2019 Headliners

[jparx]

A Radiohead secret slot doing Kid A in full for the 50th please.

2019:

Arctics

Bey and Jay

Fleetwood

Legend: Kylie

50th:

Florence

Daft Punk

Macca

legend: Elton

 

 

[FloorFiller]

2 minutes ago, Odessa said:

It'll be a long term bet so you've gotta commit to yr efests future, but if anyone wants a tenner to charity that The Killers won't headline on their next album cycle (if there is one, void if they split up lol) then gimme a shout. ?

You're on.

[henry bear]

13 hours ago, zico martin said:

So are Fleetwood Mac really still a possibility now they sacked Lynsey? No more u2 or pearl jam rumours? We really are running out of big name headliners now aren't we!

Re: Fleetwood Mac, who’s to say? I would guess the band may be more amenable this time around. I wonder if the fact this is a less authentic version of the band makes them a less attractive option for the Eavii. Having said all that, given the prices charged by Mick Fleetwood for a meet and greet with just him on the band’s tour dates, money is seemingly still a major factor.

It would be nice to think there were other genuine headline contenders out there, at the moment there’s no-one else touring next summer that’s an obvious possibility.

[ivan]

Friday.     The 1975

Sat.          The National

Sun.         Elton John 

[Guy Incognito]

15 minutes ago, ivan said:

Friday.     The 1975

Sat.          The National

Sun.         Elton John 

don't think The National will ever headline Glastonbury, sadly.

[Odessa]

2 hours ago, FloorFiller said:

You're on.

Nice. You can chuck a tenner RED's way in roughly 2021 seeing as all The Killers' Christmas songs (which will be in their 40 song set according to some people) were in aid of them. ?

Thinking about it, they might be about when Glasto are putting on that other event. Variety Bazaar or whatever it's called. Already getting very wobbly this bet hahaha.

[ivan]

8 hours ago, Mattymooz said:

Cpuld easily see both Coldplay and Muse doing a "not-so-secret-set" like Killers in 2017 if they really wanna play, see no point in them booking them as headliners so quickly, and I also don't see them booking larger subs/other headliners just for the sake of having them play.

Plus Muse on JP would be pretty great make it happen.

 

I think Coldplay getting Michael on stage the other year and having headlined 4 times now , that was their swan song / goodbye to Glastonbury

[Crazyfool01]

what odds Michael headlining ? he's been doing warm ups for quite a few years ? whats his repetoire ? happy birthday and my way  ... has he released an album lately ? has he headlined more than coldplay ? a shoe in for the 50th I reckon 

[guypjfreak]

Elton is probably going to be the finishing act 

Madonna for Friday / sat but God knows the other.. 

I think cold play could open on other stage.. At least there'll be done and dusted. 

I'd personally love to see kate Bush either headline or for the legend slot.. 

 

 

[jj200]

25 minutes ago, guypjfreak said:

Elton is probably going to be the finishing act 

Madonna for Friday / sat but God knows the other.. 

I think cold play could open on other stage.. At least there'll be done and dusted. 

I'd personally love to see kate Bush either headline or for the legend slot.. 

 

 

I can't see Coldplay open on other stage tbh if they want to play it then they will headline 

[dentalplan]

6 hours ago, Odessa said:

I won't get into a big debate about it again, but it does baffle me how sometimes the same people who think the likes of Florence and the Machine could headline again rule out The Killers. 

What has kept The Killers from headlining again already? Unless it was the two members that they replaced with lookalikes, I don't see why their chances would be improving.

edit: I don't actually think it impossible that they'll headline again but it's not baffling. I think Florence and the Machine have better chance of returning given the relationship with the festival and stuff.

Edited September 15, 2018 by dentalplan

[incident]

38 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

what odds Michael headlining ? he's been doing warm ups for quite a few years ? whats his repetoire ? happy birthday and my way  ... has he released an album lately ? has he headlined more than coldplay ? a shoe in for the 50th I reckon 

Add Can't Help Falling In Love and Suspicious Minds to that

[SloopJohnB]

5 hours ago, ivan said:

Friday.     The 1975

Sat.          The National

Sun.         Elton John 

Surely the 1975 aren’t big / good enough to headline Glastonbury? 

Perhaps i’m getting old ?

[RarerThanDandyB]

At the moment I am at:

Arctic Monkeys 

Fleetwood Mac

Elton John

[henry bear]

16 minutes ago, RarerThanDandyB said:

At the moment I am at:

Arctic Monkeys 

Fleetwood Mac

Elton John

I think Elton’s playing elsewhere on the Saturday and Sunday, which all but rules him out for the Friday too. 

[RarerThanDandyB]

Just now, henry bear said:

I think Elton’s playing elsewhere on the Saturday and Sunday, which all but rules him out for the Friday too. 

It was in no order. 

If it was then:

Friday: Elton John

Saturday: Arctic Monkeys

Sunday: Fleetwood Mac

 

[morph100]

Coldplay won’t play it, they are well aware they have played it too much and don’t want to over play it. Some would say they already have but without new material and so soon it’s very very unlikely. Their last set was the goodbye for now until new material and new stage show.

Chris Martin would probably go and maybe pop up on someone else’s set though, maybe the super group.

I’m going for:

Kate Bush

Taylor Swift

Madonna

 

gotta be at least one of them ?

 

[henry bear]

Hate to say it but I don’t think there’s any more chance of Kate Bush playing than there is Led Zeppelin or ABBA - i.e. none.

Certainly much more chance of Taylor Swift or even Madge.

[Hugh Jass]

1 hour ago, SloopJohnB said:

Surely the 1975 aren’t big / good enough to headline Glastonbury? 

Perhaps i’m getting old ?

Good is subjective, they’re almost big enough. The next album might be enough.

[Stokesy10]

Bollox, didn't realise Elton is playing in Switzerland on the Saturday and Sunday of Glasto. Incredibly unlikely he'll open the Pyramid headliners on the Friday I'd have thought, both for the reason that it seems an unlikely Friday headliner, and he won't play 3 nights on the bounce.

[Comfy Bean]

Can’t see Elton bowing out without a Glastonbury slot. Probably headlining.

[chemica]

Probably more of a reflection of pissed up efesters gambling their money away, but Paul McCartney has been backed into 2/1. With the Cure and AM tied at 6/4. 

With so many hovering around the same price. The bookies have no idea and just reacting to what’s placed in front of them. 

[jj200]

5 hours ago, chemica said:

Probably more of a reflection of pissed up efesters gambling their money away, but Paul McCartney has been backed into 2/1. With the Cure and AM tied at 6/4. 

With so many hovering around the same price. The bookies have no idea and just reacting to what’s placed in front of them. 

Have ING no rock bands would make it weak.

[thewayiam]

7 hours ago, chemica said:

Probably more of a reflection of pissed up efesters gambling their money away, but Paul McCartney has been backed into 2/1. With the Cure and AM tied at 6/4. 

With so many hovering around the same price. The bookies have no idea and just reacting to what’s placed in front of them. 

Of course bookies have no idea. ...all they want it to pay less out. Macca's your dates do not look very likely for next year. With time difference I believe it's been said by the time he would arrive back to the UK he'd have about a day and an a half/2 days max before headlining if he closed the Sunday. My bet atm is he's asked to play next year.

I don't think The Cure will get a spot either unless it's the Other stage, but I'd like maybe to wrong. I can't see them taking sub at all and for the set length they would want to do it needs to be topping a stage.

Edited September 16, 2018 by thewayiam

[Odessa]

15 hours ago, dentalplan said:

What has kept The Killers from headlining again already? Unless it was the two members that they replaced with lookalikes, I don't see why their chances would be improving.

edit: I don't actually think it impossible that they'll headline again but it's not baffling. I think Florence and the Machine have better chance of returning given the relationship with the festival and stuff.

Well they headlined on the Sam's Town tour. The next album was too soon, and on the Battle Born tour they were here during a fallow year in 2012, followed by a late June Wembley date in 2013 which would probably have made Glasto less interested. And this time around they have been touring their new album over here during the summer in a fallow year again. So it doesn't seem to me like they've been snubbed at all.

What relationship does Florence have with the festival that The Killers don't? It was their first UK festival headline slot very early into their career, after they subbed in 2005 when their back catalogue was so short that they had to play b sides. And then they played a secret set last year which couldn't have gone down any better. 

I'm a diehard fan and I don't really lose any sleep over Mark and Dave not touring. I doubt the majority of a Glastonbury crowd would even notice tbh; Brandon Flowers is The Killers to most people.