2022 Headliners

[Gnomicide]

6 minutes ago, Mattymooz said:

TBH, I reckon nowadays they'd be a better booking than Kings Of Leon etc.

It wouldn't be far off The Killers last time. Everyone saying it's a shit booking then they'd go down a storm.

[dentalplan]

It would be as monumental as Adele, vital as Stormzy, joyous as Stevie Wonder with the atmosphere of The Rolling Stones if The Stereophonics came back to headline Glastonbury.

[henry bear]

20 hours ago, kalifire said:

Blur / Swift / Macca 

Nearly right; Blur / Macca / Swift

[henry bear]

58 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

Everyone saying it's a shit booking then they'd go down a storm.

 

[mcshed]

22 hours ago, Matt42 said:

They were the first to leak that Justin and Kanye were in talks to headline 2019 before Justin rearranged his tour for vocal damage and Kanye pulled out because of the shape of the stage.

Oh man I wish I'd been the first one to get the 2019 line up completely wrong.

[CaledonianGonzo]

7 hours ago, Gnomicide said:

It wouldn't be far off The Killers last time. Everyone saying it's a shit booking then they'd go down a storm.

I mean....yeah.  No better, but no worse - depending which side of the fence you're on there.

[Hugh Jass]

I’d happily watch Stereophonics run through the hits for an hour somewhere on the bill... but taking up prime Pyramid real estate??

Fuck that.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Don't want to start a new thread but did we ever get close to a stage / day split line up hypothesis for the names confirmed for 2020? 

[sisco]

13 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Don't want to start a new thread but did we ever get close to a stage / day split line up hypothesis for the names confirmed for 2020? 

Yes.  It’s on the main 2020 lineup rumours page

[CaledonianGonzo]

Yeah- I guess I was meaning an evolution of that. Was the last concrete info that surfaced based on the stage spotify playlists that were released?

[FloorFiller]

4 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Yeah- I guess I was meaning an evolution of that. Was the last concrete info that surfaced based on the stage spotify playlists that were released?

Yeah that was as far as it ever got in terms of confirmations of stage/day splits.

[Matt42]

Lol come on we haven’t descended to the level of “kaiser chiefs to sub” style predictions yet have we? The festival would have to be completely fucked to be in a situation where phonics were headlining. Events like IOW exist for this reason.

[eFestivals]

27 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Don't want to start a new thread but did we ever get close to a stage / day split line up hypothesis for the names confirmed for 2020? 

this is probably as good as it gets.

https://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/glastonbury/2020/lineup.shtml

[CaledonianGonzo]

Thanks. 2022's got its work cut out- but I guess the upside is that everyone's gonna want a piece of the action.

[Matt42]

21 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Thanks. 2022's got its work cut out- but I guess the upside is that everyone's gonna want a piece of the action.

We were also missing a Sunday sub

[FloorFiller]

9 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

We were also missing a Sunday sub

Although I still think it was Mumfords, not knowing who this was still plays on my mind. 

[Leyrulion]

Tom Jones has new material, a returner for the legends slot?

[CaledonianGonzo]

Put your money on Diana having a third bash at actually doing it.

[Hugh Jass]

2 hours ago, FloorFiller said:

Although I still think it was Mumfords, not knowing who this was still plays on my mind. 

Mumfords is my thinking too.

[dentalplan]

3 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Thanks. 2022's got its work cut out- but I guess the upside is that everyone's gonna want a piece of the action.

You're right about there being big demand for spots. Sorta feel that all bets are off with the lineup now.

On one hand, the return of acts who were either unsure or had 2021 blocked out regardless could bring the lineup closer to 2020 than what we were expecting for 2021. Swift, Del Rey, Gallagher, Carlsson, Cabello back in the mixer.

But it throws 'album tours' out the window. Acts are gonna be coming through with releases in late 2021 and early 2022 who will have punters hungry to hear their new tunes. More so than for acts who released stuff in 2019, 2020 and perhaps even early this year. I think a lot of festivals which eventually cancel will have to make decisions between honouring 2020 lineups and getting who people want for 2022.

Obviously the headliners for Glastonbury are fine to stick around but let's see how things go elsewhere.

[dentalplan]

We're almost due another Chemical Brothers Other Stage headline set.

[Matt42]

2 hours ago, FloorFiller said:

Although I still think it was Mumfords, not knowing who this was still plays on my mind. 

The possibilities seemed pretty small too - unless it was someone very weird.

Will go down as a mystery we may never know the answer to.

[NoBuses]

1975 were booked to headline 2021 before 2020 was cancelled. 

[Leyrulion]

1 hour ago, dentalplan said:

You're right about there being big demand for spots. Sorta feel that all bets are off with the lineup now.

On one hand, the return of acts who were either unsure or had 2021 blocked out regardless could bring the lineup closer to 2020 than what we were expecting for 2021. Swift, Del Rey, Gallagher, Carlsson, Cabello back in the mixer.

But it throws 'album tours' out the window. Acts are gonna be coming through with releases in late 2021 and early 2022 who will have punters hungry to hear their new tunes. More so than for acts who released stuff in 2019, 2020 and perhaps even early this year. I think a lot of festivals which eventually cancel will have to make decisions between honouring 2020 lineups and getting who people want for 2022.

Obviously the headliners for Glastonbury are fine to stick around but let's see how things go elsewhere.

Lens del Rey is quite a good example of one of the problems they face. In 2020 she would probably have had a fairly big billing but she's faced a fair amount of criticism back in the first half of last year. If the festival was in a normal cycle she might not get as big a billing as people would think.

[Hugh Jass]

1 hour ago, dentalplan said:

You're right about there being big demand for spots. Sorta feel that all bets are off with the lineup now.

On one hand, the return of acts who were either unsure or had 2021 blocked out regardless could bring the lineup closer to 2020 than what we were expecting for 2021. Swift, Del Rey, Gallagher, Carlsson, Cabello back in the mixer.

But it throws 'album tours' out the window. Acts are gonna be coming through with releases in late 2021 and early 2022 who will have punters hungry to hear their new tunes. More so than for acts who released stuff in 2019, 2020 and perhaps even early this year. I think a lot of festivals which eventually cancel will have to make decisions between honouring 2020 lineups and getting who people want for 2022.

Obviously the headliners for Glastonbury are fine to stick around but let's see how things go elsewhere.

Agree with this. My feeling is that the three headliners and Diana will be given first refusal on returning but the rest of the lineup will be rebuilt from scratch.

Obviously there will be some crossover from 2020 simply because a lot of those acts will be looking to tour again, but it won’t be a straight lift and shift.