2019 Headliners

[ghostdancer1]

5 hours ago, FloorFiller said:

They’ll go down an absolute storm on the night, there’s no doubting that. They’re just not the most inspired booking, especially after their JP set went down so well. Them being booked to headline the Pyramid two years after that with no new material is just a bit of a damp squib.

But yeah, on the night I doubt any people in that crowd will care - they do what they do well and have enough singalongs to keep a headliner crowd happy. It just won’t be one for the history books by any stretch of the imagination. 

they released a new album a few months after that (which is surprisingly decent IMO).

e: according to wiki, it's the best/highest-rated of all their albums on Metacritic.

Edited March 1, 2019 by ghostdancer1

[FloorFiller]

7 minutes ago, ghostdancer1 said:

they released a new album a few months after that (which is surprisingly decent IMO).

e: according to wiki, it's the best/highest-rated of all their albums on Metacritic.

Aye but they played the biggest/only moderate hit from it, and I doubt many are crying out for a setlist full of songs from that album - seems to have been largely forgotten about much like the album before it.

That was just a nitpicky point anyway. They’re a drab headliner regardless of if they have new material to tour behind.

[Zoo Music Girl]

1 hour ago, Scott129 said:

When was the last time two headliners were unannounced when the big poster dropped? I can only think of the Who not being announced before the poster in the time I've been going, and that was only because they were a late booking

Metallica were a TBC on the poster weren't they? Seem to remember that being the case.

Fucking hell it seems really weird now that Metallica headlined Glastonbury. And I was there.

Edited March 1, 2019 by Zoo Music Girl

[Superscally]

Just now, Zoo Music Girl said:

Metallica were a TBC on the poster weren't they? Seem to remember that being the case.

Really? I don't think they'd ever put a TBC on the poster?

[Zoo Music Girl]

37 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

Were any of the headliners announced pre-2013 lineup drop? I definitely remember there still being a bit of a question mark over the Stones up until that point.

I honestly can't remember but I know the Stones were on the poster as I remember being very excited when that dropped. Were the other two announced before?

[Zoo Music Girl]

1 minute ago, Superscally said:

Really? I don't think they'd ever put a TBC on the poster?

Ha I might have made that up. But that's how I remember it weirdly. Special guest or something?

[CaledonianGonzo]

Pretty sure that Lars and the lads were listed as 'Special Guests' at one point.

[Superscally]

1 minute ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

Ha I might have made that up. But that's how I remember it weirdly. Special guest or something?

My knowledge ain't that strong!

[kingcrawler]

1 minute ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

Ha I might have made that up. But that's how I remember it weirdly. Special guest or something?

Yeah just looked it up and they were listed as special guests. Kasabian weren't announced until the poster that year either but I think we'd known it was them for a while anyway.

[Hugh Jass]

19 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Pretty sure that Lars and the lads were listed as 'Special Guests' at one point.

They were, because of their exclusive with Sonosphere I think it was. We had to wait until June until they were confirmed IIRC. We knew well in advance of that though.

[Jake9502]

Any information recently about anything Neil? I’m sure we’d literally take the line up of the food vans at the moment!

Even if it’s someone cats sisters mum works at a shop that serves someone aunties brother and they say so and so is playing.....I’ll take anything other than this plastic bottle shit they keep banging on about! ?

[CaledonianGonzo]

Oh aye. IIRC my man from Sonisphere even did a blog or Facebook post about how Metallica were originally booked as an exclusive but when they came asking to also do the G he didn't want to be the guy to fuck it all up for everyone and it was all for the good of metal as a whole.

[Hugh Jass]

We’ve reached that time of year where impatience starts to creep in. Without wishing to generalise it’s always the younger, less experienced posters who start. Those of us who’ve done this a few times know this always how it is.

Still another month I reckon.

[morph100]

13 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

We’ve reached that time of year where impatience starts to creep in. Without wishing to generalise it’s always the younger, less experienced posters who start. Those of us who’ve done this a few times know this always how it is.

Still another month I reckon.

So what your saying is.....

 

Patience

 

 

 

[FuzzyDunlop]

1 minute ago, morph100 said:

So what your saying is.....

 

Patience

 

 

 

Take That? 

Urgh.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Agreed

[morph100]

1 minute ago, FuzzyDunlop said:

Take That? 

Urgh.

T Swizzle on the other hand....

[Homer]

1 hour ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

I honestly can't remember but I know the Stones were on the poster as I remember being very excited when that dropped. Were the other two announced before?

Stones were announced on the radio. I still remember tuning in to Absolute at 7pm to find out and they started playing Satisfaction. I was in the kitchen at the time FYI.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Though the Stones Twitter account started posting pictures of them in farm-based scenarios beforehand. This type of thing:

 

[priest17]

1 hour ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

Fucking hell it seems really weird now that Metallica headlined Glastonbury. And I was there.

N'awww yeah and it was so so so good. I kinda hold my tongue about all other headliners at this point coz I feel like they booked someone detrimental to the line up to make me happy.

After they book Nick Cave to headline they can do what they want, give mumford a residency for all I care.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Fucking hell.  I'm not a metalhead. You can count the number of times I've listened to Master of Puppets on one hand. They were divisive.  Their crowd wasn't giant.  

But they had more right to be on that goddamn stage than a guy who looks like a riverboat gambler from a non-Jim Henson Muppet production

With his one karaoke song.

[Gnomicide]

3 hours ago, Scott129 said:

When was the last time two headliners were unannounced when the big poster dropped? I can only think of the Who not being announced before the poster in the time I've been going, and that was only because they were a late booking

1 hour ago, Superscally said:

Really? I don't think they'd ever put a TBC on the poster?

[Doug85]

Can we please stop mentioning the stones as it will not be them this year and I can't deal with the rise of potential hope that it could even possibly be them to have that taken away from me. 

[Superscally]

30 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

Yeah, special guests, but not a specific tbc...

[Hugh Jass]

18 minutes ago, Doug85 said:

Can we please stop mentioning the stones as it will not be them this year and I can't deal with the rise of potential hope that it could even possibly be them to have that taken away from me. 

Think they’re in the States this summer so you’re quite safe.