2019 Headliners

[FuzzyDunlop]

43 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

'15 and '16 werent great were they? Yuck.

Radiohead last time round restored my faith however. Crystal clear audio and unless you were up the front an absolute blancmange visually.

Trippy and fabulous.

I had a ticket for Radiohead at Old Trafford for later in the year, so I watched The Flaming Lips on the Park. I heard mixed reviews of Radiohead... but when I watched it back - it looked good. 

[JayBeeis]

23 minutes ago, thewayiam said:

If The Strokes are at APE, they aren't headlining Glastonbury, sub at the most.

Hope they do Glasto none the less

[sisco]

19 minutes ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

Less likely to headline if anything but definitely doesn't rule them out

Surely Glastonbury aren’t going to have 3 of the APE headers?! Christine and the Queens, The Strokes and The Chemical Brothers all heavily linked.  

Not sure that’ll be right. 

[mufcok]

The more I think about it and looking at previous APE headliners, I think my hopes have just been knocked down a peg or two

[Hugh Jass]

2 minutes ago, sisco said:

Surely Glastonbury aren’t going to have 3 of the APE headers?! Christine and the Queens, The Strokes and The Chemical Brothers all heavily linked.  

Not sure that’ll be right. 

Don't see why not, it's not like any of them are exclusive and of those three only one will headline.

[Stokesy10]

14 minutes ago, thisisthesam said:

Drake?

At £140 a pop for standing, I imagine his fee is a tad expensive.

Is that honestly what he's charging? Incredible. Utter dog shit "artist".

[sisco]

Just now, Hugh Jass said:

Don't see why not, it's not like any of them are exclusive and of those three only one will headline.

Wasn’t really talking from Glastonbury’s point of view it was more from APE.  Hardly a great selling point that you can see all our headers at another festival.  

[Hugh Jass]

1 minute ago, sisco said:

Wasn’t really talking from Glastonbury’s point of view it was more from APE.  Hardly a great selling point that you can see all our headers at another festival.  

Depending on how they're selling they could always ask GF to leave Christine and/or the Chems off of the first poster.

[eFestivals]

2 minutes ago, sisco said:

Wasn’t really talking from Glastonbury’s point of view it was more from APE.  Hardly a great selling point that you can see all our headers at another festival.  

but only if you already have a ticket.

And anyway, as one-day events in the middle of a major city they're mainly selling to a different market.

[mufcok]

I know APE hasn't been going that long (to my knowledge) but from what I can see from previous lineups it seems to be Pyramid sub/Other headliners topping the bill from what I can see. I really can't see The Strokes accepting a sub slot at Glastonbury if they're headlining everywhere else they play

[emmo88]

First time poster! Been reading this forum since 2014. 

Not sure if it’s been discussed, but is there no chance Bon Iver could be headlining? Arguably much bigger than most mentioned. Would be divisive I’m sure, but perfect headliner for me!

[Garrett_Salas]

Is there a chance that Foals have been overlooked a bit too easily?

[sisco]

7 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

but only if you already have a ticket.

And anyway, as one-day events in the middle of a major city they're mainly selling to a different market.

Yeah I do appreciate it, but it’d still surprise me if at least 3 of their headliners play prominent spots at the same festival. 

[kingbadger]

Them doing APE makes them less likely for sure I reckon. 

Gonna go ape myself when Glastonbury #AnnounceGaGa

[eFestivals]

2 minutes ago, sisco said:

Yeah I do appreciate it, but it’d still surprise me if at least 3 of their headliners play prominent spots at the same festival. 

It wouldn't me. The nature of things is that there's only so many bands to go round, and with Glastonbury having such a big line-up it's impossible not to have a lot of acts at both.

And if APE wants exclusive that's going to cost them more to book that act - which is probably pretty risky when they couldn't sell out many of last year's shows when there wasn't the competition of Glastonbury.

[mufcok]

I'm gonna go APE if they're announced for that, 100%. If they do end up doing Glastonbury then it'll be a big added bonus

[BambooShanks]

3 minutes ago, kingbadger said:

Them doing APE makes them less likely for sure I reckon. 

Gonna go ape myself when Glastonbury #AnnounceGaGa

I hope you're right on both counts.  Gaga is a much more exciting headliner than The Strokes IMO. 

[dentalplan]

41 minutes ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

Less likely to headline if anything but definitely doesn't rule them out

If they have a headline slot somewhere else, they’re not taking a lower paying, lower slot at Glastonbury. I think if anything it’s ruled out the chances of that.

I would say the headline slot is still on the table. It’s quite clear that all six APE headliners aren’t the same size as one another - just like The Killers and Solange aren’t equal headliners, nor are Florence and whoever else is headlining Boardmasters this year - so any equations like ‘APE headliner equals Pyramid sub’ is daft.

Also if Glastonbury stops booking headliners that are doing any festival less than about 60k then it’ll run out of headliners pretty fast.

[Hugh Jass]

10 minutes ago, emmo88 said:

First time poster! Been reading this forum since 2014. 

Not sure if it’s been discussed, but is there no chance Bon Iver could be headlining? Arguably much bigger than most mentioned. Would be divisive I’m sure, but perfect headliner for me!

No chance Bon Ivor’s headlining. At least people have actually heard of The Strokes.

[dentalplan]

Kanye coming on to ruin Bon Iver’s headline set.

[shuttlep]

13 minutes ago, emmo88 said:

First time poster! Been reading this forum since 2014. 

Not sure if it’s been discussed, but is there no chance Bon Iver could be headlining? Arguably much bigger than most mentioned. Would be divisive I’m sure, but perfect headliner for me!

I am so Rubbish, are Bon Iver big? do they have a big following , or are they a new band ?

[shuttlep]

2 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

No chance Bon Ivor’s headlining. At least people have actually heard of The Strokes.

I have heard of the strokes, 

 

didn't realise they were still alive, are they doing new music?

[The Martini Police]

15 minutes ago, emmo88 said:

First time poster! Been reading this forum since 2014. 

Not sure if it’s been discussed, but is there no chance Bon Iver could be headlining? Arguably much bigger than most mentioned. Would be divisive I’m sure, but perfect headliner for me!

No chance of Bon Iver playing I'm afraid, they're in the US that weekend.

[JayBeeis]

1 minute ago, shuttlep said:

I am so Rubbish, are Bon Iver big? do they have a big following , or are they a new band ?

Skinny Love 

[ghostdancer1]

1 minute ago, dentalplan said:

Kanye coming on to ruin Bon Iver’s headline set.

i watched the whole Kanye set again recently, it was brilliant up until those 15-20mins in the middle when he killed the vibe completely. take that out, and the 5mins fannying around getting on the boom lift and it would have been excellent.