Ed Sheeran. Bets are off

[Avalon_Fields]

This prospect is almost as exciting as to whether his next album is titled  ÷ , = ,or -.

[SwedgeAntilles]

14 hours ago, dentalplan said:

He's the biggest male singer in the UK, possibly world idk, but he's the one who has to get looked over to address gender imbalance rather than the two in the other slots?

He's a massive act, it's the right time to have him headline, just one worth getting over with really. Far from a rubbish booking anyway.

That's fair enough, I was just venting.

[SwedgeAntilles]

He DOES look like a ventriloquist dummy brought to life though. I refuse to concede on that front.

[Guest]

It's too cooo-oooold outside for angels to fly

[Chawk]

I am a registered Mum and support this booking

[alrapp]

if you don't get Ikea you definatley won't get Sheeeeran

[oneeye]

4 hours ago, Avalon_Fields said:

This prospect is almost as exciting as to whether his next album is titled  ÷ , = ,or -.

I heard that this was the art work for his next album....

[Keithy]

I'm not denying his popularity (though I've never quite understood it) but his albums sales have always stuck me as massively bloated by being stocking fillers and "shit, it's my mums birthday and I don't know what to get her". 

I wonder how many people (a) had the album bought as a gift or (b) often listen to it or (c) bought it as one of their 2 albums they buy every year or (d) bought it at a service station?

He makes Coldplay look avant garde. Completely safe, beige, MOR, schoolrun music. Nowt wrong with that (it made Micheal Buble a fortune) but it shouldn't be anywhere near a Glastonbury headline slot.

Edited November 6, 2016 by Keithy

[Alex DeLarge]

Ed Sheeran would be fucking dire for me, I find his music mind-numbingly dull, which is exactly why I want him there. I'm already seeing Radiohead at the Pyramid and don't exactly want to spend all my time there,  Ed would be a perfect chance to be anywhere else. Bring it on. 

[LondonTom]

Since his Wembley Stadium shows I've accepted the inevitable, its going to happen and we may as well get it out the way sooner than later.

[Purple aki squat]

I'll get shit for this no doubt but never mind. 

Ed Sheehan headlining the greatest music festival on earth just doesn't seem right. After the headliners this year I was expecting something interesting but instead it looks like the male Adele will play.

Book dull acts get dull crowds, this is why the festival has lost a fair bit of its identity in the last few years. Considering which bands have been actively touring the last 2 years to have this years trio plus Sheeran is a piss take imo. Plus Radiohead would probably play for nothing.

 

Moan over 

x

[GlastoEls]

^ What is 'something interesting'?

(genuine question, not having a go!)

[FloorFiller]

22 minutes ago, GlastoEls said:

^ What is 'something interesting'?

(genuine question, not having a go!)

would also like to know. the headliners to the biggest festival in the world are always going to be huge mainstream acts. Radiohead, who we're getting next year, are about as 'interesting' as it's gonna get for a headliner at any festival of this size. the real interesting acts aren't gonna be sitting atop the Pyramid lineup - they'll be scattered throughout the smaller stages, as they always are

[thewayiam]

5 hours ago, Purple aki squat said:

I'll get shit for this no doubt but never mind. 

Ed Sheehan headlining the greatest music festival on earth just doesn't seem right. After the headliners this year I was expecting something interesting but instead it looks like the male Adele will play.

Book dull acts get dull crowds, this is why the festival has lost a fair bit of its identity in the last few years. Considering which bands have been actively touring the last 2 years to have this years trio plus Sheeran is a piss take imo. Plus Radiohead would probably play for nothing.

 

Moan over 

x

In the same way that Coldplay and Eavis are the best of friends and they didn't play for anything! Go elsewhere, if you don't think the crowd will be well up for it you're mistaken. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Loving the idea that Radiohead's crowd is going to be wilder than Ed Sheeran's.

[ghostdancer1]

if only we could go back to the days of wild headliners like Peter Gabriel, Christy Moore and Travis....

 

maybe Steve Winwood will return to make up for that headline slot he missed and save us from Dull Ed and bring us back to the high life again.

Edited November 7, 2016 by ghostdancer1

[CaledonianGonzo]

The purple patch when Van Morrison headlined 3 years on the bounce will never be topped imho

[russycarps]

just like last year people are focusing their ire in the wrong direction.

foo fighters are the problem, not harmless ed

 

[Padgey]

It's looking like hat trick of non pyramid headliners for me the way things are going.

[Purple aki squat]

11 hours ago, GlastoEls said:

^ What is 'something interesting'?

(genuine question, not having a go!)

AC/DC, Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Stone Roses, Stevie Wonder, Elton John even something like Aerosmith would be different. I know some of them have played before but we know that means fuck all. 

I await your piss taking.

[CaledonianGonzo]

If you feel that Glastonbury is losing its identity, how would booking any of those bands help?  What makes you think that Glastonbury didn't try to book some of them and were turned down for either financial reasons (Stone Roses, Fleetwood Mac) or because wanted to do their own gigs (AC/DC)?

[Uh-Oh!]

With Adele and prob Sheeran to me theyre booking headliners for a wider BBC audience than a Glastonbury audience, safe and steady

[Purple aki squat]

8 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

If you feel that Glastonbury is losing its identity, how would booking any of those bands help?  What makes you think that Glastonbury didn't try to book some of them and were turned down for either financial reasons (Stone Roses, Fleetwood Mac) or because wanted to do their own gigs (AC/DC)?

Fair point.

Im just a miserable old bastard.

[CaledonianGonzo]

1 minute ago, Uh-Oh! said:

With Adele and prob Sheeran to me theyre booking headliners for a wider BBC audience than a Glastonbury audience, safe and steady

If no one at the festival wanted to see them they'd be playing to an empty Pyramid field. 

Adele got a big crowd; Sheeran will get a big crowd. 

 

[russycarps]

5 minutes ago, Uh-Oh! said:

safe and steady

you've just described 95% of glastonbury goers