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West Holts 2023


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Loyle Carner probably high up here

 

I'd say Steve Lacy but he seems to have blown up lately. Is he more of an Other Stage level act à la Olivia Rodrigo was this year maybe?

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5 hours ago, Avalon_Fields said:

It’s about time they had Manu Chao back. He’d be great on WH. 

Manu isn't a fan of glasto it reminds him of palastine. It's the big fence. 

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Yeah I think Loyle is very likely to headline with the new album, secret set last year and the banging Other Stage performance in 2019. Would love to see it, seen him maybe 3 times now from a tiny venue to Glasto so would be great to see him headline.

Etykah Badu would be brilliant but no tour announced yet.

I personally don't think Fred Again is likely to headline West Holts on his first Glasto - more likely to headline Park and Jamie XX will headline West Holts (and absolutely stink up the place as he continues to do every festival he's played over the past 18 months).

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I'm also expecting Tom Misch so play West Holts (provided he is no longer dealing with the issues that made him cancel part of his tour this Summer) - he came on with Loyle in 2019 too so that link up would be great to see again.

Speaking of those two, it will be interesting to see if Jorja Smith turns up and if so, on which stage. If she had of released a new album in 2021 or 2022 instead of a three track EP I'd have fancied her as a West Holts headliner, but hard to see it with very little new work since 2019.

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10 hours ago, Neil said:

Manu isn't a fan of glasto it reminds him of palastine. It's the big fence. 

And all the cameras monitoring people, he didn't like those. 

I suppose it does look like a big 'fun' prison 😃

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