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Headliners 2023


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54 minutes ago, kalifire said:

How would y'all rank the six names that appear to be in contention right now? I'd go:

Elton
Rihanna
Eminem
Harry Styles
GnR
AM

In terms of likelihood to play this year…..

AM
GNR
Elton
Harry
Em
Rihanna

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4 minutes ago, Hugh Jass II said:

The recent surge in Britpop revivals makes you wonder if the Gallaghers are watching with interest.

Maybe calculating the minimum time they'd have to spend together versus the potential payday.

Honestly just don't see it happening especially now Liam has blown up. 

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19 hours ago, DeanoL said:

Way back in the early 2000s Bill Bailey did the festival every year, and it was quickly apparent that the Cabaret tent was too small for him, one year he did the Fire Stage (outdoor in T&C) but that was rammed and went away.

A few of us did some pushing to get him a slot on the Pyramid in the afternoon, as he could certainly fill it and we'd had a bloody opera on it at that point. Someone finally managed to put the question to Michael Eavis and he said he loved Bill Bailey and there were plenty of places in the festival he could play, but the Pyramid was for music and just music and it wouldn't be appropriate to have in on there.

I don't think Bill's played since.

As @Matt42 points out there have now been lots of non music things on the Pyramid (Corbyn?) - but actually Bill Bailey would be easily capable of creating a show structured around music as well as comedy.

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1 minute ago, p.pete said:

As @Matt42 points out there have now been lots of non music things on the Pyramid (Corbyn?) - but actually Bill Bailey would be easily capable of creating a show structured around music as well as comedy.

Guess he could go on early in the day as a novelty act for a laugh, would keep the blanket and camping chair posse happy. As a headliner no way. 

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2 minutes ago, p.pete said:

As @Matt42 points out there have now been lots of non music things on the Pyramid (Corbyn?) - but actually Bill Bailey would be easily capable of creating a show structured around music as well as comedy.

I think there's a difference between doing a 5-10 minute speech in between acts, especially as they're always individuals who fit in with the festival's ethos - Corbs, Attenborough, Greta, the Dalai Lama, etc - and an hour of standup in place of a musical act.

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1 minute ago, Skip997 said:

Guess he could go on early in the day as a novelty act for a laugh, would keep the blanket and camping chair posse happy. As a headliner no way. 

Not this year either, and he's not as big as Peter Kay (I don't know how the world works).

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