2025 Headliners

[balti-pie]

I’m quite liking all this talk of ‘who is Neil Young ffs? We’ll all be at Charli XCX damn you all!’ cos if I’m going to see a Pyranid headliner, I’d much prefer it to be a quieter one so I can get right amongst it. Watching from the back of a huuuge field a la Elton wasn’t really my bag, and this’ll be my first trip back to the pyramid stage headliner since.

 

Can’t wait, I’m dead excited, it got me shouting and punching the air when it was confirmed earlier 😁 he’s top of my list of artists I have yet to see live, it’s marvellous scenes all round 

[The_Fish]

1 hour ago, Andre91 said:

Is Neil Young really going to be any more or less popular than he was in 2009? 

less popular imo, more of his fans have died off than new ones created. 

[stuie]

14 minutes ago, The_Fish said:

less popular imo, more of his fans have died off than new ones created. 

haha or at least stopped going to festivals/Glastonbury. 

hopefully they are comfortable and being cared for rather than dead 🙂 

 

[northernangel]

1 hour ago, jonnytee1 said:

I would say without doubt that at the time of booking Kanye was more of a global superstar and had just release Yeezus and MBDTF which were both exceptional albums. 

 

I think he's has two cares I thought were any good and both were released by 2011 and to be honest the albums those songs were off both sold better than both what you've mentioned and one of those songs I believe is also his most streamed. Apart form that awful but that's me. 

[Suprefan]

3 hours ago, Superscally said:

He didn’t. People assumed he did. No way would he pull out.

If he didnt pull out then I guess thered a Fred baby out there in the world. He pulled out of Coachella, he def pulled out of Glasto. 

[Superscally]

25 minutes ago, Suprefan said:

If he didnt pull out then I guess thered a Fred baby out there in the world. He pulled out of Coachella, he def pulled out of Glasto. 

No he didn't 

[Justcalledtosay]

5 hours ago, judyblue110 said:

 

Not even remotely comparable to Yusuf. Neil is in a whole other league - and that's not an opinion, it's purely based on facts - album sales, number of releases, cultural relevance, tours, ticket sales, etc...

Had a very quick Google and google told me Cat Stevens has sold more records than Neil Young.

[Andre91]

Kanye is the third most streamed artist in the world even now when he is at nowhere near the peak of his powers. Yeah, he was a controversial booking to some back in 2015 but he was absolutely a fine headline booking in terms of status and size. Great set too. I watched it from home at the time and have watched it loads of times since. 
 

 

[northernangel]

9 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

Kanye is the third most streamed artist in the world even now when he is at nowhere near the peak of his powers. Yeah, he was a controversial booking to some back in 2015 but he was absolutely a fine headline booking in terms of status and size. Great set too. I watched it from home at the time and have watched it loads of times since. 
 

 

Well no one is saying you can't have your opinion but others have theirs too. To be fair even people who did like how his set started said it dropped off as time went on.

I like heartless and his collab with Jay-Z but that's it. But I'm not selling anyone else they have to have that view.

[Colorblindjames]

47 minutes ago, Justcalledtosay said:

Had a very quick Google and google told me Cat Stevens has sold more records than Neil Young.

I suggest you spend more time then. Did you just consider NY’s solo albums or did you also include his 2 main bands and work with other artists? 

[judyblue110]

1 hour ago, Justcalledtosay said:

Had a very quick Google and google told me Cat Stevens has sold more records than Neil Young.

 

Thanks for proving that a "very quick Google" is totally unreliable nowadays! 

Edited January 3, 2025 by judyblue110

[beau1]

8 hours ago, Spindles said:

I've been thinking about that Cure gig a lot lately.  The gigs they played then revitalised them and returned them to relevance.  I don't think many acts could come back decades after their heyday with an album as well received as their latest record without apparently skipping a beat.

Their Hyde Park gig in 2018 had the biggest impact really. I said to many people after that show that I wouldn't be surprised if they end up headlining Glastonbury. I've seen The Cure many times but Hyde Park seemed like a big moment - the live sound and setup changed, the band looked happy and they also varied the setlists with a good mix of pop and more deeper cuts. There has been a quiet confidence from Robert Smith since then that hadn't been seen since about 1992. 

 

The Cure had been steadily gaining momentum as a live act and big ticket seller since then, or prehaps even the 2016 tour. 

 

 

[Spindles]

Yeah, that's why I say the gigs around that time.  I didn't see them at Hyde park, but I've read an interview where Robert said that was the moment they realised that they really had it in them to still be a great live act in a new chapter of their time as a band and that the glastonbury set was the moment that that renewed confidence felt like it had come together.  

 

The sound that night was the best I've ever heard at the Pyramid, that bass was fierce.

[charlierc]

14 hours ago, Drew3232 said:

Aren't the 1975 sh*t? Noel Gallagher said so.

He says that about a lot of people. One tends not to listen after a while.

[philipsteak]

21 hours ago, stuie said:

😂😂😂 

 

one of the most inventive headliner announcements ever!  Slag off the bbc and Glastonbury for a day or two then say you’re playing after all. 
 

Beats Elton’s rockets and Radioheads grass painting!  

 

They're gonna have to come up with something impressive for the other two to top this

 

21 hours ago, K2SO said:

Emily is a far better person than I am because I'd have told him to get f**ked

 

Same. 

Which is why my festival would be an utter disaster. I mean, there be a load of other reasons too but I couldn't deal with all those delicate egos 

[Superscally]

11 hours ago, Spindles said:

Yeah, that's why I say the gigs around that time.  I didn't see them at Hyde park, but I've read an interview where Robert said that was the moment they realised that they really had it in them to still be a great live act in a new chapter of their time as a band and that the glastonbury set was the moment that that renewed confidence felt like it had come together.  

 

The sound that night was the best I've ever heard at the Pyramid, that bass was fierce.

It can't be restated enough how good that gig was. It's probably the reason why I've been jonesing so hard for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds to get that slot...

[kerplunk]

11 hours ago, beau1 said:

Their Hyde Park gig in 2018 had the biggest impact really. I said to many people after that show that I wouldn't be surprised if they end up headlining Glastonbury. I've seen The Cure many times but Hyde Park seemed like a big moment - the live sound and setup changed, the band looked happy and they also varied the setlists with a good mix of pop and more deeper cuts. There has been a quiet confidence from Robert Smith since then that hadn't been seen since about 1992. 

 

The Cure had been steadily gaining momentum as a live act and big ticket seller since then, or prehaps even the 2016 tour. 

 

 

 

They were similarly good at Bestival 2011 to be honest. Similar setlist. same opening song. 32 songs against 27 at G.

 

The live CD is great

 

Edited January 4, 2025 by kerplunk

[Andy0808 v5]

Real ones will be at Kano on West Holts during Neil Young anyway 

[kalifire]

29 minutes ago, Andy0808 v5 said:

Real ones will be at Kano on West Holts during Neil Young anyway 

Kano is surely owed a payday by the festival by now. Stepped up (and got washed out) during the Live event in 2021, made a two minute cameo during Ghetts at the Park in ‘24. Give the man his moment!

[northernangel]

5 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

Maybe it was not Emily who sorted it out, perhaps her Dad made a call.

Whatever happened, Glastonbury shat the bed and wanted it sorted. 

[sime]

1 hour ago, kerplunk said:

 

They were similarly good at Bestival 2011 to be honest. Similar setlist. same opening song. 32 songs against 27 at G.

 

The live CD is great

 

I agree. I was there in that crowd at Bestival and think that set is as great as when I saw them at Glastonbury in 2019.

[MEGABOWL]

15 hours ago, Spindles said:

Yeah, that's why I say the gigs around that time.  I didn't see them at Hyde park, but I've read an interview where Robert said that was the moment they realised that they really had it in them to still be a great live act in a new chapter of their time as a band and that the glastonbury set was the moment that that renewed confidence felt like it had come together.  

 

The sound that night was the best I've ever heard at the Pyramid, that bass was fierce.

Definitely agree on the sound. It was the same a few weeks later when I saw them at Bellahouston in Glasgow. Their sound guys are the best.

[fantomas]

Agreed on The Cure sound folk, even sounded excellent in arenas.

[NorthernSoul52]

The Cure are magnificent for offering texture to their material live.

[Karlos12345]

On 1/2/2025 at 4:30 PM, matrainertje said:

Nick Cave could do a one-off at Glastonbury next summer. He's played it many times but the last time was aaaaages ago. And considering next year is a fallow year... 

 

A german promoter dropped the ball Thursday and announced Nick Cave (solo) for Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg for the weekend before Glastonbury. Post has been deleted but you might be onto something…