2019 Headliners

[dentalplan]

4 minutes ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

Me too man. Tried my best to get into Beatles and Macca stuff since the announcement and I just can't. I seriously love The Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, which you'd think would be a guarantee I'd at least enjoy the Beatles, but massive swathes of their music just turn me right off. There's definitely stuff in there I can really enjoy, but it always turns out to be Harrison or Lennon stuff. 

Listen to some Wings and early solo stuff.

edit: listen to his entire oeuvre

Edited December 13, 2018 by dentalplan

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

Listen to some Wings and early solo stuff.

edit: listen to his entire oeuvre

No I won't do it but I dig you flexin with an "oeuvre" there, one of my all time favourite words and I'm worried Brexit will take it away forever 

[dentalplan]

Just now, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

No I won't do it but I dig you flexin with an "oeuvre" there, one of my all time favourite words and I'm worried Brexit will take it away forever 

Oeuvre and oeuvre and oeuvre and oeuvre and oeuvre

[Matt42]

Been glancing over at the coachella boards and the most common prediction seems to be Childish Gambino, Pearl Jam and Kanye West. 

Seems like a pretty standard set of American festival headliners. I am surprised that Pearl Jam are being given another shot at Coachella in this current music climate. I guess if Gambino was on some lineups next year it would make his appearance at Glastonbury a bit more likely.

I still think (unless I can be proven wrong) he will get snapped up by Wireless... would it be possible for him to play both? Surely he’d get a headliner slot at wireless which might put Glastonbury in jeporday. 

[tevaburger]

18 hours ago, jparx said:

Aye that's a helluva setlist. That final hour on the Pyramid is going to be next level shit.

I'm not sure what people think about this, but here goes - Fuh You is a banger. 

i don't know if I've seen the full setlist but I didn't see stuff like "I Don't Know" or "Dominoes" or even the obvious poppy "Come On To Me" on those setlists. I mean, I know he has a ton of old tunes to play to the masses but "Fuh You" just seems to be one of those too obvious attempted but annoying crowd pleasers (to me at least) when there's better stuff on the quite decent new record (am quite surprised it isn't listed frequently on the thread for records of year) to feature. I Don't Know is one of my tunes of the year...

[CaledonianGonzo]

7 hours ago, eastynh said:

I'll be quite happily singing Boy From School, while the day trippers are going mad for Macca.

Quite a tough song to sing. You walk down the railway track wailing that and people are going to think you're a ghost.

[Sasperella]

14 hours ago, Brave Sir Robin said:

Not so much when some random punter strikes up the umpteenth drunken rendition of it, staggering down the railway line a few hours later...

Well, that's good. When I read @Hugh Jass's point about how everyone loves a big group sing along I thought for a minute I might have to give in and actually go and watch him. Now I realise that isn't necessary, as there will be plenty of other opportunities for drunken warbling to Hey Jude....

[Keithy]

15 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Is it overplayed these days?  Beetle and the lads seem to be slowly drifting off the cultural radar.  The White Album reissue came and went with nary a murmur.

That said... it has 130m Spotify streams, but that's pretty paltry vs. something like Shape of You or God's Plan. Even Here Comes The Sun trounces it.

tbh, I think the Beatles drifted a bit off the radar in the early 90's too but the Anthology documentary series brought them back. I think half the problem is that their output is so vast and complex that if you're a young 'un, then you probably only have passing association with a few songs; Love Me Do, Strawberry Fields, Hey Jude, etc... and don't appreciate the vast catalogue of amazing songs that rarely get airplay. When Anthology was on TV, it created a natural starting point for people to review their work and more to be played. The other issue is Macca (rightly) only plays his Beatle songs so you have huge swathes that never get played live or even get airplay.

Bowie had a similar issue with his smaller output. When he died, a lot of  people just associated him with Ziggy Stardust as if that's all he did. Certainly every fecking memorial mural is Ziggy.

I don't think there will be another 'cultural review' of the Beatles until both Macca and Ringo have died. Certainly when the last Beatle has gone, it'll be a significant moment in history. 

Edited December 14, 2018 by Keithy

[Guest]

2 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Quite a tough song to sing. You walk down the railway track wailing that and people are going to think you're a ghost.

Bit easier than Hurrache Lights though mate.

[Guest]

9 hours ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

Me too man. Tried my best to get into Beatles and Macca stuff since the announcement and I just can't. I seriously love The Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, which you'd think would be a guarantee I'd at least enjoy the Beatles, but massive swathes of their music just turn me right off. There's definitely stuff in there I can really enjoy, but it always turns out to be Harrison or Lennon stuff. 

I don't mind the Beatles but I have never been one to watch an act just to tick them off so to speak.

I could not watch Macca knowing that one of my fave bands were playing at another stage.

Now if I get a ticket, I will have to watch Hot Chip on my own as literally all my group want to watch Macca. I would not regret watching Hot Chip where as I know that I would with Macca. 

[Sasperella]

1 hour ago, eastynh said:

Now if I get a ticket, I will have to watch Hot Chip on my own as literally all my group want to watch Macca. 

If you get a ticket, I'll join you! I haven't done a poll as yet, but I imagine that there's gonna be a fair few of my crew that won't be able to resist the large-scale singalong....

[zero000]

Feel like Macca is a bit of a box ticking exercise for me, I'll go because of FOMO but I'm not thrilled by him as a headliner. I've have a lot of friends (in their 20's) who worship the beatles but I've never really "got" them. I understand the significant impact on music they've had and continue to do, but the music doesn't excite or enthrall me as it seems to do with my mates. 

[priest17]

I'm gonna have to drag my mates to see Macca.

Imagine that, DRAGGING people to see an actual THE BEATLE. Clowns. Didn't even stand up when Robert Plant took to the stage and played one of the greatest songs of all time.

Love 'em though.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Liking Macca in 2018 is the new punk rock

[Wooderson]

He needs to give "Maybe Im Amazed" a skip on Worthy Farm. Big league.

[Gnomicide]

C'Moon encore or GTFO.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Full album performance of Thrillington

[zero000]

Can we start a positive Glastonbury petition for a change and lobby him to play Temporary Secretary? Fully on board with that.

[CaledonianGonzo]

It's not inconceivable that he would.....

[zero000]

8 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

It's not inconceivable that he would.....

We need a formal mandate. Temporary Secretary means Temporary Secretary. 

[Hugh Jass]

30 minutes ago, zero000 said:

We need a formal mandate. Temporary Secretary means Temporary Secretary. 

Sexit.

Edited December 14, 2018 by Hugh Jass

[billum]

4 hours ago, Keithy said:

 The other issue is Macca (rightly) only plays his Beatle songs so you have huge swathes that never get played live or even get airplay.

Not completely true - he throws in Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite (Lennon song) and Something (Harrison song) on most nights of the current tour. I've spotted a few other Lennon songs from time to time as well, but this is only a handful in a set of around 40 songs

[Badlands]

4 hours ago, Keithy said:

The other issue is Macca (rightly) only plays his Beatle songs so you have huge swathes that never get played live or even get airplay.

He plays A Hard Days Night, Mr Kite & Something in his current set. 

I'm clearly in the minority with Jude. Fair enough, it's certainly down to familiarity rather than the quality of the song that leaves me so ambivalent .

 

[gearbm95]

11 hours ago, Matt42 said:

Been glancing over at the coachella boards and the most common prediction seems to be Childish Gambino, Pearl Jam and Kanye West. 

Seems like a pretty standard set of American festival headliners. I am surprised that Pearl Jam are being given another shot at Coachella in this current music climate. I guess if Gambino was on some lineups next year it would make his appearance at Glastonbury a bit more likely.

I still think (unless I can be proven wrong) he will get snapped up by Wireless... would it be possible for him to play both? Surely he’d get a headliner slot at wireless which might put Glastonbury in jeporday. 

 

Bonnaroo looks to be getting Foo Fighters, Phish, Travis Scott, and Arctic Monkeys are the headliners this year. Weird times when Coachella doesn't get the best headliners for a US fest.

[beau1]

https://www.post-punk.com/robert-smith-announces-the-cure-to-release-new-album-in-2019/

 

I'll only believe it when it's released but it seems there might well be a new Cure album next year. Cure also inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame with Radiohead and a host of other artists.