2025 Headliners

[CaledonianGonzo]

It's a discussion forum.  You can expect to see opinions you disagree with.

[Gnomicide]

10 hours ago, Suprefan said:

who wouldve thought Chappell in her straight era would do that....

 

You wouldn't say that about Rod Stewart, would you? I wonder why that is, hmmmmmm

[GrumpyRaver]

39 minutes ago, SirPsychoSexy said:

 

Seems The 1975 are the new Coldplay, it’s cool to hate them.  

Having an absolute dickhead as a frontman makes it easy

[northernangel]

46 minutes ago, SirPsychoSexy said:

The 1975 would smash it out of the park, they are well worthy of a headline spot! An incredible live band with banger after banger.  Exactly what a festival headliner is all about. 
 

Music is subjective, we can’t all like the same thing, but to suggest their music is unadulterated shite is laughable really. 
A colleague I work with can’t stand them, which is his prerogative, but he’s admitted he’s never listened to them, apart from Chocolate back when it came out, & said they are just a UK Maroon 5, which made me spit my tea out.   The ironic thing is, their music would be right up his street if he actually gave them a proper listen.  
I showed him Part of the band, & he loves that song.   
 

Seems The 1975 are the new Coldplay, it’s cool to hate them.  
 

Digressing slightly, I’m going Download for the first time next year, & absolutely cannot wait, most looking forward to Sleep Token who are absolutely fantastic! Saw them last week in Leeds, didn’t disappoint.  But my god over on the download Facebook groups is worse than here!  Why does music bring out the worst in folk?  Proper snobbish behaviour.  If you don’t like a band/artist, nobody’s forcing you to listen.

I will say in fairness with Download though if you don't like the main headliner it does restrict your options as they play unnaposed except for maybe the Dogtooth stage. It's not like you can grab an alternative decent level headliner on tbe second stage. Glastonbury has much more opposite The 1975.

[CaledonianGonzo]

12 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

 

I think what is being said is that disagreement is fine - it is how that disagreement is written, and on many forums/sites including on here, sometimes that disagreement is dismissive and rude rather than any attempt to discuss.

 

I've got no issue with inventive or heated language.  Adds a bit of colour and it's not like Matt Healey's on here getting upset that people are calling him a c**t.

[mjtko]

While I am in no way a devoted fan, personally I'd be very happy to see The 1975 headline -- never seen them live, enjoy a good number of their tracks and IMHO they're sure to put on a good show.

 

Equally, I was as far away from Pyramid on Saturday this year as I could possibly be as I am one of those Coldplay-unenjoyers -- I've just never got the appeal. Was quite happy for them to be headlining (again!) though, because I know that a lot of people do enjoy their music and from what I heard, a lot of fun was had. But there are so many other options at Glastonbury it really doesn't bother me who is headlining where and when -- personally I took the Coldplay slot as an opportunity to do something totally different on Saturday night and went to Arcadia to see Barry Can't Swim do a DJ set and had a bloody great time!

 

Anyway, I reckon The 1975 would be a great booking, would be perfect headline material and attract a very decent crowd.

[charlierc]

12 hours ago, Gnomicide said:

 

Chappell is starting to win me over...

Presumably Man Utd and Everton fans are less keen for this change of direction.

[Tranquility of Solitude]

5 minutes ago, charlierc said:

Presumably Man Utd and Everton fans are less keen for this change of direction.

Now if she’d appeared in a Dunfermline Athletic top, I’d have had to go to her set on principle. Maybe they’re her Scottish side. Who knows.

[CaledonianGonzo]

22 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

I am not referring to how people describe the artist, I am referring to how people talk to those that like an act, like the 1975 on social media and forums............... I think they are awful but I will never ram that opinion down the throat of a person who likes them. Tis their choice and some people are very abrupt and rude about what others like.

 

It comes across as tone policing.  If folk are out of line the mods can and do step in, but otherwise you're asking people to adopt a style or subscribe to a mode of etiquette that suits you but that may not appeal to them.

 

But anyway, as I said, you'll read stuff on here that you disagree with and that probably also applies to this post.

[Andre91]

Love The 1975 more than every other band in existence bar two. Can’t wait to watch their headline set from my living room. Five #1 albums, sold out arena tours galore, headlined R&L and TRNSMT multiple times. No denying they’re a headline sized band. Bangers for days, too. What a band. 
 

Most people won’t even be aware of any of Matty Healy’s controversies. The vast majority of people don’t consume and analyse the world of music in the same way people on a music forum do. They’ll pull a good crowd. 

Edited December 15, 2024 by Andre91

[FloopFiller]

12 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

Most people won’t even be aware of any of Matty Healy’s controversies. The vast majority of people don’t consume and analyse the world of music in the same way people on a music forum do. They’ll pull a good crowd. 

Yeah think people are massively overestimating the effect Matty’s antics will have on people going to see them and underestimating the crowd they’ll pull. They’re a massive band who consistently over perform people in here’s expectations, and they’ll be very popular on the night. Not for me, but it’ll by no means be a small crowd and they’ll undoubtedly knock it out of the park, especially as you know this will be a huge deal for them. 

[steviewevie]

I think the size of The 1975's crowd will depend on who's playing elsewhere at same time. If it's Charli xcx, Nick Cave, Pulp or prodigy etc then will likely be a lot smaller than if it's Loyle Carner.

[mjtko]

35 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

I think the size of The 1975's crowd will depend on who's playing elsewhere at same time. If it's Charli xcx, Nick Cave, Pulp or prodigy etc then will likely be a lot smaller than if it's Loyle Carner.

Ugh and yikes, please do not manifest any of those clashes. :-D

[NorthernSoul52]

3 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

 

I've got no issue with inventive or heated language.  Adds a bit of colour and it's not like Matt Healey's on here getting upset that people are calling him a c**t.

On the contrary, he probably is here and loving it.

[NorthernSoul52]

2 hours ago, Tranquility of Solitude said:

Now if she’d appeared in a Dunfermline Athletic top, I’d have had to go to her set on principle. Maybe they’re her Scottish side. Who knows.

Agreeably niche.

[Yorkshire_white]

Of course it’s all personal

opinion and if people are into that manufactured rock/pop sounds then that’s all down to individual taste. 
 

From me personally they are absolute dogger and made even worse by a privileged front man that is trying to be some edgey rocker and they just come across as pure parody. Didn’t he once smoke a cig under a table at an awards night and carried on like he was prime ozzy Osborne. Blokes a top class prat. 
 

The fact they’re being talked about as a headline act says more about the current state of “guitar music” then anything else. 
 

facts are if you had to list the best British bands of all Time they’d struggle to get into the top 50. If you listed all their best songs/biggest hits they wouldn’t make an impact on a “best of charts” For the last 10/15 years 

[NorthernSoul52]

I mean, Love It If We Made It was Pitchfork's Song of the Year in 2018 and A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships won the BRIT for Best Album, but as you say, it is personal opinion. One man's cheddar is another man's cyanide.

[Yorkshire_white]

2 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

I mean, Love It If We Made It was Pitchfork's Song of the Year in 2018 and A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships won the BRIT for Best Album, but as you say, it is personal opinion. One man's cheddar is another man's cyanide.

I mean, that’s hardly sending shockwaves through the music industry is it? 

[NorthernSoul52]

I'm struggling to understand what you're getting at there. Does an act have to send shockwaves through the industry to earn... what? Pyramid headliner worthiness? How are we measuring shockwaves? Pure commercial power? Live credibility? Genre reinvention?

[Jamm]

The age old adage - the farms bloody massive.

 

I don’t like The 1975, would rather a different headliner, but at the same time they’re big enough to headline and undoubtably will get an audience.

 

Just gives me a chance away from the Pyramid, the rest of the moaning brigade don’t have to watch him either.

[Skip997]

31 minutes ago, Yorkshire_white said:

 

 

facts are if you had to list the best British bands of all Time they’d struggle to get into the top 50. 

I doubt they’d even make it into the conversation 

[NorthernSoul52]

Would Kasabian? Would Florence and the Machine? (If we are counting them as a band?) Would Mumford and Sons?

 

It's all relative, and it all means bugger all in the original point. Everybody has different tastes, and that's completely fine.

 

But while I'm all for fruity language as expression and exclamation, let's not let debate turn into an extended slag-off that necessarily pisses on other people's enjoyment of certain acts. (Something we are all, or have been, guilty of at one point or another.)

[Andre91]

The 1975 have nothing to do with ‘the state of current guitar music.’ They’re a pop band. 

[NorthernSoul52]

Said this elsewhere, but The Sound is a terrific pop tune. Do wonder why One Direction turned it down.

[FKA SOSOTWS]

If Harry Styles ever headlines in the future, it'll be interesting to see the discussions pop up around him, given that he's far blander than 1975.