2025 Headliners

[northernangel]

1 hour ago, Andre91 said:

I really like that Lolla lineup. Lots of artist I’d want to see there. 

I thought the opposite lol, really poor. I counted 4 sets on there I would watch.

[NorthernSoul52]

4 hours ago, Suprefan said:

its happened

Not an actual answer there, lads. 

[NorthernSoul52]

1 hour ago, northernangel said:

I thought the opposite lol, really poor. I counted 4 sets on there I would watch.

Just as well you don't have a ticket! 

 

Unless you do. In which case, commiserations. 

[Andre91]

9 hours ago, northernangel said:

I thought the opposite lol, really poor. I counted 4 sets on there I would watch.

It’s a lot like Reading and Leeds in that it would scratch my itch for a lot of the stuff I like outside of heavy music. Just giving it a quick glance: 

 

O-Rod, Tyler, Sabrina, A$AP, Bleachers, Bladee, Barry Can’t Swim, Chase & Status, Artemas, Joey Valence & Brae, Maribou State, Rebecca Black, Wunderhorse, Djo, Royel Otis. 
 

And then KoRn and Sunami for the heavy. 

Edited March 19, 2025 by Andre91

[northernangel]

8 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Just as well you don't have a ticket! 

 

Unless you do. In which case, commiserations. 

 

Haha it's very much just as well. It's a festival I looked into going years ago but never happened. I had a ticket for UMF this year but sold it months ago when I realised it wasn't happening. And just going by suspected lineups there I have a lot of clashes. The cost of the trips overall just wasn't worth it.

 

23 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

It’s a lot like Reading and Leeds in that it would scratch my itch for a lot of the stuff I like outside of heavy music. Just giving it a quick glance: 

 

O-Rod, Tyler, Sabrina, A$AP, Bleachers, Bladee, Barry Can’t Swim, Chase & Status, Artemas, Joey Valence & Brae, Maribou State, Rebecca Black, Wunderhorse, Djo, Royel Otis. 
 

And then KoRn and Sunami for the heavy. 

 

Yeah I get that. Out of all of yours, I've got O-Rod, Bleachers and maybe Joey Valence but they aren't on top of the list. Plus Garrix. So only one of the biggest acts there really. Booking Tyler again is poor as well and shows they've run out of options. 

 

Chase and Status are more of a, I'd see if I was there but the Chase and Status I liked was years and years ago. That Baddandan effort was abysmal but I dont like d&b and that's what they are. I like Disconnect but more for Becky Hill than Chase.

 

All that said, the festival targets a completely different generation to me so fair enough.

[NorthernSoul52]

Lolla has undergone quite the dramatic transformation as festivals go. Plenty have gone "pop", so to speak, but its diversification - and ultimately eschewed process in regards to its alternative headliner origins since - is perhaps more noticeable than most.

 

You could argue the same about Glastonbury though. A mate pointed out that booking The 1975 is like booking Simply Red to headline in the mid-nineties. (Do believe Scary Mick did play once though?)

[Physical_graffiti]

13 hours ago, rubenz said:

 

I believe this is quite a common dream for glasto goers. I have had the same or similar dream many times, sometimes I am circling about outside the festival but never get around to getting in and other times it gets to Sunday and I haven't seen anything. What does it mean I wonder!

LOL, i also have the Sunday dream, where I wake up in my tent Sunday and realised I've somehow wasted the weekend. No idea.

[NorthernSoul52]

Whatever happened to the Rihanna tour then? 

[MEGABOWL]

On 18/03/2025 at 16:02, Superscally said:

Rush of Blood is the peak, I'd say...surely?

Thats the best known one but I’d say Viva is the better album personally. However I’m one of those who’s enjoyed a lot of their singles since and these days find the early ‘sad white boy with a guitar’ stuff a bit boring so personal taste in play here.

[northernangel]

On 18/03/2025 at 18:44, charlierc said:

So has Lollaplooza fully followed Coachella in becoming a post-rock festival?

 

Reminds me this with the way the Paris & Berlin line-ups of this festival have also given up on having rock on their bills.

 

Kind of yeah but I'd say there is more rock at Coachella this year. Coachella is actually miles in front this year but that's me. Lolla has Olivia and Bleachers if I was thinking acts that are must sees.

[NorthernSoul52]

Genuinely, flack incoming, but A Sky Full of Stars is one of the best soft-EDM tracks out there. 

[Mr Boo]

Do we know why Glastonbury missed out on Stevie Wonder?

I’m happy with the line up and will watch two of the headliners this year (Neil and Olivia), which is two more than I watched last year.

Stevie had been mentioned for last year, so curious as to why he isn’t there this year? 

[SPW]

13 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Genuinely, flack incoming, but A Sky Full of Stars is one of the best soft-EDM tracks out there. 

I will tentatively back you on this one, or at least agree it is a decent dance tune for a live set (it was decribed as Balearic in one review I read after last year). Preferred the earlier stuff but don't tend to listen to them now as it all became very samey. Would possibly have gone elsewhere last yr but my wife wanted to go and was v.glad we did. And A Sky Full Of Stars was v.decent imo, basically for how it got the crowd dancing (well, randomly moving body parts in my case).

[Superscally]

31 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Genuinely, flack incoming, but A Sky Full of Stars is one of the best soft-EDM tracks out there. 

I like it when the gorilla plays it

[jonnytee1]

31 minutes ago, Mr Boo said:

Do we know why Glastonbury missed out on Stevie Wonder?

I’m happy with the line up and will watch two of the headliners this year (Neil and Olivia), which is two more than I watched last year.

Stevie had been mentioned for last year, so curious as to why he isn’t there this year? 

 

I think we have to remember the "Headliners" are booked some time in advance. Maybe he wasn't sure of his future plans when booked? 

[Justcalledtosay]

On 18/03/2025 at 16:31, NorthernSoul52 said:

I think A Rush of Blood to the Head is the defining matter, surely.

Parachutes into A Rush Blood for me. X&Y and everything that followed felt inferior to me.

[Superscally]

8 minutes ago, Justcalledtosay said:

Parachutes into A Rush Blood for me. X&Y and everything that followed felt inferior to me.

Would love a Parachutes/AROBTTH tour. Encore of Sky Full of Stars, Fix You, Charlie Brown and Viva La Vida

[Justcalledtosay]

7 minutes ago, Superscally said:

Would love a Parachutes/AROBTTH tour. Encore of Sky Full of Stars, Fix You, Charlie Brown and Viva La Vida

That would be incredible.

[jonnytee1]

It was the emotion in the first two albums - especially Parachutes. 

 

It was stripped back, full of emotion and for me still holds its own 25 years later. 

 

Also came at a pretty important time of my life which, as we know can sway our feelings towards any album!

[incident]

1 hour ago, jonnytee1 said:

I think we have to remember the "Headliners" are booked some time in advance. Maybe he wasn't sure of his future plans when booked? 

 

Yeah, this feels very likely. Especially given there's already history from last year, and presumably there'd be a desire to avoid being "caught short" in the exact same way for the exact same reason from the exact same artist. Though tbh if that did happen they do have at least 2 acts on the bill more suited to step up to Pyramid Headline than they did then.

[balti-pie]

50 minutes ago, jonnytee1 said:

came at a pretty important time of my life which, as we know can sway our feelings towards any album!

 

I just cant imagine how people cant be into music - when you really connect with an album its there for the rest of your life, its a magical transporting device, its amazing! How can some people not be in to it ffs? 

 

My Dad had a collection of about fifty albums, and he said thats it - he doesnt need any more - every one of those albums perfectly fits what he would want to listen to, at any one time. That blew my mind as a kid, and even more so the older i get 😄

[jonnytee1]

13 minutes ago, balti-pie said:

 

I just cant imagine how people cant be into music - when you really connect with an album its there for the rest of your life, its a magical transporting device, its amazing! How can some people not be in to it ffs? 

 

My Dad had a collection of about fifty albums, and he said thats it - he doesnt need any more - every one of those albums perfectly fits what he would want to listen to, at any one time. That blew my mind as a kid, and even more so the older i get 😄

I have this exact conversation with a good friend of mine. Without music I'd be lost. I have ADHD so 50 albums would make me get quite shaky and nervous LOL (even though i get it completely) . Last I checked I had 2,336 CD albums! As I've got older my taste has diversified massively! More metal, more pop and everything in-between    

[kalifire]

My favourite Coldplay album (how did we get here?!) is A Head Full of Dreams, mainly based on the chapter of life I was living at the time. The irony is I can’t really listen to it anymore for the same reason 😢. It contains a lot of memories. 

[balti-pie]

51 minutes ago, jonnytee1 said:

I have this exact conversation with a good friend of mine. Without music I'd be lost. I have ADHD so 50 albums would make me get quite shaky and nervous LOL (even though i get it completely) . Last I checked I had 2,336 CD albums! As I've got older my taste has diversified massively! More metal, more pop and everything in-between    

I went travelling for a year yonks ago - in the late nineties - and had to try and trim my CD collection down to a slimline travelling 28, for the cd case i was taking with me. Maaaann . . . that was tricky. Basically the day after i left, i started missing my albums 😄 i ended up buying loads more (obvs) and filling my rucksack with them. If only ipods etc were around at the time, id have lightened my load by tons

[itschris]

Nick Grimshaw on todays sidetracked episode "i was told in November the headliners were going to be The 1975, Neil Young and Stevie Wonder and that it would be announced before X date, when X date came and went with no announcement I asked what was going on and was told "we are figuring things out with Stevie""