Headliners 2023

[Crazyfool01]

9 minutes ago, danmarks said:

Bernie taupin wrote it

Well ok … Elton did at least sing it 

[NorthernSoul52]

12 hours ago, bamber said:

In 1983 Mandela had been in prison for 20 years. Elton had no excuse. I don't care how much he says he regretted it. In 83 he should just have known better. This came out a few months later, this was the mood of the time he went there. Not right, unforgivable.

 

Any excuse to post this:

 

[Gnomicide]

Related to headliners but hopefully not this year, has there been a wet one since U2? I don't remember it raining at any of the ones I've been at.

[NorthernSoul52]

Just now, Gnomicide said:

Related to headliners but hopefully not this year, has there been a wet one since U2? I don't remember it raining at any of the ones I've been at.

Thought it rained a bit during Coldplay in '16 but I could be misremembering.

[FloorFiller]

Just now, Gnomicide said:

Related to headliners but hopefully not this year, has there been a wet one since U2? I don't remember it raining at any of the ones I've been at.

Yeah I was thinking about this not long ago. Possibly the odd shower here and there, although tbh I don’t even remember that, and definitely not anything like U2 or even anything mildly inconvenient. I dread it every year but seem to have avoided it, thus far…

[CaledonianGonzo]

Rained a bit during Metallica I think.

[gfa]

1 hour ago, clarkete said:

Aye, that figure they quote at the end of Rocketman is extraordinary - bigger than a tory peers corrupt earnings. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John_AIDS_Foundation

 

https://www.eltonjohn.com/charities

 

Insane number that, was expecting around 50 mil tops before clicking the link (still a impressive number that!)

[sedra]

55 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Rained a bit during Metallica I think.

Yep it did  - at least at the beginning- prompted us to move on somewhere else as we decided Metallica wasn’t for us. 

[Crazyfool01]

those balls were covered in mud 

[DareToDibble]

2 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Thought it rained a bit during Coldplay in '16 but I could be misremembering.

I don’t remember this but to be fair the entire weekend was such hard work so could well have blanked out the memory of rain 😅

[Wherethewildthingsare]

3 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Thought it rained a bit during Coldplay in '16 but I could be misremembering.

It rained before hand and the mud was horrendous (stopped me from going over to the Other for LCD Soundsystem) but it cleared up as they came on. Have my hood up in pictures so it may have been a bit drizzly 

[philipsteak]

8 hours ago, Crazyfool01 said:

those balls were covered in mud 

Don't remember the mud being that deep. 

[Punksnotdead]

5 hours ago, Wherethewildthingsare said:

It rained before hand and the mud was horrendous (stopped me from going over to the Other for LCD Soundsystem) but it cleared up as they came on. Have my hood up in pictures so it may have been a bit drizzly 

That whole day was a trial - I was watching PJ Harvey on the Other Stage & actually fell asleep standing up (didn't think that was actually possible until it happened to me!)

Stayed for LCD, but didn't really enjoy it, even though I knew it was brilliant! I was just too tired!

[Avalon_Fields]

Not exactly breaking news...but I was on the train last night, happened to be sitting next to a concert promoter, it's definitely the Arctic Monkeys Friday night he said. 

[gigpusher]

4 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:

Not exactly breaking news...but I was on the train last night, happened to be sitting next to a concert promoter, it's definitely the Arctic Monkeys Friday night he said. 

Yep I don't think either remaining headliner is getting their own announcement and unless they are waiting until the end of March to drop the poster I think the poster may be the next announcement that we get. 

[Neil]

10 minutes ago, gigpusher said:

Yep I don't think either remaining headliner is getting their own announcement and unless they are waiting until the end of March to drop the poster I think the poster may be the next announcement that we get. 

if ta headliner announcement isn't going to get a "that's fantastic" response its not worth giving it it's own announcement. 

[gigpusher]

Just now, Neil said:

if ta headliner announcement isn't going to get a "that's fantastic" response its not worth giving it it's own announcement. 

Yep hence why I don't think they'll be getting their own announcements. 

[Neil]

11 minutes ago, gigpusher said:

Yep hence why I don't think they'll be getting their own announcements. 

announcing am or gnr will go down like a lead balloon.

[stuie]

10 minutes ago, Neil said:

announcing am or gnr will go down like a lead balloon.

Do you not think they are good bookings then?  

[Neil]

3 minutes ago, stuie said:

Do you not think they are good bookings then?  

are you having to ask that question cos you think they're good bookings?

[Freddyflintstonree]

I see where the next five pages of this thread are going already. 

[BenG92]

[Skip997]

1 minute ago, Freddyflintstonree said:

I see where the next five pages of this thread are going already. 

Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel

Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel

Like a snowball down a mountain, or a carnival balloon

Like a carousel that's turning running rings around the moon

Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face

 

 

 

[stuie]

21 minutes ago, Neil said:

are you having to ask that question cos you think they're good bookings?

no, I'm just asking you so you can tell everyone AGAIN.

[Neil]

10 minutes ago, stuie said:

no, I'm just asking you so you can tell everyone AGAIN.

They don't improve if i don't speak honestly about them.