Headliner predictions 2017

[Gucci Piggy]

1 minute ago, The Orgazoid said:

Foo Fighters are bigger than The Who? Have a word with yourself. 

Foo Fighters sold out two Wembley Stadium shows in an instant in 2015, I'm sure, and will get a bigger crowd than The Who got at Glasto that year.

I'd say, in 2017, Foo Fighters are certainly a bigger band than The Who.

[eastynh]

I am positive there is another dimension where Hot Chip headline the Pyramid, Depeche Mode play Uk festivals and Thom Yorke comes across as a happy chappie.

What have I done to deserve ending up here, where all the headliners are about as exciting as cold porridge? We really are in the decade of instantly forgetable beige and neutral.

Edited December 16, 2016 by eastynh

[addicted2noise]

1 hour ago, Zac Quinn said:

By this logic Muse are a solo act and Beyonce is a choir. Whether someone is a solo act or a group is and always has been - with the exception of weird ambiguities like Florence and the Machine - defined by how many people are in the spotlight on stage. Come on now

The thing is Beyonce is a performer while Ed Sheeran is presented as a singer-songwriter who needs help writing songs, its one step off busking.

Edited December 16, 2016 by addicted2noise

[eastynh]

2 minutes ago, Will-2609 said:

Foo Fighters sold out two Wembley Stadium shows in an instant in 2015, I'm sure, and will get a bigger crowd than The Who got at Glasto that year.

I'd say, in 2017, Foo Fighters are certainly a bigger band than The Who.

Bigger than Depeche Mode??

[FuzzyDunlop]

28 minutes ago, russycarps said:

It matters in so far as it's ace when your favourite band of the weekend is headlining the sunday, as it gives you something to look forward too all weekend, and no matter how good a time you are having, you know something even better is still to come. 

For this reason, I really hope flaming lips are headlining on the sunday somewhere (if they play)

 

Agreed. I wanted Radiohead last for that reason in a perfect world.

Flaming Lips would do for me though... if anything it could possibly be better. As I have said before I have always missed out on them for various reasons

[Gucci Piggy]

Just now, eastynh said:

Bigger than Depeche Mode??

In the UK, yeah Dunno about worldwide.

[Quark]

2 minutes ago, The Orgazoid said:

Foo Fighters are bigger than The Who? Have a word with yourself. 

Nostalgia aside, yes without a doubt.  

[Rose-Colored Boy]

6 minutes ago, addicted2noise said:

The thing is Beyonce is a performer while Ed Sheeran is presented as a singer-songwriter who needs helps writing songs, its one step off busking.

Let's call Ed 'a performer who is the lead writer on most of his songs and the only writer on the two songs that made his name' then, if that suits. Either way it really makes no difference as to whether he's a Glastonbury headliner

 

Edited December 16, 2016 by Zac Quinn
he literally wrote the song that was his breakthrough himself so this argument makes no sense

[the wonderwhy]

45 minutes ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

Yep, Lauren Laverene is the best person on the Beeb's payroll.

Not while next Labour leader Gary Lineker is on it she's not. 

[FuzzyDunlop]

2 minutes ago, Zac Quinn said:

Let's call Ed 'a performer who also has a big hand if not the only hand in writing all of his songs' then, if that suits. Either way it really makes no difference as to whether he's a Glastonbury headliner

Being fucking shit should do though.

[the wonderwhy]

9 minutes ago, The Orgazoid said:

Foo Fighters are bigger than The Who? Have a word with yourself. 

Easily. Foo Fighters and Coldplay are just about the biggest active bands in the world at the moment. 

[Amy Lawn]

6 minutes ago, eastynh said:

What have I done to deserve ending up here, where all the headliners are about as exciting as cold porridge? We really are in the decade of instantly forgetable beige and neutral.

Pull yourself together man! You're living in a time where the internet gives us access to more music than ever before, more people can make and publish music than ever before, things have never been more fruitful. If you look at that and your take-home message is to lament the dull shit that makes up the top 0.000001% then god help you.

[CaledonianGonzo]

I've totted up Ed Sheeran's songwriting credits on his own songs and - as he's written 67% of his output - I've concluded that I like him 67% more than if he wrote none of it, but 33% less than if he'd written it all on his jack.

#science

[eastynh]

Just now, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

Pull yourself together man! You're living in a time where the internet gives us access to more music than ever before, more people can make and publish music than ever before, things have never been more fruitful. If you look at that and your take-home message is to lament the dull shit that makes up the top 0.000001% then god help you.

I agree with you entirely mate but I was talking specifically about Pyramid headliners. 

I should not moan really as I have copped for Hot Chip and New Order over the last 2 years. It would have been nice to have experienced a pyramid headliner though.

[Amy Lawn]

1 minute ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

I've totted up Ed Sheeran's songwriting credits on his own songs and - as he's written 67% of his output - I've concluded that I like him 67% more than if he wrote none of it, but 33% less than if he'd written it all on his jack.

#science

I'd like him 67% more if he wrote none of it, or performed any of it either.

[eastynh]

3 minutes ago, MattDavies__ said:

Easily. Foo Fighters and Coldplay are just about the biggest active bands in the world at the moment. 

What we basing biggest on?

[Rubber Soldier]

12 minutes ago, Will-2609 said:

Foo Fighters sold out two Wembley Stadium shows in an instant in 2015, I'm sure, and will get a bigger crowd than The Who got at Glasto that year.

I'd say, in 2017, Foo Fighters are certainly a bigger band than The Who.

 

4 minutes ago, MattDavies__ said:

Easily. Foo Fighters and Coldplay are just about the biggest active bands in the world at the moment. 

We'll have to agree to disagree on this one I think. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

1 minute ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

I'd like him 67% more if he wrote none of it, or performed any of it either.

So as it stands you like him 33%?  

That's how percentages work.

[shoptildrop]

2 hours ago, The Orgazoid said:

Not necessarily. I don't like Coldplay either but putting aside the repeat bookings arguement, they're an ideal closing headliner. Are the Foo Fighters really on that level? I don't think so. 

you think Coldplay are worthy but not Foo Fighters, really??!!!  I get there is not a lot of love on here but if boring tw*ts like Mumfords can close the festival, I'm sure as hell Foos can

[CaledonianGonzo]

1 minute ago, The Orgazoid said:

 

We'll have to agree to disagree on this one I think. 

You need to specify which variable you're measuring on.  Ticket selling ability in 2017 isn't the same as, say, number of recognisable songs or numbers of records sold over the years.

[Quark]

2 minutes ago, The Orgazoid said:

 

We'll have to agree to disagree on this one I think. 

NO!  ARGUE WITH ME ON THE INTERNET IN CAPITAL LETTERS YOU CONCILIATORY BASTARD!

[Rose-Colored Boy]

2 minutes ago, eastynh said:

What we basing biggest on?

Any reasonable metric. The Who aren't even the biggest band in the world if the criteria is 'bands who probably voted Brexit and were overshadowed by The Beatles at their peak'.

[eastynh]

Just now, Zac Quinn said:

Any reasonable metric. The Who aren't even the biggest band in the world if the criteria is 'bands who probably voted Brexit and were overshadowed by The Beatles at their peak'.

I was not refering to the Who mate, I was comparing Foo Fighters to Depeche Mode. Now I appreciate DM are not the  biggest band in the world but they sell huge amounts of tickets world wide and I would say easily compareable to FF if not even exceeding them.

[Quark]

Just now, eastynh said:

I was not refering to the Who mate, I was comparing Foo Fighters to Depeche Mode. Now I appreciate DM are not the  biggest band in the world but they sell huge amounts of tickets world wide and I would say easily compareable to FF if not even exceeding them.

Stop confusing matters with yer DM

[Gucci Piggy]

Just now, eastynh said:

I was not refering to the Who mate, I was comparing Foo Fighters to Depeche Mode. Now I appreciate DM are not the  biggest band in the world but they sell huge amounts of tickets world wide and I would say easily compareable to FF if not even exceeding them.

When I said Foos were probably the 2nd biggest worldwide after Coldplay I was talking more modern acts (though God knows where you draw the line with that).

Me saying they're bigger than The Who was a separate point comparing them to 3 of the last 4 Sunday headliners.