2025 Headliners

[NorthernSoul52]

12 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

 

I wouldn't bank on any one specific song being guaranteed in his setlist.  There'll be loads of classics, but which ones is - at this point - anyone's guess.

Yeah,  he doesn't appear to have too many designated "fixtures" as such.

[nikkic]

2 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

I'll have an Indian on the Friday and a Chinese on the Sunday. Saturday is pot luck day.

The Craig David lyrics that didn’t quite make the cut….

[AlanFish23]

2 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Re: Neil Young. Does he play Hey Hey, My My or Rockin' in the Free World? Remember there was a point where you got one or the other, though that may not be the case anymore.

According to SetList.fm played Hey Hey, My My 14 times in 2024 but all with Crazy Horse. Rockin'....I am pretty certain we will get. Ideal outdoor song. But it's 2025 and not 2009. Hopefully Neil pulls it off but I am just not sure he'll get a huge crowd.

[Jamm]

20 minutes ago, AlanFish23 said:

According to SetList.fm played Hey Hey, My My 14 times in 2024 but all with Crazy Horse. Rockin'....I am pretty certain we will get. Ideal outdoor song. But it's 2025 and not 2009. Hopefully Neil pulls it off but I am just not sure he'll get a huge crowd.

This. Ignore my prior post, forgot Setlist FM separates Young / Y&CH / Y&POTR etc. etc. performances, and pre-coffee brain applied no critical thought.

 

The performance with Chrome Hearts from September sounded good, videos online.

 

Personal preference is we get a rocking first half, acoustic 3rd quarter and final rocking final quarter. 

[thatTFBguy]

17 hours ago, ClementsMike said:

who are right now in court defending the onstage creepy behaviour they find acceptable. 

 

Two guys kissing on stage is "creepy behaviour" now? What a way to display your homophobia.  

[Jamm]

23 minutes ago, thatTFBguy said:

 

Two guys kissing on stage is "creepy behaviour" now? What a way to display your homophobia.  

Didn't Malaysian LGBTQ+ groups condemn the action after it did more harm than good?

 

I get it come from a good place.

[thatTFBguy]

22 minutes ago, Jamm said:

Didn't Malaysian LGBTQ+ groups condemn the action after it did more harm than good?

 

I think at least one did, but it's totally irrelevant to what the original poster said. Call two men kissing "creepy behaviour" is literally textbook homophobia. The only way the could have made their intentions more clear would have been using a slur. 

[stuie]

13 minutes ago, thatTFBguy said:

 

I think at least one did, but it's totally irrelevant to what the original poster said. Call two men kissing "creepy behaviour" is literally textbook homophobia. The only way the could have made their intentions more clear would have been using a slur. 

 

I think the reactions to his post says it all - we were textbook offended. 

 

@ClementsMike it's 2025, darling. 

[NorthernSoul52]

1 hour ago, nikkic said:

The Craig David lyrics that didn’t quite make the cut….

Nicely done.

[ClementsMike]

f**k. My bad.

I was referring to the practice of them lining girls up, getting staff to check id’s and then granting them a snog onstage. I’d misread this and so apologies for the implication there. Not intended at all in that way. 
The power flex on the girls? Yeah, f**king creepy. 

[pickle_factory]

5 minutes ago, ClementsMike said:

f**k. My bad.

I was referring to the practice of them lining girls up, getting staff to check id’s and then granting them a snog onstage. I’d misread this and so apologies for the implication there. Not intended at all in that way. 
The power flex on the girls? Yeah, f**king creepy. 

 

To be fair a very short-lived practice. Which was him pecking someone (both men and women) during a point during a song.

 

Checking IDs is better than not checking IDs!

Same as the likes of Elvis Presley, David Bowie and more all done the same

[FKA SOSOTWS]

21 minutes ago, pickle_factory said:

 

To be fair a very short-lived practice. Which was him pecking someone (both men and women) during a point during a song.

 

Checking IDs is better than not checking IDs!

Same as the likes of Elvis Presley, David Bowie and more all done the same

 

Exactly, and lets allow consenting adult women to go along with whatever they want! Who would have thought that men with high social status are considered attractive.

 

 

Edited February 27, 2025 by FKA SOSOTWS

[ghandi]

Only just read that LCD Soundsystem are doing a residency at the Brixton academy, didn't even know it had re opened) , in June. Wonder if they might be a Woodsies headliner ? I know they were on as Pyramid sub last year. As not going last year, I'd love this!

[Physical_graffiti]

5 hours ago, stuie said:

 

 

To be honest, takeaway watchers should have eaten way before headliner time otherwise you're asking for indigestion.

Very true, I frequently mistime it and order late, would be raging to be tucking into my peshwari naan and Matt Healy walks on my screen

[charlierc]

9 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Outstanding anecdote. I'm more curious about Ezra from Vampire Weekend being in a... QPR top?

QPR change kit from some point in the mid-2010s. But yes.

 

Might say something about my knowledge gap that I didn't know the singer.

 

Mick Jagger in a Scotland top was also a head-scratcher tbf.

Edited February 27, 2025 by charlierc

[charlierc]

9 hours ago, Chapple12345 said:

They had the Radio 1 Big Weekend in Norwich about 10 years ago and he wore it for the whole performance 

I know someone who worked at the hotel all the acts were staying at and she saw him, panicked and just called him Mr Dogg 

Superb stuff.

 

Surely that's an acceptable way to address him?

[charlierc]

1 hour ago, ghandi said:

Only just read that LCD Soundsystem are doing a residency at the Brixton academy, didn't even know it had re opened) , in June. Wonder if they might be a Woodsies headliner ? I know they were on as Pyramid sub last year. As not going last year, I'd love this!

I think if you do want to see LCD Soundsystem in the UK next year that it'll be Brixton or nothing.

[ghandi]

1 minute ago, charlierc said:

I think if you do want to see LCD Soundsystem in the UK next year that it'll be Brixton or nothing.

Sadly can't do both in June., hey ho 

[Stokesy10]

I'll raise you Donald Trump playing 6 games in goal for Wolves Academy team...

[charlierc]

4 minutes ago, Stokesy10 said:

I'll raise you Donald Trump playing 6 games in goal for Wolves Academy team...

Apparently it's been debunked: Donald Trump played for Wolves as a goalkeeper? Why 1991 claim might not be strictly true... | FourFourTwo

[Suprefan]

9 hours ago, Dronx said:

Your first 2026 headliner. The boys are back 

 

 

 

this is exactly why they took the fallow

[AlanFish23]

4 hours ago, Jamm said:

This. Ignore my prior post, forgot Setlist FM separates Young / Y&CH / Y&POTR etc. etc. performances, and pre-coffee brain applied no critical thought.

 

The performance with Chrome Hearts from September sounded good, videos online.

 

Personal preference is we get a rocking first half, acoustic 3rd quarter and final rocking final quarter. 

I agree. The Chrome Hearts gig from last September looked and sounded great!

[NorthernSoul52]

3 hours ago, charlierc said:

Mick Jagger in a Scotland top was also a head-scratcher tbf.

Got to be getting them onside for a gig up there, surely?

[NorthernSoul52]

Either way, don't think any headliner will be performing in a football shirt this year. Not sure Neil Young will know what soccer is, to be frank.

[FKA SOSOTWS]

Neil Young can play in a hockey shirt from some Canadian team.