2025 Headliners

[DomDom1984]

Billy Joel is incredible live. Would be a tremendous pick. 

[kalifire]

Billy Joel would almost be as awful as Bruce Springsteen. Old white men with little to offer than ‘remember what I was like?’  
 

G25 needs to be modern, progressive, and reflect an understanding of where music is at currently. 

[incident]

2 minutes ago, kalifire said:

Billy Joel would almost be as awful as Bruce Springsteen. Old white men with little to offer than ‘remember what I was like?’  
 

G25 needs to be modern, progressive, and reflect an understanding of where music is at currently. 

 

Follow that through to the conclusion, and you end up with less acts like Elton, more acts like SZA. I think most people can accept that a balance is needed - Billy Joel as part of a trio of headliners all 60+ would be a bad move. Billy Joel as the only 60+ act a good one.

 

Aside from that, a lot of contemporary acts seem pretty enamoured with him.

 

[Mardy]

Uptown Girl and that one where he lists loads of bad things. Like a worse version of REM's 'the end of the world'. Has he done anything else I'd know?

[CaledonianGonzo]

The Lido Shuffle?

[Mardy]

3 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

The Lido Shuffle?

 

Man, playing it now, some serious groove going on there. This is something I can firmly get behind.

 

Someone hit up the Eavii  - 'Toe the line or blow it'

[Mardy]

I'd rather have the Boz than the Boss.

[Spindles]

Personally I'd like to see them sack off the heritage act headliners.  O-rod, Fred and the lad Fender would be bob on for me, all at the top of their game right now.

[CaledonianGonzo]

There's only another 10 years or so of those sort of acts being available and viable. We'll miss them when they're gone.

[Skip997]

12 minutes ago, Spindles said:

Personally I'd like to see them sack off the heritage act headliners.  O-rod, Fred and the lad Fender would be bob on for me, all at the top of their game right now.

With you on sacking off the old duffers 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Love The Boss's music - which is why I think they should book Sam Fender

[stuie]

34 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

With you on sacking off the old duffers 

 

Apart from the old duffers you like, that is. 

 

Edited August 12, 2024 by stuie

[MEGABOWL]

1 hour ago, kalifire said:

Billy Joel would almost be as awful as Bruce Springsteen. Old white men with little to offer than ‘remember what I was like?’  
 

G25 needs to be modern, progressive, and reflect an understanding of where music is at currently. 

Good idea. Given the ability of the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, and Liam Gallagher to sell tickets they would fit very nicely into a reflection of where music is at currently.

Edited August 12, 2024 by MEGABOWL

[CaledonianGonzo]

They should book the act who by common consensus released the best album of the last year.

[4AssedMonkey]

1 hour ago, Spindles said:

Personally I'd like to see them sack off the heritage act headliners.  O-rod, Fred and the lad Fender would be bob on for me, all at the top of their game right now.

 

Never going to happen and I'm glad of it.  The bookers will always want headliners/subs/3rd down on the Pyramid to offer a range of genres, ages, styles and that's what the majority of the public want.  Especially the ones who rarely (if ever) leave their picnic & folding chairs.  Variety is one of Glastonbury's strengths through the bill.  I personally like that.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Ideally Glastonbury should never have booked anyone old ever.

 

They plain f**ked up by booking Bowie rather than genuinely popular at the time year 2000 acts like The Dandy Warhols and the Baha Men.

[Franky]

6 hours ago, Gejonimo said:

Mental that you use the word diversity then offer up the blandest set of white men in the business. 

I mean, that’s down to personal opinion I can’t help that. But equally, genre not race, as someone else pointed out. 

[MEGATRONICMEATWAGON]

[MEGATRONICMEATWAGON]

2 hours ago, Mardy said:

Uptown Girl and that one where he lists loads of bad things. Like a worse version of REM's 'the end of the world'. Has he done anything else I'd know?

 

Watching the first season of the Boys made me realise he's got a plethora of great hits.

 

If Karl Urban comes out dressed as Butcher for a rendition of Pressure, I'd be in bits.

[kalifire]

1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

They should book the act who by common consensus released the best album of the last year.

No, they should book the act that by common consensus released the best album twenty years ago. 

Edited August 12, 2024 by kalifire

[VCK2]

7 hours ago, Gejonimo said:

Mental that you use the word diversity then offer up the blandest set of white men in the business. 

 

Musically, that's a more diverse set of headliners than some of the "diverse" trios of headliners that get suggested.

Edited August 12, 2024 by VCK2

[FKA SOSOTWS]

7 hours ago, gfa said:

If everyone is white blokes then yeah definitely mate

 

Glasto already books all sorts of diverse acts across the lineup, no need for that to be reflected in the headliners as well. 

 

Also, Billy Joel has all sorts of crappy songs outside his main bangers, lots of casuals are gonna be bored. Look at how his Bonnaroo headlining set was received (not well).

[Ben7amin_]

I think the whole conversation about should Glastonbury continue to try and book the older legacy acts is the wrong way round.   (theory may also apply to non legacy acts)

 

There is no way they have not tried to book most of the big name acts that have not played and that talks have not progressed in any productive measure.

 

Someone was talking to me the other day about the Eagles and why have they never played - I pretty much guarantee that The Eagles have been spoken to on a few occasions - I Guarantee they ask for absolutely insane ££££ and so the festival can not pick them.

 

I doubt its the festival not wanting to get these acts - i'd bet its more the acts and there call it what it is - Greed -  effectively ruling themselves out  

 

Its a shame because most of these acts have more money than they know what to do with. 

[VCK2]

8 hours ago, gfa said:

If everyone is white blokes then yeah definitely mate

Yeah because the only people who listen to those artists are white men.

Edited August 12, 2024 by VCK2

[Spindles]

The Mirror are running a story that Rihanna is on to headline, if you count that as any kind of credible source.