2019 Headliners

[SwedgeAntilles]

Aye, don't get me wrong, with Macca no longer happening it's highly unlikely there would be anything on elsewhere that would stop me going to see them again but I think it's fair to say that they're trading on the goodwill from previous live performances rather than because of their output over the last decade. Not necessarily a bad thing for a festival headliner mind.

[John the Moth]

10 hours ago, Odessa said:

First Impressions Of Is This It 

Honestly, my first impressions of Is This It, one of the best debut albums I’ve heard... didn’t really pay attention to anything after that though.

[reflekting]

12 hours ago, thewayiam said:

Woah!, how can you even compare Demon Days to Is This It?, not even in the same pool.

Sound of Silver would like to make a strong argument here.

[Homer]

46 minutes ago, Gucci Piggy said:

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.

Sunday has somehow stolen the show at my last three Glastos: Chems, LCD and Justice!

[Superunknown]

55 minutes ago, Gucci Piggy said:

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.

Pack it in ffs

[SwedgeAntilles]

7 minutes ago, reflekting said:

Sound of Silver would like to make a strong argument here.

@jparx beat you to it 

[mufcok]

The betting market is back on skybet after it was taken down for a few days, nothing has changed. Odd

[Hawros]

11 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

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.

Whenever you have a spare 35 minutes...

[stuartbert two hats]

11 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.

I can't do it.  I tried the title track, gave up and skipped to "Hard To Explain" because it rocks so hard. Couldn't finish it. I suppose at least I know the actual name of the album now.  I always thought people were giving a pithy review when they said "Is this it".

Hard pass from me.

[jparx]

10 hours ago, dentalplan said:

Chemical Brothers really do have carte blanche on eFests huh?

Well, they are fucking great. 

[giantkatestacks]

2 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

I can't do it.  I tried the title track, gave up and skipped to "Hard To Explain" because it rocks so hard. Couldn't finish it. I suppose at least I know the actual name of the album now.  I always thought people were giving a pithy review when they said "Is this it".

Hard pass from me.

In the interests of research I had the album on while painting yesterday. It is a perfectly ok indie album. Very one note in tone though and I only recognised 3 songs.  In fairness I think I was too old when it came out.

[SwedgeAntilles]

7 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

I can't do it.  I tried the title track, gave up and skipped to "Hard To Explain" because it rocks so hard. Couldn't finish it. I suppose at least I know the actual name of the album now.  I always thought people were giving a pithy review when they said "Is this it".

Hard pass from me.

You should be forced to remove one of your hats. 

[Gucci Piggy]

27 minutes ago, Homer said:

Sunday has somehow stolen the show at my last three Glastos: Chems, LCD and Justice!

Unfortunately I don't remember Justice but they were amazing at Mad Cool last year. Don't think they'd have been able to steal the show after Radiohead on Friday, though.

23 minutes ago, Superunknown said:

Pack it in ffs

What mate? Arcade Fire are the better band but there's no denying The Strokes have more songs the Pyramid crowd will know.

[RyanSmith9311]

15 minutes ago, mufcok said:

The betting market is back on skybet after it was taken down for a few days, nothing has changed. Odd

Still find the Cure's 'naildness' a bit strange tbh.

Also The Killers are no longer listed, which is weird.

[SwedgeAntilles]

I thought Justice were OK but not mind-blowing, certainly not at Chems/LCD level of festival closing mastery 

[Superunknown]

3 minutes ago, Gucci Piggy said:

What mate? Arcade Fire are the better band but there's no denying The Strokes have more songs the Pyramid crowd will know.

If the crowd had literally never listened to either band then sure. But you'd argue the average Glasto goer has at least a basic knowledge of the headliners big songs, in which case I'd say there's more recognisable ones across AF's (at the time) 4 albums than across The Strokes' 4. 

[thewayiam]

42 minutes ago, reflekting said:

Sound of Silver would like to make a strong argument here.

Not a fan so can't make a case but I guess based on that I'd disagree. Btw I don't consider Is This It to be the most ground breaking album either. 

[strummer77]

5 minutes ago, Superunknown said:

If the crowd had literally never listened to either band then sure. But you'd argue the average Glasto goer has at least a basic knowledge of the headliners big songs, in which case I'd say there's more recognisable ones across AF's (at the time) 4 albums than across The Strokes' 4. 

I think you're confusing this forum with the average Glastonbury goer to be honest.

As someone who is a big Arcade Fire fan, and who The Strokes passed by, I would think many more of the regular Glastonbury goers I know in real life would be able to name/recognise a song by The Strokes.

Edited January 21, 2019 by strummer77

[Gucci Piggy]

1 minute ago, Superunknown said:

If the crowd had literally never listened to either band then sure. But you'd argue the average Glasto goer has at least a basic knowledge of the headliners big songs, in which case I'd say there's more recognisable ones across AF's (at the time) 4 albums than across The Strokes' 4. 

Really? I can't see how Arcade Fire have more well known songs than Last Nite, Someday, Hard to Explain, Reptilia, 12:51, Juicebox to the general public.

I obviously can't vouch for it myself (I was 5 when their debut came out) but according to people in here they were absolutely everywhere when they were at their peak and you couldn't go to an indie club night or whatever without hearing them. I dunno if you're just not grasping how massive they were when they released those first two albums or what.

The people I'm talking about are those who have no idea who Arcade Fire are and stand through the whole Radiohead set only recognising Creep and Karma Police, not people who are actively into indie music. People who would only recognise Wake Up in an entire Arcade Fire set but would surely recognise at least 3 of the above Strokes songs.

The Strokes have 8 top 40 UK singles whilst Arcade Fire have 4. The Strokes have 2 top 10 singles (12:51 and Juicebox) whilst Arcade Fire have 0.

[thrillhouse188]

To a general audience, The Strokes are almost certainly more recognisable that Arcade Fire, especially in the UK

[The Martini Police]

2 minutes ago, Gucci Piggy said:

The Strokes have 2 top 10 singles (12:51 and Juicebox) whilst Arcade Fire have 0.

I can't believe of all their songs, it's these two. 

3 minutes ago, Gucci Piggy said:

I obviously can't vouch for it myself (I was 5 when their debut came out) but according to people in here they were absolutely everywhere when they were at their peak and you couldn't go to an indie club night or whatever without hearing them. I dunno if you're just not grasping how massive they were when they released those first two albums or what.

You still can't.

[Superunknown]

1 minute ago, Gucci Piggy said:

Really? I can't see how Arcade Fire have more well known songs than Last Nite, Someday, Hard to Explain, Reptilia, 12:51, Juicebox to the general public.

I obviously can't vouch for it myself (I was 5 when their debut came out) but according to people in here they were absolutely everywhere when they were at their peak and you couldn't go to an indie club night or whatever without hearing them. I dunno if you're just not grasping how massive they were when they released those first two albums or what.

The people I'm talking about are those who have no idea who Arcade Fire are and stand through the whole Radiohead set only recognising Creep and Karma Police, not people who are actively into indie music. People who would only recognise Wake Up in an entire Arcade Fire set but would surely recognise at least 3 of the above Strokes songs.

The Strokes have 8 top 40 UK singles whilst Arcade Fire have 4. The Strokes have 2 top 10 singles (12:51 and Juicebox) whilst Arcade Fire have 0.

Yeah, I suppose. Naturally, all my evidence will be anecdotal so I'm just going off what me and my friends do so just assumed most people going would at least know Rebellion, No Cars Go, My Body is a Cage, Sprawl II, Reflektor etc. I'd have just imagined if you intended to go to a headline set you'd at least give the band a cursory listen. 

You're right though, there's no denying The Strokes have the songs to do it, especially, if as you say most aren't really into indie music as much as I'm assuming. 

[Gucci Piggy]

6 minutes ago, The Martini Police said:

I can't believe of all their songs, it's these two. 

You still can't.

Yeah init. When I scrolled across to see which songs it was I was expecting Reptilia (because I could tell one was too low down the list to be from Is This It) and probably Last Nite/Someday.

Edit: And yeah true, they're on every time I go to Leadmill (which is like twice a year tbf). They're also always played in my SU pub whose playlist is basically what you get in indie clubs.

Edited January 21, 2019 by Gucci Piggy

[Gucci Piggy]

4 minutes ago, Superunknown said:

Yeah, I suppose. Naturally, all my evidence will be anecdotal so I'm just going off what me and my friends do so just assumed most people going would at least know Rebellion, No Cars Go, My Body is a Cage, Sprawl II, Reflektor etc. I'd have just imagined if you intended to go to a headline set you'd at least give the band a cursory listen. 

You're right though, there's no denying The Strokes have the songs to do it, especially, if as you say most aren't really into indie music as much as I'm assuming. 

Honestly don't think I'd have ever heard any of those bar maybe Rebellion and Reflektor if I didn't actively listen to Arcade Fire. And even with Reflektor I probably wouldn't know it was by them, I just sometimes hear it being played in shops and shit like that.

[stuartbert two hats]

24 minutes ago, giantkatestacks said:

In the interests of research I had the album on while painting yesterday. It is a perfectly ok indie album. Very one note in tone though and I only recognised 3 songs.  In fairness I think I was too old when it came out.

Me too.  I'd lived through shoegazing, then Britpop and I wasn't really up for anyone bringing back guitar music.  I don't think I really enjoyed a contemporary guitar band until the Arctic's debut and I finally got Doves around the same time.