2019 Headliners

[RarerThanDandyB]

11 hours ago, CJTM said:

TBA for Germany shows the week before. It takes another turn

Seems Tame Impala are nailed. Happy for that, opposite Stormzy and I will watch.

[Gucci Piggy]

16 minutes ago, RarerThanDandyB said:

Seems Tame Impala are nailed. Happy for that, opposite Stormzy and I will watch.

Hardly nailed. They've already subbed so if they played they'd either be repeating the same slot or taking a sideways move to Other headliner. Doesn't seem a great idea if they have ambitions of headlining the Pyramid anytime soon

Kevin Parker mentioned it in an interview not long back and said he was talking to his manager about it because headlining Other had been spoken about, and said something like "But we've had a taste of the Pyramid now!" which could be taken as him not wanting to take a non-Pyramid slot.

And again, unless they've gone for two indie bands headlining Other (which I don't see happening), it'd mean they'd been approached after Wolf Alice, which would be all kinds of dumb.

There are loads of festivals around Glastonbury; being in Europe the weekend before doesn't mean a whole lot.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

1 hour ago, MetaKate said:

They're the worst band I've ever seen live also. Didnt even do an encore (and it wasn't a festival). They seemed like real dicks on stage.

KoL only have themselves to blame. Off the back of the first two fantastic albums, despite minimal crowd engagement and lack of encores their live performances were great. Then they released the radio-friendly Only By The Night and it attracted a whole new audience who were only there to hear Sex On Fire and Use Somebody. I recall them complaining during their first Reading headline slot (can't remember the year) about the cold and lack of crowd response. Live by the radio, die by the radio. 

[Superscally]

6 hours ago, RarerThanDandyB said:

So who ya gonna call?

GHOSTBUSTERS!!

[Hugh Jass]

5 minutes ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

KoL only have themselves to blame. Off the back of the first two fantastic albums, despite minimal crowd engagement and lack of encores their live performances were great. Then they released the radio-friendly Only By The Night and it attracted a whole new audience who were only there to hear Sex On Fire and Use Somebody. I recall them complaining during their first Reading headline slot (can't remember the year) about the cold and lack of crowd response. Live by the radio, die by the radio. 

Quick bit of pedantry, OBTN was the fourth album. Because of the Times was the third and just as good as the first two. After that they fell off a cliff spectacularly.

[Keithy]

12 hours ago, CJTM said:

 

Interesting that Wolf Alice are on there. I thought someone who knew them had posted they were taking the summer off.

[Gucci Piggy]

Just now, Keithy said:

Interesting that Wolf Alice are on there. I thought someone who knew them had posted they were taking the summer off.

They're not on the actual lineup, just the one posted by Foos. Probably not actually playing.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

Just now, Hugh Jass said:

Quick bit of pedantry, OBTN was the fourth album. Because of the Times was the third and just as good as the first two. After that they fell off a cliff spectacularly.

I knew that, just probably didn't word it correctly. BOTT was their transition album and still enjoyable tbf

[Hugh Jass]

1 minute ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

I knew that, just probably didn't word it correctly. BOTT was their transition album and still enjoyable tbf

We all know it went wrong the moment they shaved their beards off.

[Doug85]

30 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

Quick bit of pedantry, OBTN was the fourth album. Because of the Times was the third and just as good as the first two. After that they fell off a cliff spectacularly.

Because of the times was a great album  (not as good as Aha shake though) but it started getting them noticed a lot more as some songs were used for adverts and in films* so when they went for the stadium anthems in Only by the night it killed them off for me- anything since then has been well below par. Can't believe they are headlining any festivals these days.

* Distinctly remember Taper Jean Girl from Aha Shake being used in some films that came out a bit later that probably made them much more widespread.

 

[kingbadger]

So there's 4 rumoured headliners on the Latitude rumours page, including The Strokes and George Ezra. With the latter now headlining Isle Of Wight, does that now make The Strokes more likely for Latitude and therefore out of the Glastonbury reckoning? 

[RarerThanDandyB]

5 minutes ago, kingbadger said:

So there's 4 rumoured headliners on the Latitude rumours page, including The Strokes and George Ezra. With the latter now headlining Isle Of Wight, does that now make The Strokes more likely for Latitude and therefore out of the Glastonbury reckoning? 

They could do both and Ezra could easily do Latitude also. 

[mufcok]

No AM at Isle of White as some, including myself, thought could happen with the 'iconic June festival line'. Still don't see them doing Glastonbury this time

[stuartbert two hats]

7 hours ago, RarerThanDandyB said:

So who ya gonna call?

Ghostbusters

[RarerThanDandyB]

5 minutes ago, mufcok said:

No AM at Isle of White as some, including myself, thought could happen with the 'iconic June festival line'. Still don't see them doing Glastonbury this time

Weird one that. Could happen, I’d say they are third, fourth favourites now.

[Gucci Piggy]

Just now, RarerThanDandyB said:

Weird one that. Could happen, I’d say they are third, fourth favourites now.

Isn't that weird. Most common thought was that it referred to Bonnaroo and the latest rumour was that they'd pulled their June US dates.

[Honeybane]

1 minute ago, RarerThanDandyB said:

Weird one that. Could happen, I’d say they are third, fourth favourites now.

i'm starting to think it could be them tbh

[RarerThanDandyB]

5 minutes ago, mufcok said:

No AM at Isle of White as some, including myself, thought could happen with the 'iconic June festival line'. Still don't see them doing Glastonbury this time

Weird one that. Could happen, I’d say they are third, fourth favourites now.

[eFestivals]

25 minutes ago, kingbadger said:

So there's 4 rumoured headliners on the Latitude rumours page, including The Strokes and George Ezra. With the latter now headlining Isle Of Wight, does that now make The Strokes more likely for Latitude and therefore out of the Glastonbury reckoning? 

if any of those are wrong as the headliner it's The Strokes, I'm pretty sure. I've had the same info on the other 3 from more than one direction.

[RarerThanDandyB]

Just now, eFestivals said:

if any of those are wrong as the headliner it's The Strokes, I'm pretty sure. I've had the same info on the other 3 from more than one direction.

Do you reckon they’d do both?

[dentalplan]

Just now, eFestivals said:

if any of those are wrong as the headliner it's The Strokes, I'm pretty sure. I've had the same info on the other 3 from more than one direction.

Someone said they’d heard again this weekend that The Strokes were at APE over on that thread.

[Hugh Jass]

1 minute ago, RarerThanDandyB said:

Do you reckon they’d do both?

$$$$$

[RarerThanDandyB]

Money’s been lumped on The Killers, they are now Sky Bets second favourites after The Cure to headline...

[RarerThanDandyB]

1 minute ago, Hugh Jass said:

$$$$$

Very true Hugh.

[Honeybane]

3 minutes ago, RarerThanDandyB said:

Money’s been lumped on The Killers, they are now Sky Bets second favourites after The Cure to headline...

they aren't touring though, this is what i don't understand