2027 Headliners

[mufcok]

12 hours ago, ITK19889 said:

Fontaines DC should headline 2027 without a dow't….id go as far as saying there becoming a band of a generation and it’s been far to long for a band in there up & coming prime that has headlined…

 

Oasis will definitely end there tour at Glastonbury if they can stomach each other to see it out….that is a dead cert billion percent ! 2027 / 2028

But I’ll go….

 

Fender

Swift

Fred Again

 

 

They will headline the next time they play. 2027 will depend on where they're at with the next record + what's happening with the likes of Oasis and Fred Again.

 

I'd say 2028 maybe more likely, at this point.

[NorthernSoul52]

Still leaning 2030 myself. They might skip the next go-around and build a little more momentum. A gamble, of course.

[Euphoricape]

Fender

Green Day

Lil Simz

 

[NorthernSoul52]

Green Day a weird one. Big enough, and possibly could be persuaded. But just don't see it. 

[Superscally]

9 minutes ago, Euphoricape said:

Fender

Green Day

Lil Simz

 

You know what? Outsider bet, but could be madly true.

[NorthernSoul52]

Green Day surely need a year off the road in 2026.

[Superscally]

8 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Green Day a weird one. Big enough, and possibly could be persuaded. But just don't see it. 

It's always surprised me there has been so little chat, given Billie Joe's anglophile and Glasto-aligned  nature. There was formerly lots of chat about RATM, which was never going to happen due to Michael's crowd worries, but comparatively little for Green Day. I'm not the biggest fan, but they would be perfect. Potential for all-timer bracket on the fun scale.

[NorthernSoul52]

I'm not sure why I think they'd be out of the question. Now GNR have done it, think the floodgates are relatively open. 

[charlierc]

12 hours ago, Mark H said:

2004 and 2010 were immense. 2016 a bit rubbish. But by 2027 it would have been 11 years between visits so could be a good shout! 

I wonder if 2016 looked worse because 2004 & 2010 were better. Moments from 2016 still hold up - decent performances of MOTP, Time is Running Out and Stockholm on YouTube. That and I thought it was a bold choice to play all 13 minutes of The Globalist with the Drones outro at a festival given I wasn't all that sold on it as a live song when I'd seen the full Drones tour at the O2 2 months earlier. Even if the fireworks were a nice touch.

 

They may be my literal favourite band, but I also wonder if they might now prefer to go down the own-shows route. Maybe a secret set or Glasto as a Plan B/C if someone else falls through.

[charlierc]

39 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Green Day a weird one. Big enough, and possibly could be persuaded. But just don't see it. 

They've done Isle of Wight and are doing Download so have no issues with UK festivals but clearly the right deal hasn't been in place.

 

I would expect them to be likelier for 2028 than 27 though. I'd expect them to be having 2026 off/doing side-projects then 2027 recording judging by their usual rotations.

[NorthernSoul52]

Muse are in the category of fallback booking now. If all else fails, they can do it - and their ability to actually deliver a live show without the pyrotechnics was proven on their club run the other year. They wouldn't need to be exceedingly fancy to pull it off.

[NorthernSoul52]

Green Day... I mean, a 105-minute romp would go down a storm, absolutely. But I feel there's been a strong aversion to the vintage strain of pop-punk at the top end of the bill. They're likely the only one they'd consider too - you could make a distant case for My Chemical Romance, but even then, it is a bit of a stretch.

[charlierc]

4 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Muse are in the category of fallback booking now. If all else fails, they can do it - and their ability to actually deliver a live show without the pyrotechnics was proven on their club run the other year. They wouldn't need to be exceedingly fancy to pull it off.

The Will of the People show in Milton Keynes seemed to go through multiple different vibes, given there were 2 large chunks when it was just them and a big box of lights then 2 other chunks when they had gigantic masked figures and pyro all over the place. So they're versatile at both if nothing else. My instinct is that they'll be around in 2027 but not at Glasto, if less sure as to where. Maybe a London stadium show to mark it being 20 years since Wembley?

4 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Green Day... I mean, a 105-minute romp would go down a storm, absolutely. But I feel there's been a strong aversion to the vintage strain of pop-punk at the top end of the bill. They're likely the only one they'd consider too - you could make a distant case for My Chemical Romance, but even then, it is a bit of a stretch.

I wonder if the large crowd at Avril Lavigne last year hinted there's a demographic at Glastonbury who would be up for that kind of music and given how American Idiot, Basket Case and a good 3/4 others are established cornerstones of the genre, I think they'd be a good Pyramid topper. But as noted, it must fall down on monetary reasons if they're going to the likely higher paying Download or Isle of Wight instead.

 

Though there's a case for it working on a big scale audience. Hell, they're doing Coachella.

[foolee]

7 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Green Day... I mean, a 105-minute romp would go down a storm, absolutely. But I feel there's been a strong aversion to the vintage strain of pop-punk at the top end of the bill. They're likely the only one they'd consider too - you could make a distant case for My Chemical Romance, but even then, it is a bit of a stretch.

Green Day would pull the pyramid off though. Amazing live band. MCR wouldn’t go down as well I don’t think. 

[NorthernSoul52]

2 minutes ago, charlierc said:

The Will of the People show in Milton Keynes seemed to go through multiple different vibes, given there were 2 large chunks when it was just them and a big box of lights then 2 other chunks when they had gigantic masked figures and pyro all over the place. So they're versatile at both if nothing else. My instinct is that they'll be around in 2027 but not at Glasto, if less sure as to where. Maybe a London stadium show to mark it being 20 years since Wembley?

I wonder if the large crowd at Avril Lavigne last year hinted there's a demographic at Glastonbury who would be up for that kind of music and given how American Idiot, Basket Case and a good 3/4 others are established cornerstones of the genre, I think they'd be a good Pyramid topper. But as noted, it must fall down on monetary reasons if they're going to the likely higher paying Download or Isle of Wight instead.

 

Though there's a case for it working on a big scale audience. Hell, they're doing Coachella.

Green Day are headlining, but are they closing? Saw chatter Travis Scott was going to get that slot in his "Designs the Desert" position.

 

Pop-punk definitely in the midst of a revival though.

[NorthernSoul52]

1 minute ago, foolee said:

Green Day would pull the pyramid off though. Amazing live band. MCR wouldn’t go down as well I don’t think. 

MCR have probably enough crossover hits to appeal to the neutrals, but yeah, Green Day would undoubtedly prove to be more popular.

[charlierc]

1 minute ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Green Day are headlining, but are they closing? Saw chatter Travis Scott was going to get that slot in his "Designs the Desert" position.

 

I'd forgotten about whatever the hell that was. Though tbf I thought that was going to be the closing thing of the whole festival.

 

Doesn't look like stage times have been announced yet though.

[NorthernSoul52]

MCR have almost a dozen certified hit singles, which is more than I thought they would. Could look something like:

 

1 The End.

2 Dead!

3 Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)

4 I'm Not Okay (I Promise)

5 This Is How I Disappear

6 Planetary (GO!)

7 I Don't Love You

8 SING

9 Give 'Em Hell, Kid

10 Teenagers

11 The Ghost of You

12 Cancer

13 Mama

14 The Kids from Yesterday

15 Helena

16 Famous Last Words

 

17 Fake Your Death

18 Welcome To The Black Parade

[NorthernSoul52]

8 minutes ago, charlierc said:

I'd forgotten about whatever the hell that was. Though tbf I thought that was going to be the closing thing of the whole festival.

 

Doesn't look like stage times have been announced yet though.

I'd have assumed he made more sense going in with Lady Gaga or Post Malone than Green Day, but who the dickens knows.

[Guest]

4 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

MCR have almost a dozen certified hit singles, which is more than I thought they would. Could look something like:

 

1 The End.

2 Dead!

3 Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)

4 I'm Not Okay (I Promise)

5 This Is How I Disappear

6 Planetary (GO!)

7 I Don't Love You

8 SING

9 Give 'Em Hell, Kid

10 Teenagers

11 The Ghost of You

12 Cancer

13 Mama

14 The Kids from Yesterday

15 Helena

16 Famous Last Words

 

17 Fake Your Death

18 Welcome To The Black Parade

I always had MCR one day headlining the other.

 

Up against Swift or the likes on the Pyramid 

[Havors]

5 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Green Day surely need a year off the road in 2026.

During the follow year yeah... ideal ha back for 2027

[NorthernSoul52]

10 minutes ago, ITK19889 said:

I always had MCR one day headlining the other.

 

Up against Swift or the likes on the Pyramid 

Has been touted, and I'd have assumed so had the reunion run not been stadiums.

 

That being said, there weren't too many sellouts in actual fact. They got close at most shows, and several did max out, but a few others did not.

 

As it is, think they might be too big for the Other - or at least would be commanding a sizable fee for it.

[fraybentos1]

Lil simz would be unbelievably poor booking, second only to SZA in terms of tiny crowd they’d get. The festival does seem desperate to push her tho so who knows. I never thought she was sub size but she already has done that.

 

BMTH will never do it imo 

[NorthernSoul52]

I was surprised she got the sub booking, I will admit, but she pulled a big crowd - even if many would have been Coldplay watchers - and more to the point, generated a surprisingly strong response. So I can see the argument in favour of.

[Guest]

Depeche Mode are going to do it one day, surely?

Could have a new album out in 2027, going off their 4-year cycles.