2019 Headliners

[Zoo Music Girl]

19 minutes ago, Quark said:

I'll not lie, I'm glad I did.

Fuck you, man.

 

 

 

 

I'm glad you did too.

[CaledonianGonzo]

I did, but they played I'm Gonna DJ

[Quark]

4 hours ago, Fishman said:

This is my game and I give you ....

The Shamen over Pulp - '95; Primal Scream over Radiohead - '97; Basement Jaxx over Bowie - '00; Rod Stewart over anyone else - '02; No idea (Chems DJ?) over The White Stripes- '05; Again no idea over Neil Young - '09; The Streets over Beyonce - '11 ...

I'm sure there are others but the old grey matter is not what it was. In fact, there is evidence there that it was never up to much.

(I wish I'd kept notes of who I'd seen, when and where ....Keep a diary kids)

Holy hellfire. Don't take this the wrong way, but if I see you heading to watch a set I will probably stop to evaluate my choices and promptly walk in the other direction. You have clearly won this game.

[Hugh Jass]

4 hours ago, Fishman said:

 

 

This is my game and I give you ....

The Shamen over Pulp - '95; Primal Scream over Radiohead - '97; Basement Jaxx over Bowie - '00; Rod Stewart over anyone else - '02; No idea (Chems DJ?) over The White Stripes- '05; Again no idea over Neil Young - '09; The Streets over Beyonce - '11 ...

I'm sure there are others but the old grey matter is not what it was. In fact, there is evidence there that it was never up to much.

(I wish I'd kept notes of who I'd seen, when and where ....Keep a diary kids)

2007 - I made the still inexplicable decision to go watch the Kaiser fucking Chiefs over Arcade Fire.

Beat that.

[incident]

4 hours ago, FloorFiller said:

They are, but haven't done anything other than tour their old material for ten years now so it's a bit of a 'why now?' booking.

It's even a bit deeper than that. I'm not even one of those people who bangs on about needing new material or where on an album cycle it falls (and I don't think the bookers pay nearly as much attention to that as people on here). But their most recent set at Bestival, which while fantastic contained a whole 2 songs that were released since they last headlined the Pyramid Stage, 23 years ago and even I find that a bit static.

[Earthwindandfire2205]

20 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

2007 - I made the still inexplicable decision to go watch the Kaiser fucking Chiefs over Arcade Fire.

Beat that.

Watching the football over Slash and Ray Davies 

[John the Moth]

13 hours ago, eFestivals said:

Nope, sorry. But they can't both be doing it and not doing it. One of the bits of info has to be wrong.

Schroedinger’s Cure ??

Edit: Dammit beaten by @Quark. Note to self, finish reading the whole thread before commenting!

Edited September 19, 2018 by John the Moth
Bah!

[SloopJohnB]

The Prodigy over Blur.....2 hours of being swore at.....awful!

[Mardy]

Standing outside my tent with a can of lager instead of seeing Blur in 09. What was I thinking?

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

That ginger bloke instead of Justice, 2017. Succumbed to peer pressure, never again.

[Mardy]

OK, this is mortifying, I'm going to say this then wander off for a bit.

 

Shaggy instead of Chic last year

 

The things we do for love, eh?

[thewayiam]

4 minutes ago, Mardy said:

OK, this is mortifying, I'm going to say this then wander off for a bit.

 

Shaggy instead of Chic last year

 

The things we do for love, eh?

Why do shaggy instead of Chic?, I did both. Shaggy didn't start until after Chic....and then it was a late start.

[Mardy]

7 minutes ago, thewayiam said:

Why do shaggy instead of Chic?, I did both. Shaggy didn't start until after Chic....and then it was a late start.

Really? Dunno what happened then. Was it a clash with the last remaining BeeGee? Can't remember. 

[Divein]

Are you sure? I went to Shaggy, but couldn’t really get a good spot so left, went to get some food and a drink and caught some of Chic. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Shaggy played twice. One mid afternoon on West Holts then headlining The Gully later on.

[eFestivals]

13 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Shaggy played twice. One mid afternoon on West Holts then headlining The Gully later on.

not sure I've seen an act stink so much.

[rubenz]

10 hours ago, Hugh Jass said:

2007 - I made the still inexplicable decision to go watch the Kaiser fucking Chiefs over Arcade Fire.

Beat that.

Well I did watch a full set from the Stereo MCs rather than QOTSA or Beyonce. Think I had become delirious by Sunday night that year.

(Having watching the Kaiser Chiefs just beforehand!)

Edited September 19, 2018 by rubenz

[jparx]

Craig David instead of Peej. Although, to be fair, that was a pretty fun time...

[stuartbert two hats]

1 hour ago, thewayiam said:

Why do shaggy instead of Chic?, I did both. Shaggy didn't start until after Chic....and then it was a late start.

That late start was brilliant. Nile jumped onto the stage wearing his white Stratocaster and asked the crowd "ARE YOU READY???" before sheepishly sloping off because it turned out that the band wasn't.

Edited September 19, 2018 by stuartbert two hats

[priest17]

Black Eyed Peas instead of Blur. Coldplay instead of Chems. Beyonce instead of QOTSA/The Streets. 

I mean I could go on in terms of hindsight mistakes but they're not really regrets, for one reason or another they were the right decisions at the time. Although when I mention I was at 09 and people immediately ask how good blur were sometimes I just lie and say how good they were.

[slash's hat]

1 hour ago, Mardy said:

Really? Dunno what happened then. Was it a clash with the last remaining BeeGee? Can't remember. 

Yes he clashed with Bazza, I was holding on and holding on at the pyramid as long as I could, but eventually made my way to see shaggy, who was late and a huge disappointment. 

[Doug85]

17 minutes ago, slash's hat said:

Yes he clashed with Bazza, I was holding on and holding on at the pyramid as long as I could, but eventually made my way to see shaggy, who was late and a huge disappointment. 

I'd been dragged to John Peel to get a decent spot for the not so secret Killers set, although they were decent I remember being quite annoyed as I really wanted to see Shaggy for nostalgic purposes- makes me feel better that i've heard a few people say how awful he was. Now i'm just slightly disappointed I missed the many faces of HAIM on the other. I did catch the end of Chic though which seemed ace. 

[stuartbert two hats]

16 hours ago, fatyeti24 said:

Orbital are just super, aren't they? I love them. 

What do you think of the new album?  I've not had chance to listen to it in one go, but I was decidedly unimpressed.

[Mr.Tease]

11 hours ago, Hugh Jass said:

2007 - I made the still inexplicable decision to go watch the Kaiser fucking Chiefs over Arcade Fire.

Beat that.

I went to see Arcade fire but it was difficult to enjoy as someone near me collapsed and it looked like the security/medical staff were trying to give them cpr (or at least check that they were breathing), but while this was going on ( I think it was during the song 'Wake up'), then had the confetti machine blasting out confetti while they were trying to do this, covering the poor chap and medical staff in confetti while someone who was quite wasted was freaking out about it and in tears. I presume they were okay in the end as there were no fatalities reported.

[e2p2]

Although not directly Glastonbury related, the fact that Rock Werchter (Belgium biggest festival) moved the festival a week earlier to Glastonbury weekend make me think it can't be the Cure, Macca and AM or other recent suggestion. Last time RW moved their festival was to get the Foo Fighters in 2015 as they were unavailable the next weekend (although it was announced months after they announce the original date, unlike this year). They wont be moving it for Macca (didnt sell-out the festival's Thursday in 2016, albeit the hardest day to sell out - Foos were the last one to do it) or for AM (co-headlined this year) or for the Cure (who will indeed headline but wont be the reason for moving the festival as they're not massive). Of course there's a chance that the reason the festival moved is not related to a certain band or a that the certain band will play at Glastonbury too, but I think its unlikely. The festival occurs on the first weekend of the summer vacation so moving it can hurt ticket sales. So my belief is at least one of those headliners is not on the rumor page right now.