Headliners 2023

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Not that I'm swallowing that. If they are touring I doubt they'd play a festival exclusive that prevents their own dates in France.

Maybe they don't want to do shedloads of dates and are doing big fests in Europe for the $$$. Could see them at Mad Cool for a Spanish exclusive. Werchter might have got them as well which puts them bang into the frame for Glastonbury.

Just being hopeful here.

[lighthouse]

3 minutes ago, scatteredscreens said:

Maybe they don't want to do shedloads of dates and are doing big fests in Europe for the $$$. Could see them at Mad Cool for a Spanish exclusive. Werchter might have got them as well which puts them bang into the frame for Glastonbury.

Just being hopeful here.

I dont think they are very suited for multiple-day-fests. Too big. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

The Dacca El Pointo scenario is the best possible outcome for me, but my starting position is that it'll never happen.

[Guest]

Just now, CaledonianGonzo said:

The Dacca El Pointo scenario is the best possible outcome for me, but my starting position is that it'll never happen.

Watch it be GnR at Hellfest instead. Dreadful stuff.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Or AC/DC fronted by Axl Rose.

[Guest]

Just now, CaledonianGonzo said:

Or AC/DC fronted by Axl Rose.

Christ, I completely forgot that was a thing.

Yeah I just had a look on setlistfm, not a fan of playing festivals are they. Could only find Coachella 2015 as the most recent case.

[Walter Sobchak]

Just now, CaledonianGonzo said:

Or AC/DC fronted by Axl Rose.

fook that shit

[Superscally]

5 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

The Dacca El Pointo scenario is the best possible outcome for me, but my starting position is that it'll never happen.

I agree. Best poster fake I've ever seen if it is fake. Acdc logo is slightly questionable. Long lightning bolt was older logo...

[neil93]

Not a headliner but is there any chance of the proclaimers making an appearance? See they are doing Latitude the following month.

[Guest]

10 minutes ago, neil93 said:

Not a headliner but is there any chance of the proclaimers making an appearance? See they are doing Latitude the following month.

How long is the walk from Suffolk to Pilton, it's under 500 miles right?

[Sorcha17]

Pretty sure it is fake, the Hellfest forums are great for fake lineups

[RatingsAndMoney]

Thankfully it’s fake. Slipknot scheduled for elsewhere on the date stated above. 
 

I don’t think I’d be able to sleep if AC/DC were around next year and the possibility of them topping the pyramid. Absolute fantasy stuff that I could only dream of! 

[GeezLouise]

4 minutes ago, RatingsAndMoney said:

Thankfully it’s fake. Slipknot scheduled for elsewhere on the date stated above. 
 

I don’t think I’d be able to sleep if AC/DC were around next year and the possibility of them topping the pyramid. Absolute fantasy stuff that I could only dream of! 

Thankfully?! i was booking my eurostar for that friday. 

[RatingsAndMoney]

35 minutes ago, GeezLouise said:

Thankfully?! i was booking my eurostar for that friday. 

Thankfully for my bank balance! 

[Jackson Maniac]

Weirdly enough, I know someone who does security for concerts and the like, and he mentioned to me that that he was doing security for both Pink and AC/DC at Hyde Park. Didn’t think much of it at the time.

[CaledonianGonzo]

There will be much hooting and hollering if Gus and the lads are in the mix.

But in terms of not doing it they're the Elton John of Fleetwood Macs.

[Suprefan]

2 hours ago, lighthouse said:

I dont think they are very suited for multiple-day-fests. Too big. 

: Clears throat :

 

[Superscally]

5 minutes ago, Suprefan said:

: Clears throat :

 

The last great Coachella lineup. 

[gfa]

5 minutes ago, Suprefan said:

: Clears throat :

 

lighthouse: they aren't suited, too big

supre: posts the biggest paying festival in the world

[Suprefan]

2 minutes ago, gfa said:

lighthouse: they aren't suited, too big

supre: posts the biggest paying festival in the world

🤷🏻‍♂️

 

[dingbat2]

2 hours ago, scatteredscreens said:

How long is the walk from Suffolk to Pilton, it's under 500 miles right?

They have a few roads now in sleepy Suffolk so they wont need to walk that far

[VCK]

5 hours ago, adcarr_ said:

Do people think bring me the horizon will make an appearance? Not sure where they’d play given they seem set as headliners at other festivals now 

They've played a couple of times, but they're another example of a band who are proven headliners elsewhere but don't really have that general mass appeal to headline Glastonbury. See also: Biffy Clyro, Foals.

Didn't they play halfway down the Other Stage in 2016, the year after they subheadlined Reading and Leeds?

[Xeph1995]

No way they will ever headline anything other than maybe the Other Stage tbh, they don't have as much crossover appeal as Metallica for example.

I'm kinda surprised they never tried to get Black Sabbath tbh, I feel like they probably could have done the Pyramid at some point. 

Saying that I imagine Ozzy's management would only accept huge money. 

Edited November 8, 2022 by Xeph1995

[Nestacres]

21 minutes ago, VCK said:

They've played a couple of times, but they're another example of a band who are proven headliners elsewhere but don't really have that general mass appeal to headline Glastonbury. See also: Biffy Clyro, Foals.

Didn't they play halfway down the Other Stage in 2016, the year after they subheadlined Reading and Leeds?

The collabs with Sigrid and Sheeran have given them mass appeal - they are a different propostion to when the were on the Other stage in the afternoon in 2019 but then they were up against Kylie who had the biggest Glasto crowd ever at that time. 

[Neil]

8 hours ago, Hugh Jass II said:

Said this on the other place too, but I don't think Blur are being discussed enough. We are told they are doing Wembley next July, but would that be their only show? We know for a fact that they're not at IOW/TRSNMT/Latitude and Reading aren't booking them any time soon.

Could be a headliner under our noses all along.

The info I have on their Wembley show in july is solid, no idea if there's other shows, my info comes from  someone involved in the Wembley show.