Headliners 2023

[km9]

44 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

It can happen. I'm the biggest music fan of anyone I know, but I hadn't heard of Paul McCartney or The Beatles until he was booked last year.

Sorry, what?

[anditmakesmesmile]

7 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

You never saw Terminator 2?

Never seen it. I know everyone will shoot me down for this but… I reckon if you had a Venn diagram with Appetite for Destruction, Terminator 2 and Music for the Masses, one of those intersects will be much larger…

[stuie]

11 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

He’s asked for account to be deleted so don’t think so 

I mean he could just post less about things he has absolutely no interest in! Doesn’t watch headliners but prolifically posts in the headliner thread! 

[anditmakesmesmile]

1 minute ago, stuie said:

I mean he could just post less about things he has absolutely no interest in! Doesn’t watch headliners but prolifically posts in the headliner thread! 

Oh, hold on, that’s also me. I’ll get my coat.

[clarkete]

11 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

He’s asked for account to be deleted so don’t think so 

That's very sad, I quite often enjoy @Skip997's  contributions and he does make a point of being more positive sometimes, despite perceptions to the contrary. 

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, stuie said:

I mean he could just post less about things he has absolutely no interest in! Doesn’t watch headliners but prolifically posts in the headliner thread! 

I agree … but no basis to lose anyone .  For me at least 

[stuie]

Yes I agree I don’t think he should leave but I also don’t think he should be surprised when people reply!  

[clarkete]

7 minutes ago, stuie said:

I mean he could just post less about things he has absolutely no interest in! Doesn’t watch headliners but prolifically posts in the headliner thread! 

 

He's seen five that I enjoyed and mentioned it today... 

 

[stuartbert two hats]

7 hours ago, balti-pie said:

I was watching Skrillex instead of arcade fire, and i have no idea who is winning and who is losing out of that little battle.

Not me though, i suspect 

I guess the poster child for tiny audience, but absolutely amazing crowd + experience was LCD in 2016. The crowd basically ended at the tower - for a headliner!  Yet every single person was 100%

Where are your friends tonight? Everyone in front of the mixing desk was my friend that night.

[stuartbert two hats]

6 hours ago, sadimmock said:

I'm 42 and G n R were already completely obsolete by the time that I really got into music around 93/94 ish. I'm not sure how many of those 39 year old Dad's will be into them. 

You know how averages work, right? If the average is 39, that means it's pretty likely there will be a lot of people older than 39 years old there.

[Gnomicide]

To be fair, I just had to look up who Music For The Masses was by, so horses for courses and all that.

[fred quimby]

1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

You never saw Terminator 2?

Yes, but could not tell you it had a guns and roses track on it

[Gnomicide]

1 minute ago, fred quimby said:

Yes, but could not tell you it had a guns and roses track on it

Knock yourself out...

 

 

[fred quimby]

2 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

Knock yourself out...

 

 

Out of thank yous . So Thank you. Hopefully that will turn up on a quizz sometime. Hopefully I don't need to hear it again though

[Hugh Jass II]

14 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

Knock yourself out...

 

 

Good tune.

Good video.

Good times.

[stuartbert two hats]

At the risk of ridicule, I just listened to Welcome To The Jungle, because although I'd heard of it, I didn't know how it went. I listened for a few minutes and still don't, that track does nothing for me.

Paradise City, You Could Be Mine, Sweet Child O'Mine all decent tracks. Welcome To The Jungle though? It's a nothing track to me. Maybe I just turned it off before the catchy bit I'd recognise? 

On the whole, I hated them back in the day, over produced cock rock, basically the reason grunge had to be invented, even if I didn't admit to myself how catchy I found some of the above. Still though, they sound fantastic in T2. If I could go along and listen to three or four songs, maybe five if they did all of the above and threw in the two* covers, I'd watch them before going off to see the headliner, but sadly the world doesn't work like that and I'd have to give up my headliner to see those few songs I like, so it's probably not going to happen.

 

* Did they have more covers that were hits?

[anditmakesmesmile]

21 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

To be fair, I just had to look up who Music For The Masses was by, so horses for courses and all that.

It’s like that stat - one in seven UK households owned a copy of the Beautiful South’s Carry on Up the Charts.  There’ll be many people here who’d find it hard to name one of their songs. 

[stuartbert two hats]

2 minutes ago, anditmakesmesmile said:

It’s like that stat - one in seven UK households owned a copy of the Beautiful South’s Carry on Up the Charts.  There’ll be many people here who’d find it hard to name one of their songs. 

I'm looking at the track listing and I recognise... Moonlight Sonata?

[Gnomicide]

31 minutes ago, anditmakesmesmile said:

It’s like that stat - one in seven UK households owned a copy of the Beautiful South’s Carry on Up the Charts.  There’ll be many people here who’d find it hard to name one of their songs. 

I found out at my mate's funeral that he was partial to a bit of Beautiful South. It was a good job he was dead already.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Gonna suggest that it's not that radical or unusual to be familiar with the enormous hits of both Guns'n"Roses and Depeche Mode.

[Kizzie]

8 hours ago, clarkete said:

That's very sad, I quite often enjoy @Skip997's  contributions and he does make a point of being more positive sometimes, despite perceptions to the contrary. 

Yes, it is very sad. It appears if you disagree too much with the sneering bully's who seem to want to police some of these threads then your opinion is not valid and is to be ridiculed. 

 

[NorthernSoul52]

7 hours ago, anditmakesmesmile said:

It’s like that stat - one in seven UK households owned a copy of the Beautiful South’s Carry on Up the Charts.  There’ll be many people here who’d find it hard to name one of their songs. 

Mad but plenty believable stat. 

[gazzared]

11 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Not to put speculation back on to headliners, but if the Pyramid trio is Arctic Monkeys, Guns 'n' Roses and Elton John...

...are we all in agreement, regardless of dill danding spectacle, Reg'll be the best slot of the three?

Yeh deffo. It's a pity they all cant play on the saturday to free up the other 2 nights. Artics at 12pm so I can have a little nap listening to them crooning, go off and explore, come back for guns at 19.15 and then onto Elton  👍🤣

[David_303]

15 hours ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

To be fair I would like this.

Custard Creams are the discerning choice as far as I understand it. 

[stuartbert two hats]

1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Gonna suggest that it's not that radical or unusual to be familiar with the enormous hits of both Guns'n"Roses and Depeche Mode.

Gonna also suggest that it's not that radical or unusual to be unfamiliar with the enormous hits of both Guns'n"Roses and Depeche Mode.