Headliners 2023

[Avalon_Fields]

3 minutes ago, 4AssedMonkey said:

Guns N’ Roses Concert Setlist at Eden Park, Auckland on December 10, 2022 | setlist.fm

In fairness, I'd be all over this.  Even the covers and doubtless 15 minute noodly solo.

But 6 covers, and a few snippets of other people's songs, which tells me what I've always thought, they haven't got a huge amount of great songs themselves. Plus it's a long haul for me as Paradise City is my favourite. Still, I expect to be there.

[Florian Saucer Attack]

2 hours ago, Suprefan said:

When she wasnt doing mini residences at stadiums to meet with demand along with 4 more albums worth of material. And also was going to take all of the big festival paychecks for a change.  In regards to the whole taylor control big stream and all that, well some festival in california can offer everything glasto cant. And that promoter booked her tour this time so who has better odds of landing it. Also another thing to intrigue. Is you can pitch 3 festival weekends and be the first act to do such a thing. You want to appease the ego of somebody like swift? You have to think a little outside the box. 3 weekends, 3 different sets and the last one is at a country festival where the first 3 records can be showcased. And maybe 12 million  reasons  to go with it.

How come coachella struggles so much to book their headliners? Two years in a row now

[4AssedMonkey]

3 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:

But 6 covers, and a few snippets of other people's songs, which tells me what I've always thought, they haven't got a huge amount of great songs themselves. Plus it's a long haul for me as Paradise City is my favourite. Still, I expect to be there.

True.  Probably about 12-13 bangers and they're all in there.  To be fair, I think I'd rather they trim it to a 2 - 2.5 hr tight set than fuck about, but at least with some covers in the mix it'll be more fun than them dragging out old albums tracks to fill the void.

[Florian Saucer Attack]

3 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:

But 6 covers, and a few snippets of other people's songs, which tells me what I've always thought, they haven't got a huge amount of great songs themselves. Plus it's a long haul for me as Paradise City is my favourite. Still, I expect to be there.

Their shows are 3 hours long which they don't need to be. Even Springsteen with his vast back catalogue often throws in a cover during his 3 hour shows.

Plus knocking on heavens door and live and let die, whilst covers, are from use your illusion and now known almost as much for the guns n roses version as the original

[Avalon_Fields]

Just now, Florian Saucer Attack said:

Their shows are 3 hours long which they don't need to be. Even Springsteen with his vast back catalogue often throws in a cover during his 3 hour shows.

Plus knocking on heavens door and live and let die, whilst covers, are from use your illusion and now known almost as much for the guns n roses version as the original

Fair comment. I do genuinely reckon I'll really enjoy the show even though I'm not a huge fan. I did have great fun when Slash played the Pyramid years ago.

[Gnomicide]

The setlist playlist I'm listening to on Spotify runs to 2 hours 53 minutes but includes a variety of covers, including some not played at every show. Add noodling, between songs faffing and encore break and you can see why they're shows are currently 3 hours long.

Trim some of that out and I think it could be an excellent couple of hours. Sadly I think they'll ditch more songs than solos.

The worst I saw for solos was Van Halen at Donington 84. Guitar, drums and bass solos plus Dave doing what appeared to be a samurai sword solo. PLAY THE FUCKING SONGS! 😄

[Hugh Jass II]

3 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

The setlist playlist I'm listening to on Spotify runs to 2 hours 53 minutes but includes a variety of covers, including some not played at every show. Add noodling, between songs faffing and encore break and you can see why they're shows are currently 3 hours long.

Trim some of that out and I think it could be an excellent couple of hours. Sadly I think they'll ditch more songs than solos.

The worst I saw for solos was Van Halen at Donington 84. Guitar, drums and bass solos plus Dave doing what appeared to be a samurai sword solo. PLAY THE FUCKING SONGS! 😄

The vast majority of what you've said there could be applied to the Foos' headline set...

[sfroml]

36 minutes ago, Hugh Jass II said:

FI was at that Leeds.

Prodigy finished and me and my mates had little interest in seeing GnR so we went to watch The Streets in a tent. Came back out after they had finished and we could see GnR walking out onto the stage in the distance, we figured we'd go and check out what we assumed was their encore... turns out they were only just coming on!

Funny! We'd lost our at mate (who was INCREDIBLY drunk) who'd been watching Prodigy. He was so drunk he just kept stepping back and forth saying "I'M DANGEROUS" and there was a big circle of people around him keeping their distance... When Prodigy finished he said "Right, I'm off to sort that C*** Axl out" and he ran into the crowd. We looked for ages for him, in the end me and my mate gave up and walked back to our tent which was the furthest point of the festival next to the A1. And, our mate was asleep in his tent! We woke him up, then G'N'R came on stage (we could see it in the distance) and our mate proceeded to prowl around our tents translating 'Sweet Child O' Mine' into Welsh. 

[Florian Saucer Attack]

5 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:

Fair comment. I do genuinely reckon I'll really enjoy the show even though I'm not a huge fan. I did have great fun when Slash played the Pyramid years ago.

I wasn't a huge fan either until all the negative Nancys on here with their guns n roses hate turned me into a huge fan

[Gnomicide]

1 minute ago, Hugh Jass II said:

The vast majority of what you've said there could be applied to the Foos' headline set...

Fair comment.

[gfa]

1 minute ago, sfroml said:

Funny! We'd lost our at mate (who was INCREDIBLY drunk) who'd been watching Prodigy. He was so drunk he just kept stepping back and forth saying "I'M DANGEROUS" and there was a big circle of people around him keeping their distance... When Prodigy finished he said "Right, I'm off to sort that C*** Axl out" and he ran into the crowd. We looked for ages for him, in the end me and my mate gave up and walked back to our tent which was the furthest point of the festival next to the A1. And, our mate was asleep in his tent! We woke him up, then G'N'R came on stage (we could see it in the distance) and our mate proceeded to prowl around our tents translating 'Sweet Child O' Mine' into Welsh. 

These kind of antics are what festivals are all about 🙂 

[4AssedMonkey]

4 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

The worst I saw for solos was Van Halen at Donington 84. Guitar, drums and bass solos plus Dave doing what appeared to be a samurai sword solo. PLAY THE FUCKING SONGS! 😄

Oh to be an 80's metalhead.  Some of that grandstanding bollocks was insufferable.  I caught most of an Yngwie Malmsteen set MOR in (I think?) 88.  It was more solo than songs.

[CaledonianGonzo]

We might be thankful for solos if Axl is having a bad one vocally.

[p.pete]

14 minutes ago, Florian Saucer Attack said:

I wasn't a huge fan either until all the negative Nancys on here with their guns n roses hate turned me into a huge fan

I've never been particularly bothered with them, and the great thing about Glastonbury is that - for most people, most years at least - you can find something else and use your time more wisely that the 3 hours a headliner you're not fussed about sucks from precious festival time.  But... They're about £100 to see elsewhere, and they're at least worth a listen before hundreds of other stuff starts to get confirmed.  That they're actually good, despite the negativity is a bonus.

Same logic and I'll give some of Elton's (far vaster) catalogue a listen to.  Never been bothered with him either, but can guess from the general hype here that the rest of the site will be deliciously empty while he's playing, so a lot to be said for giving it a miss if I'm still not fussed.  Though reckon I'll be dragged to Elton, unlikely for GNR.  

I can't face 3 pyramid headliners, I'll give AM a swerve until I've more of an idea how likely my attendance at the other two will be.

[p.pete]

20 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

We might be thankful for solos if Axl is having a bad one vocally.

Any Elton solos likely that we might be thankful for?

[Superscally]

45 minutes ago, Florian Saucer Attack said:

How come coachella struggles so much to book their headliners? Two years in a row now

I think because it's shit? 

[jonday81]

I know headliners are important however I think at Glastonbury slightly less so as there are so many alternatives to the main pyramid headliner. Last time I went in 2016 I actively hated every pyramid headliner but it was still one of my all time favourite festival weekends due to the sheer variety of options (and in so many different genres) available past the Pyramid headliners. In my opinion still well worth the ticket price I feel!

[stuie]

3 hours ago, Suprefan said:

When she wasnt doing mini residences at stadiums to meet with demand along with 4 more albums worth of material. And also was going to take all of the big festival paychecks for a change.  In regards to the whole taylor control big stream and all that, well some festival in california can offer everything glasto cant. And that promoter booked her tour this time so who has better odds of landing it. Also another thing to intrigue. Is you can pitch 3 festival weekends and be the first act to do such a thing. You want to appease the ego of somebody like swift? You have to think a little outside the box. 3 weekends, 3 different sets and the last one is at a country festival where the first 3 records can be showcased. And maybe 12 million  reasons  to go with it.

yeah man, Glasto has got a shit reputation with attracting top artists because it just can't offer what some festival in California does. Do you actually believe your waffle?

[Hugh Jass II]

3 minutes ago, stuie said:

yeah man, Glasto has got a shit reputation with attracting top artists because it just can't offer what some festival in California does. Do you actually believe your waffle?

Glastonbury could only dream of getting Jive Bunny.

[gfa]

Coachella goes for acts that are likely to drop out year after year and never seems to learn its lesson - or at least get backup headliners ready!

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

3 hours ago, Suprefan said:

When she wasnt doing mini residences at stadiums to meet with demand along with 4 more albums worth of material. And also was going to take all of the big festival paychecks for a change.  In regards to the whole taylor control big stream and all that, well some festival in california can offer everything glasto cant. And that promoter booked her tour this time so who has better odds of landing it. Also another thing to intrigue. Is you can pitch 3 festival weekends and be the first act to do such a thing. You want to appease the ego of somebody like swift? You have to think a little outside the box. 3 weekends, 3 different sets and the last one is at a country festival where the first 3 records can be showcased. And maybe 12 million  reasons  to go with it.

This is fair, actually. Coachella can offer:

- 1am finish each day

- Mandatory drinking pens

- No readmission

- A pretty Ferris Wheel

- Corporate sponsorship

- Off-site camping

- Exclusive designated VIP area

- $12 beer

- Sandstorms

- Bad Bunny

[gfa]

1 minute ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

This is fair, actually. Coachella can offer:

- 1am finish each day

- Mandatory drinking pens

- No readmission

- A pretty Ferris Wheel

- Corporate sponsorship

- Off-site camping

- Exclusive designated VIP area

- $12 beer

- Sandstorms

- Bad Bunny

don't forget you get to spend the weekend with Suprefan too!

[Hugh Jass II]

8 minutes ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

This is fair, actually. Coachella can offer:

- 1am finish each day

- Mandatory drinking pens

- No readmission

- A pretty Ferris Wheel

- Corporate sponsorship

- Off-site camping

- Exclusive designated VIP area

- $12 beer

- Sandstorms

- Bad Bunny

And various Kardashians...

[Florian Saucer Attack]

15 minutes ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

This is fair, actually. Coachella can offer:

- 1am finish each day

- Mandatory drinking pens

- No readmission

- A pretty Ferris Wheel

- Corporate sponsorship

- Off-site camping

- Exclusive designated VIP area

- $12 beer

- Sandstorms

- Bad Bunny

Don't forget all the Coachella NFT's you can buy. Guaranteed to constantly go up in value!

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

10 minutes ago, gfa said:

don't forget you get to spend the weekend with Suprefan too!

That alone is worth the $549 Tier 1 pass inc. convenience fee and $179 camping pass inc. Transit Occupancy Tax and convenience fee