2019 Headliners

[RarerThanDandyB]

Just now, Havors said:

Yeah you could play someone some Muse songs and they would be like "oh yeah i know that song" but no idea who the band are haha 

Shocking really as they are pretty awesome

To be honest I’m within a bubble with my friends and we love old Muse and I obviously don’t know the statistics but would of thought people would know... 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, The Martini Police said:

Do you live in one of the spaceships they like to sing about?

Nah, just that people where I live genuinely have no interest in music like Muse. Even when they have played the Etihad, I do not know of a single person who has been. Where I live is more Parklife and Creamfields territory than indie guitar type territory.

[Zoo Music Girl]

Finding it hard to believe anyone has missed Plug In Baby. I've tried so hard to avoid that fucking song over the last decade.

The Bellamy breathing, goddamn, I can't bear it. 

[SloopJohnB]

I seem to remember @eFestivals once saying that he was less likely to get info from American artists than British ones (sorry if I’ve got that wrong).

On that basis, and with any scent going cold, does the lack of info make an American artist more likely?

Gaga?

Killers?

Strokes?

KOL?

[Homer]

13 minutes ago, lobo said:

 

If the strokes do play and you don’t like them, please don’t go just to slag them off and talk through the whole set. It really sucks for the people who’ve gone to have a good time. Loads more to do on site that would create a positive vibe.

Fair point. I could see myself turning into one of these people during Radiohead's first song. so I buggered off to Dizzee Rascal instead. Win-win.

[Gucci Piggy]

3 hours ago, Stokesy10 said:

Seen them live twice, first time they were incredible, second time they were massively disappointing. They've been going for some time and clearly past their best. The point he was making about them being shite is the bit I personally found rich, considering their back catalogue of successful albums and popularity.

It's rich for Nick Cave, one of the most critically acclaimed artists of the past several decades, to call RHCP (who are quite often panned) shite, but it isn't rich for you to call Nick Cave shite?

Come on, every single one of us on here call acts shite on the regular, who are more talented than us (yes, even Mumford and Sons).

I'd say Nick Cave has much more of a leg to stand on when calling a band shite.

1 hour ago, The Nal said:

Yeah they're fine for a day time show or even a Peel headliner, maybe even the Other but absolutely preposterous as a Pyramid headliner.

But who else is there really outside of a handful of acts. Everyone big have either already played or are pushing up daisies. 

The Strokes headlining John Peel ffs.

35 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

I know. I was trying my best not to open this debate. I could just imagine there being a surprise in that The 1975 appear on the poster out of nowhere.

Had a few bits of info that they weren't playing Glasto at all, though, didn't we? That's why I stopped predicting em to sub.

[dentalplan]

Just now, Gucci Piggy said:

Had a few bits of info that they weren't playing Glasto at all, though, didn't we? That's why I stopped predicting em to sub.

Early on though, I bet.

but nah it’s not a prediction I’m tied to, just the kind of thing you can imagine after all this time like the Saturday or Sunday sub just turning out to be The 1975 who we’d discounted because they’re a headliner.

[Rubber Soldier]

1 hour ago, Keithy said:

Strokes have never been Glastonbury headliner status. Had the Eavii booked them in 2002/2003, it would have been a great booking of a great band with potential...and probably could have got a sub spot at best. That time has long passed. 

Music press (and to be fair most of Joe Public) absolutely fell for an emerging, very cool band from New York with a belter of a song in Last Nite. Decent album followed and then.... classic shone brightly and then quickly faded territory. To see them now is to see a bunch of 40 year olds trying to pretend it's 2001 and they are young and cool. Absolutely go through the motions live.

Re:Gaga. Would love her to play but don't think she will. I fear she will be one of the great lost Glastonbury headliners.

I'm increasingly getting the fear that the headliners this year will be the weakest set in a good 10 years. I suppose you have to put it in context that for the last 10 years we've had an unprecedented level of headliner status and it was always unsustainable. 

What a load of old arse. 

Would they be a good headliner in 2019? No, of course not. But to try and downplay how good Is This It? is, and then claim they couldn’t have headlined back then is baffling. 

Edited January 17, 2019 by Rubber Soldier

[chatty]

43 minutes ago, The Martini Police said:

Who are these people who've never heard of Muse though? That's Madness.

No Madness are a ska band that had hits with House of Fun, It Must Be Love and Baggy Trousers. They sound nothing like Muse. 

[eFestivals]

17 minutes ago, SloopJohnB said:

I seem to remember @eFestivals once saying that he was less likely to get info from American artists than British ones (sorry if I’ve got that wrong).

On that basis, and with any scent going cold, does the lack of info make an American artist more likely?

Gaga?

Killers?

Strokes?

KOL?

yep, that's my overall view.

But it's not always right. I said that (again) a month or three ago about no word of the act who turned out to be Stormzy.

 

[The Martini Police]

 

3 minutes ago, chatty said:

No Madness are a ska band that had hits with House of Fun, It Must Be Love and Baggy Trousers. They sound nothing like Muse. 

Haha. You're making me wonder if my pun fell on deaf ears now...

[fatyeti24]

3 minutes ago, The Martini Police said:

 

Haha. You're making me wonder if my pun fell on deaf ears now...

Welcome to the house of pun. 

[Hugh Jass]

Reading through some of the suggestions since Macxit, is it any wonder Coldplay keep getting booked?

[Hugh Jass]

32 minutes ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

Finding it hard to believe anyone has missed Plug In Baby. I've tried so hard to avoid that fucking song over the last decade.

The Bellamy breathing, goddamn, I can't bear it. 

That and the Feeling Good cover, that song was fucking everywhere for about ten years!

[Havors]

6 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

Reading through some of the suggestions since Macxit, is it any wonder Coldplay keep getting booked?

Wonder if Glasto will book Los Unidades ?

[TheNoise]

12 minutes ago, The Martini Police said:

 

Haha. You're making me wonder if my pun fell on deaf ears now...

It didn't ?

I just decided to ignore anything to do with a band I like but everybody on here loves to hate.

[Hugh Jass]

1 minute ago, Havors said:

Wonder if Glasto will book Los Unidades ?

Chris Martin is already getting his costume ready...

[SeaBear]

I used to be a decent fan of Muse's music when I was 14-17... then fell out of touch a bit. Never the less, I had never seen them, and once they were headlining Glastonbury 2016 I went over to the pyramid stage to watch.

Holy shit are they good live. Songs I knew. Songs I didn't. They just floored it. The crowd was incredible and they completely controlled them. 

Anyway... I like festivals like Glastonbury, not only to see the bands I love, but also to see bands that I wouldn't necessarily buy a ticket to their own gigs, and bands I've never even heard of. It's the place to explore. That's why I've never been fussed about headliners.

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Also regarding Arcade Fire. It's weird they sell out wembley 3 nights in a row... London is definitely their biggest audience. I can never imagine them returning to Glastonbury not as a headline act, especially after seeing their last tour live (holy shiiiit)... but their tour is over, so won't be this year. 

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Finally I am curious about Foals. They may not be big enough in people's mind, but I have a feeling this year's double album output is going to be big.  Jack Bevan, the drummer went on the Foals Subreddit to tell fans 'A lot of exciting things incoming. Big big love! Xx'.
Not that that means Glastonbury... but it definitely could, they play every time they have an album and this could be their chance.
 

[Hugh Jass]

1 minute ago, SeaBear said:

Finally I am curious about Foals. They may not be big enough in people's mind, but I have a feeling this year's double album output is going to be big.  Jack Bevan, the drummer went on the Foals Subreddit to tell fans 'A lot of exciting things incoming. Big big love! Xx'.
Not that that means Glastonbury... but it definitely could, they play every time they have an album and this could be their chance.
 

They won't play this year, but if these new albums take off then they could be a possibility for next year.

[Havors]

1 minute ago, Hugh Jass said:

They won't play this year, but if these new albums take off then they could be a possibility for next year.

What makes you say that?? 

[TKOCF]

It’ll be a sad day if Kings Of Leon headline Glastonbury 2019. They were awful at Reading last year.

[dentalplan]

1 minute ago, TKOCF said:

It’ll be a sad day if Kings Of Leon headline Glastonbury 2019. They were awful at Reading last year.

Only watched it on telly but I enjoyed it. Did loads of old songs, which is best you can hope fer.

[Superunknown]

1 minute ago, Havors said:

What makes you say that?? 

Just doesn't seem a place for them this year, they subbed last time, can't see them headlining Other. They're knocking at the door of headlining but faltered a bit with their last album. If these next two are huge they'll be headline material for sure.

[Hugh Jass]

4 minutes ago, Havors said:

What makes you say that?? 

That they won't play this year? The fact that there's no room for them on the lineup. They won't headline, it's too soon for them to sub again and they won't play any lower unless it's a secret set.

Their sub slot was meant to be their big audition and they spaffed it.

[Hugh Jass]

Two/three years from now we'll all be "Remember that time we thought The Strokes were going to headline?"