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It's been a while since Jimmy Eat World did a late afternoon main stage slot.

If Metallica and GNR can pull it off at Glastonbury, Green Day should have no problem. If the festival want them, they will come, and they will smash it.

Dave, Green Day, Madonna

Don't get me wrong, both Franz and Razorlight were huge at the time they headlined. Just that no one talks about them any more so looking back and seeing bands that I'd imagine a fair number of the younger crowd might not even have heard of is weird.

Even The Libertines are nowhere near headline status nowadays, and until they reformed they held something of a semi-mythical status. It's interesting how the American acts of that era - The Strokes, The Killers, even KOL who are still very much a festival/arena headline sized act - have fared so much better than their British counterparts. Only ones I can think of that still hold up well commercially today are Arctic Monkeys, who were always a huge name, and Kasabian (up until the Tom Meighan controversy) who had more of a crossover appeal and were less guitar oriented than the others. It's just crazy looking back how once upon a time Razorlight and Franz Ferdinand were deemed to be on the same level as the likes of RHCP, Muse and Pearl Jam by the R&L promoters.

It's alright but far from their best. For me, they became really dull after their first two or three albums, save a few individual songs.

Yeah Foos are basically THE quintessential R&L band. If the festival is going to lean more towards rock again they'd be a perfect headliners, be a huge draw, plus they absolutely love playing so if they are available they'll be there.

Will next year be the year we finally get RATM?

It's pretty much a dead cert that Squire will appear with Liam, right?

I also think rock is slowly starting to make something of a comeback as well, and this is reflected in the line-up. The success of Sam Fender shows that there is definitely still a market for rock music among young people.

It's more like the festival trying to move back towards its rockier roots, while still maintaining a musically diverse line-up.

Thankfully COVID made sure that didn't happen. Libertines and Kendrick is another contender. Going even further back to 2001, Travis being subbed by Green Day!

If Gerry, Lana and Catfish are in fact just subbing the main, I can't think of a more disparate headliner/sub combo than Blink and Gerry.

I know it's a different crowd nowadays, and it was 15 years ago, but their Main Stage set in 2009 was a bloodbath and a huge contributor to why the Main Stage at Leeds got moved further to the right, to allow more crowd space and avoid potential crushes. I can see them being a pretty big draw even up against Blink so I'd say it'd be logical to put them on an open air stage.

I'd imagine the Chevron stage is an open air stage, as I can't see The Prodigy being booked to play a tent, but an open air stage that is smaller than MSW and located in MSW's place.