2022 Headliners

[Hugh Jass]

With regards to fees, I was at FM’s last UK show at Wembley a couple of years ago. It wasn’t anywhere near sold out. Makes me wonder if the band are aware of diminishing returns and are open to shot in the arm that a high profile Glastonbury headline set would bring.

[dentalplan]

1 minute ago, Hugh Jass said:

With regards to fees, I was at FM’s last UK show at Wembley a couple of years ago. It wasn’t anywhere near sold out. Makes me wonder if the band are aware of diminishing returns and are open to shot in the arm that a high profile Glastonbury headline set would bring.

Doubt they have much of an eye on future tours. If they play, it's out of a desire to check it off the list.

Probably wasn't sold out because it cost a small fortune to be in attendance.

[Matt42]

Yeah I imagine FM will now pop up for a small run of shows in a short burst rather than a whole tour. They won’t have any trouble selling that.

Glasto will fit in any tour. I think it’s down to whether FM want to do it and whether they think they are getting a good deal. They can do a stadium and Glastonbury in the same year no bother.

[zero000]

If they do ever play I hope Buckingham comes back into the fold. If he wasn’t it would sour a headline slot that could be up there with the greats. 

[henry bear]

I think there’s a good chance FM will do Glastonbury on the next tour, but the question is when that’ll be. Neil Finn has a Crowded House tour to honour, and Stevie has a new album on the way. It could be they’ve agreed to tour in, say, 2022 anyway and all the other extra curricular stuff would  have to be dropped. It certainly sounded like Mick Fleetwood was open to doing it given the amount of times he mentioned they still had to play a muddy field in England (or whatever it was).

[CaledonianGonzo]

Cant imagine Neil Finn's diary would be a blocker.

[Mellotr0n]

Genuine question from a position of ignorance - Why do so many think Florence is likely? She already headlined and hasn't done *that* much of note since, has she?

(I have to admit that part of my bemusement is that I find her incredibly one note (literally...)).

[Kalopsia]

If Macca can't come back next year then Blur would be a pretty great replacement and I'd be all for it. 

I'm currently feeling (based on fuck all information or knowledge).

Arctic Monkeys 

Blur

Taylor Swift 

[CaledonianGonzo]

10 minutes ago, Mellotr0n said:

Genuine question from a position of ignorance - Why do so many think Florence is likely? She already headlined and hasn't done *that* much of note since, has she?

Career trajectories can go up as well as down. Flo's hasn't gone up since 2015.

[Hugh Jass]

2 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Career trajectories can go up as well as down. Flo's hasn't gone up since 2015.

Flo still headlines wherever she plays and I wouldn’t say she’s dropped back to sub-level just yet.

[Mattymooz]

 

So much for the 1975 hiatus if they are already sorting a new album...

[CaledonianGonzo]

11 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

Flo still headlines wherever she plays and I wouldn’t say she’s dropped back to sub-level just yet.

Without downplaying Edinburgh Summer Sessions or Electric Picnic, they're not quite on the scale of the G.

[Hugh Jass]

1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Without downplaying Edinburgh Summer Sessions or Electric Picnic, they're not quite on the scale of the G.

BST and Werchter in the last couple of years. 

[incident]

1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Without downplaying Edinburgh Summer Sessions or Electric Picnic, they're not quite on the scale of the G.

EP is much bigger than Latitude, but The Killers were able to headline Glastonbury the year after playing Latitude.

Nothing is on the scale of Glastonbury, so that's a silly argument, and I suspect you know it.

[CaledonianGonzo]

No, its a sincere argument, but I didn't realise they'd played BST, which I would put in with the bigger players like Reading and TRNSMT.

Omdz look at the teeny crowd tho

 

[priest17]

wow maybe we can do glastonbury socially distanced

[Mouseboy11]

Florence seems like one they could fall back on if they were really struggling but I can’t see her ever being much of a front runner again.

[ace56blaa]

Florence's last album was a lot more low key and meant for more intimate settings. So I guess it depends if she has hits on her next project or continues in the more stripped back restrained direction, either way I could see her taking a sub slot to someone as big as Fleetwood Mac.

Remember she also supported the Rolling Stones in 2016 an wasn't supposed to be headlining 2015, so imagine she doesn't have a huge ego for that sorta stuff.

Surprised she hasn't taken the top spot at Reading considering the sausage fest they always seem to conjure these days

Edited January 12, 2021 by ace56blaa

[Hugh Jass]

1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

No, its a sincere argument, but I didn't realise they'd played BST, which I would put in with the bigger players like Reading and TRNSMT.

Omdz look at the teeny crowd tho

 

That looks like the back of the gold circle, so wouldn’t say it’s a fair indicator of crowd size.

[Gilgamesh69]

7 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

That looks like the back of the gold circle, so wouldn’t say it’s a fair indicator of crowd size.

I may be wrong but I don't think that day had a gold circle. Or rather, it wasn't one you had to pay extra for

[Hugh Jass]

40 minutes ago, Gilgamesh69 said:

I may be wrong but I don't think that day had a gold circle. Or rather, it wasn't one you had to pay extra for

Back of the first barrier at any rate.

[Suprefan]

4 hours ago, Mattymooz said:

 

So much for the 1975 hiatus if they are already sorting a new album...

They probably still had another album laying around from the last release and are fine tuning it. Theyre gonna have to tour for a few years to play all the new material theyve released though.

[Bryanrebe]

Swifty - Kenny - Coldplay

Don't ban me, but Foals still aren't big enough for the pyramid. I asked my Mum and she had forgotten I'd asked her who they were. She still doesn't know 🤷‍♀️

[Mellotr0n]

22 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Career trajectories can go up as well as down. Flo's hasn't gone up since 2015.

Quite, that's what I was saying....?

[stt11]

On 1/5/2021 at 6:09 PM, CaledonianGonzo said:

Sure - they'll probably throw st s lot of money at Oasis. But Noel will still say no cos he can afford not to spend 6 months cheek to jowl with someone he detests.

One morning in 1995, I was wandering around Leeds student Union, doing this and that. When I bumped into Oasis. There was this, one, lone, step, that reared of some steps; in the middle of the Student Union. I walked down the steps and Oasis were just standing there. I knew it was them because they were standing right next to their big drum, with the Oasis logo.

They didn't have all the roadies back then. I startled to see them and quickly nipped round the corner. On the way out of the door I overheard a man speaking. Does she have to be in here? he said. He thought I'd made an obnoxious gesture to Liam Gallagher. 

Anyway. I get out of the Union and think, 'Stuff Alan McGee. I'm not interested in his stupid band. Why would I be? I am a student.' But actually I could hear the whole soundcheck and set from my room. Which was, in a house, just round the corner.

As Rock and Roll star kicked off the show, that night, I felt a bit guilty about misleading Alan about, not, listening to it. But then I thought better. So, just to piss Alan off, I made a point of diligently listening to the whole set. They rocked, swore and punched their way on; to lyrics about mirrors and razorblades and cigarettes and alcohol. We were all totally, 'mad for it'. 

I waited up, gusling coffee, until the late hours; because I had overworked last semester. I used to wind down.  I would keep an ear out just to see if any musicians came out of the Union drunk. It was very late. Then I heard Liam acknowledge a cab arriving. He got into it and went home.

I don't know how anyone would reform that. They were wildly loutish and obnoxious.