Elton John

[Sawdusty surfer]

EJ is about to announce his retirement from performing which will involve a last world tour.

 

Maybe Glastonbury 2019 and could that be his final ever gig? Glastonbury goes out worldwide so he would think it suitable for a final show on home turf?

Edited January 24, 2018 by Sawdusty Surfer

[BlackHole2006]

[Crazyfool01]

I definitely think he would make a better sunday afternoon legend .. than an evening headliner not sure why ... but thats my thoughts anyway 

[CaledonianGonzo]

^^

Not sure if I get the relevance of grey squirrels

[FuzzyDunlop]

Have him headlining.

Arctic Monkeys

Taylor Swift

Elton John

 

Done.

 

Far too many hits for an hour / hour & 15 legend slot

Edited January 24, 2018 by FuzzyDunlop

[CaledonianGonzo]

Edit: Oops. That's not the announcement.  Anyway, 3 year farewell tour.  I'd say it's happening in some shape or form.

Edited January 24, 2018 by CaledonianGonzo

[pie_and_a_pint]

I'd love to see him play, but I do think a headliner feels more appropriate that the Sunday oldies slot. He's got too much material for a start.

[Alex DeLarge]

5 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Edit: Oops. That's not the announcement.  Anyway, 3 year farewell tour.  I'd say it's happening in some shape or form.

Thought this was Blackstar for a second there.

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Given the circumstances this'll be the hottest / most popular tour he's done since the seventies.  Might be enough by itself to bump him up to the top of the table.

[doogie]

He's playing the Montreux Jazz festival (in Switzerland) on Saturday 29 June and Sunday 30 June 2019.  I suspect that rules him out for 2019.

[parsonjack]

5 minutes ago, doogie said:

He's playing the Montreux Jazz festival (in Switzerland) on Saturday 29 June and Sunday 30 June 2019.  I suspect that rules him out for 2019.

3 year tour so June 2020 is in the frame....does that mean we may have our first 50th anniversary headliner?

[CaledonianGonzo]

I can't see his tour dates (his website keeps crashing) but I'm fairly sure that in recent years he's hopped around between countries on consecutive dates.

[parsonjack]

10 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

I can't see his tour dates (his website keeps crashing) but I'm fairly sure that in recent years he's hopped around between countries on consecutive dates.

....maybe, but the Sunday night gig makes a legend slot somewhat unlikely....and I just don't see him fitting a Friday headliner.

[dentalplan]

Announcing 2019 festival dates before the 2018 festivals have taken place? Who does he think he is?

Does he have no sympathy for the indexing of eFestivals?

Edited January 24, 2018 by dentalplan

[parsonjack]

4 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

Announcing 2019 festival dates before the 2018 festivals have taken place? Who does he think he is?

Does he have no sympathy for the indexing of eFestivals?

Could mean a complete redesign for the 'thingy'....

[Guest]

Does seem to be a likely candidate for 2020, looks as if it could coincide nicely with the back end of his tour.

[CaledonianGonzo]

When are you gonna come down?
When are you going to land?
And will you stay on the farm?
You should get booked by Emily's old man

[Sawdusty surfer]

Hard to think of many still regularly touring performers/bands that deserve a headlining slot more.

 

 

"That haven't played Glastonbury before.

[Sawdusty surfer]

Just seen it has already been posted in 2019 Headliners thread. Doh.

[CaledonianGonzo]

I'm just about the last person to slap Reg Strikes Back on the turntable, but yeah - give the old goat his swansong and book him in the top slot.  He's been part of the cultural life of the UK for nigh on 5 decades and he deserves his final moment.

[dentalplan]

1 hour ago, parsonjack said:

Could mean a complete redesign for the 'thingy'....

@Gnomicide cancel your plans!!

After finally being able to load his tour dates, it doesn't seem terribly promising that he's doing his European tour to fit Glasto 2019 but has chosen to do the only two nights of Montreux Jazz that coincide with Glastonbury that year. Like, would he be planning to route his whole farewell tour to come back and do Glastonbury on its 50th anniversary when he coulda just played the 4th/5th night at Montreux and did Glastonbury in 2019? I hope he does it and hope he gets a headline slot but I don't think I'm as confident as anyone else.

[Badlands]

It would be a shame if he didn’t. Either headliner or legend slot would go down well. That list of acts that are of a certain demographic appeal is getting smaller, I thought they’d pull out the stops.

[The Clearest Blue]

Still can’t get the tour dates to load, it’s clearly a popular tour

[Gucci Piggy]

43 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

@Gnomicide cancel your plans!!

After finally being able to load his tour dates, it doesn't seem terribly promising that he's doing his European tour to fit Glasto 2019 but has chosen to do the only two nights of Montreux Jazz that coincide with Glastonbury that year. Like, would he be planning to route his whole farewell tour to come back and do Glastonbury on its 50th anniversary when he coulda just played the 4th/5th night at Montreux and did Glastonbury in 2019? I hope he does it and hope he gets a headline slot but I don't think I'm as confident as anyone else.

But if his tour's gonna be continuing until at least Summer 2020 anyway then does that matter? Say he spoke to Glastonbury and they said he could play either of the two years he may prefer to do the 50th anniversary year out of the two. If Emily (I think) has said they've already had artists offering to play in 2020 then I don't see it as unrealistic.

[dentalplan]

1 minute ago, Gucci Piggy said:

But if his tour's gonna be continuing until at least Summer 2020 anyway then does that matter? Say he spoke to Glastonbury and they said he could play either of the two years he may prefer to do the 50th anniversary year out of the two. If Emily (I think) has said they've already had artists offering to play in 2020 then I don't see it as unrealistic.

Absolutely but I'm sceptical as to:

• why he'd route his tour to repeat itself for a festival that he has no relationship with and has never seemed interested in forging one.
• the popular suggestion that the festival will be loading 2020 up with all the mega stars it can handle and leaving slim pickings for 2019/2021.

Still more than happy to play with the idea of that being the case and maybe he is romanced by the 50th anniversary or he's got UK festival plans (IOW most likely) that impinge on 2019 availability. And it'll at least give a breather from every suggestion for that year being shot down by "no mate it's Coldplay".