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2019 Headliners


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2 hours ago, RarerThanDandyB said:

If Arctics announce Bock Rock, Lollapalooza Paris and FBI Benicassim doesn't that contradict ArcticMonkeysUS information and put them back in the frame for Glastonbury? @eFestivals

IOW have an announcement this week as well I think, tickets back on sale Friday 9AM

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9 minutes ago, CJTM said:

IOW have an announcement this week as well I think, tickets back on sale Friday 9AM

See if it's an exclusive.

1 minute ago, sisco said:

I thought CATBM (if it’s not Wolf Alice)

Pyramid sub I think but there is a chance, I think they would ram that field out...I don't think they'll be booked 3rd time Other though.

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1 minute ago, sisco said:

Exactly the same opinion mate 

If they were booked 3rd time Other, day shouldn't really matter but it would be poor if it wasn't Saturday or Sunday but at the same Stormzy makes most sense if they did that. I guess if The Strokes are one though and Noel ends up one they can't be.

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39 minutes ago, sisco said:

Talking of Wolf Alice..... any news?

Turned it down from what i've been told, taking most of the year off now, first break they've had as a band really in 7 odd years.

Not sure if they can defer until next year? - that's just me asking that. 

Did you hear anything on them @eFestivals

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43 minutes ago, CJTM said:

Turned it down from what i've been told, taking most of the year off now, first break they've had as a band really in 7 odd years.

Not sure if they can defer until next year? - that's just me asking that. 

Did you hear anything on them @eFestivals

Not surprised they have.  Need a break don’t they. 

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1 hour ago, CJTM said:

Turned it down from what i've been told, taking most of the year off now, first break they've had as a band really in 7 odd years.

Not sure if they can defer until next year? - that's just me asking that. 

Did you hear anything on them @eFestivals

Aye if they were offered it for 2019 without a new album I'd be surprised if Glasto didn't let them decide to just take it in 2020 instead with a new album, unless they don't wanna book them that far in advance in case they bomb in the meantime somehow.

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On 1/18/2019 at 11:09 AM, jparx said:

Out of all the options, I'd bump up the Chems to headliner. They'd put on a better show than anyone mentioned (aside from Gaga, but I just don't see that happening at all). 

If you're going to end up with three "smaller" headliners than normal, may as well pick the one that would blow away the field. 

It's never going to happen, but that would be staggering, especially with the state of the Pyramid soundsystem these days. Would be utterly unlike their 2000 set from a staging perspective, the technology has moved on so much.

Ahhhh, we can dream.

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Still get the feeling that this is gonna end up like every other year where we think we’re all out of options and gonna end up with a shit/small/underwhelming final headliner and then somebody announces a tour/reforms/comes out of the woodworks and it all falls in to place. 

Or I’m wrong and something either very odd/unexpected happened when booking this years headliners, or something very deliberate to move away from the last decade of mega headliners. 

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15 minutes ago, thewayiam said:

Woah!, how can you even compare Demon Days to Is This It?, not even in the same pool.

 

2 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Because it's a far more creative, varied and enjoyable record.p

Creative no. They both sounded fresh.

Varied? Irrelevant. It's whether it's good.

Enjoyable. Genre based. Both very good, I'm more of a Strokes man though. Moot point though as Turn On The Bright Lights is better than both ?

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4 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

Still get the feeling that this is gonna end up like every other year where we think we’re all out of options and gonna end up with a shit/small/underwhelming final headliner and then somebody announces a tour/reforms/comes out of the woodworks and it all falls in to place. 

Yeah I feel like we've been here before with crazy suggestions and then a really predictable headliner was announced that we'd all just ignored

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13 minutes ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

Yeah I feel like we've been here before with crazy suggestions and then a really predictable headliner was announced that we'd all just ignored

Concerns me that Arctic Monkeys are coming back into focus. They seem an obvious pick, especially with the other two.

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Yeah but normally Paul McCartney doesn't pull out of headlining in a year where the selection of acts doing festivals in Europe is pretty small/naff.

Look at Rock Werchter - P!nk, The Cure, Mumford, Florence, Muse

Look at Mad Cool - Bon Iver, The National/Smashing Pumpkins, The Cure (I doubt they'd go from Pearl Jam/Arctic Monkeys/Jack White/Depeche Mode/QOTSA to this unless there were no bigger options for them)

In fact, The Cure and The Strokes are nigh on the best options at European festivals this year, so what else can you do if you're Glasto?

If Arctic Monkeys get announced for those festivals mentioned earlier then fair enough, they'd make sense and would fit what floorfiller said about things falling into place (even though it'd be a lame booking).

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1 minute ago, Gucci Piggy said:

Yeah but normally Paul McCartney doesn't pull out of headlining in a year where the selection of acts doing festivals in Europe is pretty small/naff.

Look at Rock Werchter - P!nk, The Cure, Mumford, Florence, Muse

Look at Mad Cool - Bon Iver, The National/Smashing Pumpkins, The Cure (I doubt they'd go from Pearl Jam/Arctic Monkeys/Jack White/Depeche Mode/QOTSA to this unless there were no bigger options for them)

In fact, The Cure and The Strokes are nigh on the best options at European festivals this year, so what else can you do if you're Glasto?

If Arctic Monkeys get announced for those festivals mentioned earlier then fair enough, they'd make sense and would fit what floorfiller said about things falling into place (even though it'd be a lame booking).

Get daft punk

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30 minutes ago, Superscally said:

 

Creative no. They both sounded fresh.

Varied? Irrelevant. It's whether it's good.

Enjoyable. Genre based. Both very good, I'm more of a Strokes man though. Moot point though as Turn On The Bright Lights is better than both ?

Not if it gets boring because it's another variation on the same idea over and over.

 

Actually, I'm going to call bullshit on myself. I don't think I've ever actually listened to This Is It the whole way through. I've put on the occasional non "Last Nite" song by them and usually either turn it off or totally tune out before the end. I'll have to actually listen to it now, even if I'm not expecting it to be my thing.

I'll post back with my impressions.

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