2019 Headliners

[JayBalls]

7 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Nah - it's well known that the Beeb vetoed The National as headliners and insisted on Ed Sheeran instead.

Really? If sincere apologies as I've been out of the loop, haven't been on here for a long time for various reasons.

[stuartbert two hats]

20 minutes ago, JayBalls said:

Really? If sincere apologies as I've been out of the loop, haven't been on here for a long time for various reasons.

I suspect sarcasm was at play from our Caledonian friend.

[Xeph1995]

1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

They are miles better than the foos, much better music, better vibe too.

[JayBalls]

16 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

I suspect sarcasm was at play from our Caledonian friend.

I suspected that also hence the "if sincere" haha

[Winslow Leach]

9 hours ago, RarerThanDandyB said:

You cannot underestimate the pit for Song for the Dead...

Dead... serious about not seeing Queens of the Stone Age

[stuartbert two hats]

17 minutes ago, JayBalls said:

I suspected that also hence the "if sincere" haha

Duh, it is I who was reading poorly!

[Badlands]

1 hour ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Duh, it is I who was reading poorly!

There’s a comma missing!!

 

[Superscally]

8 hours ago, The Nal said:

QOTSA aren't a Glasto headliner in a million years. Have seen them a load of times, 7 or 8, over the last 15 years and sad to say they rarely deliver. They were bang average at Mad Cool in July. Wiped off the face of the earth by Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails who played after them. Men and boys. Night and day.

They were unbelievably good headlining the Other.

[Hugh Jass]

11 minutes ago, Superscally said:

They were unbelievably good headlining the Other.

They were indeed, but headlining the Other and headlining the Pyramid are two very different propositions.

[Superscally]

10 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

They were indeed, but headlining the Other and headlining the Pyramid are two very different propositions.

Yeah, unfortunately so. I reckon the Ronson producer thing was a move to get some "bangerz" to enable that crossover, but didn't quite get there. I do like Villains though. What they need is someone from the X-Factor to cover some shit, then they'd make it big time

[CaledonianGonzo]

12 hours ago, Xeph1995 said:

They are miles better than the foos, much better music, better vibe too.

Does he run around as much as Dave?

[stuartbert two hats]

10 hours ago, Badlands said:

There’s a comma missing!!

 

True, but that's no excuse for my comprehension fail - even without the comma!

*bad hats, bad hats*

[Madyaker]

They make better music than the Foos but they aren't on the same level popularity wise. At least not on this side of the atlantic. They are one of those bands in the no mans land between having done the other stage and not being quite big enough to headline the pyramid.

[FatAmmy]

As a huge Queens fan, I'm perfectly fine with them not rising to headliner level...I'd rather be able to see them in (marginally) smaller venues

[Gucci Piggy]

An itk guy on the R&L section says The 1975 are headlining R&L next year along with Twenty One Pilots and Foos. Wouldn't necessarily rule them out (although the only R&L headliners who've been booked for Glasto too have been co-headliners, other than The Libs but that was obviously a secret to replace Foos).

Fwiw the guy told us on here last year that Catfish would be announced for APE, for which everyone told him he was an idiot and he ended up being correct. He also told us The Killers were headlining Latitude, which I also think people called him an idiot for and he obviously ended up being right again.

He did say that the R&L headliners last year would be Arctic Monkeys, Kendrick Lamar and Florence and the Machine, but also said that the trio was an educated guess and what he'd been told weeks before he posted it. He also said the R&L announcement was late because they were late booking headliners, which seems pretty likely with them ending up with Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco and Kings of Leon.

[Badlands]

I've been fairly comfortable with not recognising chunks of the Reading/Leeds lineup now I've hit my 40's. Quite perturbed that I don't recognise one of the headliners now though!!

[billum]

3 hours ago, Gucci Piggy said:

An itk guy on the R&L section says ... He also said the R&L announcement was late because they were late booking headliners, which seems pretty likely with them ending up with Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco and Kings of Leon.

Did he have anything to say about Glasto 2019 tho.....?

[zahidf]

Childish gambino, Justin Timberlake and kanye headlining Coachella next year apparently 

[StupidDream]

54 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Childish gambino, Justin Timberlake and kanye headlining Coachella next year apparently 

Kanye headlining... Interested to see how that will go down with his opinions and recent outings. Coachella doesn't strike me as a meeting place for conservatives. (Or maybe most people don't think in general, tend to overestimate humanity.)

[dentalplan]

14 minutes ago, StupidDream said:

Coachella doesn't strike me as a meeting place for conservatives.

The owner donates hundreds of g’s to the Republican Party so might as well be.

[Mattymooz]

What do people make of these new Kendrick leaks then? They don't exactly sound like DAMN. tracks (more TPAB vibes personally) but I stuff like the MJ sample (which seems to be really in at the moment with Drake and Em doing it) makes me think maybe their newer tracks? I dunno.

Still reckon he would have been doing more promo stuff if he was ramping up for a new era (and tbh he deserves a break at this point)

[dentalplan]

Stormzy ‘#Merky Takeover’ headlining Snowbombing. Dunno what that means, or what it means for Glastonbury, but he’s playing festivals next year if that was ever in doubt.

[StupidDream]

14 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

The owner donates hundreds of g’s to the Republican Party so might as well be.

Good to know, not that I have any intention in ever going. 

Following this year, they seem to embrace the whole rock-music-is-dead-thing. Still rumours though, reads like a good educated guess. Childish Gambino bit surprising how fast he's growing. 

[dentalplan]

Stormzy ‘#Merky Takeover’ headlining Snowbombing. Dunno what that means, or what it means for Glastonbury, but he’s playing festivals next year if that was ever in doubt.

[dentalplan]

1 minute ago, StupidDream said:

Good to know, not that I have any intention in ever going. 

Following this year, they seem to embrace the whole rock-music-is-dead-thing. Still rumours though, reads like a good educated guess. Childish Gambino bit surprising how fast he's growing. 

He’s already a headliner in America so it isn’t really anything new. It seems like he’s about to ‘retire’ so Coachella could well be his last shows as Childish Gambino.

They could probably do with adding a rock name back in because those three together are positively boring.