2025 Headliners

[incident]

6 minutes ago, ProperTea said:

We were told before that The 1975 were booked to headline the 2021 festival with Dua Lipa and when it was cancelled both were invited back, so I don't think this is completely random.

Given that Dua was confirmed to headline the Other Stage for the cancelled 2020 event, it seems very unlikely she'd already have been lined up to top the whole shebang in 2021. Certainly it's not something I've ever heard before.

 

However I have heard - and have posted a few times before - that Flo was lined up to headline 2021. Without rehashing the details I heard this in August 2019 at another festival, from someone who'd worked in artist relations at Glastonbury a couple months prior. Flo was th only name they had (and specifically named 2021 rather than 2020), and I don't think they were bullshitting.

[mufcok]

Think 1975 stepping in for Fred was the word, certainly makes sense to me.

 

Whether they were originally booked to sub or not, who knows.

[northernangel]

45 minutes ago, mufcok said:

Think 1975 stepping in for Fred was the word, certainly makes sense to me.

 

Whether they were originally booked to sub or not, who knows.

I reckon Biffy was always the sub for Friday as it wouldn't have mattered whether it's Fred or The 1975 as they like crowd movement. I doubt Biffy were the sub for Sunday again, but Saturday wouldn't have been a big surprise. I don't think Olivia has been signed on that long though.

[charlierc]

3 hours ago, incident said:

Given that Dua was confirmed to headline the Other Stage for the cancelled 2020 event, it seems very unlikely she'd already have been lined up to top the whole shebang in 2021. Certainly it's not something I've ever heard before.

 

However I have heard - and have posted a few times before - that Flo was lined up to headline 2021. Without rehashing the details I heard this in August 2019 at another festival, from someone who'd worked in artist relations at Glastonbury a couple months prior. Flo was th only name they had (and specifically named 2021 rather than 2020), and I don't think they were bullshitting.

I can imagine tbf that 2021 was having to think differently given the lack of US acts available due to everything that went on in 2020.

 

Florence might've been a workable name for 2022 as well, thinking about it. She was around given she was at things like Mad Cool or the one-off Berlin Tempelhof festival and I don't think did a UK show that summer.

[Superscally]

40 minutes ago, charlierc said:

I can imagine tbf that 2021 was having to think differently given the lack of US acts available due to everything that went on in 2020.

 

Florence might've been a workable name for 2022 as well, thinking about it. She was around given she was at things like Mad Cool or the one-off Berlin Tempelhof festival and I don't think did a UK show that summer.

I'd bloody love Florence this year.

[Superscally]

4 hours ago, Skip997 said:

Only Gaga or the KLF can rescue the headliners 

Or Nick Cave

[NorthernSoul52]

4 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

 

Yes - but as a minimum it does seem that Fred Again was the initial play for this year.

You know, it's been so long, I'd forgotten about that. 

[NorthernSoul52]

14 minutes ago, Superscally said:

Or Nick Cave

Nick Cave and the Mechanics. 

[Superscally]

1 hour ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Nick Cave and the Mechanics. 

...sing Follow Me, Straight to You

[Suprefan]

7 hours ago, incident said:

Given that Dua was confirmed to headline the Other Stage for the cancelled 2020 event, it seems very unlikely she'd already have been lined up to top the whole shebang in 2021. Certainly it's not something I've ever heard before.

 

However I have heard - and have posted a few times before - that Flo was lined up to headline 2021. Without rehashing the details I heard this in August 2019 at another festival, from someone who'd worked in artist relations at Glastonbury a couple months prior. Flo was th only name they had (and specifically named 2021 rather than 2020), and I don't think they were bullshitting.

 

Dua said in an interview that she was asked in the fall of 2022 to headline in 2024.

 

Will be interesting to see if Florence maybe times things for 2027. If she doesnt have an album

out til late next year that could have potential

Edited March 3, 2025 by Suprefan

[CaledonianGonzo]

Florence turned down an offer of a secret set.  Given her last couple of albums tanked, things would need to turn around fairly significantly for her to be even in the conversation for headlining again.

[Suprefan]

Cause now commercial success in the now has to factor into being a headliner. So Neil Young had a # 1 album that spent weeks on the charts to get the slot? Thought so.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Recent commercial success isn't a factor for heritage headliners with large arsenals of classic tunes, no.

[NorthernSoul52]

Concur. Florence is in the rarefied position where she is still a proven arena sell-out though - tickets for the last tour shifted fast, if I recall. She's probably "too" small to be given a first headline slot now - but as somebody who has already done it before, I can see a case being made for her getting the nod again if they are struggling to fill.

[chino1]

On 3/2/2025 at 2:17 AM, Baggieboy said:

To the 1975 haters in here who obviously have no taste in great music. Listen up. Matty Healy and his band are going to blow away this festival in front of 120k gob smacked punters. They are without question the best live act this country has produced in the last 25 years. Miss their gig you will be missing out history in the making. There is nobody else to choose from, AC/DC past it, GNR past it, Arctic Monkeys national embarrassment god dam awful live. Unless Freddie Mercury rises from the grave this is the best band you will ever likely to see live.

 

 

This is the greatest post of all time ! See you on Friday night Pyramid Stage

[Suprefan]

1 hour ago, chino1 said:

This is the greatest post of all time ! See you on Friday night Pyramid Stage

 

Theyre not going to the fest. They just want to talk sh*t.

 

 

19 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Concur. Florence is in the rarefied position where she is still a proven arena sell-out though - tickets for the last tour shifted fast, if I recall. She's probably "too" small to be given a first headline slot now - but as somebody who has already done it before, I can see a case being made for her getting the nod again if they are struggling to fill.

It did sell well but apparently not well enough for some. Still one of the great live performers right now. She floats in between pop and indie and has enough big songs that people know so its not a bad idea to get her on board again at some point. If Emily wants a 3 female headliner poster I think Florence would need to be on it so its not taken a certain way.

[NorthernSoul52]

Florence remains in the conversation, but she's a call-up right now, not a frontrunner pick. She probably is one of a very few acts who hold that position - I think you could make a case that Stormzy is another - but at the same time, I don't see her getting another shot before the end of the decade.

 

You can only ever book what is in front of you before, but there seems to be enough veteran acts who would drop everything to come back and play again, coupled with possibly enough "first-time" headliners on both the younger and older side, to help swing a cat in there.

[Respectfatfrog]

the world needs more Cat Stevens give it to him.

[NorthernSoul52]

Don't think we've ever had a "legend" step up to headline, and if he's only playing second fiddle to Neil Young at BST this year, then sadly think it is off the table as any suggestion.

[Respectfatfrog]

8 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Don't think we've ever had a "legend" step up to headline, and if he's only playing second fiddle to Neil Young at BST this year, then sadly think it is off the table as any suggestion.

agreed but a man can dream.

[NorthernSoul52]

A man can certainly dream. I'd still love Iron Maiden, personally, but more chance of me becoming Pope.

[Respectfatfrog]

7 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

A man can certainly dream. I'd still love Iron Maiden, personally, but more chance of me becoming Pope.

it was always a fools hope - Gandalf 

[NorthernSoul52]

Indeed.

 

It's weird. Maiden would never do it because Dickinson has thrown enough mud over the years and the festival aren't hugely interested.

 

But I think Rod Smallwood - a man usually geared by money and not much else - would actually be keen as mustard. It's a massive Pyramid bump for them and their legacy.

 

As it is, the time has been and gone. If they were ever going to do it, they should have been there for The Legacy of the Beast run in 2019, with a few judicious changes. (Drop For the Greater Good of God and Sign of the Cross.)

[fraybentos1]

On 3/1/2025 at 1:48 PM, Superscally said:

IS IT? Since when?

I may have been hasty here, she could still be in 

[fraybentos1]

We will find out tomorrow anyway. Praying for Chappell