2019 Headliners

[Hugh Jass]

12 hours ago, Gucci Piggy said:

Genuine question. Do you actually think Glastonbury will book Coldplay to headline the 50th anniversary with absolutely nothing new to promote since their last headline slot? I think getting good headliners for the 50th anniversary will be much more of a priority to the Eavii than letting their mates Coldplay headline it for no reason with the same selection of songs to choose from as when they headlined four years prior.

You may have been joking but I know some people are dead set on them doing it.

If Coldplay are that desperate to play the anniversary they can do a secret set or something. Their relationship with the organisers doesn't mean they can just headline whenever they want to.

I'd stick my mortgage on Coldplay showing up in 2020 in some capacity, maybe not as a headliner, but maybe a sub (sold as a fourth headliner) or even the legendary Chris Martin supergroup finally taking off. They will be there.

Martin clearly loves the festival and they love him so I don't think he'd have any problem playing a slot less than headliner, honestly get the impression he'd play anywhere on the bill just to be a part of it.

[fatyeti24]

Coldplay obviously have a long and storied history with the festival.  These days it could be argued that they need their Glastonbury appearances to bolster their reducing critical appeal.  It should not be overlooked however that they are responsible for paving the way for some true horrors; the bland practitioners of blander music that have proliferated on the Pyramid like some malignant disease.

So therefore my proposal is this;  what better way to start the 50th anniversary celebrations than with a public sacrifice.  As it's a farm we can call it a culling.  And have the heads of Cold and the Plays placed upon spikes at the front of the Pyramid as an acknowledgement of how bad things can get and how we must learn from the mistakes of the past so as not to repeat them in the future.

There will be flashing wristbands, obvs.

[Mattymooz]

3 hours ago, Sasperella said:

They do seem like obvious headliners to me.... (but maybe that's just because I really really want it to be them)

I noticed some other efesters have gone off the idea in recent days though. Is that just because of them hitting the festival circuit hard this year, or are there some other reasons that I've missed along the way?

As well as what FloorFiller said, my asdumptions have also come from rumours for Pukkelpop. They have moved the festival back a day for a large headliner that they are sharing with Lowlands, and rumour has it it is AM (and thus would make them a lot more likely for R&L than Glasto).

In saying that I can't really think of anyone else other than AM who could fit the same role (a newer big rock band) so who knows

[Quark]

1 hour ago, Brave Sir Robin said:

That whole palava has made the whole headliner detective game pretty much impossible. Exclusive somewhere else? Exclusives mean nothing, can't rule them out. Advertised and sold thousands of tickets to a gig in a different country that very same night? Nope, still can't rule them out.

I'll not lie, I like this.  Not the reneging on contracts and exclusive deals as those are dick moves, but the uncertainty over headliners.  Makes life far more interesting.

Also, because it's Friday and fuck it, I still like Coldplay. Bring it Yeti

[JBarbour]

Wasn't sure where to post this or if anyone mentioned it already....

Part of BBC Music Introducing LIVE ‘18 at Tobacco Dock from 8th-10th November

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Also joining the lineup will be Glastonbury Festival organiser Emily Eavis, who will join BBC Radio 6 Music’s Lauren Laverne for an exclusive insight into how she organises and books the line-up for the World’s most iconic music festival on Friday 9 November.

 

Edited September 14, 2018 by JBarbour

[Hugh Jass]

48 minutes ago, Quark said:

Also, because it's Friday and fuck it, I still like Coldplay.

BURN HIM!

[Quark]

[Gucci Piggy]

4 hours ago, FloorFiller said:

although Kanye is the one that springs to mind most in recent years - I don't think anybody saw that one coming, and headliner-wise 2015 had this forum in meltdown mode right up until a month prior due to Foos pulling out.

I dunno, I'm pretty sure quite a lot were predicting Kanye that year? Although it was obviously his only show and he had no new material so I think it was more of a "He's an overdue headliner" thing. We had some bloke from Palma Violets or whatever say he was headlining on the radio, too. I'm sure by the time he was announced he was one of the more widely predicted headliners, although we didn't know for sure he was doing it.

[dentalplan]

3 minutes ago, Gucci Piggy said:

I dunno, I'm pretty sure quite a lot were predicting Kanye that year? Although it was obviously his only show and he had no new material so I think it was more of a "He's an overdue headliner" thing. We had some bloke from Palma Violets or whatever say he was headlining on the radio, too. I'm sure by the time he was announced he was one of the more widely predicted headliners, although we didn't know for sure he was doing it.

I remember some of us clocked Big Sean’s tour having a Glastonbury shaped hole in them and we thought it was cos he would be appearing with his mentor. But then he didn’t but Ye appeared anyway. Kanye is definitely the most surprising headline announcement in recent years, aside from The Who obviously cos that wasn’t fair.

[Sasperella]

2 hours ago, Mattymooz said:

As well as what FloorFiller said, my asdumptions have also come from rumours for Pukkelpop. They have moved the festival back a day for a large headliner that they are sharing with Lowlands, and rumour has it it is AM (and thus would make them a lot more likely for R&L than Glasto).

Ok cool ? Although why is that? Because of the relative size of the festivals? Sorry if that's super obvious!

[ghostdancer1]

On 9/12/2018 at 11:35 PM, rhg_99 said:

Yeh that was fucking mental. I remember everyone losing their shit in 2016 for a while too, especially trying to figure out if Radiohead were playing. I remember a lot of chat about the possibility of them subbing Adele. 

Last year was dull in comparison. 

Adele doing the "sunset slot" too IIRC

[ghostdancer1]

On 9/13/2018 at 7:35 AM, eFestivals said:

I'll just point out that the supposed words from the daughter of someone in The Cure say "playing" and not "headlining". I'd say that's relevant (if the words are really true).

Not headlining, based on those words.

not really, most people speaking in real life would just say "playing". no-one outside some obsessed festival freaks would actually specify "headlining" in general conversation.

[Gucci Piggy]

Plus she might have been trying to be modest about the fact her dad is in the fucking Cure.

[Johnnyseven]

41 minutes ago, ghostdancer1 said:

not really, most people speaking in real life would just say "playing". no-one outside some obsessed festival freaks would actually specify "headlining" in general conversation.

As has been said, The Cure will only play a festival if they are headlining. Therefore surely it can be interpreted that if anyone in the band's sphere says they are playing they mean they are headlining.

Edited September 14, 2018 by Johnnyseven

[Johnnyseven]

1 minute ago, Johnnyseven said:

 

Double post.

Edited September 14, 2018 by Johnnyseven

[zico martin]

Echo echo echo

[ghostdancer1]

5 hours ago, Hugh Jass said:

I'd stick my mortgage on Coldplay showing up in 2020 in some capacity, maybe not as a headliner, but maybe a sub (sold as a fourth headliner) or even the legendary Chris Martin supergroup finally taking off. They will be there.

the Chris Martin supergroup is more likely than Coldplay subbing on the Pyramid.....

Emilie Sande to headline the Friday night obvs.

[Hugh Jass]

11 minutes ago, ghostdancer1 said:

the Chris Martin supergroup is more likely than Coldplay subbing on the Pyramid.....

Emilie Sande to headline the Friday night obvs.

I genuinely think Coldplay would take a sub slot just to play, especially if they were playing below someone huge, like Macca for instance.

[Gucci Piggy]

Yeah if Coldplay are desperate to play the 50th anniversary and Eavis doesn't want them to headline with no new material I don't think it's that wild to think they could play a lower slot. Not gonna be throwing it into my predictions or anything, like, but some kind of special guest secret set before a headliner or something? Wouldn't shock me.

[Mattymooz]

2 hours ago, Sasperella said:

Ok cool ? Although why is that? Because of the relative size of the festivals? Sorry if that's super obvious!

Both Pukkelpop and Lowlands are in Belguim and The Netherlands the weekend before R&L. All 3 usually share a lot of acts (especially headliners, this year Kendrick, Travis Scott, N.E.R.D and Dua Lipa played R&L ang Pukkelpop)

[Rose-Colored Boy]

11 minutes ago, Gucci Piggy said:

Yeah if Coldplay are desperate to play the 50th anniversary and Eavis doesn't want them to headline with no new material I don't think it's that wild to think they could play a lower slot. Not gonna be throwing it into my predictions or anything, like, but some kind of special guest secret set before a headliner or something? Wouldn't shock me.

The only problem would be overcrowding - they’d have to be up against someone massive on Other (and probably John Peel as well) to prevent the Pyramid crowd being dangerously huge. But that shouldn’t be too difficult to arrange.

[Gucci Piggy]

2 minutes ago, Rose-Colored Boy said:

The only problem would be overcrowding - they’d have to be up against someone massive on Other (and probably John Peel as well) to prevent the Pyramid crowd being dangerously huge. But that shouldn’t be too difficult to arrange.

Would they? Would Coldplay up against an Other sub like Stormzy last year be any more crowded than Dolly Patton up again some random mid-card Other Stage act that no one cares about? Not to mention the smaller stages will all have stronger alternatives than they do during the legends' slot. I reckon half the time Other subs are barely any less of a draw than Other headliners, anyway.

[dentalplan]

27 minutes ago, Gucci Piggy said:

Dolly Patton up again some random mid-card Other Stage act that no one cares about?

Did you not go see The Horrors?

 

I agree though. 8pm isn't gonna be time where people think "nothing else is good on, might as well go see Coldplay this time".

[jj200]

48 minutes ago, Gucci Piggy said:

Yeah if Coldplay are desperate to play the 50th anniversary and Eavis doesn't want them to headline with no new material I don't think it's that wild to think they could play a lower slot. Not gonna be throwing it into my predictions or anything, like, but some kind of special guest secret set before a headliner or something? Wouldn't shock me.

They will probably headline it with a greatest hits set and some new songs they haven't played before at Glastonbury like something just like this

From the episode after a head full of dream s

[dentalplan]

2 minutes ago, jj200 said:

They will probably headline it with a greatest hits set and some new songs they haven't played before at Glastonbury like something just like this

From the episode after a head full of dream s

Who's in that episode?