2025 Headliners

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

18 minutes ago, incident said:

 

I mean.. Yeah?

 

Struggling to think of any act that you couldn't say that for.

 

Yeah, I guess that is quite obvious in hindsight 

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

Stevland on the BBC tonight. I know that 2010 show was one for the ages, but who wouldn't want to hear these songs on that stage one more time? 

[stuie]

5 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

 

So just easier on everyone to give the man the Legend Slot like he wants cos he knows he's better suited for it 

 

Yeah, he's better suited for the legend slot, there would be no conversation about if he's big enough - a nice sunny Sunday afternoon and it would be one for the ages.  Even Noel Gallagher would be loving it. 

[Euphoricape]

[CaledonianGonzo]

Finally an act less likely than Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

[CantWaitForGlasto22]

34 minutes ago, Euphoricape said:

This rumour (whilst unlikely to be true) is not going to help on ticket day. FFS. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Doubt even Swifties will swallow that one.

[doogie]

Presumably off the back of this news, I've already had several Swifties asking to join my ticket group today who previously had no intention of trying for tickets 🙄

[Acid_Haze]

2 hours ago, CantWaitForGlasto22 said:

This rumour (whilst unlikely to be true) is not going to help on ticket day. FFS. 

Might help on resale day!

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

Yeah, it might need Emily to quickly refute that one. Especially considering registration is still open until 5pm on Monday 😂

 

Unless of course, it's true...?

[kalifire]

Agree - if that starts to get any traction, Emily probably ought to quash it asap.

[Crazyfool01]

She’s been ruled out hasn’t she ? 

[CaledonianGonzo]

By reality, yeah.

 

If you read the article lede it's basically referring to a change in the bookies odds 

[Neil]

9 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

She’s been ruled out hasn’t she ? 

wish posh fred wasn't getting yet another leg-up

[Benjsh]

Why would she even play the festival now? The only reason massive artists like her take the smaller financial offer of Glasto headline slot is to get the TV exposure to sell records to compensate for it surely?

 

She doesn't need the TV exposure as her records sell like hotcakes already. She's not my cup of tea at all but it's probably fair to say she's the biggest artist on the planet right now.  I think 2020 was it. That was the window for her and the pandemic saw to that. 

 

Personally I wouldn't mind it if she did play as if I got a ticket it would make it much easier to get a good spot at Other Stage or West Holts for the headline spot.

 

Maybe she will come back when her star has faded a bit towards the end of her career. I'm sure she probably will do. 

[pigital]

2 minutes ago, Benjsh said:

Why would she even play the festival now? The only reason massive artists like her take the smaller financial offer of Glasto headline slot is to get the TV exposure to sell records to compensate for it surely?

 

She doesn't need the TV exposure as her records sell like hotcakes already. She's not my cup of tea at all but it's probably fair to say she's the biggest artist on the planet right now.  I think 2020 was it. That was the window for her and the pandemic saw to that. 

 

Personally I wouldn't mind it if she did play as if I got a ticket it would make it much easier to get a good spot at Other Stage or West Holts for the headline spot.

 

Maybe she will come back when her star has faded a bit towards the end of her career. I'm sure she probably will do. 

She might just want to make it up as she wanted it checked of her list in any case? 
 

Pretty sure she was already asking a giga sum in 2020 in any case, even though her fandom went crazy since Covid. If I can be optimist, if she wants to do it I believe the money would even be less of a driver than it was in 2020. With her being a billionaire and all now.
 

Last names in the loop get me extra excited, curious to what it’ll turn out to be in the end! Afraid it’ll be until a poster drop again this year though.

[DomDom1984]

I'll join the folk saying Emily Eavis really needs to nip this one if it isn't true. It's not like they'll struggle to sell tickets either way.

[kalifire]

31 minutes ago, Benjsh said:

Why would she even play the festival now?

The only reason I can think of is that she previously agreed to do it, and she seemed to genuinely form a strong bond, not least with Billy Bragg. She’s made more than enough money off the Eras tour, that wouldn’t really be a primary motivation right now.

 

But more realistically, given the sheer effort she’s put into Eras, I’d think she’d be more in the frame for 2027/8. If they somehow manage to bag her for next year though, holy hell that’s a coup. 

[incident]

2 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

By reality, yeah.

 

If you read the article lede it's basically referring to a change in the bookies odds 

 

And as is so often the case, given that no bookie has been offering it as an active market for a couple weeks, it's based on entirely fictional odds rather than actual betting.

 

This is 100% a combination of a bookie (in this case Betway) looking for some free publicity and crap news outlets looking for clicks. Glastonbury and Taylor Swift each bring those things so why wouldn't they combine the two into one story?

[stuie]

I struggle to understand why, once the bills are paid and the bank is full,

you wouldn’t want 100k fans in the pyramid field singing your hits back to you. I’d do it for free (if I was her) 

[Crazyfool01]

32 minutes ago, stuie said:

I struggle to understand why, once the bills are paid and the bank is full,

you wouldn’t want 100k fans in the pyramid field singing your hits back to you. I’d do it for free (if I was her) 

I guess we don’t know the affinity she may have or may not with the festival … probably none so she could have that feeling anywhere 

[Superscally]

45 minutes ago, stuie said:

I struggle to understand why, once the bills are paid and the bank is full,

you wouldn’t want 100k fans in the pyramid field singing your hits back to you. I’d do it for free (if I was her) 

Give it a go outside the Ridge and Furrow! We'll be there (if we get tickets) 🥰

[Acid_Haze]

48 minutes ago, stuie said:

I struggle to understand why, once the bills are paid and the bank is full,

you wouldn’t want 100k fans in the pyramid field singing your hits back to you. I’d do it for free (if I was her) 

What if you do a massive stadium tour and get 100k fans singing your hits back to you and a fat wad of $$$

[incident]

56 minutes ago, stuie said:

I struggle to understand why, once the bills are paid and the bank is full,

you wouldn’t want 100k fans in the pyramid field singing your hits back to you. I’d do it for free (if I was her) 

 

Sure, but that's going to be factored against many other things - such as her own plans, goals, and schedule for the year. If she's coming off an extensive 2 year world tour, it might be a case of "no more live shows for a bit". Or Glastonbury might just not fit with whatever her intentions are musically, or she might have a show in mind that can't be translated to a festival stage (as the Eras tour was).

 

Remember that this is not someone who half-arses things. If she plays, then she's coming with a set that's fully thought through designed to blow people away so even doing it as a one-off would become weeks worth of planning and rehearsals.

 

I'm very confident that Taylor Swift will headline Glastonbury one day, and I'd suspect she already has a vague idea as to when that's likely to be. Unfortunately though I don't expect it in the near future, certainly not 2025 and even 2027/8 probably feel too soon.

[northernangel]

1 hour ago, stuie said:

I struggle to understand why, once the bills are paid and the bank is full,

you wouldn’t want 100k fans in the pyramid field singing your hits back to you. I’d do it for free (if I was her) 

 

52 minutes ago, Acid_Haze said:

What if you do a massive stadium tour and get 100k fans singing your hits back to you and a fat wad of $$$

 

Because of this above. If and when she returns she'll sell an absolute wad of tickets that will be she won't need to hit Glastonbury yet. She's only 34, got years ahead of her to be able to do it is she wants.