2020 headliners

[FloorFiller]

2 minutes ago, CJTM said:

can someone suggest a good starter album to listen for The Strokes? cheers.

The Best of The Strokes

also known as Is This It

[CJTM]

Just now, FloorFiller said:

The Best of The Strokes

also known as Is This It

Angles was decent, fight me

[FloorFiller]

1 minute ago, CJTM said:

Angles was decent, fight me

Think even die hard fans will fight you on that one.

Personal favourite for me is Comedown Machine, mostly because it sounded a lot less like The Strokes, but I think that’s a fairly unpopular opinion. 

[Billy Shears]

3 minutes ago, CJTM said:

can someone suggest a good starter album to listen for The Strokes? cheers.

1. Is This It - The best place to start is at the beginning, it's a classic and went on to influence so many.

2. Room On Fire - The follow up, full of floor fillers and a set list main-stayers.

3. Angles - A personal favorite, the vocals sound brilliant and there's a clear contribution / blend from all band members with a move to new direction from the band. 

Enjoy!

[CJTM]

1 minute ago, Billy Shears said:

1. Is This It - The best place to start is at the beginning, it's a classic and went on to influence so many.

2. Room On Fire - The follow up, full of floor fillers and a set list main-stayers.

3. Angles - A personal favorite, the vocals sound brilliant and there's a clear contribution / blend from all band members with a move to new direction from the band. 

Enjoy!

ah cheers, I was only bolloxin about, First Impressions and then CDM for me!

[Hugh Jass]

2 minutes ago, CJTM said:

can someone suggest a good starter album to listen for The Strokes? cheers.

Is This It is the standard, although I prefer Room On Fire.

[CJTM]

4 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

Think even die hard fans will fight you on that one.

Personal favourite for me is Comedown Machine, mostly because it sounded a lot less like The Strokes, but I think that’s a fairly unpopular opinion. 

5th on my list, always think album opinions are great debate... especially when you're right 😋

[Billy Shears]

I love that there is no 'right' answer! Serious band!

[CJTM]

1 minute ago, Hugh Jass said:

Is This It is the standard, although I prefer Room On Fire.

Would have thought a big juicy gammon like yourself would be ITI all the way Hugh

[mufcok]

The opening three tracks of First Impressions, phenomenal 

[Hugh Jass]

1 minute ago, mufcok said:

The opening three tracks of First Impressions, phenomenal 

Indeed, Juicebox is the best thing they’ve ever done IMO. Just a shame the album tails off so badly.

[SwedgeAntilles]

15 Minutes is great. The Strokes doing The Pogues shouldn't work, but it does. 

Edited January 23, 2020 by SwedgeAntilles

[wro_lap]

Pab...lo.... Honey....

[Divein]

2 hours ago, mufcok said:

Don't you even dare suggest they play and go up against McCartney, ya fu..

If my casio's on the ball they're in France on the Saturday no?

I just meant I feel if there's going to be the Pyramid Size headliners on the other that Emily as alluded to it'll be Saturday and Sunday.

So it would be either Friday or Sunday, Friday would be an horrendous clash for me. Sunday would be a better fit all round and equal a better crowd split. 

[mufcok]

1 minute ago, Divein said:

If my casio's on the ball they're in France on the Saturday no?

I just meant I feel if there's going to be the Pyramid Size headliners on the other that Emily as alluded to it'll be Saturday and Sunday.

So it would be either Friday or Sunday, Friday would be an horrendous clash for me. Sunday would be a better fit all round and equal a better crowd split. 

Clever you Max

[Stokesy10]

1 hour ago, FloorFiller said:

The Best of The Strokes

also known as Is This It

Second album is class. 3rd is 60% brilliant. Angles is OK. Comedown Machine contains some excellent tunes.

[Superunknown]

First Impressions of Earth has the GOAT Strokes song and a few other huge bangers.

[gfa]

2 hours ago, fatyeti24 said:

I like how the S in Strokes links to the Arctic Monkeys discography.  An ITK clue if ever there was one.

Who knows  nah just an accident i was just on the strokes sub reddit and someone said the strokes were the most popular 00s band still around so i helped them out.

2 hours ago, mufcok said:

The opening three tracks of First Impressions, phenomenal 

Agreed - the whole album is awesome though I think their first three are all so solid

[kingbadger]

I do love how The Strokes headlining the Other or even subbing the Pyramid is a ludicrous suggestion yet somehow the festival have not only convinced bloody Aerosmith to play a non-headline slot but also play 3rd/4th down it seems. If they can do that then nobody really can be definitively ruled out. 

Also how many acts have been asked about Glastonbury or other festivals and gone 'yup, I admit it, we're playing' rather than give a brush off answer or otherwise. Pretty sure the quote didn't explicitly rule out playing a festival but instead alluded to doing their own thing. Which is just par for the course really.

[waltere]

3 hours ago, FloorFiller said:

IMO the only smidgen of hope connecting The Strokes to Glastonbury is Grimey saying he’d heard they were headlining last year, which may well have just been crossed wires and he heard the wrong year/assumed headlining the whole thing. This is probably the first year it’s in any way seemed likely due to Emily’s comment, the occasion and now the convenient tour dates (well... if they play two nights on the run). Not expecting it myself, but reluctant to rule it out like I usually would as well.

[dentalplan]

6 hours ago, Tommy Dickfingers said:

I must admit I just don’t feel their stock has dropped so much they don’t headline Pyramid either. Would have to go down as one of the best Other bookings in history? 

They’re the biggest they’ve been since Room on Fire imo. I think people are just willing their stock to go down so they can play a non-headline slot.

[rawrsomesauce]

Angles is super underrated imo. 

[Badlands]

6 hours ago, stuie said:

They'd been away for a couple of years up until last summer.    There is literally no evidence that confirms that they wouldn't take Other headliner this year to raise their UK stock again.

Are you ever wrong?

Reminder of that time when Matt was telling everyone that was reading that Coldplay were the secret Other Stage openers as he had it on good authority that they were staying in a nearby hotel.

Cue my german mates, massive Coldplay fans, practically in tears at the Other Stage on the Friday morning. And that was just because they were having to put up with the Kaiser Chiefs!

[Sam Y]

Ian Brown for John Peel headliner?

[stuie]

1 hour ago, Badlands said:

Reminder of that time when Matt was telling everyone that was reading that Coldplay were the secret Other Stage openers as he had it on good authority that they were staying in a nearby hotel.

Cue my german mates, massive Coldplay fans, practically in tears at the Other Stage on the Friday morning. And that was just because they were having to put up with the Kaiser Chiefs!

Lololol 😂