Headliners 2023

[BenG92]

5 minutes ago, Hugh Jass II said:

There will be people going who weren't there last year so let's book Billie, Macca and Kendrick again!

(To be fair I believe Kendrick should get a lifetime residency)

Well sure, it's easy to take a value, multiply it by 6, apply the same argument and make it sound silly. 

Think my main point is that, GNR isn't necessarily a "better" booking than Foos or AM simply because they've never played. Both bands have more recent tunes than GNR even if they've already played some at Glasto before. Hell, Radiohead only did 2 from AMSP, it was hardly rinsed.

While we're at it, Slipknot have had FOUR albums since GNR's last, and have never played! Get them on! 

[Jose Pose]

4 minutes ago, BenG92 said:

Well sure, it's easy to take a value, multiply it by 6, apply the same argument and make it sound silly. 

Think my main point is that, GNR isn't necessarily a "better" booking than Foos or AM simply because they've never played. Both bands have more recent tunes than GNR even if they've already played some at Glasto before. Hell, Radiohead only did 2 from AMSP, it was hardly rinsed.

While we're at it, Slipknot have had FOUR albums since GNR's last, and have never played! Get them on! 

Foos may be a better act than GnR, but that is no basis for a booking policy is it. Otherwise they’d just keep booking Blur and Kendrick Lamar over and over.

Edited January 11, 2023 by Jose Pose

[BenG92]

Just now, Jose Pose said:

Foos may be a better act than GnR, but that is no basis for a booking policy is it. 

I didn't say they were - they are, but I didn't say that, I said they've had more recent tunes and they're far more popular in the UK. We're only really discounting the idea because they've not written anything new since they last showed up, which is certainly a good argument not to have them. Just not sure it outweighs GNR having never done it, personally. 

Anyway, all besides the point, it won't be them. If there's any holes in the rumoured trio it's that there's nothing zeitgeist about it at all which seems to be the direction the festival's been heading since, well, since Foos last played. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

"Foo could be mi-yi-yi-ne" - Foo Fighters fans getting a whiff of a rumour about them

[DeanoL]

1 hour ago, Jose Pose said:

I’m not sure how many more times this needs to be said, surely the fact Foos played TWO festivals ago is enough for anyone with half a brain cell to rule them out and naturally place the current TBCs ahead of them?

It was three festivals ago. And REM did the same gap without the cancelled years. So it's not unprecedented, unless you want to go tell Michael Eavis he doesn't have half a brain cell?

45 minutes ago, Jose Pose said:

Glastonbury literally has the whole of music to pick from 

I mean, it doesn't though. It has who is available and who will do it for the price they can afford, which is low. You think if they could pick from the whole of music we'd have fucking Arctic Monkeys?

27 minutes ago, Hugh Jass II said:

I stand by my argument that the same people calling for the Foos would be in meltdown if Sheeran was booked again.

I think you're confusing me and others with people who give a crap about the Foo Fighters. I'm far more likely to go see GnR than I am Foos, and couldn't really give a crap about either. But I'm not going to dismiss info out of hand. Reliable source, the fact that Grohl guested last year (Pyramid guests often play the next year). I don't think anyone thinks they're more likely to playing than GnR, just that the possibility exists. But we could do what you suggest and just ignore it and continue to argue whether GnR are either "shit" or "the worst booking the festival has ever made" because that's a million times more interesting.

I suspect you're being disingenuous though, as if I asked you when you thought Foos would headline again you'd tell me "sometime in the next five years" and if I asked when you think Sheeran would headline again you'd tell me "never". I might be wrong, but consensus was Sheeran was a one-and-done, while Foos are friends of the festival.

[DeanoL]

Though honestly at this point, Sheeran, GnR, Elton feels more like a Glasto line-up than AM/GnR/Elton.

[clarkete]

52 minutes ago, adcarr_ said:

Oh god 🤣my gf already thinks I’m mental for scrolling through this forum religiously every day. God knows what she’s gonna think of me when I’m pretending to be a met office employee for a month! 

Yeah, don't get drawn into the weather thread, that way lies the path to madness. 

The most important nuggets, ie what to pack for the conditions, will make it to other threads. 

[Tranquility of Solitude]

35 minutes ago, Jose Pose said:

I’d say broadly speaking for Glastonbury there isn’t much excuse for getting an act back within 10 years. 

 

[Jose Pose]

9 minutes ago, DeanoL said:

It was three festivals ago. And REM did the same gap without the cancelled years. So it's not unprecedented, unless you want to go tell Michael Eavis he doesn't have half a brain cell?

I mean, it doesn't though. It has who is available and who will do it for the price they can afford, which is low. You think if they could pick from the whole of music we'd have fucking Arctic Monkeys?

I think you're confusing me and others with people who give a crap about the Foo Fighters. I'm far more likely to go see GnR than I am Foos, and couldn't really give a crap about either. But I'm not going to dismiss info out of hand. Reliable source, the fact that Grohl guested last year (Pyramid guests often play the next year). I don't think anyone thinks they're more likely to playing than GnR, just that the possibility exists. But we could do what you suggest and just ignore it and continue to argue whether GnR are either "shit" or "the worst booking the festival has ever made" because that's a million times more interesting.

I suspect you're being disingenuous though, as if I asked you when you thought Foos would headline again you'd tell me "sometime in the next five years" and if I asked when you think Sheeran would headline again you'd tell me "never". I might be wrong, but consensus was Sheeran was a one-and-done, while Foos are friends of the festival.

Your MO seems to be latching on to one off events and then shaping the whole festival around them.

Edited January 11, 2023 by Jose Pose

[clarkete]

It's exciting that this afternoon the thread has splintered into multiple simultaneous arguments - good work all maximising the time available. 

[Crazyfool01]

5 minutes ago, clarkete said:

It's exciting that this afternoon the thread has splintered into multiple simultaneous arguments - good work all maximising the time available. 

diversity of arguments 

Edited January 11, 2023 by Crazyfool01

[Mich1268]

I don't know what is going on with this thread cos I can't keep up. Is anyone able to summarise the last week/days of this thread in bullet points or a PowerPoint if felt necessary? 

[Hugh Jass II]

14 minutes ago, DeanoL said:

while Foos are friends of the festival.

Are they? How exactly? Because Sprinty Dave said nice things about them? Because they did that stunt at the C&G? They've played twice, and they were 20 years apart. Pretty sure Dave appearing this year was at Macca's request, not Emily or Michael's.

Coldplay are friends of the festival. Elbow are. Fatboy Slim is.

Foos aren't on that level.

[BenG92]

1 minute ago, Mich1268 said:

I don't know what is going on with this thread cos I can't keep up. Is anyone able to summarise the last week/days of this thread in bullet points or a PowerPoint if felt necessary? 

I can do it in a gif. 

[whitehorses]

1 hour ago, Neil said:

Correct. 

👍 thanks 

[clarkete]

14 minutes ago, Mich1268 said:

I don't know what is going on with this thread cos I can't keep up. Is anyone able to summarise the last week/days of this thread in bullet points or a PowerPoint if felt necessary? 

Here you go... 

[Mich1268]

11 minutes ago, BenG92 said:

I can do it in a gif. 

 I also need a summary on all this Simpsons chat over past couple of days. Get to work on that? 

[GeezLouise]

Just now, Mich1268 said:

 I also need a summary on all this Simpsons chat over past couple of days. Get to work on that? 

Everytime anyone gets angry, we chuck a top 10 simpsons episode post in. 

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, Mich1268 said:

 I also need a summary on all this Simpsons chat over past couple of days. Get to work on that? 

you really don't .... its had me groening

[Mich1268]

1 minute ago, clarkete said:

Here you go... 

Bloody women! Tut (my handbags are much bigger and more lethal)

[Hugh Jass II]

4 minutes ago, Mich1268 said:

 I also need a summary on all this Simpsons chat over past couple of days. Get to work on that? 

Marge v the Monorail declared best episode.

[Mich1268]

1 minute ago, GeezLouise said:

Everytime anyone gets angry, we chuck a top 10 simpsons episode post in. 

Ahh I see! I am rewatching Friends (each episode lasts the perfect length for my cycle to get fit for Glastonbury) I am a girl. I might post random friends shit if this anger stuff continues..you have been warned

[Mich1268]

I think we can establish that an announcement is needed very soon. Otherwise us residents of the virtual Glastonbury festival care home are gonna blow big time. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Elton announcement wasn't that long ago and we have solid info on the other two headliners.

[Hugh Jass II]

We never get anything in January anyway.

Reckon it’ll be a good six weeks until we get the next one confirmed.