2024 Headliners

[Acid_Haze]

Just now, incident said:

By the same token, surely they wouldn't book Billie Eilish? The demographic is probably just as young. Maybe even younger.

Cause all the glasto veterans were there the year she played in 2019, heard that Bad Guy song on Radio 2 and watched the Bond film.

[Franky]

24 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

I too would probably rather have seen the Stones 2013 set in a small blues club...but what you gonna do? 

Seeing sh*t in the middle of a ginormocrowd in front of the Pyramid is also right at the peak of human experience. At that point you're in the smallest percentile of the luckiest people on the planet.

I thought it would be amazing. I love the Stones. 
 

It was sh*t. They were sh*t. 
 

Caveat, 2013 was not a good year for me. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Too bad. For some of us it was an all timer and the ultimate d@b up.

[Gnomicide]

It was the greatest gig I've ever been at.

[CaledonianGonzo]

I've seen the Stones nuff times. 

But something about the vibe of that entire day - the entire weekend if I'm honest - was the good sh*t. Made better by the fact that we didn't want to waste the day I'm front of El Pointo so rocked up towards the end of Primal Scream but still ended up looking the auld rascals in the whites of their eyes.

And then they deployed that setlist.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

1 hour ago, Crazyfool01 said:

for those of average age and above struggling to pronounce SZA this was posted on my watts app 🙂 .... I will turn average age the weekend before the festival

edit ah bollocks im 10 years older must keep up I now feel ancient 

 

 

Like "The RZA, The GZA"

[airwaves]

21 minutes ago, incident said:

By the same token, surely they wouldn't book Billie Eilish? The demographic is probably just as young. Maybe even younger.

At least I'd heard of Billy Eilish and had even heard some of her tunes (and I don't just mean the Bond theme).

Hadn't heard of SZA until they popped up in this thread (I'm 71 by the way 🤣)

[CaledonianGonzo]

Fine not to have heard of her. More about whether that provokes a positive, neutral or negative reaction.  And its the latter that can get in the bin.

[northernringo]

7 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Fine not to have heard of her. More about whether that provokes a positive, neutral or negative reaction.  And its the latter that can get in the bin.

Exactly this. If you are out of touch with modern music and haven't heard of SZA, then that's fine.

But to say she shouldn't be headlining the festival (especially given the issues with Madonna/Stevie W), is just moaning for the sake of it.

[nikkic]

So when you show negativity to acts you don’t like, it’s OK Cally?

But others can’t voice their opinion? 
 

 

Edited March 2 by nikkic

[CaledonianGonzo]

Just now, nikkic said:

So when you show negativity to acts you don’t like, it’s OK? 

While yes that is absolutely fine, this is more about being negative about acts that you haven't even heard of.

[Andy0808 v5]

This thread has been horrendous as per today. 
Didn’t think it could get much worse, then saw Matt42 was back. 

[MEGABOWL]

2 hours ago, Gnomicide said:

It was the greatest gig I've ever been at.

Yeah not far off for me. An absolute moment in time.

[CaledonianGonzo]

3 minutes ago, MEGABOWL said:

An absolute moment in time.

My reaction when I saw that Matt 42 had returned.

[CaledonianGonzo]

The Lisan al-Gaib

[CaledonianGonzo]

At least according to Google that's what it is

[CaledonianGonzo]

He's returned to Arrakis

[CaledonianGonzo]

Seeking the Spice of good festival chat (and hats shaped like f**king pyramids)

[SwallowOrSleepOnTheWetSpot]

4 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Anyone who says Lizzo or Lana Del Rey should have headlined instead of Guns'n'Roses...

Emily kept make excuses for why they didn't have a female headliner, yet could have easily made Lana headliner rather than GNR. So this is a valid complaint.

[stuie]

3 minutes ago, SwallowOrSleepOnTheWetSpot said:

Emily kept make excuses for why they didn't have a female headliner, yet could have easily made Lana headliner rather than GNR. So this is a valid complaint.

Not really… she had everyone else’s headliner headline her second stage! That’s not losing. 

[incident]

5 minutes ago, SwallowOrSleepOnTheWetSpot said:

Emily kept make excuses for why they didn't have a female headliner, yet could have easily made Lana headliner rather than GNR. So this is a valid complaint.

I'd have more sympathy with this if she'd packed out the Other Stage field.

To be clear I'm not suggesting she got a small crowd - just not one that was big enough to suggest she should have been playing a field more than 3 times the size instead.

[Drinky]

Maybe she would have had more of a crowd if she’d started an hour earlier than she did

[Ben7amin_]

3 minutes ago, incident said:

I'd have more sympathy with this if she'd packed out the Other Stage field.

To be clear I'm not suggesting she got a small crowd - just not one that was big enough to suggest she should have been playing a field more than 3 times the size instead.

It was a massive crowd at the time she was due on stage.

It was significantly smaller when she arrived 

Recon she lost as much as  50% of the people that were there at the start time. 

It was circulating that she had pulled out.

To much competition at Glasto to be that late

Edited March 2 by Ben7amin_

[fraybentos1]

Was a big crowd at Lana. By the sounds of things at GnR you could get right to the front so everyone must have been somewhere

[fraybentos1]

Also glad to have matt42 back. Gets way too much unnecessary flack. He had an infectious excitement   Which I liked. 
 

if more former regulars like him came back the thread wouldnt be such a ghost town