2025 Headliners

[A Particular Grey Chihuahu]

17 hours ago, fred quimby said:

That is why we turned up. Didn't last long mind, was boy band by numbers which isn't my thing. I did expect a few more there though. Not their audience really I guess.

 

Did play can you count them all as they danced (walked) around a lot. 

Perhaps it didn't work out because what they're doing is pretty much 90s pop from the US/UK 😅 it didn't exactly come across as Korean tbh. Blaming Tiger on the other hand... 👍🏼

[kalifire]

I go back and forth about Eminem headlining but f**k me, it would be a moment to hear this pumping out of the Pyramid. All things considered, I think it would be great.

 

 

[fred quimby]

1 hour ago, A Particular Grey Chihuahu said:

Perhaps it didn't work out because what they're doing is pretty much 90s pop from the US/UK 😅 it didn't exactly come across as Korean tbh. Blaming Tiger on the other hand... 👍🏼

Yes this.

and totally agree on Balming Tiger

Edited July 23, 2024 by fred quimby

[Superscally]

20 hours ago, MEGABOWL said:

Absolutely this. Just because it hasn’t regularly been a band slot doesn’t mean it hasn’t not be at some point. Duran Duran would be superb for example, as would Pulp.

Emily has stated in the past that it isn't a band slot and Duran Duran have said it's headline or nothing for them. 

[Skip997]

1 hour ago, kalifire said:

I go back and forth about Eminem headlining but f**k me, it would be a moment to hear this pumping out of the Pyramid. All things considered, I think it would be great.

It would be what folks like to call an “all timer”

[stuie]

2 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

It would be what folks like to call an “all timer”

 

An all-time low. 

 

[Suprefan]

On 7/21/2024 at 1:07 PM, dotdash79 said:

 

She has 2 Manchester shows to reschedule, my thinking is that if she already has plans to be back in Europe they will be be arranged for them. 
 

the fact that they haven’t been cancelled yet, or announced the new dates makes me think she is back next year. 

yeah, but I think if she has to hold off on announcing those dates til say, December then youll know if she has festival aspirations in general by that point. 
 

If Blackpink played Glasto they certainly would not be ok with performing at 2pm after headlining Coachella and selling out a  BST date. So maybe 3rd down at worst.

[Skip997]

3 minutes ago, stuie said:

 

An all-time low. 

 

Presuming they got the whole package - Eminem, Dre and Snoop it would likely be great 

[kalifire]

4 minutes ago, stuie said:

 

An all-time low. 

 

Somebody wasn’t watching Radiohead’s 2017 disaster. 

[stuie]

5 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

Presuming they got the whole package - Eminem, Dre and Snoop it would likely be great 

 

Oooh yeah 3 ageing has-been misogynistic homophobes at the same time?  What a time to be alive. 

[Acid_Haze]

17 minutes ago, kalifire said:

Somebody wasn’t watching Radiohead’s 2017 disaster. 

 

Wait, that was a disaster? 

[incident]

1 minute ago, Acid_Haze said:

 

Wait, that was a disaster? 

 

For anyone in the back two thirds of the field, yep.

[kalifire]

8 minutes ago, incident said:

 

For anyone in the back two thirds of the field, yep.

Or for anyone in the front third who didn’t want to sleep within the first twenty minutes.

[Acid_Haze]

10 minutes ago, incident said:

 

For anyone in the back two thirds of the field, yep.

I was somewhere in the middle of the field and it was 💯💯💥, absolute triumph

[CaledonianGonzo]

29 minutes ago, stuie said:

 

Oooh yeah 3 ageing has-been misogynistic homophobes at the same time?  What a time to be alive. 

 

On the other hand, the all time Pyramid dad dancing record will be smashed to smithereens.

[Superscally]

3 hours ago, Acid_Haze said:

 

Wait, that was a disaster? 

Absolutely not. Was brilliant. Unless you turned up expecting to hear half of the Bends in the first 6 songs.

[Acid_Haze]

7 minutes ago, Superscally said:

Absolutely not. Was brilliant. Unless you turned up expecting to hear half of the Bends in the first 6 songs.

Agreed. Daydreaming at the start wasn't great but that wasn't the fault of the band. After that it was a show and a half. They played f***ing Let Down!

Edited July 23, 2024 by Acid_Haze

[UncleJunior]

5 hours ago, Suprefan said:

yeah, but I think if she has to hold off on announcing those dates til say, December then youll know if she has festival aspirations in general by that point. 
 

If Blackpink played Glasto they certainly would not be ok with performing at 2pm after headlining Coachella and selling out a  BST date. So maybe 3rd down at worst.

They didn’t get anywhere near selling out BST, it was dead.

[nikkic]

Radiohead were good, not great. 
 

The band sounded ace, but those f**king screens man, awful awful awful.

And no Reckoner. 

So 7/10.

[giantkatestacks]

1 hour ago, UncleJunior said:

They didn’t get anywhere near selling out BST, it was dead.

They all must have been clustered around me then, I found it very busy. Maybe as their fans are more screamy and fanatic. But then my only reference point last year was Bruce and in the Gold Circle at least that was pretty chill.

[MEGABOWL]

8 hours ago, Superscally said:

Emily has stated in the past that it isn't a band slot and Duran Duran have said it's headline or nothing for them. 

I don’t remember Emily saying that and either way, things change. I didn’t say Duran Duran would do it, I know what they said, I just said they would be superb.

[Superscally]

54 minutes ago, MEGABOWL said:

I don’t remember Emily saying that and either way, things change. I didn’t say Duran Duran would do it, I know what they said, I just said they would be superb.

They would be...I'd be happy with em as a headliner. 

Emily definitely said that though. 

[matrainertje]

12 hours ago, nikkic said:

Radiohead were good, not great. 
 

The band sounded ace, but those f**king screens man, awful awful awful.

And no Reckoner. 

So 7/10.

It was excellent if you are a casual who only wanted their biggest songs. They played Street Spirit / No Surprises / Nude / 2+2=5 / Paranoid Android / Fake Plastic Trees / Lotus Flower / Creep / Karma Police back to back. Insane run.

 

But for the fans, it could have had a little bit more deep cuts. 

[Thunderstruck]

12 hours ago, nikkic said:

Radiohead were good, not great. 
 

The band sounded ace, but those f**king screens man, awful awful awful.

And no Reckoner. 

So 7/10.

 

I give them 1/10 for being arrogant enough to do what they did with those f**king screens.

 

Did they get together and come up with a plan to exclude anybody but the front of the field from the show?

 

Saw them shortly after at Old Trafford and I was up front so could see and it was more like a 10/10

[CaledonianGonzo]

Simon Leon's exact quote was about rhe Pyramid Stage at night - rather than about headlining specifically.  I think it'd be a straightforward conversation to have with them that the Legend Slot is a 4th headliner and the track record of acts who've done it puts Duran Duran in fairly good company.