TRNSMT Festival 2018

[harryomatic]

16 hours ago, Neontiger90 said:

Would Snow Patrol definitely headline? I wouldn't mind seeing them but again like Stereophonics, im not sure how well they would go down as main headliners. 

Not sure. Like stereophonics, they probably should be subbing, but you could juuuuuuuust about get away with having them as a headliner.

[DomDom1984]

I don't think there's much evidence at this point that they should be subbing. There's not much to tell how this is going to go.

As for it being just conjecture... DF book Snow Patrol every chance they get, so they're going to play. This is absolutely certain.

[dentalplan]

I feel like they would have dumped Stereophonics to a sub slot over Snow Patrol for sure.

[Peanutsinger]

It's all a bit predictable isn't it? 

Liam Gallagher has done very well to raise the profile of his new album. It'll be forgotten by July and his placement as a headliner will seem odd.

[Chiefski]

It'll probably not happen, but I'd love a Gorillaz and friends day, really enjoyed the Hydro gig, doubtful I know. If I were booking the rest of the weekend going by what's on at the time, and trying to be somewhat sensible...

Sunday 30th - Gorillaz / Chvrches (will be promoted big on return, IMO) / Vince Staples / The Vaccines / De La Soul / Little Simz

Friday - QOTSA / Royal Blood / Iggy Pop / Run The Jewels / The Hives / more tbc

Sunday - The Killers or Arctic Monkeys / Lorde (she's popping up in alot of places) Franz Ferdinand / HAIM / more tbc

Totally expecting to have that all taken away when Snow Patrol, The Prodigy and the likes off get announced saying all that

[Muppetmark]

9 hours ago, Chiefski said:

 

Friday - QOTSA / Royal Blood / Iggy Pop / Run The Jewels / The Hives / more tbc

Royal blood are too big to sub. As we can see with the other dates they won't pick anyone that strong

[Paulmcm1998]

12 minutes ago, Muppetmark said:

Royal blood are too big to sub. As we can see with the other dates they won't pick anyone that strong

I think they are the right size for a special guest slot like the 1975 did last year but it's not likely they'll book such a strong day

[DomDom1984]

If The 1975 can sub then so can Royal Blood. Stereophonics and The Script sub festivals and are no smaller.

[Threestripes]

19 hours ago, Chiefski said:

It'll probably not happen, but I'd love a Gorillaz and friends day, really enjoyed the Hydro gig, doubtful I know. If I were booking the rest of the weekend going by what's on at the time, and trying to be somewhat sensible...

Sunday 30th - Gorillaz / Chvrches (will be promoted big on return, IMO) / Vince Staples / The Vaccines / De La Soul / Little Simz

Friday - QOTSA / Royal Blood / Iggy Pop / Run The Jewels / The Hives / more tbc

Sunday - The Killers or Arctic Monkeys / Lorde (she's popping up in alot of places) Franz Ferdinand / HAIM / more tbc

Totally expecting to have that all taken away when Snow Patrol, The Prodigy and the likes off get announced saying all that

Gorrllaz de la soul and iggy pop...yes please.

[ncoll1]

Still no dates from the 6th to the 9th of July

[harryomatic]

Support from Wolf Alice and Frank Carter is a tasty gig. 

[kingcrawler]

34 minutes ago, ncoll1 said:

Still no dates from the 6th to the 9th of July

https://foofighters.com/#tour

They're playing Philadelphia on July 7th so no chance of them playing the second weekend. It's Sunday of the first weekend or nothing.

[chickenfire]

The Killers have been announced for IOW and two of their own stadium gigs (Swansea and Bolton of all places).

If they are playing trnsmt, why on earth have they not been announced yet?!

[Mattymooz]

5 minutes ago, chickenfire said:

The Killers have been announced for IOW and two of their own stadium gigs (Swansea and Bolton of all places).

If they are playing trnsmt, why on earth have they not been announced yet?!

Well, TRNSMT is ran by Live Nation, who also run Download, IOW, R+L, Community etc. I guess they don't want all the announcements to clash with each other, so are spreading them out more. Think Killers are nailed on for the second weekend at this point though looking at the Bolton gig

[chickenfire]

Yeah, still strange though considering Liam Gallagher was announced for TRNSMT a few weeks ago and now IOW but The Killers (assuming they are playing) haven’t yet. 

Anyway, they were great at The Hydro so depending on the support I would probably go. 

[mazza7]

1 hour ago, chickenfire said:

The Killers have been announced for IOW and two of their own stadium gigs (Swansea and Bolton of all places).

If they are playing trnsmt, why on earth have they not been announced yet?!

Think it's just a case of finding medium sized stadiums that are available then - plus they never had a Welsh date on their recent tour.  I'm guessing that TRNSMT and an outdoor gig in Belfast/Dublin will be announced too.

I wonder how much notice DF were given about having the earlier weekend as the main festival... I know Geoff Ellis and other festival organisers have said in the past that the headliners are normally at least pencilled in a year advance. Makes me wonder if they were maybe struggling to fill that weekend at short notice, as I think I had initially predicted Liam and Stereophonics to jointly headline a day (or maybe I'm being too kind ). 

[dentalplan]

23 minutes ago, mazza7 said:

I wonder how much notice DF were given about having the earlier weekend as the main festival... I know Geoff Ellis and other festival organisers have said in the past that the headliners are normally at least pencilled in a year advance. Makes me wonder if they were maybe struggling to fill that weekend at short notice, as I think I had initially predicted Liam and Stereophonics to jointly headline a day (or maybe I'm being too kind ). 

Yeah I think that's what's happened as well. They announced the initial dates about four weeks before announcing Liam Gallagher for the weekend before those dates (obviously with the date change in the middle of those two stories) so it's hard to believe Gallagher or Stereophonics were pencilled in even a month before.

Edited December 4, 2017 by dentalplan

[harryomatic]

muse at Rock in Rio Lisboa in Portugal on the 23rd June. Could be in contention for TRNSMT.

[SomeoneListeningIn]

do muse ever disappear for a summer

[IsaacMuse]

Muse & QOTSA

[Mattymooz]

47 minutes ago, IsaacMuse said:

Muse & QOTSA

That is 2 months before TRNSMT though.....

[dentalplan]

Jesus how high up that bill are The Struts and Greta Van Fleet? The 70's are alive and well in Carolina.

[the wonderwhy]

Wait is that Derby's The Struts? 

[AAlex]

37 minutes ago, the wonderwhy said:

Wait is that Derby's The Struts? 

It is! I just had a quick look they seem to be doing quite well in the US. I'm sure it was only around a year ago they played The Venue in Derby, which couldn't be more than 500ish capacity. 

[the wonderwhy]

There is no helping that country