Sunday Legend 2016

[Mezhyp1]

I can imagine little worse than watching an hour of Barry Manilow, my interest in the legend slot is very little anyway, but would have liked a better act than that for the people who love it 

[CaledonianGonzo]

I'm no #Fanilow but I'm happy enough to hoist my flag to the mast of #TeamWrongBazza

[LeeGalvin]

If it's Manilow, 2016 is shaping up to be Year Shit. Hardly any of the rumours are doing anything for me. I'll be spending the festival working my way around the food stalls, methinks...

[CaledonianGonzo]

It's a solid booking for the slot. Obviously no one owns any of his albums, but he's a big name in post-war old-school entertainment.

[Brave Sir Robin]

If it is Manilow, he may be surprised by how much the crowd like "Oh Mandy".

[Billy Corgan's Ego]

3 minutes ago, LeeGalvin said:

If it's Manilow, 2016 is shaping up to be Year Shit. Hardly any of the rumours are doing anything for me. I'll be spending the festival working my way around the food stalls, methinks...

Agree completely.

If all the rumours are true, my ticket is in danger of being sold!.

Not one serious rumour is anything but awful for me thus far.

[CaledonianGonzo]

You can't blame #WrongBazza for #WrongMuse.

[A Guy Called Matt]

I have nothing to base it on apart from a gut feeling.........

 

but, Kylie would fit most of the little that has been said.

[LeeGalvin]

Can we all just stop naming shit musicians, please?

[CaledonianGonzo]

The upside would be 100,00 people all dressed up as Mrs Mangel.

[eFestivals]

15 minutes ago, The Nal said:

100%. And has always been since his tour was announced. 

60 minutes of this complete shit.

 

idjuts will lap up this shite just as they lapped up Dolly and Lionel. Any Beyonce. And a million other things.

 

[Hugh Jass]

10 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

The upside would be 100,00 people all dressed up as Mrs Mangel.

I'd go as Bouncer.

[Brave Sir Robin]

Surely Emily couldn't have been referring to him when she said the Sunday act was "a major coup for us" who no-one "has rumoured or guessed"?

[Untz]

16 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

You can't blame #WrongBazza for #WrongMuse.

You say that as if there is a #RightMuse.

[Mezhyp1]

20 minutes ago, Billy Corgan's Ego said:

Agree completely.

If all the rumours are true, my ticket is in danger of being sold!.

Not one serious rumour is anything but awful for me thus far.

Do the pyramid headliners, other headliners and legend slot really make or break your festival? It's not really what it's all about, if so your ticket is better off back in the pot 

[CaledonianGonzo]

That's Radiohead, innit.

You say that as if there is a #RightMuse.

Edited December 1, 2015 by CaledonianGonzo

[stuartbert two hats]

For no particular reason, I've started to become convinced it's Billy Joel.  I'm not a fan, I only know 2 of his songs..

[CaledonianGonzo]

I was recently reading a reappraisal of An Innocent Man somewhere or other which seemed to indicate that it's actually quite good.

Never heard it, mind.

[stuartbert two hats]

24 minutes ago, Billy Corgan's Ego said:

Agree completely.

If all the rumours are true, my ticket is in danger of being sold!.

Not one serious rumour is anything but awful for me thus far.

 

3 minutes ago, Mezhyp1 said:

Do the pyramid headliners, other headliners and legend slot really make or break your festival? It's not really what it's all about, if so your ticket is better off back in the pot 

@Billy Corgan's Ego It's a cliché, but true - the undercard is where it's at.  Things always look particularly grim around this time, as you only tend to hear rumour about the more mainstream (I.e. shit) acts at this time of year. 

In years gone by, I've got into acts like Battles and Jon Hopkins simply because they were playing and were mentioned on here.  There is no way that smaller, quality acts like that will be discussed for at least a couple of months.  The good stuff is coming, just sit tight and it will appear, honest.

There are lots and lots of bands who end up playing, so far we've not had enough serious rumours to fill a single stage for a single day.  There will be loads of music and there will be plenty of great bands in there.

[stuartbert two hats]

2 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

I was recently reading a reappraisal of An Innocent Man somewhere or other which seemed to indicate that it's actually quite good.

Never heard it, mind.

Right, my job for today is to become a Billy Joel fan so I can get disappointed when the legend is announced. Either that or find out I hate him, so I get disappointed when it turns out I was right (which is unlikely).

Ah, sweet disappointment beckons!

[Mezhyp1]

5 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

 

@Billy Corgan's Ego It's a cliché, but true - the undercard is where it's at.  Things always look particularly grim around this time, as you only tend to hear rumour about the more mainstream (I.e. shit) acts at this time of year. 

In years gone by, I've got into acts like Battles and Jon Hopkins simply because they were playing and were mentioned on here.  There is no way that smaller, quality acts like that will be discussed for at least a couple of months.  The good stuff is coming, just sit tight and it will appear, honest.

There are lots and lots of bands who end up playing, so far we've not had enough serious rumours to fill a single stage for a single day.  There will be loads of music and there will be plenty of great bands in there.

Nail on the head 2 hats, at the end of the day, you're only going to watch 3 headliners really, and quite a lot more undercard performances, there's going to be plenty of interest going on there, if there isn't, eat food, and dance the night away

[CaledonianGonzo]

5 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Right, my job for today is to become a Billy Joel fan so I can get disappointed when the legend is announced. Either that or find out I hate him, so I get disappointed when it turns out I was right (which is unlikely).

Ah, sweet disappointment beckons!

Just be careful when googling Storm Front if you're at work.

[gluther]

19 minutes ago, Mezhyp1 said:

Do the pyramid headliners, other headliners and legend slot really make or break your festival? It's not really what it's all about, if so your ticket is better off back in the pot 

It's that time of year where people seem to forget that there are hundreds of other stages and complain about the parts they'd only see if it was Radiohead/Prince etc.

[mrtourette]

While it's probably true, it's not really anyone's place to be telling someone that they don't deserve to go and that their ticket should go 'back in the pot'. I thought diversity and acceptance were supposed to be the order of the day, someone who only listens to Radio One and is mainly interested in the headliners has just as much right to be there whether it's 'really what it's all about' or not. Their ticket sales probably keep the festival going and enable it it put on all the alternative stuff.

[TheSilence]

43 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

idjuts will lap up this shite just as they lapped up Dolly and Lionel. Any Beyonce. And a million other things.

 

Calling people idiots for enjoying pop music like Lionel and Dolly Parton is embarrassingly snobby and pretty rude.