2019 Headliners

[dentalplan]

21 minutes ago, JoBalls said:

I’m sure at this stage Glastonbury aren’t so out if options that they would resort to settling - remember 2015 when The Who cancelled a show in France to headline?! 

Yeah but The Who were actually around to step in. There don’t seem to be many big suitable names so far that are tearing through Europe in the summer. We’re at a point where Bon Iver and Travis Scott are considered big headliners by fests that usually share a headline act or two with Glasto.

[Gucci Piggy]

26 minutes ago, mike46 said:

Despite being a big fan, I’ve just not been able to get excited about the strokes headlining but having had a few beers this evening and watched this whole set, I’m now all for it.

Sure, it might be very early album heavy but that run of songs at the end, on the Pyramid, with a typical Glasto enthusiastic crowd...sign me up!

 

 

When the gammons find out Paul McCartney has been replace with The Strokes.

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, Gucci Piggy said:

When the gammons find out Paul McCartney has been replace with The Strokes.

Gammons are gonna be happier with a band who's frontman looks like an actual hunk of gammon with a wig and sunglasses stuck on it than that bleeding heart vegan commie liberal Paul McCartney

[CJTM]

3 hours ago, Mezhyp1 said:

Having been to Rock Werchter I can confirm it's got as much charisma and personality as Michael Gove's foosty arse

It'd be the designated driver 

went in 2017 with high hopes - could not agree more with ye man

Plus the lineup is more top heavy than Katie Price

[FuzzyDunlop]

34 minutes ago, Keithy said:

Gaga has a countdown on her Instagram....

It's almost certainly a countdown to some new Vegas dates being announced....

But...but...

Either way, new dates might fill that summer gap and close the Glastonbury door.

No... its a countdown to her 1st Vegas show. Tonight.

[Keithy]

2 minutes ago, FuzzyDunlop said:

No... its a countdown to her 1st Vegas show. Tonight.

Her first show was in December 

[Gucci Piggy]

38 minutes ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

Gammons are gonna be happier with a band who's frontman looks like an actual hunk of gammon with a wig and sunglasses stuck on it than that bleeding heart vegan commie liberal Paul McCartney

Macca played the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Doubt any of the gammons have a clue he's a vegan. I didn't even know he was a vegan and most of my friends are vegans who eat his wife's food all the time.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Gucci Piggy said:

I didn't even know he was a vegan 

You post on here and you've never even seen The Simpsons? Fuck outta here.

[Gucci Piggy]

10 minutes ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

You post on here and you've never even seen The Simpsons? Fuck outta here.

Do they mention Paul McCartney being a vegan in every episode?

But no I'm not sure I have seen that one, which is strange as I'm sure I've seen most of em.

[Alex DeLarge]

1 hour ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

You post on here and you've never even seen The Simpsons? Fuck outta here.

Do they mention Macca is a vegan in that episode? I thought he was just veggie then.

[Matt42]

4 hours ago, dentalplan said:

He’s a contender. We were told by a poster with a good track record that Liam was putting his hat in the ring for a headline slot a couple of months ago - something that didn’t make sense when we thought all three headline berths were sorted - but whether it was accepted was never further reported.

I’d like to think they’d never go for that seeing as no one really gives a fuck about his solo stuff and his popularity will only wane until the Oasis reunion rolls in, but he does tick a few boxes.

Ah fuck

I didn’t think of Liam at all but now can totally see it. It reminds me a lot of 2013 when we kinda speculated around an act that threw their hat into the ring very early (Mumford), and we doubted their size until they appeared on the poster.

i really don’t think booking him as a headliner would be that controversial either.

i guess we have more info for the strokes than Liam though. 

It’s funny, if you think of it this way we have three (reasonable) contenders to take the slot; The Strokes, The Killers, Liam - (when it seemed like we could barely think of an act), turns out there are options, they just might not be what we really want

Despite the strokes info, something is pulling me to the killers and I don’t know why. Just a gut feeling

Edited January 18, 2019 by Matt42

[vintagelaureate]

It was mentioned on here straight after 2017, that The Killers had been booked to headline (wasn't there even a thread on it?).

[eFestivals]

7 hours ago, dentalplan said:

He’s a contender. We were told by a poster with a good track record that Liam was putting his hat in the ring for a headline slot a couple of months ago - something that didn’t make sense when we thought all three headline berths were sorted - but whether it was accepted was never further reported.

I’d like to think they’d never go for that seeing as no one really gives a fuck about his solo stuff and his popularity will only wane until the Oasis reunion rolls in, but he does tick a few boxes.

he's only a contender if things have been moved around due to someone backing out.

Remember, the later-confirmed juice had him subbing Stormzy.

 

7 hours ago, Gucci Piggy said:

When the gammons find out Paul McCartney has been replace with The Strokes.

bet there's plenty of gammon strokes fans. You don't get more gammon that mainstream acts (even if they were only mainstream for 5 minutes).

[nysmaw]

Would anyone be so kind and explain what it means to be a gammon for those of us who are not native English speakers? I’m quite confused

[dentalplan]

4 hours ago, Matt42 said:

Ah fuck

I didn’t think of Liam at all but now can totally see it. It reminds me a lot of 2013 when we kinda speculated around an act that threw their hat into the ring very early (Mumford), and we doubted their size until they appeared on the poster.

i really don’t think booking him as a headliner would be that controversial either.

i guess we have more info for the strokes than Liam though. 

It’s funny, if you think of it this way we have three (reasonable) contenders to take the slot; The Strokes, The Killers, Liam - (when it seemed like we could barely think of an act), turns out there are options, they just might not be what we really want

Despite the strokes info, something is pulling me to the killers and I don’t know why. Just a gut feeling

There’s nothing for The Killers though. Other than that they’re playing in Texas in May, which is more or less irrelevant because they never stop playing shows. There’s no apparent reason for them to come back to Europe.

IMO you have The Strokes and LG with info, RHCP and more to come who’ll be about Europe, Gaga who might fall into the special appearance thing (see Sheeran, Adele) and then The Killers, KOL who are active elsewhere in the world with no big reason to come back over.

57 minutes ago, vintagelaureate said:

It was mentioned on here straight after 2017, that The Killers had been booked to headline (wasn't there even a thread on it?).

No that was a prediction from a fan.

51 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

he's only a contender if things have been moved around due to someone backing out.

True but the way that was presented, it seemed he was bowling for a late replacement slot.

[dentalplan]

1 minute ago, nysmaw said:

Would anyone be so kind and explain what it means to be a gammon for those of us who are not native English speakers? I’m quite confused

It’s to do with having bigoted beliefs, normally impacted by patriotism, but it’s been hijacked by these losers who want to make people feel bad about the music they like.

[eFestivals]

3 minutes ago, nysmaw said:

Would anyone be so kind and explain what it means to be a gammon for those of us who are not native English speakers? I’m quite confused

it's something that got made up for older brexiters who get so worked up about it they make themselves red in the face.

[eFestivals]

PS: rather amusingly, some of those who helped push 'gammon' to prominence are now gammons themselves.

I'm looking at you triangulating desperately-crawling-to-Jez Owen Jones.

Edited January 18, 2019 by eFestivals

[MetaKate]

Ok so I was into The Killers just as much as anybody back when we all had souls but weren't soldiers. "What a clever line" I thought. And then it got old. And their second album was a bit whatever. I realized some soldiers didnt have souls and some non soldiers DID have souls and that line with just nonsense. And then I went through life not thinking about The Killers. 

Well I saw them in September and holy shit I'd love to see them on the Pyramid. Honestly one of the most entertaining acts I've seen. 

It's gotta be Daft Punk though right?

[eFestivals]

1 minute ago, MetaKate said:

had souls but weren't soldiers

had ham but weren't hamsters.

[MetaKate]

1 minute ago, eFestivals said:

had ham but weren't hamsters.

Had robes but weren't robots

[Gnomicide]

There's a Twitter account that gained many followers by pointing out gammon behaviour.

A while ago it tweeted that there was no real music any more, not like there used to be. I responded that it was a gammonesque tweet and they blocked me.

 

[Crazyfool01]

9 hours ago, priest17 said:

@CaledonianGonzo congrats if true 

what about @Curlygirl?

[zahidf]

17 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

it's something that got made up for older brexiters who get so worked up about it they make themselves red in the face.

One particular question time led to the 'wall of gammon' meme online, when a bunch of old white guys were shouting until they were red in the face about how we needed to nuke Iran, to the confusion and disgust of a young female student.

[Sasperella]

7 minutes ago, MetaKate said:

Well I saw them in September and holy shit I'd love to see them on the Pyramid. Honestly one of the most entertaining acts I've seen. 

It's gotta be Daft Punk though right?

I missed the Killers gig at Glastonbury for a bit of a closer-fuck of a reason....then me and two friends (who LOVE The Killers) got tickets to see them in Sheffield in December 2017. And OMG they were one of the most boring acts I've ever seen. Maybe I expected too much after hearing how amazing they'd been on the JP. At the end, my massive-Killer's-fan friend turned to me and said, "rather unbelievably, Blink 182 were WAY better".....

Daft Punk though I'm 100% down with. And as they are also a "couple of guys", we basically have info on them already ?