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Just now, itschris said:

Personally, and just to add a differing voice to the previous few dozen pages, 🤣🤣

 

I'd love to see a repeat, but reversal of Sunday 2019, The Cure in the legends slot and give Kylie her time as headliner.

 

 

Bit unimaginative bringing back two of your biggies from one year, though not perhaps unheard of.

 

I had vaguely wondered if Kylie could well be the one who moves from Legends to Headliner one day, given she still has some serious current credibility.

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18 minutes ago, Wildglastotheo said:

Ok you guys have convinced me that Rhianna is the third - it does make sense if she was planning to release the album and do Glastonbury in '23 but delayed it due to pregnancy, that she would follow through with her plans. She probably wants to remain relevant, and she knows Beyonce and Jay Z well who have both had great successes on the farm.

Olivia Rodrigo has definitely been building up to this headline slot since she performed a few years ago - notably absent from appearing in '24 in the same way Dua Lipa was in '23.

Fred again is clearly a massive favourite with the Glastonbury Crowd, and a good booking for the GF, perfect for a Friday headliner, the only reason he won't be headlining is if someone bigger comes along to take his place. but this boat seems to be sailing with all the big names rulling themselves out in turn.

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Was Rihanna meant to be a 2023 shoe-in? Was it her who bailed and gave us GNR?

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3 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Was Rihanna meant to be a 2023 shoe-in? Was it her who bailed and gave us GNR?

 

It's thought that happened, but it would have been at least 9 months before the festival.

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Is Glastonbury in danger of damaging its reputation? Serious question.

 

With the poor line up last year particularly following the SZA fall out and the possibility of a poor set of headliners this year, is the esteem and distinction of the festival as one of the best in the world at threat? We know there's more to Glastonbury than the headliners but the public often judge it by the top row. If the general public lose interest, does the festival suffer?

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13 minutes ago, Justcalledtosay said:

Is Glastonbury in danger of damaging its reputation? Serious question.

 

With the poor line up last year particularly following the SZA fall out and the possibility of a poor set of headliners this year, is the esteem and distinction of the festival as one of the best in the world at threat? We know there's more to Glastonbury than the headliners but the public often judge it by the top row. If the general public lose interest, does the festival suffer?

 

I would say it would probably improve the festival if the "we rate the whole line up by the top 3" crowd stopped coming could be a blessing in disguise. 

 

Seriously So many people try to get tickets and those who go every year understand the festival as a whole - i think most of the slating of the headliners comes from armchair pundits who don't go to any festival -   They also write "who" after artists with multiple top albums as long as they are not from the mid noughties or earlier, not to be worried about IMO 

 

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I'm not necessarily referring to those that attend but more so whether Glastonbury loses its 'kudos'. Is there a possibility that their "selling" of slots to artists on the basis of publicity loses a little bit of its punch for example.

 

This is all subjective and hypothetical, particularly if the festival secured Rhianna or Lady Gaga for example but a trio of ORod/Fred/Ed would surely be uninspiring.

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7 minutes ago, Justcalledtosay said:

I'm not necessarily referring to those that attend but more so whether Glastonbury loses its 'kudos'. Is there a possibility that their "selling" of slots to artists on the basis of publicity loses a little bit of its punch for example.

 

This is all subjective and hypothetical, particularly if the festival secured Rhianna or Lady Gaga for example but a trio of ORod/Fred/Ed would surely be uninspiring.

The Pyramid headliner’s are usually uninspiring 

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10 minutes ago, Justcalledtosay said:

I'm not necessarily referring to those that attend but more so whether Glastonbury loses its 'kudos'. Is there a possibility that their "selling" of slots to artists on the basis of publicity loses a little bit of its punch for example.

 

This is all subjective and hypothetical, particularly if the festival secured Rhianna or Lady Gaga for example but a trio of ORod/Fred/Ed would surely be uninspiring.

 

In this hyperthetical situation is there another festival in the UK consistently booking a bigger trio of headliners?

 

Only in that situation would I agree that it might lost its Kudos.

 

Given how mega popular O-Rod & Fred are right now - im not sure it should be making people feel uninspired by literally booking two of the biggest current acts int the world.  

 

 

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19 minutes ago, Justcalledtosay said:

Is Glastonbury in danger of damaging its reputation? Serious question.

 

With the poor line up last year particularly following the SZA fall out and the possibility of a poor set of headliners this year, is the esteem and distinction of the festival as one of the best in the world at threat? We know there's more to Glastonbury than the headliners but the public often judge it by the top row. If the general public lose interest, does the festival suffer?

I mean you had 1 headline that has just sold out a massive world tour including Wembley a couple of times, and a second headliner that sold out Wembley 10 times and has the second highest grossing tour ever.

 

The headliners in 2023 were weaker as a 3 than this year, it was only saved by Elton. 

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14 minutes ago, Justcalledtosay said:

I'm not necessarily referring to those that attend but more so whether Glastonbury loses its 'kudos'. Is there a possibility that their "selling" of slots to artists on the basis of publicity loses a little bit of its punch for example.

 

This is all subjective and hypothetical, particularly if the festival secured Rhianna or Lady Gaga for example but a trio of ORod/Fred/Ed would surely be uninspiring.

It'd work for me, I'd watch Olivia (because she was amazing when I saw her, despite me not being much of a fan before) and Ed, because weirdly I've never actually seen him. Given just how many hits he has built up over the years, the atmosphere will be immense. 

 

And that leaves me free on Fred night, having seen him at Reading and still not really getting it. And that's what I prefer. I'd also expect something guitar-based on the Other at the same time, which is likely to be up my street anyway

 

I think when Olivia Rodrigo's tickets go on sale for whatever she has planned next summer, and they sell out in minutes with loads of people missing out, that it'll feel a bigger booking than now to the general public. and Ed Sheeran has a similar rep to Coldplay on here - how people talk about Coldplay here you wouldn't expect them to do 10 nights at Wembley with so many missing out. He's massive

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I mean if we are referring to the lack of an Elton, McCartney etc etc not being on the bill then probably bar one or two names that could pop up those days are over. 

 

Time to reluctantly accept the 90s to noughties acts are the legacy headliners.

 

If the festival gets one like this such as Rihanna then you have got to give them credit. 

 

 

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16 minutes ago, dotdash79 said:

I mean you had 1 headline that has just sold out a massive world tour including Wembley a couple of times, and a second headliner that sold out Wembley 10 times and has the second highest grossing tour ever.

 

The headliners in 2023 were weaker as a 3 than this year, it was only saved by Elton. 

 

I'm not sure you can make that claim when SZA's crowd barely stretched past the sound desk.

 

 

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See, Ed is uninspiring to me because he's been and headlined in the past decade already - but much as with Coldplay, he's a slam dunk of a booking because it'll be a massive crowd with crossover hits. (The downside is that he's not quite as spectacle as Coldplay, which definitely can help some artists.)

 

Conversely, I think Fred Again and Olivia Rodrigo are exciting headliners - one's a homegrown talent that has got Glastonbury Moment™  in his back pocket to help, and another is a fast-rising younger female star who arguably has more four-quadrant crossover than the last fast-rising younger female star to headline this year. (SZA, to clarify.)

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We had a lot of chat here last time about your rank-and-file punter in the street knowing who SZA is. In the case of Olivia Rodrigo, I don't think there will be that problem - stuff like Good 4 U and vampire played across multiple demographics and radio stations. Think she'll do fine.

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