Eminem

[eFestivals]

I'm hearing whispers he's headlining.

I can't be sure its kosher just yet, tho I think it very probably is.

[Andre91]

Oh f**k off. 2013 was absolute trash.

[FloorFiller]

Christ Eminem and Kasabian in the same year - the piss chuckers will be out in force if this come to pass

[eFestivals]

38 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

Oh f**k off. 2013 was absolute trash.

so was 2001, but there's no accounting for tastes I guess.

 

[JSmurphy]

Ahhhhhhh. Eminem would be a decent booking but I thought he was dreadful in 2013, wish I hadn't stuck it out for long. 

[thewayiam]

45 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

Christ Eminem and Kasabian in the same year - the piss chuckers will be out in force if this come to pass

Have you ever seen a more likely Eminem/Major Lazer top two?

Not being funny but this guy that came on a while ago saying RB were subbing and there were other big names, he wouldn't be far off. I'd take a stab that he's going to do Lolla Chicago then head over similar to Mumford.

I actually thought that V Fest would be all over it chucking money at him. It's a guaranteed quick sell day either way but like in 2013, not a lot else interested me bar maybe a NME act.

Edited November 22, 2016 by thewayiam

[Andre91]

Eminem subbed by Royal Blood. 

[thewayiam]

Just now, Andre91 said:

Eminem subbed by Royal Blood. 

I doubt there is a chance of that nowadays.

[thewayiam]

28 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

so was 2001, but there's no accounting for tastes I guess.

 

I will admit that at V I thought he was pretty good then I had a better view at Wembley and saw how much backing track etc he used but the addition of Dre turning up did help.

[dentalplan]

Horrendous

[Yellow_Fellow]

Fuck me. So we get Em headlining, a few years later Kendrick subs, and that's it for the pool of high-up hip hop talent we've got available?

Ridiculous. What on earth is in the water in Melvin's office

[Andre91]

They should have thrown money at Kanye or Jay Z if they wanted a hip hop headliner. Someone who hasn't done it twice before to very mixed reviews. 

[thewayiam]

5 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

They should have thrown money at Kanye or Jay Z if they wanted a hip hop headliner. Someone who hasn't done it twice before to very mixed reviews. 

Talking of mixed reviews?.....isn't that what Kanye was?, didn't he fail to sell Wireless too?....a gig that Drake was booked two nights for.

I know you're a fan etc as I am of Eminem but at least I admit he's not when you see him in full motion necessarily what you want. 

[FloorFiller]

2 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

They should have thrown money at Kanye or Jay Z if they wanted a hip hop headliner. Someone who hasn't done it twice before to very mixed reviews. 

as shite as he is and as recently as he was last booked, people just seem to love him - him topping a festival is a bigger guaranteed sell out than either of those other two acts

[she bangs the drums]

1 hour ago, FloorFiller said:

as shite as he is and as recently as he was last booked, people just seem to love him - him topping a festival is a bigger guaranteed sell out than either of those other two acts

Spot on

There was a massive crowd for him at Leeds in 2013. He will sell out all of the day tickets for his day. 

[Gozpot]

Largest crowd I've ever seen at Reading was probably Eminem in 2013.

Green Day 2013 and RHCP 2016 also had massive crowds but even they weren't quite as big as Eminem.

Edited November 22, 2016 by Gozpot

[Yellow_Fellow]

1 hour ago, thewayiam said:

didn't he fail to sell Wireless too?....a gig that Drake was booked two nights for

god i love your inability to accurately make comparison

[Chavmeisterdeluxe]

2 hours ago, thewayiam said:

Talking of mixed reviews?.....isn't that what Kanye was?, didn't he fail to sell Wireless too?....a gig that Drake was booked two nights for.

I know you're a fan etc as I am of Eminem but at least I admit he's not when you see him in full motion necessarily what you want. 

Kanye played twice as Drake pulled out the week before. It sold fine, he wasn't great but there were plenty of people there.

[MONTHEBIFF2013]

Eminem did have a huge crowd in 2013 but wasn't anywhere near as big as foo fighters the year before. 

[Andre91]

10 minutes ago, MONTHEBIFF2013 said:

Eminem did have a huge crowd in 2013 but wasn't anywhere near as big as foo fighters the year before. 

That remains the biggest crowd I've seen in all the years I've been going to Leeds. Arctic Monkeys in 2014 was damn close, though.

[JSmurphy]

26 minutes ago, MONTHEBIFF2013 said:

Eminem did have a huge crowd in 2013 but wasn't anywhere near as big as foo fighters the year before. 

 

15 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

That remains the biggest crowd I've seen in all the years I've been going to Leeds. Arctic Monkeys in 2014 was damn close, though.

Eminem's crowd at Reading was a horrible experience, but granted there were a load of people packed into the field. If Reading 2013 wasn't my first festival and I hadn't been such a festival n00b I would have fought my way out to Lockup to see the end of Tomahawk. I can't see why Eminem would draw a noticeably smaller crowd next year, if he plays. 

I wasn't at Foos in 2012, so out of the headliners I've seen the only real competition in terms of crowd size were Metallica and RHCP. I left Green Day after an hour to see Skrillex, but I remember their crowd being pretty large. I walked straight to the front for Nero and stayed there for their full set, so I can only imagine how packed the field must have been for Arctic Monkeys. 

Edited November 22, 2016 by JSmurphy

[Alex DeLarge]

Jay-Z is a good shout for hip-hop headliner. 

Booking Eminem the year after Biffy came again is really shite, it's not like he's going to play a radically different set or anything

I suppose he could bring on Dido again though. 

[thewayiam]

1 hour ago, MONTHEBIFF2013 said:

Eminem did have a huge crowd in 2013 but wasn't anywhere near as big as foo fighters the year before. 

End of the day though, FF didn't sell day tickets out at £90+, Eminem did and quite quick!

[thewayiam]

2 hours ago, Chavmeisterdeluxe said:

Kanye played twice as Drake pulled out the week before. It sold fine, he wasn't great but there were plenty of people there.

It sold that we'll they continued just with a London venue and canned the Birmingham one.

Strange, didn't another festival get canned after he played it as well?

[oneoftherest]

Arctics was probably the biggest crowd I've ever seen at Leeds. Metallica tried touting some record if i remember correctly but it definitely wasn't anywhere near as busy as it was for AM.