2019 Headliners

[FuzzyDunlop]

45 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

Still get the feeling that this is gonna end up like every other year where we think we’re all out of options and gonna end up with a shit/small/underwhelming final headliner and then somebody announces a tour/reforms/comes out of the woodworks and it all falls in to place. 

This is where I am..... or it's Gaga.

[Guest]

Was in a bar last night where this din was playing and I couldn't quite place it and I said is this the goddamn Fratellis or somebody else and my dawg was like no this song is juicebox by the the strokes

[Gucci Piggy]

Just now, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

Was in a bar last night where this din was playing and I couldn't quite place it and I said is this the goddamn Fratellis or somebody else and my dawg was like no this song is juicebox by the the strokes

That song sounds absolutely nothing like The Fratellis so this is just you being dumb. Cheers.

[Superunknown]

1 hour ago, The Placid Casual said:

Arctics wouldn't be an exciting booking, but they'd draw a much bigger crowd than any of the other talked about headliners. Makes sense for the festival to go for them if they're available.

 

I'd be at the other stage, getting Gillespie'd while watching the Chems play the song of 2019.

Why would The Chems be playing an as-yet-unreleased Foals track?

[Gucci Piggy]

3 minutes ago, Superunknown said:

Why would The Chems be playing an as-yet-unreleased Foals track?

What 

[Superunknown]

3 minutes ago, Gucci Piggy said:

What 

> TPC says he'll be watching The Chems playing the best song of 2019, implying MAH

> I say why would The Chems be playing a Foals track, implying a Foals song will be the best song of 2019 (they haven't released one yet so I can't name it) 

Hope that clears things up for you pal. 

Edited January 20, 2019 by Superunknown

[Odessa]

1 hour ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Not if it gets boring because it's another variation on the same idea over and over.

 

Actually, I'm going to call bullshit on myself. I don't think I've ever actually listened to This Is It the whole way through. I've put on the occasional non "Last Nite" song by them and usually either turn it off or totally tune out before the end. I'll have to actually listen to it now, even if I'm not expecting it to be my thing.

I'll post back with my impressions.

First Impressions Of Is This It 

[dentalplan]

Chemical Brothers really do have carte blanche on eFests huh?

Edited January 21, 2019 by dentalplan

[DJL]

I just can’t see it being the Strokes. I have liked, and seen, them a lot over the years but I don’t think they  have a decent pyramid headline set in them now. They’re too past-it to be a headliner who feels  in their prime and they don’t have the songs to be one that plays the classics everyone knows.

Hoping for gaga even though we have no info  to suggest she is likely 

[Gucci Piggy]

36 minutes ago, Superunknown said:

> TPC says he'll be watching The Chems playing the best song of 2019, implying MAH

> I say why would The Chems be playing a Foals track, implying a Foals song will be the best song of 2019 (they haven't released one yet so I can't name it) 

Hope that clears things up for you pal. 

I was what-ing the idea of Foals releasing the best song of the year in 2019 tbh

[Gucci Piggy]

Song of the year is Seventeen stop being weird.

[Superunknown]

Just now, Gucci Piggy said:

Song of the year is Seventeen stop being weird.

Yeah tbf 

[thewayiam]

8 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Not if it gets boring because it's another variation on the same idea over and over.

 

Actually, I'm going to call bullshit on myself. I don't think I've ever actually listened to This Is It the whole way through. I've put on the occasional non "Last Nite" song by them and usually either turn it off or totally tune out before the end. I'll have to actually listen to it now, even if I'm not expecting it to be my thing.

I'll post back with my impressions.

Don't help now...

It hasn't aged well really.

[SwedgeAntilles]

8 hours ago, Gucci Piggy said:

Song of the year is Seventeen stop being weird.

Preach.

[The Placid Casual]

8 hours ago, dentalplan said:

Chemical Brothers really do have carte blanche on eFests huh?

What?

[Gucci Piggy]

4 minutes ago, The Placid Casual said:

What?

Think he's implying that Go and MAH are nowhere near being the song of their respective years.

[dentalplan]

4 minutes ago, The Placid Casual said:

What?

As in, there can be hundreds of pages on whether an act is past it or whether it really needs to come back or whether it’s a boring booking, yet Chemical Brothers manage to sidestep all this and somehow even present themselves as the preferred alternative. Though I do realise the shouts for them to headline the Pyramid won’t have been with total conviction.

1 minute ago, Gucci Piggy said:

Think he's implying that Go and MAH are nowhere near being the song of their respective years.

Not specifically but also yes.

[The Placid Casual]

4 minutes ago, Gucci Piggy said:

Think he's implying that Go and MAH are nowhere near being the song of their respective years.

Bad opinion that.

[Homer]

This whole no one knows the Strokes songs thing, I started the car yesterday morning, the radio was tuned to RadioX, and the they were halfway through playing Hard to Explain. They're definitely still on a fairly decent rotation.

[The Nal]

I still think it'll be Fleetwood Mac. 

[The Placid Casual]

3 minutes ago, The Placid Casual said:

Bad opinion that.

Do like dental though so the odd slip is alright now and again.

[SwedgeAntilles]

7 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

As in, there can be hundreds of pages on whether an act is past it or whether it really needs to come back or whether it’s a boring booking, yet Chemical Brothers manage to sidestep all this and somehow even present themselves as the preferred alternative. Though I do realise the shouts for them to headline the Pyramid won’t have been with total conviction.

It's a fair point. I'm a big fan of the Chemical Brothers but I can admit that is largely built around nostalgia of my big clubbing years in the 2000s. I think if we're being honest 'Born In The Echoes' wasn't great so you need to go back to 2010 to find the last good record they made, however as you say no one bats an eyelid about them being a shoe-in for one of the highest slots on the bill outside Pyramid headliner. 

Having said that MAH is an absolutely banger and suggests they've found their way again.

Edited January 21, 2019 by SwedgeAntilles

[Gucci Piggy]

11 minutes ago, Homer said:

This whole no one knows the Strokes songs thing, I started the car yesterday morning, the radio was tuned to RadioX, and the they were halfway through playing Hard to Explain. They're definitely still on a fairly decent rotation.

Can't believe people are out here saying The Strokes don't have enough songs to headline a festival that Arcade Fire headlined a few years back.

Was listening to Is This It yesterday and Hard to Explain is gonna bang hard on the Pyramid.

[Homer]

8 minutes ago, SwedgeAntilles said:

It's a fair point. I'm a big fan of the Chemical Brothers but I can admit that is largely built around nostalgia of my big clubbing years in the 2000s. I think if we're being honest 'Born In The Echoes' wasn't great so you need to go back to 2010 to find the last good record they made, however as you say no one bats an eyelid about them being a shoe-in for one of the highest slots on the bill outside Pyramid headliner. 

Having said that MAH is an absolutely banger and suggests they've found their way again.

The Chems last set at Glastonbuty was the best time I''ve ever seen them there, and it was rammed. (I saw them at Besitval later that year too and it was just as good.) They've def got enough goodwill etc in the tank to do the Other Stage headliner slot again.

[Gucci Piggy]

Yep, can't lie I enjoyed that Chems set as much as I enjoyed LCD Soundsystem the following year. Helps that I was absolutely trashed but god damn it was amazing. I actually instantly put it up there with Nick Cave and Radiohead as the best shows I've seen.