2025 Headliners

[TheFieryFurnace18]

You know who would be a great headliner? Tame Impala

[Suprefan]

1 hour ago, TheFieryFurnace18 said:

You know who would be a great headliner? Tame Impala

 

 

This isnt America cause apparently any ''guitar band'' needs bangers to be on the Pyramid even though theyve got loads of good songs.

[CaledonianGonzo]

 

[SwedgeAntilles]

3 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

 

😂

[efcfanwirral]

9 hours ago, K2SO said:

 

Honestly, I don't think this site actually represents the demographic of the festival all too well. Maybe it did 10 years ago, but I do feel as though this site aged in that time, whilst the festival's demographic likely stayed around the same.

 

 

Me too. If The 1975, Neil and Olivia are the 3 headliners (in that order), I'd fully expect The 1975 on Friday night to draw the biggest crowd of the three

Just about. No mega crowds at all cos a year would be refreshing. 

[The_Fish]

15 hours ago, K2SO said:

 

Completely agree. A few people at work have tickets for the festival, so we were having a discussion about it the other day. The only people that had any knowledge of who Neil Young is or any of his songs were 40+

 

I just had a look at his most recent setlist - Neil Young Concert Setlist at Capitol Theatre, Port Chester on September 24, 2024 | setlist.fm - and don't recognise a single song on it. 

[NorthernSoul52]

I'd like to assume he'll have the foresight to play it a little differently than that.

 

1 My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)

2 Down by the River

3 Helpless

4 Cinnamon Girl

5 Helpless

6 Cortez the Killer

7 Comes a Time

8 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 

9 Heart of Gold

10 Powderfinger

11 The Needle and the Damage Done

12 After the Gold Rush

13 Old Man

14 Like a Hurricane

15 Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)

 

16 Rockin' in the Free World

 

But that might be too good.

[The_Fish]

Would be great if he finished with a Status Quo song to end on a high

 

[Fred Zepplin]

20 minutes ago, The_Fish said:

 

I just had a look at his most recent setlist - Neil Young Concert Setlist at Capitol Theatre, Port Chester on September 24, 2024 | setlist.fm - and don't recognise a single song on it. 

He will play more of his better known songs at Glastonbury, check out his setlist last time he played, I would think it will be fairly similar.

 

I'm 43 and I love Neil Young but only since he played in 2009. Like a lot of people are saying on here I couldn't name a 1 Neil Young song when he was announced. I listened to a few albums and and I was converted, listened to him most days now. 

 

I would suggest to the people on here who are in the same boat as I was to do the same, who knows, you might become a huge fan like I am, and to the people who say the music is to slow and downbeat for a headliner really haven't listened to him. He is known as the Godfather of Grunge for a reason.

[Gnomicide]

20 minutes ago, Fred Zepplin said:

 

I'm 43 and I love Neil Young but only since he played in 2009. Like a lot of people are saying on here I couldn't name a 1 Neil Young song when he was announced. I listened to a few albums and and I was converted, listened to him most days now. 

 

 

I was similar, I always liked him but had never really dived into his stuff, I'd never bought anything by him. I only saw the 6 songs that were on TV but he blew me away and set me down a path. I cannot wait to see him this year.

[Justcalledtosay]

26 minutes ago, Fred Zepplin said:

He will play more of his better known songs at Glastonbury, check out his setlist last time he played, I would think it will be fairly similar.

 

I'm 43 and I love Neil Young but only since he played in 2009. Like a lot of people are saying on here I couldn't name a 1 Neil Young song when he was announced. I listened to a few albums and and I was converted, listened to him most days now. 

 

I would suggest to the people on here who are in the same boat as I was to do the same, who knows, you might become a huge fan like I am, and to the people who say the music is to slow and downbeat for a headliner really haven't listened to him. He is known as the Godfather of Grunge for a reason.

Funnily enough i've done the same with Cat Stevens and Neil Young. I'm a big fan of Cat Stevens now. Neil Young just didn't grab me.

[CaledonianGonzo]

A look back at the 2023 Legend Slot thread will reveal no end of posts by folk saying they don't know any Cat Stevens songs, yet it all turned out alright.

[Ben7amin_]

 

Wether its a good or a bad thing music mostly being on demand now - should eliminate this WHO? or i do not know any songs by????  

 

Literally we are in an age where you type a name into google and 10 sec later we can be listening. 

 

Yep I did not Know any Cat Stevens tracks when he was named, Yes I did recognise a couple when i did a little deep dive into him on spotify. No longer worth the time kicking of that you don't know someone now its all self Serve. 

 

 

 

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

It is an odd flex

[JonSnow]

Every single festival poster or general news article about a musician on facebook is always met with a swathe of

'who's that?' or 'never heard of them!' comments.

Always find it funny to be publicly bragging about not knowing things.

Edited February 7, 2025 by JonSnow

[stuie]

I think people hope that they know and/or like the Glastonbury headliners, without needing to research them... which is fairly reasonable. 

 

(they should know Neil Young though)

 

 

 

 

[TheSheriff]

3 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

I'd like to assume he'll have the foresight to play it a little differently than that.

 

1 My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)

2 Down by the River

3 Helpless

4 Cinnamon Girl

5 Helpless

6 Cortez the Killer

7 Comes a Time

8 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 

9 Heart of Gold

10 Powderfinger

11 The Needle and the Damage Done

12 After the Gold Rush

13 Old Man

14 Like a Hurricane

15 Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)

 

16 Rockin' in the Free World

 

But that might be too good.

That setlist is the stuff of dreams 

[Quark]

1 hour ago, Ben7amin_ said:

 

Wether its a good or a bad thing music mostly being on demand now - should eliminate this WHO? or i do not know any songs by????  

 

Literally we are in an age where you type a name into google and 10 sec later we can be listening. 

 

Yep I did not Know any Cat Stevens tracks when he was named, Yes I did recognise a couple when i did a little deep dive into him on spotify. No longer worth the time kicking of that you don't know someone now its all self Serve. 

 

 

 

 

I think it's still reasonable to a point.  Yes I can go onto a service and find songs by someone and see their back catalogue, so agree there's scope to go and listen and discover, and limited to be able to say "who's that?"

 

But at the same time it's fine in the context or recognising any songs, knowing them if you hear them etc. I can go and reel off a list of tracks by Bad Bunny like a Wikipedia entry, but I still don't know them.

 

If someone's using "I don't know them" as shorthand for "festival's gone" then sure, they can do one.  But even in this day and age it's fine not to know an artist. There's so much music available it would be weirder to know everyone.

[kalifire]

1 hour ago, Ben7amin_ said:

 

Wether its a good or a bad thing music mostly being on demand now - should eliminate this WHO? or i do not know any songs by????  

 

I agree but I don’t think most people are being literal when they claim not to know who somebody is. They’re probably just using it as a way of being dismissive, which is reason #57,604 why comment sections serve no good to anybody. 

[stuie]

58 minutes ago, kalifire said:

 

I agree but I don’t think most people are being literal when they claim not to know who somebody is. 

 

Apart from SZA 🤣

[Crazyfool01]

13 minutes ago, stuie said:

 

Apart from SZA 🤣

who ? 

[NorthernSoul52]

Still feeling pretty fascinated about how setlists will look for the presumed three Pyramid toppers though. Rodrigo will be pretty self-explanatory, but The 1975 could curveball bits.

[Giraffe Man]

5 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

I'd like to assume he'll have the foresight to play it a little differently than that.

 

1 My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)

2 Down by the River

3 Helpless

4 Cinnamon Girl

5 Helpless

6 Cortez the Killer

7 Comes a Time

8 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 

9 Heart of Gold

10 Powderfinger

11 The Needle and the Damage Done

12 After the Gold Rush

13 Old Man

14 Like a Hurricane

15 Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)

 

16 Rockin' in the Free World

 

But that might be too good.

Wembley Arena with the Horse in 87. One of my favourites 

Mr. Soul
Cinnamon Girl
The Loner
Down By The River
Comes a Time
After The Gold Rush
Too Lonely
When Your Lonely Heart Breaks
Drive Back
Opera Star
Cortez The Killer
Sugar Mountain
Heart Of Gold
Mideast Vacation
Long Walk Home
Powderfinger
Like A Hurricane

Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black

[GhostOfMaurice]

Such a fantastic back catalogue.

[charlierc]

2 hours ago, JonSnow said:

Every single festival poster or general news article about a musician on facebook is always met with a swathe of

'who's that?' or 'never heard of them!' comments.

Always find it funny to be publicly bragging about not knowing things.

This is the age of the Internet and everyone being encouraged to say everything they think after all.