jannybruck Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 New Order and Pet Shop Boys just announced a co-headlining tour of the US for late summer. They're both big enough to headline separately, but could this be in advance of an APE announcement? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomDom1984 Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 That co headline would make me come down. No question Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jannybruck Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 Normally I'd be skeptical of it but PSBs are free on the 31st (one of the currently unnanounced dates), it's in the middle of their pretty-much-sold out arena tour so they'd have a setlist and production rehearsed, and neither have any UK festivals announced. It'd be weird considering they're playing the O2 the week before, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility if they bill it as a festival set/co-headline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxialac Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 30 minutes ago, jannybruck said: New Order and Pet Shop Boys just announced a co-headlining tour of the US for late summer. They're both big enough to headline separately, but could this be in advance of an APE announcement? That looks just too strong for APE. That day would be oversold, when other days are undersold. So could see one but not the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dales Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 Just now, xxialac said: That looks just too strong for APE. That day would be oversold, when other days are undersold. So could see one but not the other. Yeah, agree with that. I would be happy with either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilirocker Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 (edited) 11 minutes ago, xxialac said: That looks just too strong for APE. That day would be oversold, when other days are undersold. So could see one but not the other. I don't know. I think APE in the past couple of years have had days where the top couple of acts have been stacked and could potentially have headlined separately, especially when compared with The Kooks & Wombats combo or Christine & The Queens: - LCD Soundsystem/Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Phoenix -The XX/Lorde/Justice - The National/War On Drugs - Nick Cave/Patti Smith - The Strokes/ The Raconteurs Edited February 24, 2020 by chilirocker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxialac Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 4 minutes ago, chilirocker said: I don't know. I think APE in the past couple of years have had days where the top couple of acts have been stacked and could potentially have headlined separately, especially when compared with The Kooks & Wombats combo or Christine & The Queens: - LCD Soundsystem/Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Phoenix -The XX/Lorde/Justice - The National/War On Drugs - Nick Cave/Patti Smith - The Strokes/ The Raconteurs Of that list only The Raconteurs could have been decent headliners (commercially not critically) of the subs, although take your point about C&TQ. I can only think they were convinced she was about to blow up when they booked her and her star indeed rose but not enough to solo headline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahoneypepe Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 Mogwai + Twilight Sad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jannybruck Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 6 minutes ago, xxialac said: I can only think they were convinced she was about to blow up when they booked her and her star indeed rose but not enough to solo headline. She'd just completed a sold-out UK theatre tour in the winter where tickets were like gold dust and got five star reviews everywhere, so they assumed the demand would be there for the festival headliner. For whatever reason, it wasn't – she's popular and has a great live show but doesn't have any big 'festival' hits that will sell that amount of tickets to casual fans. Maybe in another album's time she'll be at that level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danjamesbaker Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 Nothing in Time Out this week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxialac Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 1 minute ago, danjamesbaker said: Nothing in Time Out this week thank you very much for looking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furseal Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 9 hours ago, xxialac said: So, another name late tonight if the person with early access to Timeout is good enough to post on here again? Nothing to report in this week's Timeout unfortunately Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zahidf Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 1 minute ago, furseal said: Nothing to report in this week's Timeout unfortunately Ah that's a shame. Anything on mogwai out of curiosity? They've got an announcement tomorrow... or any other interesting new gig announcements! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dentalplan Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 46 minutes ago, chilirocker said: especially when compared with The Kooks & Wombats combo Those are two acts headlining Wembley Arena in recent years. It’s not a good announcement for longtime followers of this festival but I don’t see how it’s comparably weak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jannybruck Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 Absolutely mad that we're nearly into March and two gigs are yet to be announced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingcrawler Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 Definitely won't be New Order for one of the remaining days then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomised Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 They just keep getting ruled out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxialac Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 9 minutes ago, kingcrawler said: Definitely won't be New Order for one of the remaining days then. I thought of them and PSB, they were the more likely. Think we are getting someone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John L Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 17 minutes ago, kingcrawler said: Definitely won't be New Order for one of the remaining days then. Does “show” include festival appearances though? Not saying it doesn’t but sometimes these things are deviously worded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxialac Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 4 minutes ago, John L said: Does “show” include festival appearances though? Not saying it doesn’t but sometimes these things are deviously worded. But if they announce New Order next week it would hurt the O2 sales or the o2 sales would hurt the APE sales. It can't be them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomised Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 21 minutes ago, John L said: Does “show” include festival appearances though? Not saying it doesn’t but sometimes these things are deviously worded. It often tends to be a festival show announced as only uk performance then a normal show gets added after Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomDom1984 Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 Some outstanding straw clutching 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Honeymoon Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 At the rate they will be announcing the last 2 headliners a week before and it will be Razorlight and the Levellers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyRaver Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 (edited) 12 hours ago, xxialac said: So, another name late tonight if the person with early access to Timeout is good enough to post on here again? Nothing coming tonight... (sorry, just saw that said above) Edited February 24, 2020 by GrumpyRaver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxialac Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 In fairness last year the last announcement was 22 February. It's 24 February...not exactly ages after that. Imagine now that we will get a double whammy next week with both announced at once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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