Friday opener?

[Amy Lawn]

Or Sunderland. We know that Lauren Laverne will be at the festival, so obviously it has to be the return of Kenickie. Flawless logic.

Yes! Shut the thread, we've got it

[Padgey]

Even when the next announcement is made am I right in thinking we won't find out who the opener is? Last year didn't they get announced a couple of days before?

[El Matador]

Even when the next announcement is made am I right in thinking we won't find out who the opener is? Last year didn't they get announced a couple of days before?

They didn't get announced at all. With beady eye it was in the papers on the Wednesday of the festival. As fas as I know, there were no leaks that it would be kaiser Chiefs playing that slot last year, hence the sea of disappointed faces when they took to the stage.

[Padgey]

I must've heard it on site on Wednesday or Thursday then as I did know they were opening by the Friday.

[Dora]

I heard it on here on the Thursday

[Amy Lawn]

I didn't know it was Beady Eye until the banner went up and I was stuck front and centre against the barrier.

[fatyeti24]

I didn't know it was Beady Eye until the banner went up and I was stuck front and centre against the barrier.

did you feign illness so that security would come and rescue you?

[Mardy]

Hehe that was like me at the Park for the radiohead gig. I thought it might have bern Pulp, so went up there. As soon as it clicked that it was those tuneless miserable bastards, i was fighting my way out of there against a tide of people flooding in.

[Perks]

Yeah doubt it's James, they've said a few times they haven't been asked to play, shame coz they'd rock it. Charlatans are a good shout. Really think it could be them..

[Amy Lawn]

did you feign illness so that security would come and rescue you?

I'd made my bed, I had to lie in it. After discovering I couldn't escape, I stared Gallagher squarely in the eye all the way through the show, with an unspoken yet clear message of "you're a nob mate, and you're shit".

[ghandi]

Hehe that was like me at the Park for the radiohead gig. I thought it might have bern Pulp, so went up there. As soon as it clicked that it was those tuneless miserable bastards, i was fighting my way out of there against a tide of people flooding in.

Heretic

[fatyeti24]

I'd made my bed, I had to lie in it. After discovering I couldn't escape, I stared Gallagher squarely in the eye all the way through the show, with an unspoken yet clear message of "you're a nob mate, and you're shit".

you took one for the forces of light and good. respect.

[Mardy]

Yeah doubt it's James, they've said a few times they haven't been asked to play, shame coz they'd rock it. Charlatans are a good shout. Really think it could be them..

Nah. Not secret openers

[fatyeti24]

Nah. Not secret openers

not announcing the Charlatans in advance could surely only work in their favour.

[thewayiam]

not announcing the Charlatans in advance could surely only work in their favour.

If they aren't on the poster that should come this week, they have as good a chance as anyone but I think they will be.

[Perks]

not announcing the Charlatans in advance could surely only work in their favour.

Yeah that's my thinking, they've said they're playing, then deleted the tweets. Just seems strange they weren't announced on the poster.

[blackdog]

Elton John throwing out a few 70s classics would be a great way to start the party but id guess noel!

[Matt42]

Gonna blindly walk into this one unless it gets leaked.

Knowing that kaiser Chiefs and beady eye have done it in the past I have less excitement for who it could be this year..:

[morph100]

James Bay? Not on the poster yet....

[Amy Lawn]

Elton John throwing out a few 70s classics would be a great way to start the party but id guess noel!

Can take or leave Elton for the most part, but when The Circle Of Life drops, that's me done forever, arms in the air, bellowing along and weeping.

[Untz]

Can take or leave Elton for the most part, but when The Circle Of Life drops, that's me done forever, arms in the air, bellowing along and weeping.

Never mind that, Can You Feel the Love Tonight would create a right mess if he ever played and sang that on a Sunday night with everyone feeling a little fragile. Followed up with something like Candle in the Wind and I would fear for people's lives.

[incident]

But the Kaisers were a last minute replacement, it was meant to be Lorde, who played Brixton Academy the month before.

I thought that story is bollocks?

[Wanderlei]

Motorhead to open on Friday! :-)

[oneeye]

Feeder

[parsonjack]

Lulu?