2019 Headliners

[Hugh Jass]

1 minute ago, HeyPorter said:

Same can go for Wombats, Kooks and Bastille. 

We need to get that bugger back up, pronto.

 

[HeyPorter]

2 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

We need to get that bugger back up, pronto.

 

 

[Ayrshire Chris]

3 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

We need to get that bugger back up, pronto.

 

As the Mexicans would say, we aren’t fucking paying for it. 

[Guest]

I know a friend who knows a person who wears shorts in the Summer & it’s ....

Lady Gaga / Fleetwood Mac

 

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, ITK19889 said:

I know a friend who knows a person who wears shorts in the Summer & it’s ....

Lady Gaga / Fleetwood Mac

This reads like a bad Twitter AI trying to generate a riddle.

[H.M.V]

Shorts are for life not just summer. 

[MJP]

2 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

The Hunna will be sure to blow the roof off of the Scottish Power Fun Tent.

I'd love to see The Hunna live

[Hawros]

15 hours ago, chemica said:

Catfish and the Bottlemen are headlining TRSNMT. Where does that leave them?

Edit: Beaten to this bang-average joke, twice.

Edited February 19, 2019 by Hawros

[blazingstars]

The Cure and The Killers seem to have been the favourites for a while now. How often by this stage have you guys nailed the headliners?

[Hawros]

Just now, blazingstars said:

The Cure and The Killers seem to have been the favourites for a while now. How often by this stage have you guys nailed the headliners?

I think it was only last Monday that The Killers firmed up. Before then a lot were pretty sure it was the Strokes...

[blazingstars]

Oh okay. So still some uncertainty then. But as a forum do you often get it right or usually at least one wrong? This is my first year in these ends

[Hugh Jass]

1 minute ago, blazingstars said:

The Cure and The Killers seem to have been the favourites for a while now. How often by this stage have you guys nailed the headliners?

Depends on the year, sometimes we've got all three pretty much agreed by now (2016). Others we may only have one or two, and sometimes we get late, late into the day before we know (The Who 2015).

[CJTM]

13 minutes ago, blazingstars said:

Oh okay. So still some uncertainty then. But as a forum do you often get it right or usually at least one wrong? This is my first year in these ends

take everything with a pint of salt*

*that @Hugh Jass says

[eFestivals]

20 minutes ago, blazingstars said:

But as a forum do you often get it right or usually at least one wrong? 

depends who you mean. There's usually someone who's posted the right names ... tho whether they really knew that at the time is another thing.  

The info for anyone is only ever as good as the sources, and even the best ones can sometimes get it wrong. It is, after all, gossip.

(back in 2015 I was told by someone who very definitely knew that it was The Who several weeks before their late announcement ... which I dismissed because they had a show in Paris booked in. Ho-hum).

[CJTM]

3 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

(back in 2015 I was told by someone who very definitely knew that it was The Who several weeks before their late announcement ... which I dismissed because they had a show in Paris booked in. Ho-hum).

Is The Who person the same person that has passed on The Cure/Killers? or mentioned anything for this year that we don't yet know

[eFestivals]

Just now, CJTM said:

Is The Who person the same person that has passed on The Cure/Killers? or mentioned anything for this year that we don't yet know

Nope, different people.

There's a number of regular people who tell me stuff, but they can only tell me stuff they get to hear, and what they're hearing is essentially gossip - tho often from people directly connected to the situation being gossiped about.

The same guy told me The Cure & Macca, tho that had come to him from two different sources he knew, one with 'the cure and macca' and the other with just 'the cure' - and one of them definitely turned out to be wrong. I don't have any way of know which might be wrong until something proves it wrong.

The Killers info has come to me from someone else, who has told me loads of spot-on stuff over a few years, but that info has come to him from someone a little further away gossip-wise than much of his other stuff. It should be right but it might not be. I'll only really know for sure if/when it's announced.

[henry bear]

16 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

The Killers info has come to me from someone else, who has told me loads of spot-on stuff over a few years, but that info has come to him from someone a little further away gossip-wise than much of his other stuff. It should be right but it might not be. I'll only really know for sure if/when it's announced.

Fingers crossed on that one then. 

[incident]

57 minutes ago, blazingstars said:

Oh okay. So still some uncertainty then. But as a forum do you often get it right or usually at least one wrong? This is my first year in these ends

Just as an example of how people in the know can be wrong and/or things can change unexpectedly - I think I may have posted part of this before but not the whole thing.

I've rarely had "inside information". The one year I very definitely thought I did was in 2005 - it was going to be U2. I first heard this in early 2004, even before Michael started name dropping them and the public speculation started, because at the time I knew someone who worked for the company that was doing their merchandise - he was as certain as he could be that it was going ahead, because they'd actually been commissioned to provide draft ideas for U2 / Glastonbury 2005 T-Shirts, and work and communication regarding this was going on throughout 2004.

Right up until one day when they signed an exclusive big money worldwide "touring and more" deal with Clear Channel, and all other plans including Glastonbury were instantly off the table. All contracts with said merchandise company were cancelled as part of the deal as well. To this day I still think that they agreed to do it (albeit without a contract being signed), and pulled out.

So yeah, my point in this - even theoretically rock solid sources can be wrong if events overtake them.

[Krisesk]

Transmit headliners have me willing to fully accept The Killers and The Cure without any complaints.

[Ayrshire Chris]

The cure and the killers certainly will attract a decent pyramid crowd.  There are still folk who think  trnsmt has still to add headliners! 

[Guest]

Still not buying this Killers rumour, if they were really that stuck for headliners then why would they have Kylie on the Legend's slot? I'd say she's the only Legend so far who's capable of headlining the joint, bit crazy to have her play as a non headliner if your top line is a sausage fest and 2 out of 3 sausages played the last fest in non headline positions.

[Woffy]

6 minutes ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

Still not buying this Killers rumour, if they were really that stuck for headliners then why would they have Kylie on the Legend's slot? I'd say she's the only Legend so far who's capable of headlining the joint, bit crazy to have her play as a non headliner if your top line is a sausage fest and 2 out of 3 sausages played the last fest in non headline positions.

Good point Lawn.

Bangers > Sausages. Obvs. 

[dentalplan]

22 minutes ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

Still not buying this Killers rumour, if they were really that stuck for headliners then why would they have Kylie on the Legend's slot? I'd say she's the only Legend so far who's capable of headlining the joint, bit crazy to have her play as a non headliner if your top line is a sausage fest and 2 out of 3 sausages played the last fest in non headline positions.

She’s doing a similar run of shows to Chic and Hacienda Classical. She’s got a headline set in her but 2019 headliner she ain’t. Pretty much exactly what the Legend’s Slot is for.

Don’t see why it particularly matters about the three headliners being all male if the act that’s gonna steal the show away from them is a woman.

[Superscally]

26 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

She’s doing a similar run of shows to Chic and Hacienda Classical. She’s got a headline set in her but 2019 headliner she ain’t. Pretty much exactly what the Legend’s Slot is for.

Don’t see why it particularly matters about the three headliners being all male if the act that’s gonna steal the show away from them is a woman.

Why isn't she headliner material? I fucking guarantee you she'd pull a bigger crowd than the Killers who are clearly being downgraded from first degree murder to manslaughter by negligence by the day...

[gherkin8r]

I'm as disappointed with the killers as anyone but Kylie as a headliner? Legend is far too strong for me and all.