2024 Headliners

[Joey Peeps]

Underworld Park headliner on Sunday I assumed. Though with the early curfew they might prefer Woodsies. 

[Wooderson]

Good chance of Orbital, Underworld and Justice over the weekend. Would be ace.

[MEGABOWL]

16 hours ago, northernangel said:

Yeah I don't think ticket wise or not she's ready yet. She just doesn't have the material to do a headline length set without virtually doing two albums in full. She could however be a special guest booking as said as long as Emily doesn't announce it and then big up what she is, she said double headliner or whatever.

This is kinda answered above too.

She easily has the material. Two huge albums to go at which include three Number 1s and another 4 songs that have made the top 10. Chuck in the Hunger Games song, a High School Musical track and a cover and she’ll fill 80-90 minutes no problem even before we start thinking of guests. Plenty of other acts have headlined off 1 or 2 albums.

[charlierc]

1 hour ago, northernangel said:

The sound system shouldn't be an issue to whether the band have the material or not. There was certainly a surprise when both of those were given the headline slots that early and I don't believe the same similarly has ever happened on a single year since.

 

Comments from Michael Eavis after the festival in '07: “I’m sorry about the sound. We’re using a similar system to what we used at Glastonbury Abbey concert. But some people’s experience was that it wasn’t loud enough on the Pyramid Stage. I was disappointed with it and I’m looking to move to a different system for next year.” Notes as well is that chants of "Turn it up" from the crowd were audible during both.

I agree in fairness that it was quite early on in their careers to be catapulted to that slot, though will also offer the counter that Glastonbury used to do this quite a bit - Muse had only had 1 number 1 album and 1 top 10 single when they got the Pyramid headline slot in 2004 (though 3 albums and one B-side compilation meant they did have a bit of material to play with), while they were even offering The Killers the slot after just Hot Fuss.

[northernangel]

31 minutes ago, MEGABOWL said:

She easily has the material. Two huge albums to go at which include three Number 1s and another 4 songs that have made the top 10. Chuck in the Hunger Games song, a High School Musical track and a cover and she’ll fill 80-90 minutes no problem even before we start thinking of guests. Plenty of other acts have headlined off 1 or 2 albums.

How many songs do you want to make it work though?, we've had a lot of acts over time where it's like why so many covers. There is no point in starting to include tracks now to fill a set that weren't used before. Complicated and Sticked will do.

[MEGABOWL]

1 hour ago, northernangel said:

How many songs do you want to make it work though?, we've had a lot of acts over time where it's like why so many covers. There is no point in starting to include tracks now to fill a set that weren't used before. Complicated and Sticked will do.

One or two should be plenty especially if she can get a guest or two involved e.g. shes had Natalie Imbruglia up to do Torn before, or could get Lily Allen again. Complicated is a given, who knows, maybe Avril will be about. 
 

Just looked and Eilish did 20 songs (3 shortened, 1 extended). Rodrigo has enough to match that.

[Superscally]

You all forget Nick and the Bad Lads have about 36h of material. Let's not take the risk with O-Rod. Seed. Us. Up. 

[NorthernSoul52]

17 minutes ago, Superscally said:

You all forget Nick and the Bad Lads have about 36h of material. Let's not take the risk with O-Rod. Seed. Us. Up. 

A few tweaks to the show they took to APE last time and Bob's your uncle. 

[northernangel]

2 hours ago, MEGABOWL said:

One or two should be plenty especially if she can get a guest or two involved e.g. shes had Natalie Imbruglia up to do Torn before, or could get Lily Allen again. Complicated is a given, who knows, maybe Avril will be about. 
 

Just looked and Eilish did 20 songs (3 shortened, 1 extended). Rodrigo has enough to match that.

Yes Billie did, she also has longer songs in general though given her albums are longer and her set was 1hr 20 minutes. Again, Billie has 1hr 40 minutes in albums whereas Olivia has 1 hour 15 minutes.

That's 25 minutes less album time so working on that theory and like a mix of the albums then Olivia with no covers is about an hour. Allowing for two covers she does you are maxing out at an hour 15 so if she gets given 1hr 20 say under the top headliner then she's down very well.

[northernangel]

22 minutes ago, Superscally said:

You all forget Nick and the Bad Lads have about 36h of material. Let's not take the risk with O-Rod. Seed. Us. Up. 

I'm not fussed if they've got 360 hours lol. 

Olivia, Pulp, Biffy to sub.

Heard it here first haha

[Superscally]

42 minutes ago, northernangel said:

I'm not fussed if they've got 360 hours lol. 

Olivia, Pulp, Biffy to sub.

Heard it here first haha

Exactly. Get them in. They can all sub the Seeds.

[nikkic]

Yeah get Nick Cave in to make history, first headliner to perform without a hit.

[northernangel]

22 minutes ago, Superscally said:

Exactly. Get them in. They can all sub the Seeds.

Unfortunately those seeds drop off before they start haha 

[Superscally]

17 minutes ago, northernangel said:

Unfortunately those seeds drop off before they start haha 

I don't know what this means, bit I can see you're excitedly in full agreement.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Nick Cave and the No Nads

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

Jafftonbury 

[northernangel]

8 minutes ago, Superscally said:

I don't know what this means, bit I can see you're excitedly in full agreement.

It's means they have no hits and the other areas will be horribly busy lol. Never ever headlining Glastonbury 

[CaledonianGonzo]

I'm the bad motherf**ker called Sterile Lee

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

(N)O Children 

[CaledonianGonzo]

O'Malley's Barren

[Gnomicide]

The face we are now down to working out the amount of minutes an act's music adds up to is very funny.

[Superscally]

10 minutes ago, northernangel said:

It's means they have no hits and the other areas will be horribly busy lol. Never ever headlining Glastonbury 

Still makes no sense. Will be epic and you're so there

 

[charlierc]

3 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

The face we are now down to working out the amount of minutes an act's music adds up to is very funny.

Clearly we're capable of making our own entertainment while waiting for this to finally get announced.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

Spay Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree

[charlierc]

I remember floating Olivia Rodrigo as a sub for either Dua or Coldplay a few pages back, but this discussion has kinda made me doubt myself. Theory that she's at least at the same level that Billie Eilish was when they picked her as a Pyramid head?