2019 Headliners

[The Martini Police]

7 minutes ago, aidenlangan95 said:

Well anyone that could potentially listen to the song already owns it because it's been in the charts for such a long time. It seems nowadays someone would come out the womb knowing the words to Mr Brightside.

It'll get a streaming boost though for sure. The extent of which and how much it affects the charts, I don't know.

[fatyeti24]

44 minutes ago, aidenlangan95 said:

Interesting fact about Mr Brightside. Its peak position in the uk charts is number 10.

You're playing fast and loose with our good friend 'interesting' there.

[BlueDaze]

1 hour ago, The Martini Police said:

They did - Creep was their penultimate song that night.

I thought Creep was what most of the audience did.... away from the Pyramid well before the penultimate sing-a-long song..??

"Flaming Lips anyone...???"

[The Clearest Blue]

When I saw the rumor it was likely to be The Killers I was definitely underwhelmed. However after mulling it  over for a few weeks I think I will likely go a long as I'll have a great time. Their hits sound tracked a good stretch of my teenage years and for nostalgia and sing-along fun I can't fault it. I have the potential alternative night headliners of Janelle Monae, Hot Chip, Tame Impala and Vampire Weekend or more current music.

[Madyaker]

Maybe this was mentioned but prodigy dropping out surely leaves a hole pretty close to the top of the poster. Could this delay the announcement?

[JoeyT]

2 minutes ago, Madyaker said:

Maybe this was mentioned but prodigy dropping out surely leaves a hole pretty close to the top of the poster. Could this delay the announcement?

I wouldn't have thought so. I'm anticipating us getting the poster week after next. 

[gbell36]

Now we're on page 817 for this years headliners - One theory I'm keen to explore and another stat I would like to be added to the 'thingy' in the quest for announcement patterns is... how many pages does the efestivals thread on headliners get to before we have them all? ...

If someone else could do the work on this also that would be great #IsThereAPattern

[nysmaw]

1 minute ago, gbell36 said:

#IsThereAPattern

 

[dentalplan]

49 minutes ago, Madyaker said:

Maybe this was mentioned but prodigy dropping out surely leaves a hole pretty close to the top of the poster. Could this delay the announcement?

They don’t specify slots on the poster. You know dis.

[Stokesy10]

4 hours ago, The Clearest Blue said:

When I saw the rumor it was likely to be The Killers I was definitely underwhelmed. However after mulling it  over for a few weeks I think I will likely go a long as I'll have a great time. Their hits sound tracked a good stretch of my teenage years and for nostalgia and sing-along fun I can't fault it. I have the potential alternative night headliners of Janelle Monae, Hot Chip, Tame Impala and Vampire Weekend or more current music.

Is it "looking likely" that Killers and Janelle will clash?

Barring some ludicrously good surprises on the poster... that would ruin the music side of Glasto for me this year.

 

[FloorFiller]

1 minute ago, Stokesy10 said:

Is it "looking likely" that Killers and Janelle will clash?

Barring some ludicrously good surprises on the poster... that would ruin the music side of Glasto for me this year.

 

Neil had info from somebody that The Cure are the Saturday which would put The Killers on the Sunday, but he isn’t putting much faith in it and I’m not expecting it to pan out that way either.

[Superunknown]

2 minutes ago, Stokesy10 said:

Is it "looking likely" that Killers and Janelle will clash?

Barring some ludicrously good surprises on the poster... that would ruin the music side of Glasto for me this year.

 

Think we've all expected The Cure to be on the Sunday as they tend not to do two nights in a row and they're in Werchter on Friday, which would leave The Killers on the Saturday. However, one of Neil's sources said they were 99% sure The Cure are Saturday but he was recalling this from 4 months ago so the answer is probably not but who knows.

[Bovla]

16 minutes ago, Superunknown said:

Think we've all expected The Cure to be on the Sunday as they tend not to do two nights in a row and they're in Werchter on Friday, which would leave The Killers on the Saturday. However, one of Neil's sources said they were 99% sure The Cure are Saturday but he was recalling this from 4 months ago so the answer is probably not but who knows.

Things may have changed since Neil's souce was told that also. For example, Macca could have said he could only so Sunday (or they wanted him to do Sunday) so for the cure it was Saturday or nothing. Then when Macca dropped out they could've moved the cure to Sunday and plopped the killers on Saturday. This would make what the source was told correct at the time but since then, they've moved around and now make sense 

[dentalplan]

Their strained relations with Glasto means I don’t they’d have said ‘okay’ to disregarding their rule of days off between shows, even for Macca. Certainly doesn’t make sense to accommodate a band like The Killers with no shows in the area at all.

[Gnomicide]

2 hours ago, gbell36 said:

Now we're on page 817 for this years headliners - One theory I'm keen to explore and another stat I would like to be added to the 'thingy' in the quest for announcement patterns is... how many pages does the efestivals thread on headliners get to before we have them all? ...

If someone else could do the work on this also that would be great #IsThereAPattern

[sisco]

13 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

Their strained relations with Glasto means I don’t they’d have said ‘okay’ to disregarding their rule of days off between shows, even for Macca. Certainly doesn’t make sense to accommodate a band like The Killers with no shows in the area at all.

I’d always thought that The Cure would be Sunday due to the 2 days between shows but with Neil’s info and the fact The Killers would be more Sunday crowd friendly I’m coming round to that idea. 

[dentalplan]

10 minutes ago, sisco said:

I’d always thought that The Cure would be Sunday due to the 2 days between shows but with Neil’s info and the fact The Killers would be more Sunday crowd friendly I’m coming round to that idea. 

“Sorry we usually space our gigs out”

”I know, I know... but we have The Killers and they won’t scare the locals!”

[jparx]

9 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

“Sorry we usually space our gigs out”

”I know, I know... but we have The Killers and they won’t scare the locals!”

What if The Killers were already booked for the Sunday?

[dentalplan]

5 minutes ago, jparx said:

What if The Killers were already booked for the Sunday?

Then The Cure wouldn’t be playing I guess.

[sisco]

16 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

“Sorry we usually space our gigs out”

”I know, I know... but we have The Killers and they won’t scare the locals!”

Pretty much how I see it.

[beau1]

The Cure played on a Sunday in 1995. The other headliners that weekend were Oasis and Pulp (ŕeplaced Stone Roses). Did The Cure scare the locals back then?

[thewayiam]

1 hour ago, sisco said:

I’d always thought that The Cure would be Sunday due to the 2 days between shows but with Neil’s info and the fact The Killers would be more Sunday crowd friendly I’m coming round to that idea. 

I think The Cure are Sunday and Killers Saturday. Tv crowd at home will be more into The Killers to bother tuning in whereas The Cure have easily enough hits for a Sunday crowd.

[sisco]

7 minutes ago, thewayiam said:

I think The Cure are Sunday and Killers Saturday. Tv crowd at home will be more into The Killers to bother tuning in whereas The Cure have easily enough hits for a Sunday crowd.

Actually it would make more sense that The Cure weren’t up against The Prodigy 

[eFestivals]

1 hour ago, sisco said:

I’d always thought that The Cure would be Sunday due to the 2 days between shows but with Neil’s info and the fact The Killers would be more Sunday crowd friendly I’m coming round to that idea. 

I defo think the killer would be more local-friendly for sunday, just as I though the same for macca.

But I have conflicting info for days, with neither said as a solid thing and no real belief in either for different reasons. I'm not fixed on any day for either band.

[eFestivals]

24 minutes ago, beau1 said:

The Cure played on a Sunday in 1995. 

that was back when they were a popular contemporary beat combo, and not a bunch of aging gits*.

(* me too).