2025 Headliners

[Justcalledtosay]

3 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

I mean, you are biased to be fair.

 

Got to be money, or potentially health fears - or maybe they just had those three locked in a long time and it never came into the conversation.

 

Sure the picture will emerge more over the coming weeks and months and years.

I don't know what you mean .... 😁

[NorthernSoul52]

1 minute ago, Justcalledtosay said:

I don't know what you mean .... 😁

😁😁😁

 

Must admit though, Lytham does land the odd coup - think The Strokes - but this one is genuinely crackers.

 

Same night as Bruce Springsteen in Milan though, so think I'll be missing the tour.

[Skip997]

1 hour ago, Memory Man said:

Im surprised Rod would get a big crowd. I could name one song and sing none. A dinosaur no one under 40 would give a hoot about. He will still get a big crowd, for some reason, but is the worst legend booking in years for me.

 

 

True.

 

It’s a genuinely embarrassing booking 

[NorthernSoul52]

Stevie Wonder for Legends if his shows are basically half-band karaoke these days.

[Talcroft]

1 hour ago, Memory Man said:

Im surprised Rod would get a big crowd. I could name one song and sing none. A dinosaur no one under 40 would give a hoot about. He will still get a big crowd, for some reason, but is the worst legend booking in years for me.

 

Alanis is elder millenial catnip. As are weezer. See also avril last year and neither have ever played in the 18 years ive been going. Alanis crowd will be massive as well as unlikely to have mega clashes against her.

 

Agree with all of the above but esp Alanis. Would never call myself a die-hard fan but put a playlist on after the poster came out and sang along to every word. Put a Rod playlist on and was left bemused and uninspired (though, in fairness, I've only ever attempted 3 legends - Lionel, Diana & Shania - and I left Diana & Shania early). Am 37.

[Skip997]

34 minutes ago, Superscally said:

Surely must have been a money issue with Stevie then?

Maybe they (Michael) had decided on Neil Young and two old duffers headlining would be a step too far. 

[northernangel]

Yeah Stevie being around just enhances the weakness in the headliner trio we got 

[NorthernSoul52]

1 minute ago, northernangel said:

Yeah Stevie being around just enhances the weakness in the headliner trio we got 

[Colorblindjames]

13 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

True.

 

It’s a genuinely embarrassing booking 

Kylie was worse. 

[NorthernSoul52]

Diana Ross was a bit of a "ooof".

[Skip997]

4 minutes ago, Colorblindjames said:

Kylie was worse. 

 

Nah Kylie is class. Proper fun pop star. Still regret not going just because it was too hot that day 

[Looother]

20 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

True.

 

It’s a genuinely embarrassing booking 

 

Perhaps because when I was a teenager he was always in the tabloids with someone on his arm who was about my age despite himself being about as old as my dad, I've always seen Rod as a cringey old duffer. I'm about as old now as he would have been then and my view of him hasn't changed. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Don't think it will have been a money thing for Stevie - more likely a timing issue if he's only just now publishing his dates in late March

[Jack The Stripper]

17 hours ago, Euphoricape said:

I thought that's just rumoured placement? They could well be, I'm just hoping for Basement Jaxx as not got a Friday headliner as yet.

Yeah I’m hoping they were held off the first poster as they just announced a second date at Crystal Palace.

[Memory Man]

35 minutes ago, Colorblindjames said:

Kylie was worse. 

Kylie was incredible and my favourite legend slot

 

she could have headlined. And still could today!

[ClementsMike]

ORod, Fender and Stevie headlining with Neil Young as legend is what could have been .  

[fullfathom5]

1 minute ago, Memory Man said:

Kylie was incredible and my favourite legend slot

 

she could have headlined. And still could today!

💯 

[CaledonianGonzo]

12 minutes ago, ClementsMike said:

ORod, Fender and Stevie headlining with Neil Young as legend is what could have been .  

 

Could also have been Fred Again...,The 1975 and Ed Sheeran with Billy Joel in the Legend Slot.  But it isn't....?

[NorthernSoul52]

Cannot imagine NY would have accepted the Legends Slot. Likewise SW, though that is possibly where he belongs if his shows are half-karaoke at this juncture. (An unpopular opinion, to be sure.)

 

Fender is the obvious miss, but don't think it is a soft trio by any stretch. You can only book what you can book, after all.

[Memory Man]

There could be any number of reasons why no stevie (other than slow to announce or confirm)

 

Fees

Unable / Unwilling to meet specific artist requirements

Doesnt want to be recorded

Exclusivity contract with promoter

Artist sees Glastonbury as one and done

Festival sees artist as one and done

[Memory Man]

Fender is the truly baffling one and all i can come up with is that his stadium gigs have an exclusivity / no glastonbury clause

 

i am convinced 1975 are only in the frame as Fender was a no

[NorthernSoul52]

I'd be surprised if it was a promoter issue given he's got five shows, two of which are Lytham and BST - which I think are run by competitors? Cuffe and Taylor is Live Nation, and BST is AEG, I think.

[NorthernSoul52]

But why would Fender have a no-Glasto clause? He's homegrown and British, plus the G is already sold out. It's not going to seriously impact his sales if so, especially given he would have been announced after most of them had been released and shifted sizable numbers.

 

I think they maybe passed on him themselves for one reason or another, rather than he turned it down.

[Skip997]

Just now, Memory Man said:

Fender is the truly baffling one 

You’re not wrong there. But then again so is the music industry, it’s rarely made any sense 

[NorthernSoul52]

Amen to that.