2025 Headliners

[Nobby's Old Boots]

Can someone post that goalposts moving GIF? I don't know how.

[Nobby's Old Boots]

1 hour ago, northernangel said:

That's not exactly Pyramid headliner though is it?, they have a range of between WH headliner level and Pyramid sub. 

 

 

And now he's closing APE instead? Didn't say he was a loser, I'm saying it brought down the levels of what the festival were prepared to book to top it. Tell me another headliner that got that opportunity off of their own tour dates before or since.

You LITERALLY asked for an example of him headlining an outdoor show. 

[JonSnow]

Out of the 48 Pyramid headliner bookings across the past 20 years id put the Stormzy booking as comfortably in the top half

[DomDom1984]

Some serious Principal Skinner vibes 

[MEGABOWL]

2 hours ago, northernangel said:

That's not exactly Pyramid headliner though is it?, they have a range of between WH headliner level and Pyramid sub. 

 

 

And now he's closing APE instead? Didn't say he was a loser, I'm saying it brought down the levels of what the festival were prepared to book to top it. Tell me another headliner that got that opportunity off of their own tour dates before or since.

How has it ‘brought down the levels of what the festival were prepared to book to top it?’

[MEGABOWL]

1 hour ago, Ben7amin_ said:

 

To be fair I think the Glastonbury guys are masters of stage changeovers at this point - did you see how much stuff Camilla Cabello had for a early evening  Other stage slot 

They also leave longer gaps than they used to. Dont think that’s an issue for the festival at all these days

[Nobby's Old Boots]

1 hour ago, MEGABOWL said:

How has it ‘brought down the levels of what the festival were prepared to book to top it?’

That poster is completely incapable of looking past their own opinion.

[gfa]

4 hours ago, DomDom1984 said:

Stormzy sold out his APE day, no? That's not exactly a small number of tickets.

He didn't pretty sure.

 

Had this discussion a few days ago, only shows to sell out were the first nick cave and strokes shows pre covid

[northernangel]

3 hours ago, Nobby's Old Boots said:

You LITERALLY asked for an example of him headlining an outdoor show. 

 

Something that is bigger and more wide spread that his own home town you troll.

2 hours ago, MEGABOWL said:

How has it ‘brought down the levels of what the festival were prepared to book to top it?’

 

Well usually headliners play something bigger than Brixton Academy as their own single gig before getting a Glastonbury headline spot. Wireless was a day filled with other bands in his own town and Dj Khaled or J Cole aren't topping Glastonbury are they.

[sisco]

If new people don’t headline then Glastonbury are going to really struggle in a few years when all the oldies have died off.  Coldplay, AM, Radiohead, The Cure aren’t going to keep going forever. 
 

Mumfords, Ed, Stormzy, Sza, Dua (and many more in the past) were given shots, some got bigger and some will probably peek at that but it’s about 1.  Giving the opportunities and 2.  The need to as lots of the bigger acts are doing their own thing nowadays more than ever 

[Guest]

5 hours ago, northernangel said:

Tell me another headliner that got that opportunity off of their own tour dates before or since.

 

Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay

[DomDom1984]

Worth noting Coldplay got their first one because The Strokes pulled out 

[cdm22]

1 minute ago, DomDom1984 said:

Worth noting Coldplay got their first one because The Strokes pulled out 

The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away 😁

[Nobby's Old Boots]

58 minutes ago, northernangel said:

 

Something that is bigger and more wide spread that his own home town you troll.

Keep moving those goalposts in order to make your incoherent and indecipherable message

you troll.

[northernangel]

37 minutes ago, chew the fat said:

 

Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay

 

Arctics you are right about. They had festivals around including Reading in subs spots and they just blew up quicker than anyone. But we are going back 17 years to where thing were a little different. 02 arena was only just built lol

36 minutes ago, DomDom1984 said:

Worth noting Coldplay got their first one because The Strokes pulled out 

 

He's done you here

[mufcok]

It's a travesty that The Strokes have never done Glastonbury 

[DomDom1984]

1 hour ago, northernangel said:

 

He's done you here

 

Kinda. Might be worth thinking what The Strokes had done before the summer of 2002 though. Them and Coldplay were bands in the same boat. Except Coldplay were actually about to release their second album.

 

Strokes follow up was over a year away.

[Dg_vic]

2 hours ago, mufcok said:

It's a travesty that The Strokes have never done Glastonbury 

There is a known reason for that though. Strokes were due to play Pilton party 2001, pulled out near the date for unspecified reasons and Coldplay stepped up (and flew from Paris) to play. 
 

https://www.nme.com/news/music/chris-martin-filling-in-the-strokes-coldplay-headlining-glastonbury-2002-2696924

 

The Eavis family have never forgiven the strokes, who frankly only ever play for the $$ anyway so unlikely to ever play. 

[mufcok]

14 minutes ago, Dg_vic said:

There is a known reason for that though. Strokes were due to play Pilton party 2001, pulled out near the date for unspecified reasons and Coldplay stepped up (and flew from Paris) to play. 
 

https://www.nme.com/news/music/chris-martin-filling-in-the-strokes-coldplay-headlining-glastonbury-2002-2696924

 

The Eavis family have never forgiven the strokes, who frankly only ever play for the $$ anyway so unlikely to ever play. 

 

Yeah I'm aware of the back story, still disappointing though.

 

Definitely right, re the $$. I'd kill for them to properly tour here but I doubt that's happening now.

[charlierc]

9 hours ago, stuie said:

Headlining Glastonbury to critical acclaim was his career peak? What a loser. 

Ikr?

[charlierc]

3 hours ago, chew the fat said:

 

Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay

I think Coldplay played Glastonbury before their first headline slot if I'm not mistaken.

 

AM going straight in as Pyramid bill-toppers was pretty wild. And apparently something that even caught themselves out for how much of a big deal that was, given they have since said their 2013 date went better than their 2007 one.

[Toilet Duck]

33 minutes ago, Dg_vic said:

The Eavis family have never forgiven the strokes, who frankly only ever play for the $$ anyway so unlikely to ever play. 

Obviously forgave Julian Casablancas sufficiently to book him to play the JP though! 

[glimmers_of_hope]

44 minutes ago, Dg_vic said:

There is a known reason for that though. Strokes were due to play Pilton party 2001, pulled out near the date for unspecified reasons and Coldplay stepped up (and flew from Paris) to play. 
 

https://www.nme.com/news/music/chris-martin-filling-in-the-strokes-coldplay-headlining-glastonbury-2002-2696924

 

The Eavis family have never forgiven the strokes, who frankly only ever play for the $$ anyway so unlikely to ever play. 

Yeah it's a funny one. I kinda feel like the festival would get over the original reason if there was a place for them to play for the right fee. I think that is the main issue. They probably aren't really pyramid headliners but they would want that kind of money. 

They feel like other stage headliners now.

I mean maybe if they continue to stick around and release albums they aren't far off heritage act? They only play 1 or 2 gigs in the UK every few years so they don't oversaturate the market. 

Stranger things have happened so for me it's still in the "maybe one day" if there's the right set of circumstances. 

[NorthernSoul52]

The Stokes are, dare I say it, a touch too unreliable as a live prospect in the current day and age.

[MEGABOWL]

7 hours ago, northernangel said:

 

Something that is bigger and more wide spread that his own home town you troll.

 

Well usually headliners play something bigger than Brixton Academy as their own single gig before getting a Glastonbury headline spot. Wireless was a day filled with other bands in his own town and Dj Khaled or J Cole aren't topping Glastonbury are they.

So which headliners have followed that had previously only played Brixton Academy (or subbed the Orher Stage) as their biggest gig?I can’t think of any. Which suggests to me that it was a perfectly timed one off that was very successful, and not in any way detrimental to the festival. In fact quite the opposite.