2025 Headliners

[Mardy]

1 minute ago, giantkatestacks said:

The one in Block 9?? How very dare you, that's my fave food go to on the whole site...

 

 

 

The Smoking Buns place? It is phenomenal, but I'm always there at 2am and never in the mood for a burger 

[kalifire]

The Post notwithstanding, I think it’s a reach to say anybody is nailed on/locked in at this point. We’ve had one person insist it’s Fred but that hasn’t been corroborated by any other solid source, and O-Rod’s dates seem to fit but that’s all we’ve got. Then we’ve got Sunday, which seems wide open. 

[4AssedMonkey]

9 minutes ago, CantWaitForGlasto22 said:

Same. Wasn’t a fan before - friends said it was because I’d never seen him live. Saw him live in 2009, still not a fan (though he has a couple of good tunes)

 

Same.  Went to the 2009 Glasto headline show, got bored.  Left early.

[Ben7amin_]

34 minutes ago, Mardy said:

POtential Headliners as Glastonbury Food Stalls

 

O-Rod - Duck Fries, Classic basis, bit of a young twist on the top. Could alienate/confuse the older punter.

 

Fred Again - Overpriced Mac&Cheese. Ostensibly feelgood, bit of comfort food, but is that all there is to it?

 

Sam Fender - A big plate of stodge. Unexciting, bland, but keeps the traditionalists happening. One of those turgid Yorkshire Puddings filled with mash and gravy.

 

Bruce Springsteen - That  burger place in the SE Corner. A classic, but hardly inspiring and sort of wrong place, wrong time.

 

Rihanna - Goan fish curry - Can you afford it? and not as good as it was 10 years ago

 

Stevie Wonder - The crumble stall - a rediscovered old timer, just what you need when you're feeling down, but maybe a bit too sickly sweet.

 

 

 

100%. Meanwhile Silver Hayes, Leftfield, Greenpeace etc etc have much nicer food stalls that cost a fraction of the price, but for some reason are not as popular...........

 

Actually scratch that I know why people are not using the Silver Hayes food stalls as much 😉

 

 

[stuie]

25 minutes ago, gfa said:

when has a Reading headliner ever done Other

 

Didn't LDR just do this? 

[Quark]

59 minutes ago, Mardy said:

POtential Headliners as Glastonbury Food Stalls

 

O-Rod - Duck Fries, Classic basis, bit of a young twist on the top. Could alienate/confuse the older punter.

 

Fred Again - Overpriced Mac&Cheese. Ostensibly feelgood, bit of comfort food, but is that all there is to it?

 

Sam Fender - A big plate of stodge. Unexciting, bland, but keeps the traditionalists happening. One of those turgid Yorkshire Puddings filled with mash and gravy.

 

Bruce Springsteen - That  burger place in the SE Corner. A classic, but hardly inspiring and sort of wrong place, wrong time.

 

Rihanna - Goan fish curry - Can you afford it? and not as good as it was 10 years ago

 

Stevie Wonder - The crumble stall - a rediscovered old timer, just what you need when you're feeling down, but maybe a bit too sickly sweet.

 

 

 

If I was feeling argumentative I might pick holes in a couple of the artist interpretations, but that would be well outweighed by concept and execution. Cap doffed.

[northernangel]

10 minutes ago, stuie said:

 

Didn't LDR just do this? 

She did other before being a Reading co-headliner. A Reading set of co-headliners have headlined other and subbed Pyramid in the same year once but in fairness it was a weak choice by Reading. 

[Skip997]

1 hour ago, fraybentos1 said:

constructive as always

 

mr 'i want fresh headliners' doesn't actually want new headliners?

There are interesting fresh headliners, e.g. Dua Lipa and dull as f**k fresh headliners. Let’s have as many of the former as possible 

[giantkatestacks]

45 minutes ago, Mardy said:

 

The Smoking Buns place? It is phenomenal, but I'm always there at 2am and never in the mood for a burger 

https://www.nannybills.co.uk/

[fraybentos1]

9 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

There are interesting fresh headliners, e.g. Dua Lipa and dull as f**k fresh headliners. Let’s have as many of the former as possible 

what on earth makes Dua an interesting headliner and Sam Fender a dull one? From an objective p.o.v not your personal music tastes

[Mardy]

3 minutes ago, giantkatestacks said:

https://www.nannybills.co.uk/

 

 

Oh, that's just evil, given me the proper cravings now. 

[glimmers_of_hope]

30 minutes ago, stuie said:

 

Didn't LDR just do this? 

yep, Technically she was Other stage Glasto headliner first and then Reading Headliner rather than the other way around, but your point is right. Pretty sure there are other acts which have headlined Reading and then been Other headliner...Foals would be one.

Edited October 15, 2024 by glimmers_of_hope

[CaledonianGonzo]

2 hours ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

So...potentially Olivia Rodrigo, Fred Again and Sam Fender?

 

Only if they've struggled to land someone with a few more miles on the clock like Stevie, Eminem or Rihanna to fill up the third spot.

[glimmers_of_hope]

I think Sam Fender/Fred Again/Olivia Rodrigo is possible.  It ticks a lot of boxes, they are touring, not headlined Glasto before and appeal to a younger demographic but with enough cross over.  It scans very much like a Reading/Leeds line up though, feels like they might want a more legacy act to balance it, there isn't a mega big act there....But if there isn't one available/affordable then it could definitely work.  

[NorthernSoul52]

1 hour ago, Mardy said:

I've only seen him once, Pyramid Stage 2009, and it er... wasn't great.

 

1 hour ago, CantWaitForGlasto22 said:

Same. Wasn’t a fan before - friends said it was because I’d never seen him live. Saw him live in 2009, still not a fan (though he has a couple of good tunes)

 

51 minutes ago, 4AssedMonkey said:

Same.  Went to the 2009 Glasto headline show, got bored.  Left early.

 

Always a good way to weed out those of us without the sense of common decency and good taste 🤣

 

To be fair, I wasn't there, and it seems to sit as this divisive set for a lot of people. The feedback I've had over the years was "musically impressive, commercially bankrupt" - seemed to be one for the purists rather than the casuals, and even then, it wasn't a fantastic setlist for the purists either.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

Fender, Fred and Rodrigo might fit a 2025 budget and probably doesn't break the bank. I wouldn't be averse to that as a trio, but no doubt it would have its detractors, particularly from the Glastonbury traditionalists. Would put the festival very firmly into its "pop" era. Maybe that's the direction they want to go to protect its future? 

[CaledonianGonzo]

12 minutes ago, glimmers_of_hope said:

I think Sam Fender/Fred Again/Olivia Rodrigo is possible.  It ticks a lot of boxes, they are touring, not headlined Glasto before and appeal to a younger demographic but with enough cross over.  It scans very much like a Reading/Leeds line up though, feels like they might want a more legacy act to balance it, there isn't a mega big act there....But if there isn't one available/affordable then it could definitely work.  

 

It's all acts who played in the last two / three years, so a decent wedge of folk could already have seen them all that G.

 

I don't think individually they're weak bookings, but taken as a trio it's not got great fire power.

[CaledonianGonzo]

3 minutes ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

Fender, Fred and Rodrigo might fit a 2025 budget and probably doesn't break the bank. I wouldn't be averse to that as a trio, but no doubt it would have its detractors, particularly from the Glastonbury traditionalists. Would put the festival very firmly into its "pop" era. Maybe that's the direction they want to go to protect its future? 

 

Dunno if it's massively pop to be fair.  Hazza or Rihanna both way more pop than Fender 

[NorthernSoul52]

Yeah, Fender feels like the traditionalist pick among that. Fella with a big electric guitar and some driving rhythms.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

1 minute ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

 

Dunno if it's massively pop to be fair.  Hazza or Rihanna both way more pop than Fender 

 

Maybe not in a traditional sense, but arguably would be as "pop" a trio as the festival has ever had. Certainly in the 21st century.

[NorthernSoul52]

Given Paul McCartney did write some of the greatest pop songs of all time, you could make a case for 2022 too, I guess.

[chickenfire]

1 hour ago, gfa said:

too big for any slot other than pyramid headline now - when has a Reading headliner ever done Other

I'm fairly sure there's a relatively long list. Disclosure and QOTSA for starters. Foals/LDR as other folk have mentioned, despite LDR being in the wrong order. BMTH are also another for the other order list

[NorthernSoul52]

And this year! This year felt very pop. If Coldplay didn't bother with The Scientist, it's very pop.

[NorthernSoul52]

Just now, chickenfire said:

I'm fairly sure there's a relatively long list. Disclosure and QOTSA for starters. Foals/LDR as other folk have mentioned, despite LDR being in the wrong order. BMTH are also another for the other order list

 

BMTH played midway down the Other before they stepped up to headline R+L, I think I'm right in saying.

They're also a bigger draw now too - had the Download slot, and sold out their biggest tour to date earlier in the year.

 

Imagine they won't ever come back to the G unless they genuinely have a crossover hit.

[CaledonianGonzo]

13 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

And this year! This year felt very pop. If Coldplay didn't bother with The Scientist, it's very pop.

 

O-Rod more of a rock act than any of the 2024 vintage.