Radiohead touring in 2016

[theouterlimits]

7 minutes ago, ghostdancer1 said:

billed as "headliner" or "special guest" will make little difference. there'll still be massive hype and a massive crowd for her.

Also hard to see what her motivation would be for doing that. If she's going to be playing a gig that is out of her comfort zone, the trade-off for that is all the benefits that come with huge publicity. 

[tigger123]

21 minutes ago, ghostdancer1 said:

billed as "headliner" or "special guest" will make little difference. there'll still be massive hype and a massive crowd for her.

There may still be hype but if she wasn't announced until she walked out on stage that would still help suppress some of the hype as although a lot of people would think it highly likely to be her, it wouldnt actually be confirmed and set in stone so would still leave some to debate whether or not it was her

[tigger123]

14 minutes ago, theouterlimits said:

Also hard to see what her motivation would be for doing that. If she's going to be playing a gig that is out of her comfort zone, the trade-off for that is all the benefits that come with huge publicity. 

The motivation is she would get all the publicity after the gig, and therefore all the benefit of publicity with none of the pressure given she would have already played. Take Lionel Richie, he didnt see a huge rise in album sales until after his set, Adele would still benefit from a similar effect (assuming everyone laps up her performance which Im sure they would) with increased album sales and therefore more money in the bank. I'm sure she would prefer the financial consequences over a load of journos and people on the internet hyping her up before the show

[Mash011]

We just gonna ignore the Emily Eavis interview where she specifically rules out having 'special guests' in high up slots this year?

[Gucci Piggy]

5 minutes ago, Mash011 said:

We just gonna ignore the Emily Eavis interview where she specifically rules out having 'special guests' in high up slots this year?

Not if they offer a possible way for us to fit Radiohead in, obviously.

[stuartbert two hats]

On 25/02/2016 at 9:56 PM, priest17 said:

9 minutes ago, Mash011 said:

We just gonna ignore the Emily Eavis interview where she specifically rules out having 'special guests' in high up slots this year?

 

Well, we've decided to ignore the fact that she said "three bands", so why not?

[Mash011]

4 minutes ago, Will-2609 said:

Not if they offer a possible way for us to fit Radiohead in, obviously.

True, Adele isn't playing tbh

[Gucci Piggy]

2 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Well, we've decided to ignore the fact that she said "three bands", so why not?

Bands and solo artists are the same thing now, you know that.

[stuartbert two hats]

5 minutes ago, Will-2609 said:

Bands and solo artists are the same thing now, you know that.

Don't rub it in!

[theouterlimits]

15 minutes ago, tigger123 said:

The motivation is she would get all the publicity after the gig, and therefore all the benefit of publicity with none of the pressure given she would have already played. Take Lionel Richie, he didnt see a huge rise in album sales until after his set, Adele would still benefit from a similar effect (assuming everyone laps up her performance which Im sure they would) with increased album sales and therefore more money in the bank. I'm sure she would prefer the financial consequences over a load of journos and people on the internet hyping her up before the show

I'm afraid this sounds rather like wishful thinking. If it is true that Adele is nervous of big crowds etc, then it's hard to see why she would be playing Glastonbury at all unless there is a pretty big up-side. Anything other than an offer of a headline performance would surely be rejected by her team out of hand for exactly this reason. The scenario you describe involves Adele chasing short term sales at perhaps the expense of doing something which would continue to cement her legacy (headlining). I can't think of a single decision Team Adele has made on her current album campaign in that vein.

[jparx]

Here's a question: if you get paid a headline fee, are given a headline length slot, are billed as a headliner and draw a headline size crowd, does it matter if you play last on the Pyramid stage or not?

I'm not insinuating anything, just curious on opinions. It would obviously be exceptional circumstances to warrant this. I just think after Dolly and particularly Lionel (who drew the biggest crowd of the weekend), we could be entering an era where headliners don't necessarily have to close the day. If an act plays for 90 minutes at 3pm on the Saturday live on the BBC, will they be bothered that they aren't the last act to play on that day if they are paid and billed as a headliner? Some acts may just suit playing different times. Lionel proved over crowding isn't too much of an issue.

[addicted2noise]

3 hours ago, rivalschools.price said:

Have the people saying that Radiohead, Muse and Coldplay sound similar got any ears?

I'd say Yellow sounds a bit like the outro to Fake Plastic Trees and Thom Yorke and Matt Bellamy had very similar Jeff Buckley influenced vocals but nowadays they're less similar. 

[stuartbert two hats]

6 minutes ago, addicted2noise said:

I'd say Yellow sounds a bit like the outro to Fake Plastic Trees and Thom Yorke and Matt Bellamy had very similar Jeff Buckley influenced vocals but nowadays they're less similar. 

Downvoted that? Seems reasonable to me. The bands are not similar, but at one point started in a similar musical place, at least compared to today.

[jonodillieono]

C'mon guys, Coldplay's entire career is based off High and Dry

[incident]

18 hours ago, jparx said:

Here's a question: if you get paid a headline fee, are given a headline length slot, are billed as a headliner and draw a headline size crowd, does it matter if you play last on the Pyramid stage or not?

It only matters if the artist thinks it does.

10-15 years ago the concept wouldn't have seemed anywhere near as alien to most people, dunno if it's ever happened on the Pyramid Stage but the headliner playing second to last has certainly been done before at other events. It didn't even used to be considered unusual.

[scaryclaireyfairy]

For me, if the sub was playing the majority of their set once it's dark, they'd be mentally interchangeable.with the headliner.  All the pesky licence stuff and the festival being so close to the solstice has nobbled that for Glasto.

[fatyeti24]

bless you lot and this thread.  you don't half make me giggle!

[jparx]

4 minutes ago, fatyeti24 said:

bless you lot and this thread.  you don't half make me giggle!

We'll be the ones laughing when Adele subs Radiohead! 

[eFestivals]

I've just been doing a bit of digging around on matey who sent me the RH info, and have discovered that not only has he given me accurate RH info before, he's also given me accurate info on several oter bands too.

And everything I've found (which isn't everything hes told me) has been 100% spot on - which doesn't happen by guessing when some of what he's said hasn't even been for bands that were rumoured at the point he told me.

 

[stocky3000]

1 minute ago, eFestivals said:

I've just been doing a bit of digging around on matey who sent me the RH info, and have discovered that not only has he given me accurate RH info before, he's also given me accurate info on several oter bands too.

And everything I've found (which isn't everything hes told me) has been 100% spot on - which doesn't happen by guessing when some of what he's said hasn't even been for bands that were rumoured at the point he told me.

 

*Frantically finds straws to clutch*

[eFestivals]

Just now, stocky3000 said:

*Frantically finds straws to clutch*

I'd been pretty confident in what he's told me about RH for this year before I found that other stuff (which I'd forgotten he'd sent me).

So I don't reckon any straws of clutching is necessary.

 

[scaryclaireyfairy]

4 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

I've just been doing a bit of digging around on matey who sent me the RH info, and have discovered that not only has he given me accurate RH info before, he's also given me accurate info on several oter bands too.

And everything I've found (which isn't everything hes told me) has been 100% spot on - which doesn't happen by guessing when some of what he's said hasn't even been for bands that were rumoured at the point he told me.

 

Ohhh....

[gluther]

4 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

I've just been doing a bit of digging around on matey who sent me the RH info, and have discovered that not only has he given me accurate RH info before, he's also given me accurate info on several oter bands too.

And everything I've found (which isn't everything hes told me) has been 100% spot on - which doesn't happen by guessing when some of what he's said hasn't even been for bands that were rumoured at the point he told me.

 

I don't suppose that includes other bands for this year?

[Mezhyp1]

1 minute ago, eFestivals said:

I'd been pretty confident in what he's told me about RH for this year before I found that other stuff (which I'd forgotten he'd sent me).

So I don't reckon any straws of clutching is necessary.

 

So we can now consider you very confident that Radiohead are going to be there? *waits patiently for reply*

[eFestivals]

Just now, gluther said:

I don't suppose that includes other bands for this year?

nope. Only thing he's told me for this year is RH, and that they're 'playing' tho not necessarily headlining.