2019 Headliners

[Avalon_Fields]

10 hours ago, Stokesy10 said:

If The Strokes are playing I'm getting naked.

I’m getting The Strokes are playing naked...

[The Nal]

Sorry folks but The Strokes released one overrated album nearly 20 years ago. They cant headline based off that. 

[stuartbert two hats]

Just now, The Nal said:

Sorry folks but The Strokes released one overrated album nearly 20 years ago. They cant headline based off that. 

Truth.

[Hugh Jass]

Just now, The Nal said:

Sorry folks but The Strokes released one overrated album nearly 20 years ago. They cant headline based off that. 

Worked for Oasis...

<Runs off>

[CaledonianGonzo]

Oasis had an 18 month window when they were a watchable live act.

[whitehorses]

Had to google The Strokes to remind myself which songs were theirs. Pretty unmemorable period of sameness... 

[Guest]

The Strokes at Leeds the last time they headlined remains the very worst live performance I've ever seen.

[CaledonianGonzo]

It shouldn't be possible, but one time I saw The Strokes and by about a third of the way through the gig every single one of them had fallen asleep.

[Hugh Jass]

11 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Oasis had an 18 month window when they were a watchable live act.

Yeah I know, it was a very tongue in cheek comment.

[dentalplan]

Maybe they should run around shouting “yeahhhhh!”.

[Hugh Jass]

I maintain that they were good at BST a couple of years ago.

[Acid Loafers]

Saw The Strokes at Benicassim 2011, a memory I had thought I completely managed to erase from my memory.

[CaledonianGonzo]

One of their more memorable shows?

[The Nal]

11 minutes ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

The Strokes at Leeds the last time they headlined remains the very worst live performance I've ever seen.

Saw them in 05 ish and was awful too. However I saw Albert Hammond Jnr live before and he was pretty good. 

[Yokel Again]

The Strokes won't be headlining Glastonbury. 

[incident]

35 minutes ago, The Nal said:

Sorry folks but The Strokes released one overrated single nearly 20 years ago. They cant headline based off that. 

FTFY

[stuartbert two hats]

30 minutes ago, caballosblancos said:

Had to google The Strokes to remind myself which songs were theirs. Pretty unmemorable period of sameness... 

They did Last Night.  And.... err.... some other songs?

[Anarion]

Is This It was a masterpiece, as The Nal so succinctly noted, but everyone who has spent more than five minutes on The Strokes know that Room On Fire is their best record.

[DickButkis]

10 minutes ago, Anarion said:

Is This It was a masterpiece, as The Nal so succinctly noted, but everyone who has spent more than five minutes on The Strokes know that Room On Fire is their best record.

Truth

[CaledonianGonzo]

I'm not so sure that that's what The Nal was noting.

[StupidDream]

According to this https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/12/the-strokes-global-comeback-2019/ they won't even be headlining the Other Stage since they'd be starting their tour at BBK in July.

[mcshed]

41 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

It shouldn't be possible, but one time I saw The Strokes and by about a third of the way through the gig every single one of them had fallen asleep.

Although you jest Casablancas did end up having a lie down under the drum riser for a couple of tunes at T in the Park 2004.

[Xeph1995]

32 minutes ago, Anarion said:

Is This It was a masterpiece, as The Nal so succinctly noted, but everyone who has spent more than five minutes on The Strokes know that Room On Fire is their best record.

Nothing the strokes have released is close to a Masterpiece to be quite honest. 

[Anarion]

1 minute ago, Xeph1995 said:

Nothing the strokes have released is close to a Masterpiece to be quite honest.

I think people must have forgotten all the crap nu-metal and post grunge crap we had to endure before The Strokes saved rock with Is This It.

It instantly changed mainstream music in both the US and the UK, and went on to influence many great bands. It's possible to discuss if it's a masterpiece or not, but its position in music history can't be denied.

 

 

[DarthSaul]

3 minutes ago, Anarion said:

I think people must have forgotten all the crap nu-metal and post grunge crap we had to endure before The Strokes saved rock with Is This It.

It instantly changed mainstream music in both the US and the UK, and went on to influence many great bands. It's possible to discuss if it's a masterpiece or not, but its position in music history can't be denied.

 

 

Absolutely. Even if they aren't the best at what they do, they influenced a lot of bands in to doing it better.