2025 Headliners

[charlierc]

42 minutes ago, Franky said:

What’s the latest hot favourites then? 

Neil Young, because he said no then yes in an unusually public manner.

 

... oh you mean the other two spots.

[charlierc]

4 hours ago, Superscally said:

It was indeed, superb. I caught em at Leeds...an event, for sure.

What, they got a welcome in Leeds just as brutal as the one they received down south?

Edited January 19, 2025 by charlierc

[charlierc]

22 hours ago, FKA SOSOTWS said:

My favorite thing about the Daphne & Celeste video are the eight people at the beginning of the video below who each held up a separate sign that together spelled the word bollocks.

 

 

It's remarkable how immediate that is, as well as the aforementioned group of people holding up a separate letter to spell "BOLLOCKS".

 

Quite something too that what they're playing is not dissimilar from poppier things that are now a staple of Reading stages. Though we're not yet at a point to truly complete the circle and have rock acts being bottled off.

[Suprefan]

28 minutes ago, stuie said:

 

Strong rumours coming through for The KLF, alongside The 1975 and another band beginning with 'The' so the poster looks even.  The Rolling Stones are ruled out so it might be The Who again. 

They dont have a date in France this time so its easier to predict.

[Franky]

53 minutes ago, stuie said:

 

Strong rumours coming through for The KLF, alongside The 1975 and another band beginning with 'The' so the poster looks even.  The Rolling Stones are ruled out so it might be The Who again. 

I mean obvs the KLF, see my thread I predicted at least 3 months ago. 
 

please god say it ain’t so, it can’t possibly be The Who again !!!!!!! Surely not. 

[Stokesy10]

5 hours ago, Punksnotdead said:

Neil Young boring & ecstatic with Billy Joel might be the funniest thing I've ever read on here 🤣 

I appreciate Neil Young's craft, but I find him quite boring. Same with Springsteen, and millions are up his arse. All subjective isn't it?

 

At least Eavis will be buzzing, fair play to him!

Edited January 19, 2025 by Stokesy10

[Skip997]

2 minutes ago, Stokesy10 said:

I appreciate Neil Young's craft, but I find him quite boring. Same with Springsteen, and millions are up his arse. All subjective isn't it?

 

At meant Eavis will be buzzing, fair play to him!

With you re Springsteen, just don’t get it at all. 

[Franky]

Is it now just a case that modern and relevant bands refuse to play? Maybe as GF doubled their profits last year they could up the payment so we don’t have to book the same aging sh*t rock bands over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. 

[Skip997]

1 minute ago, Franky said:

Is it now just a case that modern and relevant bands refuse to play? Maybe as GF doubled their profits last year they could up the payment so we don’t have to book the same aging sh*t rock bands over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. 

👍

[stuie]

18 minutes ago, Franky said:

Is it now just a case that modern and relevant bands refuse to play? Maybe as GF doubled their profits last year they could up the payment so we don’t have to book the same aging sh*t rock bands over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. 

There's no real sign of that so far, but if that happens they've got some money to throw at it. 

[Franky]

3 minutes ago, stuie said:

There's no real sign of that so far, but if that happens they've got some money to throw at it. 

Well f**king throw it at someone under f**king 65 FFS !!!! 

[stuie]

1 minute ago, Franky said:

Well f**king throw it at someone under f**king 65 FFS !!!! 

 

I was just going to list past and rumoured headliners under 65 but it's most of them ffs 

[incident]

51 minutes ago, Franky said:

Is it now just a case that modern and relevant bands refuse to play?

 

Obviously not, by all accounts it sounds like we're getting 2 headliners that fall firmly into the "modern and relevant" category. Whether you (or I) personally like them or not is largely irrelevant.

 

27 minutes ago, Franky said:

Well f**king throw it at someone under f**king 65 FFS !!!! 

 

Out of interest, which member of The KLF is under 65?

[MEGABOWL]

1 hour ago, Franky said:

Is it now just a case that modern and relevant bands refuse to play? Maybe as GF doubled their profits last year they could up the payment so we don’t have to book the same aging sh*t rock bands over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. 

Who are you talking about?

[FKA SOSOTWS]

Glasto donating less to charities because they have to spend more in booking bigger bands makes sense, but it wouldn't help their image.

[CaledonianGonzo]

The aging acts are the most expensive ones.  Probably the only acts they've not managed to lock in on the basis of fee are Fleetwood Mac, AC/DC and likely Madonna.

 

 

[incident]

11 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

The aging acts are the most expensive ones.  Probably the only acts they've not managed to lock in on the basis of fee are Fleetwood Mac, AC/DC and likely Madonna.

 

To your point, Eagles as well.

[Jamm]

19 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

The aging acts are the most expensive ones.  Probably the only acts they've not managed to lock in on the basis of fee are Fleetwood Mac, AC/DC and likely Madonna.

 

 

Speaking of AC/DC did we ever find out how much Download paid them, alongside letting them having their own bloody stage?

[Franky]

53 minutes ago, incident said:

 

Obviously not, by all accounts it sounds like we're getting 2 headliners that fall firmly into the "modern and relevant" category. Whether you (or I) personally like them or not is largely irrelevant.

 

 

Out of interest, which member of The KLF is under 65?

Doesn’t matter they never book em. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

That's cause Glastonbury already have a Pyramid 

[Superscally]

22 minutes ago, Jamm said:

Speaking of AC/DC did we ever find out how much Download paid them, alongside letting them having their own bloody stage?

Those days probably 1-2 mill

[Superscally]

2 hours ago, charlierc said:

What, they got a welcome in Leeds just as brutal as the one they received down south?

LEEDS FESTIVAL 2000, DAPHNE & CELESTE

 

"Sometimes the worst moments are the best moments. The bottling of Daphne & Celeste at Reading 2000 entered the annals of festival history. But it's always slightly annoyed me that Reading gets the credit, because the boisterous US pop duo got their first bottling at Leeds Festival 24 hours earlier. As a tyro music journalist, I had somehow managed to breeze past security for a vantage point at the side of the stage for Rage Against The Machine, Blink-182 and Placebo. But it was the confrontation between the crowd and the ballsy American girls that's stayed with me. Their surprise booking did hold out the intriguing prospect of a meeting with Brian Molko, who they had delighted in mocking in the music press. In the event, it was their abrupt performance that became the story. D&C's brief set, including such classics as Ooh Stick You and U.G.L.Y., seemed to last an eternity as they braved the onslaught of plastic bottles and worse (your correspondent managed to dodge the missiles). By the end you had to admire both sides: Daphne & Celeste were beaten but unbowed, while Leeds reasserted itself as a rock festival. The bottling at Reading got the headlines but it was really just a rowdy encore. Pop stars have never really put themselves in the Reading & Leeds firing line since that weekend." 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Woodstock 99 ass behaviour 

[charlierc]

3 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Woodstock 99 ass behaviour 

Well it is the same era.

[charlierc]

13 minutes ago, Superscally said:

LEEDS FESTIVAL 2000, DAPHNE & CELESTE

 

"Sometimes the worst moments are the best moments. The bottling of Daphne & Celeste at Reading 2000 entered the annals of festival history. But it's always slightly annoyed me that Reading gets the credit, because the boisterous US pop duo got their first bottling at Leeds Festival 24 hours earlier. As a tyro music journalist, I had somehow managed to breeze past security for a vantage point at the side of the stage for Rage Against The Machine, Blink-182 and Placebo. But it was the confrontation between the crowd and the ballsy American girls that's stayed with me. Their surprise booking did hold out the intriguing prospect of a meeting with Brian Molko, who they had delighted in mocking in the music press. In the event, it was their abrupt performance that became the story. D&C's brief set, including such classics as Ooh Stick You and U.G.L.Y., seemed to last an eternity as they braved the onslaught of plastic bottles and worse (your correspondent managed to dodge the missiles). By the end you had to admire both sides: Daphne & Celeste were beaten but unbowed, while Leeds reasserted itself as a rock festival. The bottling at Reading got the headlines but it was really just a rowdy encore. Pop stars have never really put themselves in the Reading & Leeds firing line since that weekend." 

I stand corrected then. Though I probably should've guessed.

 

Still kinda remarkable they thought it was a good idea tbf. It wasn't quite like now when a line-up will be more willing to hop from genre to genre.