2019 Headliners

[chatty]

3 hours ago, forjustoneday said:

In terms of the 'secret set', how secret actually is it? I.e. how long before the 'secret' band play is it revealed/known....

2017 they were all pretty much nailed on weeks innadvance iirc. They even just changed Liam Gs because it was that open a secret. 

[Guest]

Everybody seemed to be saying Libertines on the day, but I didn't trust it until I checked on here. I suppose if you don't know what's a trustworthy source, you're not going to fully buy even the most rampant rumour. The Killers seemed to be a different matter though, didn't the King Gizz chaps even make an obvious reference towards the end of their set? Everybody knew it was The Killers.

[Guest]

3 hours ago, Mouseboy11 said:

Do people think The Cure could headline the Other Stage? The Strokes could then headline the pyramid 

The Cure are far bugger than The Strokes aren't they??

I always though the strokes were a flash in the pan. Nit sure why there is so much hype surrounding them.

[CaledonianGonzo]

"so much" is over-selling it. They only look like an interesting prospect when measured up against The Killers.

[fatyeti24]

1 hour ago, clarkete said:

It's true that it's often leaked a bit, but I was at this one and most of the folks there had no idea who was coming on...
https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/the-libertines-secret-set-was-glastonburys-most-exciting-moment-in-years-heres-why-767640 

I wasn't at that stage, but I didn't find out who it was until the following morning when others in my group told me.  Not that it would have changed what I was doing - I'm not a fan.  I did however get told - and totally swallowed - a wonderful yarn about who was playing by some random in the West Holts field earlier in the day.

[Gnomicide]

45 minutes ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

Everybody seemed to be saying Libertines on the day, but I didn't trust it until I checked on here. I suppose if you don't know what's a trustworthy source, you're not going to fully buy even the most rampant rumour. The Killers seemed to be a different matter though, didn't the King Gizz chaps even make an obvious reference towards the end of their set? Everybody knew it was The Killers.

Frank Carter mentioned them during his set. There was a bit of booing at which point he told the boo-ers to fuck off until they'd written a banger like Mr Brightside.

 

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

Frank Carter mentioned them during his set. There was a bit of booing at which point he told the boo-ers to fuck off until they'd written a banger like Mr Brightside.

They were saying Boo-randon Flowers

[chazwwe]

3 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

Frank Carter mentioned them during his set. There was a bit of booing at which point he told the boo-ers to fuck off until they'd written a banger like Mr Brightside.

 

Got a good laugh out of me that did.

Where have these Stroke 'rumours' come from? Is it just one person saying it would be cool followed by 3 pages of how it would happen/when it would happen? Or is there something to it?

[Hawros]

2 minutes ago, chazwwe said:

Got a good laugh out of me that did.

Where have these Stroke 'rumours' come from? Is it just one person saying it would be cool followed by 3 pages of how it would happen/when it would happen? Or is there something to it?

No. 30 pages.

[Homer]

8 minutes ago, chazwwe said:

Got a good laugh out of me that did.

Where have these Stroke 'rumours' come from? Is it just one person saying it would be cool followed by 3 pages of how it would happen/when it would happen? Or is there something to it?

Grimmy said it twice on the nation's favourite apparently.

[eFestivals]

33 minutes ago, eastynh said:

The Cure are far bugger than The Strokes aren't they??

yep.

The Cure sold out BST last summer, and pretty quick too.

I'll be mildly surprised if The Strokes sell out their APE show which is less than half the size and with a lot more support too, based on how the APE shows sold last summer.

 

[Hugh Jass]

33 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

yep.

The Cure sold out BST last summer, and pretty quick too.

I'll be mildly surprised if The Strokes sell out their APE show which is less than half the size and with a lot more support too, based on how the APE shows sold last summer.

 

With that undercard I’d be very surprised if The Strokes couldn’t shift 40k tickets.

[Homer]

2 hours ago, eFestivals said:

yep.

The Cure sold out BST last summer, and pretty quick too.

I'll be mildly surprised if The Strokes sell out their APE show which is less than half the size and with a lot more support too, based on how the APE shows sold last summer.

 

 

The last time the strokes played Hyde park, I got a couple of those £2.50 tickets they were knocking out

[addicted2noise]

On 2/21/2019 at 10:39 AM, Hugh Jass said:

He's a bit of a special case though (in more ways than one), before his solo comeback he was barely selling out academies with Beady Eye (and they actually had members of Oasis too) but somehow generated a huge wave of enthusiasm for his solo album by sheer force of personality and novelty factor alone, which is pretty impressive. Whether the second album and future tours will be met with the same degree of enthusiasm now he's been around a bit and everyone's had the chance to see him is another question altogether.

I think the Supersonic documentary helped build enthusiasm and led to Warner brothers signing him and investing a million pounds into his solo career which definitely helped. I'm surprised there was so little made of that video of him assaulting his girlfriend last year though considering the current era we're in (NME didn't even report it and they print nearly everything he does).

Edited February 22, 2019 by addicted2noise

[henry bear]

4 hours ago, Homer said:

 

The last time the strokes played Hyde park, I got a couple of those £2.50 tickets they were knocking out

They must have seen you coming 

[Purple aki squat]

My prediction is the strokes doing a set in a tent, a darkish uninterested tent, acting like they’d rather be in a smaller darker even more uninterested tent.

Doing it for real.

[thewayiam]

6 hours ago, Purple aki squat said:

My prediction is the strokes doing a set in a tent, a darkish uninterested tent, acting like they’d rather be in a smaller darker even more uninterested tent.

Doing it for real.

Thing is as well, the buzz behind The Strokes doing a secret JP slot and The Killers won't even be on the same level.

[Superscally]

1 hour ago, thewayiam said:

Thing is as well, the buzz behind The Strokes doing a secret JP slot and The Killers won't even be on the same level.

Yes it would. It'll be another lock out.

[EamerRed]

31 minutes ago, Superscally said:

Yes it would. It'll be another lock out.

It would be another lock out but it wouldn't be as much of a hype as Killers was.

[CaledonianGonzo]

More people still went to see Craig David.

[FuzzyDunlop]

18 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

More people still went to see Craig David.

A good chunk of people just go to the Pyramid though. Would the killers have got a massive crowd there? Id say so. Im definitely not a killers fan either.

[thewayiam]

1 hour ago, Superscally said:

Yes it would. It'll be another lock out.

Well yes but have you seen the size of the JP tent, almost any sub sized band doing a JP set would cause that to happen 

[CaledonianGonzo]

26 minutes ago, FuzzyDunlop said:

A good chunk of people just go to the Pyramid though. Would the killers have got a massive crowd there? Id say so. Im definitely not a killers fan either.

If they headline this year I don't think it'll be as busy as Craig David's Gargantuan Crowd.

[mufcok]

Did we find out if Robert Smith is on with Lauren Laverne Monday or not?

[CaledonianGonzo]

Nothing on the schedule for it:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002rqq