Headliners 2017

[the wonderwhy]

 

 

[rawaudioinput]

Do we think the festival will manage to run? The reactions to both announcements are looking more negative than last year and that was very quiet

[thewayiam]

24 minutes ago, rawaudioinput said:

Do we think the festival will manage to run? The reactions to both announcements are looking more negative than last year and that was very quiet

There is a huge doubt, they must have really been short on options to get Rod.

[Smeble]

Queen being booked for this year wasn't particularly popular but on the day it was rammed and they were fantastic, not sure Rod will be the same though, he is a bit (well a lot) old granny in his appeal, and if he starts belting out his American songbook stuff there will be a mass exodus.

unless they pull out someone massive for Friday, which won't happen, sales will be even worse than last year and another festival will bite the dust.

you have to wonder how the delay in announcing the festival will affect the lineup, you can't start booking people for a festival that you don't know is going ahead.

 

[dentalplan]

I see Foals are still touring next summer. Could see them headlining the Friday. Might not be a big enough booking to get them out of the shit but perhaps better than James or Snow Patrol.

[FloorFiller]

7 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

I see Foals are still touring next summer. Could see them headlining the Friday. Might not be a big enough booking to get them out of the shit but perhaps better than James or Snow Patrol.

christ where have Snow Patrol fucked off to!? had almost forgotten they existed

Foals + another co-headliner maybe but i can't see them doing it outright

[dentalplan]

Just now, FloorFiller said:

Foals + another co-headliner maybe but i can't see them doing it outright

Well yeah, going off of the past three years it'd be with a dance act after them. I didn't specify that as I thought it went without saying.

[kingcrawler]

Foals would maybe do a reasonable job at selling tickets to Arcade Fire fans who are unsure about going over for them, although the problem with Foals is that anyone who really wants to see them will surely already have done so this year at the arena tour, Glastonbury or R&L so hard to see them too shifting many tickets.

[thewayiam]

4 minutes ago, kingcrawler said:

Foals would maybe do a reasonable job at selling tickets to Arcade Fire fans who are unsure about going over for them, although the problem with Foals is that anyone who really wants to see them will surely already have done so this year at the arena tour, Glastonbury or R&L so hard to see them too shifting many tickets.

Glad you said that, it'd fall flat on it's arse imo. I can't see how Biffy helps IOW or Download either though as neither sells out. At Glasto, Download wouldn't really have to care and anyone who wants a tickets now just has a resale.

[dentalplan]

1 minute ago, kingcrawler said:

Foals would maybe do a reasonable job at selling tickets to Arcade Fire fans who are unsure about going over for them, although the problem with Foals is that anyone who really wants to see them will surely already have done so this year at the arena tour, Glastonbury or R&L so hard to see them too shifting many tickets.

I get the feeling that the big slots at R+L and Glasto exposed them to new audiences and they were getting a lot of acclaim for the performances each time, considerably so at Reading where they seemed to go down best of all of them. For the Friday coheadline slot think they could do, have done and probably will do worse than Foals.

[FloorFiller]

Just now, dentalplan said:

I get the feeling that the big slots at R+L and Glasto exposed them to new audiences and they were getting a lot of acclaim for the performances each time, considerably so at Reading where they seemed to go down best of all of them. For the Friday coheadline slot think they could do, have done and probably will do worse than Foals.

Foals with a new album would be a great draw but Foals on the third year of an album isn't gonna do a thing to stop the festival falling on it's arse next year, although something spectacular aside, whoever they announce is gonna have a hard time mustering anything more than a muted reaction at this point 

[dentalplan]

Just now, FloorFiller said:

Foals with a new album would be a great draw but Foals on the third year of an album isn't gonna do a thing to stop the festival falling on it's arse next year, although something spectacular aside, whoever they announce is gonna have a hard time mustering anything more than a muted reaction at this point 

Exactly. We're talking about a slot The Black Keys and Stereophonics have played recently so I thought Foals as an act that actually headlines festivals would've been a relatively sound option.  Foals on a new album wouldn't be doing that slot and will no doubt headline Glasto rather than opening for Chase & Status or whoever.

[SERRIDGER]

Looks like Stone Roses are headlining Reading/Leeds so that them rules out for the Friday. Really do think they need a good headliner for Friday and not this Co headliner nonsense , which basically means 2 sub headliners from other festivals 

[eFestivals]

4 minutes ago, SERRIDGER said:

Looks like Stone Roses are headlining Reading/Leeds so that them rules out for the Friday. Really do think they need a good headliner for Friday and not this Co headliner nonsense , which basically means 2 sub headliners from other festivals 

I don't think there's anything to the idea that's currently going mad on twitter. The photos of lemons in Leeds might be genuine, but there's none genuinely reported from Reading.

[rawaudioinput]

I imagine that if the festival had someone with clout to announce they would have before getting to Rod

Part of me thinks that James would actually sell more tickets to the usual Isle of Wight crowd than Foals, not sure if the festival is even on the radar for young people anymore

[sisco]

Guetta and Run DMC.  Better than I thought it'd be

[FloorFiller]

hilarious

[JBarbour]

Surely this is one of the strangest set of headliners ever of any major festival. 

[sisco]

And they've announced Bastille too, wouldn't they have been a better co-headliner?

[DDave]

What the actual fuck??!

This is insane, who are they aiming this festival at?!

[Guest]

17 minutes ago, sisco said:

And they've announced Bastille too, wouldn't they have been a better co-headliner?

Yeah why couldn't they just announce Bastille, and actually promote a new act as a headliner?

 

What a terrible set of headliners they have gone, that festival is on it's knees.

[sisco]

Think the key thing for IOW is they've completely lost they're USP! 

For all the hate V festival gets it knows who it's aiming for, R&L too even the smaller festivals like Victorious and Kendal but the IOW!! It's basically like Giddings gets pissed sticks his iPod on shuffle and randomly rings/books people

[ShumbaSharky]

Rest of the announcement ... 

 

[Red Day]

Looks dreadful. The iPod shuffle for picking acts looks like a realistic suggestion. 

[rawaudioinput]

So, when are we guessing this will get cancelled?