2019 Headliners

[Superscally]

10 hours ago, Gnomicide said:

So much love. ?

[Superscally]

1 hour ago, justperfect said:

Do the festival put TBC or special guest on the first drop poster when the act (whoever it may be) hasn't yet signed on the dotted line or are they already in the bag and being kept back for other reasons?

 

1 hour ago, briddj said:

Both.

?‍♂️

[JoBalls]

24 minutes ago, morph100 said:

Has Michael Eavis come out and said this is the best lineup yet? 

Worryingly, no...

[FloorFiller]

Just now, JoBalls said:

Worryingly, no...

‘Sorry guys, we really dropped the ball this year. Promise that next year will be the best lineup yet’

[CJTM]

13 hours ago, Hugh Jass said:

We’ve reached that time of year where impatience starts to creep in. Without wishing to generalise it’s always the younger, less experienced posters who start. Those of us who’ve done this a few times know this always how it is.

Still another month I reckon.

Isn’t the payment window 1-7 April (or very close to those dates).

It would be unusual to be just after, or in and around a resale date wouldn’t it?, so would be at the end of April onwards (welp, but can’t see that), and given the fallow year, the structure would have been in place more than other years for an earlier drop, like 2013, you would assume.

I can see them wanting to do it before the week of Brexit media washout... 

18-21 March - gives enough time for media attention and reminding people to get the £200-odd together to pay off.

But then again, my ‘logic’ can mean fk all in the grand scheme of things now. 

Gaga is coming. 

[jparx]

Still think we'll get the poster on Brexit Day. And I don't think we'll get anything before that.

[strummer77]

9 hours ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

You are absolutely right. I remember tuning in. But then didn't the poster drop straight after?

Yep. So the Stones and Mumford were basically announced at the same time

[Chef]

I’ve managed to get tickets to 3 out of last 4 festivals and IIRC every time a poster has been out in some form or another prior to close of payment deadline which points to something fairly soon. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

They're just working up the courage.  

[Gnomicide]

5 minutes ago, strummer77 said:

Yep. So the Stones and Mumford were basically announced at the same time

All that had been announced before that point were Rokia Traore, Nas, Disclosure, Hot Natured, David Rodigan, SubFocus, Aluna George, Eats Everything, Rudimental and The Congos. So we got all 3 headliners and loads of others, more than has been on recent posters, all at the same time.

[strummer77]

5 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

All that had been announced before that point were Rokia Traore, Nas, Disclosure, Hot Natured, David Rodigan, SubFocus, Aluna George, Eats Everything, Rudimental and The Congos. So we got all 3 headliners and loads of others, more than has been on recent posters, all at the same time.

Interesting. I think from memory AM were ‘confirmed’ on here prior so it wasn’t a shock - and people were by this point expecting the Stones (if slightly nervous it wouldn’t ever happen) but people were still unsure about Mumford until that evening

Edited March 2, 2019 by strummer77

[Gnomicide]

3 minutes ago, strummer77 said:

Interesting. I think from memory AM were ‘confirmed’ on here prior so it wasn’t a shock - and people were by this point expecting the Stones (if slightly nervous it wouldn’t ever happen) but people were still unsure about Mumford until that evening

Sounds right but officially it all came out on the 27th March at 7pm. I had thought it was Radio 1, not Absolute as someone said further up, poster dropped at the same time. I remember sitting on my bed, laptop on, radio on, texting mates and watching eFests explode.

[strummer77]

13 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

Sounds right but officially it all came out on the 27th March at 7pm. I had thought it was Radio 1, not Absolute as someone said further up, poster dropped at the same time. I remember sitting on my bed, laptop on, radio on, texting mates and watching eFests explode.

Was definitely on Radio 1 

[Gilgamesh69]

What was the reaction like to The Stones being confirmed?

[Hugh Jass]

1 hour ago, strummer77 said:

Yep. So the Stones and Mumford were basically announced at the same time

The ultimate good news/bad news double.

[CaledonianGonzo]

8 minutes ago, Gilgamesh69 said:

What was the reaction like to The Stones being confirmed?

The usual mix. A lot of folk chuffed, a lot of folk going "Is it just me that isn't interested / the Pyramid's for squares anyway".

[Avalon_Fields]

2 hours ago, morph100 said:

Has Michael Eavis come out and said this is the best lineup yet? 

Not quite. He’s on record as saying there’s only 35 festival years that have been better...

[CaledonianGonzo]

To be fair the poster design is quite easy this year - they just need to take 2017s and strike off a lot of the names with a magic marker.

[The Nal]

14 minutes ago, Gilgamesh69 said:

What was the reaction like to The Stones being confirmed?

[CaledonianGonzo]

Also a lot folk who'd seen them in the A Bigger Bang era and thought at that point the game was up.

[Gnomicide]

The 2013 headliners thread only got to 459 pages before the headliners were announced.

Bloody amateurs.

 

24 minutes ago, Gilgamesh69 said:

What was the reaction like to The Stones being confirmed?

The confirmation came in at page 108 of the dedicated Stones thread.

 

Edited March 2, 2019 by Gnomicide

[strummer77]

19 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

The usual mix. A lot of folk chuffed, a lot of folk going "Is it just me that isn't interested / the Pyramid's for squares anyway".

I think the reaction was a lot more positive than usual to be fair. Nobody really could say the booking wasn’t justified. The negative comments were more questions surrounding whether they were still any good live and would they live up to the hype (and it turned out, they could) 

[The Nal]

16 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Also a lot folk who'd seen them in the A Bigger Bang era and thought at that point the game was up.

A lot of folk who saw vids of the same tour from a few months before and thought at that point the game was up. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Heh.....reading some of that back. Russtrodamus carps predicting an empty field after 20 minutes.

[Keithy]

Poster will be Thursday at 11am. Because that's when my flight to Stockholm takes off and I won't have a signal for a few hours.