mardy]

That Bowie set being televised in 2000 was the first time my folks and their friends had seen/watched/shown any interest in it. Combination of it being on tv and a massive mainstream artist they'd heard of. Remember it very vividly, even now.

[CaledonianGonzo]

It's always had a mixed age range of performers. All through the 1980s Van Morrison was hardly at the bleeding edge of the teenage zeitgeist.

[DJ Cull]

Another day of no news is slowly slipping by

[Wooderson]

I reckon its when a shower of do-gooders from a certain website went all Midge Ure and started playing footie in front of the Pyramid. End times.

Edited March 8, 2016 by Wooderson

[Rose-Colored Boy]

2 hours ago, Helephantelope said:

I see Carole King is doing BST on 3rd July, anyone think she'll be at Glastonbury too?

They're selling it as a world exclusive, although I guess that could be referring to her performing Tapestry in full rather than her performing at all

[ian the worm]

On 3/1/2016 at 1:21 PM, wozwebs said:

Peace did a wedding band set in the Rabbit Hole which I missed but my friend said was superb. Did covers of Power of Love by Huey Lewis and the News and Song 2 by Blur amongst many.

This reminded me that I had these..............

Backstage before they went on.....

 

 

 

[justperfect]

Mrs Perfect went to see Adele on her first date in Manchester last night.

She said she absolutely nailed it and would suprise many people how upbeat a performance she would put on if she headlined the pyramid 

Just passing on feedback 

 

As you were

Edited March 8, 2016 by justperfect

[arcade fireman]

I get the impression Adele would do very well amongst people who have chosen to pay and see her (particularly among those who've paid the obscene secondary ticket prices), but I still can't see how she'd impress those of us who find her music boring, boring, boring. 

Popularity wise she is well worth a Pyramid spot though. 

[Wooderson]

The "flare guy" is gonna be like hmmmm for most of Adele.

[FloorFiller]

9 minutes ago, arcade fireman said:

I get the impression Adele would do very well amongst people who have chosen to pay and see her (particularly among those who've paid the obscene secondary ticket prices), but I still can't see how she'd impress those of us who find her music boring, boring, boring. 

Popularity wise she is well worth a Pyramid spot though. 

i know a lot of people like to go check out Pyramid headliners just to see what all the fuss is about, but if anybody's aware of what Adele does and finds it 'boring, boring, boring' yet still chooses to go and see her then they've only got themselves to blame for the inevitable outcome. it's a lot of big piano ballads with a couple of not-so-ballads thrown in to the mix. i hope i get to see just a little bit of it at least as, although i'm a fan and could easily stay for the majority, i'm interested to see what the crowd is like. has there ever been a headliner as downbeat as her before?

[Gucci Piggy]

Based just on the two Saturday headliners we think we know so far my plan is to watch New Order and if they are naff live like many on here have suggested I may head over to the end of Adele just to check her out. I think most of the big hitters are at the end of her setlists aren't they? I'm not an Adele fan but I don't actively dislike her and would be interested to see how it goes.

Obviously if anything I like gets announced for the lower stages I'll be elsewhere, but it's nice to have a plan in place just in case.

On Sunday so far I have nothing. I'd have checked Coldplay out if it was their 2011 setlist but what they play now just looks disgusting.

[Woffy]

She - DelGirl - sings very poorly in a low register.

Much happier having a good shriek avec warble.

Which is a bit X Factor.

She's gonna go down a storm on the Saturday.

[Woffy]

28 minutes ago, Will-2609 said:

Based just on the two Saturday headliners we think we know so far my plan is to watch New Order and if they are naff live like many on here have suggested I may head over to the end of Adele just to check her out. I think most of the big hitters are at the end of her setlists aren't they? I'm not an Adele fan but I don't actively dislike her and would be interested to see how it goes.

Obviously if anything I like gets announced for the lower stages I'll be elsewhere, but it's nice to have a plan in place just in case.

On Sunday so far I have nothing. I'd have checked Coldplay out if it was their 2011 setlist but what they play now just looks disgusting.

Biggest LOL of a shite day, William!

"...what they [Coldplay] play now just looks disgusting"

Brilliant.

Coldplay > Adele