2019 Headliners

[FuzzyDunlop]

29 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

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

How much of that was for him or for Corbyn? All my mates were there for Corbyn just afterwards.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Probably a bit of both but it definitely got quieter after David went off.

[dentalplan]

44 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

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

Probs not but it’s tough to compare any sort of universally known act playing at 4pm to those headlining the joint.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Ideal compromise would be for The Killers to play The Craig David's Gargantuan Crowd slot and a band not fronted by a child's drawing of Count Dracula to headline.

[thewayiam]

22 minutes ago, FuzzyDunlop said:

How much of that was for him or for Corbyn? All my mates were there for Corbyn just afterwards.

Why would you attend a set you don't like just to hear a politician babble on after for 10 minutes?

[zico martin]

1 minute ago, thewayiam said:

Why would you attend a set you don't like just to hear a politician babble on after for 10 minutes?

I don't think it's a case of people not liking CD but Jeremy was definitely an extra incentive to be at the pyramid at that time.

[stuartbert two hats]

19 hours 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.

It was well known on the day, but from checking the SecretGlasto DMs, we didn't know for sure at noon on the Saturday, although did by 19:09 that evening. I'm sure there were lots of signs in hindsight, but at the time, it wasn't obviously them for most of the festival.

Edit: checking back, the info did actually start to solidify around noon, with a credible tip coming in at 10:30. But the point stands, before the Saturday The Killers wasn't well known. I spoke to a steward at JPT itself  (can't remember the day) who seemed very excited at the prospect when I told her. It was clearly news to her.

Edited February 23, 2019 by stuartbert two hats

[thewayiam]

1 hour ago, zico martin said:

I don't think it's a case of people not liking CD but Jeremy was definitely an extra incentive to be at the pyramid at that time.

A lot of people moved out after CD....the field was much more sparse. Personally not arsed by Corbyn.

[MrHew]

15 hours ago, addicted2noise said:

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).

Got to admit, that had completely passed me by until now.

[dentalplan]

13 minutes ago, MrHew said:

Got to admit, that had completely passed me by until now.

Really? I remember quite a lot about it. There was an initial thing about the incident, then both LG and his girlfriend refuted it and threatened to sue whichever paper, and then sources close to Noel said that Oasis are definitely never reuniting because of Noel’s disgust...

Admittedly, Google thinks I’m absolutely barmy about the Gallaghers and ships me every news story about them, but I thought it was pretty big news.

@addicted2noise I think the furore was nipped in the bud by his gf saying it wasn’t true. Video looked pretty damning but don’t know what else can be gleaned from it when they’ve both said it’s not the case. Don’t think it’d have sunk a Glasto slot though, going by Emily’s comments about Johnny Depp.’s booking.

[Superscally]

13 hours ago, thewayiam said:

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 

Fair.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Most bands wouldn't really feel like they'd need to debase themselves in such fashion. But then most bands aren't fronted by a claymation version of Alvin Stardust.

[EamerRed]

22 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

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

Couldn't you say the same about Blossoms? Their crowd was pretty damn big - you can't always read into crowd sizes.

[CaledonianGonzo]

I wasn't there........but Craig David still owned Blossoms.

[sime]

21 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

I wasn't there........but Craig David still owned Blossoms.

Nobody owns Blossoms...

[nikkic]

Rag and Bone also had an inexplicably large crowd last time around. 

Lots of people just like shit music. 

[Woffy]

49 minutes ago, nikkic said:

Rag and Bone also had an inexplicably large crowd last time around. 

Lots of people just like shit music. 

Aka: The Inexplicable Newton Faulkner Effect. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Mind when Hozier got a bigger crowd than any of the 2015 headliners.

[ghostdancer1]

2 hours ago, nikkic said:

Rag and Bone also had an inexplicably large crowd last time around. 

Lots of people just like shit music. 

he was playing at 3 in the afternoon against, essentially, a load of nobodies. a few mainstream radio hits, and against acts that most people have never heard of during the day means massive crowds.

put Rag and Bone Man or Craig David on at 10pm and they obviously wouldn't have had even half the crowds they did. CD played in Sonic the previous year...

even Liam Gallagher's crowd size had a lot to do with being on before "prime time".

[addicted2noise]

22 hours ago, dentalplan said:

 

@addicted2noise I think the furore was nipped in the bud by his gf saying it wasn’t true. Video looked pretty damning but don’t know what else can be gleaned from it when they’ve both said it’s not the case. Don’t think it’d have sunk a Glasto slot though, going by Emily’s comments about Johnny Depp.’s booking.

I guess if his gf isn't concerned about it then there isn't really an issue (although being his publicist she's might be concerned her career will suffer too if his goes under). The Sun didn't come out great from it either I suppose but I just found it a bit odd how much he denied it even happened and then after the video evidence came out he just disappeared from twitter for a week and carried on like nothing ever happened.  

[thewayiam]

3 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

I wasn't there........but Craig David still owned Blossoms.

Tbf he owned most people that day, it was just a great sun out afternoon set.

36 minutes ago, ghostdancer1 said:

he was playing at 3 in the afternoon against, essentially, a load of nobodies. a few mainstream radio hits, and against acts that most people have never heard of during the day means massive crowds.

put Rag and Bone Man or Craig David on at 10pm and they obviously wouldn't have had even half the crowds they did. CD played in Sonic the previous year...

even Liam Gallagher's crowd size had a lot to do with being on before "prime time".

Everyone at the sold out instantly arena shoes then finburys says hi ?

[Ayrshire Chris]

3 hours ago, nikkic said:

Rag and Bone also had an inexplicably large crowd last time around. 

Lots of people just like shit music. 

There only human after all 

[K2SO]

I was talking to someone about Glastonbury's headliners for 2019 last night, and I just really can't get my head around the choices... I feel like Stormzy, The Cure and The Killers would be one of the most underwhelming lineups I cam remember. It's not even like there's an element of "I'd be interested to see what happens", like it was with the likes of Metallica or Kanye.

I'm living in the hope right now that they have completely pulled the wool over our eyes and they are going to drop a big name that none of us are expecting.

I just really hope there's something else that I want to watch on at the same time. I was disappointed in 2017 because there wasn't a headliner on any stage that I actually wanted to watch, and just ended up going to stuff by default

[FloorFiller]

8 minutes ago, K2SO said:

I was talking to someone about Glastonbury's headliners for 2019 last night, and I just really can't get my head around the choices... I feel like Stormzy, The Cure and The Killers would be one of the most underwhelming lineups I cam remember. It's not even like there's an element of "I'd be interested to see what happens", like it was with the likes of Metallica or Kanye.

Stormzy is the big ‘curiosity’ headliners of this year, but more because he’s untested as a headliners of Glastonbury’s size more than anything else. It’s definitely a weird, uninspired and un-Glastonbury set of headliners if it’s what we get, but also unlike most years, there’s a big lack of ‘well *** is touring/headlining festivals so why haven’t they booked them?’ acts. As bland a trio as it may seem, I’m hard pressed to think who else they realistically could’ve/should’ve got once we remove Fleetwood Mac/Madonna/Gaga/acts who were always just pipe dreams. It’s just an unusually lacking year for headliner sized acts touring.

[stuartbert two hats]

44 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

There only human after all 

Or are they dancers?