2025 Headliners

[MilkyJoe]

35 minutes ago, cgall said:

 

I think my problem is this - they're a medium fest sized act nowadays. I'd be very underwhelmed glasto was sharing headliners with the likes of Tramlines. 

They may well be a medium size act these days but Pulp headlining would be mobbed.

[StoneCircle]

1 minute ago, MilkyJoe said:

They may well be a medium size act these days but Pulp headlining would be mobbed.

 

I would definitely be there, I have never seen Pulp, which is shocking on my part as I was born in Sheffield and lived there until 2014! 😱

[steviewevie]

Would there be a bigger crowd for Pulp than for Neil Young?

..discuss.

[Skip997]

1 minute ago, steviewevie said:

Would there be a bigger crowd for Pulp than for Neil Young?

..discuss.

By some distance 

[StoneCircle]

6 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Would there be a bigger crowd for Pulp than for Neil Young?

..discuss.

 

Without a shadow of a doubt, the Oasis reunion tour has attracted a lot of new interest in Britpop. It would be a great booking as a headliner on the Pyramid Stage.

Edited January 2, 2025 by StoneCircle

[cgall]

18 minutes ago, MilkyJoe said:

They may well be a medium size act these days but Pulp headlining would be mobbed.

certainly among the efests crowd, but as for the general population, im not so sure!

[Rose-Colored Boy]

5 minutes ago, StoneCircle said:

 

Without a shadow of a doubt, the Oasis reunion tour has attracted a lot of new interest in Britpop. It would be a great booking as a headliner on the Pyramid Stage.

Yep. Common People, Disco 2000, Do You Remember The First Time, all moments waiting to happen. Plus it’ll be 30 years since they last headlined. Get it done. 

[incident]

8 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Would there be a bigger crowd for Pulp than for Neil Young?

..discuss.

 

Yes, and tbh it wouldn't be that close.

 

It's difficult to determine an "average" these days, given we've seen both all-time extremes in the past couple festivals, but Pulp should easily meet and probably exceed whatever the "average" currently is.

 

NY would have been respectable, but still a fair way short of that.

[Suprefan]

Now its news hahah

 

 

[Moobles]

19 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Would there be a bigger crowd for Pulp than for Neil Young?

..discuss.

Definitely! I say this as a fan of both. I was planning to go to Neil Young on my own. If Pulp play my entire friend group would be there with me. They know the big Pulp hits and it would be a great singalong. 
 

Saw them in Sheffield a few years back and it was a proper party atmosphere. I think they could do it. 

[Rose-Colored Boy]

Proper Glastonbury band - exactly what’s needed in a year when their two fellow headliners are younger skewing. Perfect. 

[stuie]

8 minutes ago, Suprefan said:

Now its news hahah

 

 

 

Brilliant!

 

 

[steviewevie]

I went in 95 but missed Pulp for some reason....so would be nice to finally get to see them at Glastonbury, unless I manage to miss them for some reason.

[Jamm]

Pulp would absolutely smash it and should definitely considered viable. The lads would give it their all.

 

Though the question remains if Pulp was already booked or not…..

 

Would you rather Pulp stayed where they’re at (whether that be a sub, secret set or whatever placement) and we get another headliner booked (whether that be Muse or whoever)?

 

or

 

Would you rather Pulp gets bumped to headliner and someone then replaced them in their original theoretical slot / it just gets another bump or vanishes?

 

For me I guess it depends on who the “new” headliner booking would be, would love them to be bumped to Headliner and think they’d knock it out of the park. But to get them else where and then another headliner would be great.

 

Regarding Muse, said it before but it would be uninspiring. And I love Muse. Seen them headline, and seen their stadium/arena shows a handful of times. I’d absolutely be down in the pit loving it but I’m more than open to others instead.

[NorthernSoul52]

A degree of interest to mull - how many other artists would be ruled out by the BBC must-show-in-full clause that is (seemingly) the stumbling block for Neil Young?

 

If that was a clause stuck in during the pandemic, might figure that Taylor Swift could have balked at that, for example.

 

Think a plethora of your American mega-pop acts - Gaga, Beyonce, Rihanna - would also balk at the request, along with a few of the older rock acts. Not sure Springsteen would consent to a full show, for example - or at the very least, Jon Landau would be issuing big compensation demands for it.

[incident]

1 minute ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

A degree of interest to mull - how many other artists would be ruled out by the BBC must-show-in-full clause that is (seemingly) the stumbling block for Neil Young?

 

If that was a clause stuck in during the pandemic, might figure that Taylor Swift could have balked at that, for example.

 

Think a plethora of your American mega-pop acts - Gaga, Beyonce, Rihanna - would also balk at the request, along with a few of the older rock acts. Not sure Springsteen would consent to a full show, for example - or at the very least, Jon Landau would be issuing big compensation demands for it.

 

I don't think it's necessarily "in full". It doesn't specify either way in the excerpt of the document that I posted, but elsewhere it refers (in passing) to "an agreed part of" the performance being broadcast without defining what that means. So I suspect that part at least would be in the negotiations.

[NorthernSoul52]

4 minutes ago, incident said:

 

I don't think it's necessarily "in full". It doesn't specify either way in the excerpt of the document that I posted, but elsewhere it refers (in passing) to "an agreed part of" the performance being broadcast without defining what that means. So I suspect that part at least would be in the negotiations.

Oh, I thought it was the whole shebang these days. Forgive me.

 

Either way, Young doing himself no favours here, I'd argue.

[judyblue110]

1 minute ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Oh, I thought it was the whole shebang these days. Forgive me.

 

Either way, Young doing himself no favours here, I'd argue.

 

How so?

 

He sold all the rights to his music a few years ago - he doesn't need the money or the exposure.

 

How has this decision adversely impacted him? It follows the pattern of his entire career, if anything it reinforces the fact that he sticks to his beliefs and maintains integrity.

[mufcok]

My initial thought was that Stevie would get the call but who knows. Pulp would be good, Muse would be.. just no.

[Rose-Colored Boy]

14 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

A degree of interest to mull - how many other artists would be ruled out by the BBC must-show-in-full clause that is (seemingly) the stumbling block for Neil Young?

 

If that was a clause stuck in during the pandemic, might figure that Taylor Swift could have balked at that, for example.

 

Think a plethora of your American mega-pop acts - Gaga, Beyonce, Rihanna - would also balk at the request, along with a few of the older rock acts. Not sure Springsteen would consent to a full show, for example - or at the very least, Jon Landau would be issuing big compensation demands for it.

Kendrick had his full set shown having previously refused to agree to that at Reading and Leeds, so I’d expect most people to be flexible in the same way. 
 

The Weeknd would be an interesting one if he ever played - he refused to have his set at Big Weekend televised, albeit several years ago now. 

Edited January 2, 2025 by Rose-Colored Boy

[nikkic]

19 minutes ago, mufcok said:

My initial thought was that Stevie would get the call but who knows. Pulp would be good, Muse would be.. just no.

There’s nothing to indicate he’s about though, is there? 

[Jamm]

1 minute ago, nikkic said:

There’s nothing to indicate he’s about though, is there? 

BST talk iirc

[mufcok]

13 minutes ago, nikkic said:

There’s nothing to indicate he’s about though, is there? 

 

No idea, not heard anything either way.

 

He was one of the first names I heard way back when, but it came with a warning to not rely on the info.

 

If he was in the picture at any point this time (think he was last year?) then I'm sure he'd get the call now

[henry bear]

45 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Oh, I thought it was the whole shebang these days. Forgive me.

 

Either way, Young doing himself no favours here, I'd argue.

I don’t think the live coverage is as ‘live’, or in full as we perhaps imagine. Case in point; Paul McCartney was seemingly ‘live’, and the BBC showed it all - apart from In Spite of all The Danger (which was included on the iPlayer set). The coverage all flowed seamlessly, so there must have been time to edit out the one song without making it obvious, so presumably the ‘live’ coverage must have started about 10 minutes after Macca.

Point being; there must be some leeway being shown by either or both parties. The Stones obviously got their way, NY presumably was having none of it.

[MEGABOWL]

3 hours ago, FKA SOSOTWS said:

 

Pulp did let Amazon Music broadcast their Primavera Sound set via livestream.

Didn’t know that, cheers