2019 Headliners

[mufcok]

3 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

I think it's likely that if someone in a fairly minor band has heard something, word would be reaching me from various directions too.

Then again, someone has always has to be first to have a nugget of info, so that doesn't mean what twitter girl is saying is wrong.

So currently I'm more inclined to disbelieve it than believe it, but that only stands until I get the next bit of info.

Yeah fair enough. I wait with bated breath..

[Little Andy]

5 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

I think it's likely that if someone in a fairly minor band has heard something, word would be reaching me from various directions too.

Then again, someone has always has to be first to have a nugget of info, so that doesn't mean what twitter girl is saying is wrong.

So currently I'm more inclined to disbelieve it than believe it, but that only stands until I get the next bit of info.

How much waiting is waiting before the lack of extra word renders twitter girl a fibber?

[TheNoise]

2 minutes ago, Little Andy said:

How much waiting is waiting before the lack of extra word renders twitter girl a fibber?

Until all three headliners are announced.

[eFestivals]

3 minutes ago, Little Andy said:

How much waiting is waiting before the lack of extra word renders twitter girl a fibber?

I've no way of knowing that she is until Macca is announced, if he is.

But even if Macca is never announced, it still doesn't prove she's got the good info unless she gets more explicit about what she's heard.

For all I know at the moment, Macca might have never been in the frame at all and just about everyone has that part wrong.

After all, all anyone really has is gossip.

Edited November 20, 2018 by eFestivals

[Little Andy]

1 minute ago, TheNoise said:

Until all three headliners are announced.

I can't bare it!

Can we say if no extra word comes through by the end of today, Macca is still on?

[ghostdancer1]

2 hours ago, Brunty9 said:

2014 headliners were/are big draws. All very well established. In my eyes, Arcade Fire, Metallica, Kasabian is significantly stronger than Stormzy, Macca, The Cure 

from reading some people on here, you'd think Kasabian and Arcade Fire were unknowns playing to 50 people in pubs when they headlined Glastonbury (see also Mumford and Sons).

Arcade Fire had played multiple arenas on tour here, and already headlined R&L. two UK no.1 albums, and a no.2 album.

Metallica had done multiple arena tours, headlined R&L, Sonisphere, Download, Wembley Stadium...multiple UK no.1 albums.

Kasabian - multiple arenas, headlined R&L, headlined IoW. Four UK no.1 albums, and a no.4 album.

 

The Cure, McCartney and Lady Gaga basically play the same type of gigs here. Stormzy hasn't done anything close to those yet.

 

sure, none of them are Coldplay/Adele/Muse/U2/Ed Sheeran stature regular stadium botherers, multi-million album sellers, but neither are most Glastonbury headliners.

 

there's a lot of rewriting of history on here in general.

 

 

 

[jparx]

1 minute ago, Little Andy said:

I can't bare it!

Can we say if no extra word comes through by the end of today, Macca is still on?

Deal!

[eFestivals]

Just now, Little Andy said:

Can we say if no extra word comes through by the end of today, Macca is still on?

nope, not really. How quickly something gets around depends on how quickly people are spreading it.

[mufcok]

I'm not sure on the Macca 2020 shouts as well, that's over a year and a half away.. the guy's 76

[TheNoise]

How about bumping Kylie up to headliner and putting Lynyrd Skynyrd in the Legends slot ? They're around at that time and Freebird and Sweet Home Alabama would be wonderful at the pyramid stage. Or even Status Quo, who are supporting them.

[Little Andy]

3 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

nope, not really. How quickly something gets around depends on how quickly people are spreading it.

Darn. You've totally nailed how to ensure people keep reading your website.

[eFestivals]

Just now, TheNoise said:

Status Quo

if it's not-Queen, then surely it's also not-Status Quo?

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[TheNoise]

Just now, eFestivals said:

if it's not-Queen, then surely it's also not-Status Quo?

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It's even less Lynyrd Skynyrd, but I'd take them over Quo any day.

[henry bear]

4 minutes ago, mufcok said:

I'm not sure on the Macca 2020 shouts as well, that's over a year and a half away.. the guy's 76

I’ve thought that all along. I can’t really think of an obvious reason why, assuming he was booked for 2019, he’d now pull out. I don’t buy he’d do it to play a few more US dates, especially given his connections with the Eavii. I think he’s either doing it, or he never was in the first place. Time will tell when extra dates are announced for either Europe or the US. Or Glastonbury of course. 

[mufcok]

1 minute ago, henry bear said:

I’ve thought that all along. I can’t really think of an obvious reason why, assuming he was booked for 2019, he’d now pull out. I don’t buy he’d do it to play a few more US dates, especially given his connections with the Eavii. I think he’s either doing it, or he never was in the first place. Time will tell when extra dates are announced for either Europe or the US. Or Glastonbury of course. 

Yeah I tend to agree. The comments from Emily and him, plus taking everything else into account does point to him doing it but I'm also looking at it through the eyes of someone desperate for him to do it

[Bradders]

The woman off twitter almost definitely isn’t lying, you can just tell from her demeanour with it. That still doesn’t mean it’s true though. I know people in “the industry” and I also work sort of in the industry, and I know more about Glasto rumours from coming on here than anything else.

People tell me all sorts of things that they’ve heard which I know are wrong. It’s all just gossip as Neil said, but because they’re not as obsessed as us it’s often even less fact-checked and just Chinese whispered as an interesting thing they heard.

[Johnnyseven]

1 hour ago, stuartbert two hats said:

You're right about how white they are.  I don't think Robert Smith has a funky bone in his body.

The Lovecats disagree with you, although they didn't play it at BST.

[Little Andy]

6 minutes ago, Bradders said:

The woman off twitter almost definitely isn’t lying, you can just tell from her demeanour with it. That still doesn’t mean it’s true though. I know people in “the industry” and I also work sort of in the industry, and I know more about Glasto rumours from coming on here than anything else.

People tell me all sorts of things that they’ve heard which I know are wrong. It’s all just gossip as Neil said, but because they’re not as obsessed as us it’s often even less fact-checked and just Chinese whispered as an interesting thing they heard.

Here's hoping it was Chinese whispers

Person A : "The Streets are playing Glastonbury, right?"
Person B : "Not any more, Mike has pulled out"
Person A : "Wow! Hey person C, did you hear? Mike has pulled out of Glastonbury!"
Person C : "Macca's pulled out of Glastonbury? Wow! Thats going straight on my twitter account!"
Everyone at efestivals : "Twitter says Macca has pulled out. Lady Gaga is headlining instead!"

 

[tomainley]

It does always amaze me how great this website and the people that use it at figuring out who will be playing each year.

Speculating Glastonbury line ups is so much fun ?

[nikkic]

I can’t keep up with this thread, can somebody please give me a synopsis of the last 30 odd pages?! 

[eFestivals]

7 minutes ago, nikkic said:

I can’t keep up with this thread, can somebody please give me a synopsis of the last 30 odd pages?! 

no one knows who's headlining.

[RarerThanDandyB]

Just now, eFestivals said:

no one knows who's headlining.

Aside from Storm Z

[nikkic]

6 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

no one knows who's headlining.

Grand. Thanks. 

[MetaKate]

Some solid looking info on macca doing bonnaroo with arctic monkeys. 

The info says Macca kept pulling out and then coming back to the table and asking for more, but now hes finally signed. I wonder if he tried to pull the same thing with glasto and they werent having it?

https://m.imgur.com/a/VmULMvY

Edited November 20, 2018 by MetaKate
Added info link

[whitehorses]

I’m sure you’ve all talked about this a million times, but what’s a ballpark £ figure for a Pyramid headliner?