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His album drops in the next few months a tour won’t be far behind 100%. But Kanye wasn’t touring when he headlined.   The Weeknd just did a one off show in Sao Paolo recently to promote the new record and he’s done the Super Bowl and headlined Coachella out of the tour cycle before too.   It feels like a banker for him to fill one of the spots and they could take more risks with the other slots.

To be honest though there is a lot of metal in there. That first big section alone with two of the headliners has 10 metal bands vs 6 just about rock bands. There is a hell of a lot of metal throughout the lineup. If the festival went to traditional rock suddenly it would lose a lot of people. When Andy says they have to move with the times he means headliners because he's run out if options, there is plenty of undercard options about. I didn't expect such a reaction to ST in general but I don't really know them. I just know they were subbing FR at Reading and subbing Avalanche in the past few years and now suddenly headlining.

Thats still all information from this thread lol. Post Malone, Kasabian, the idea that Foos would drop out and be replaced by Green Day, Linkin Park, MCR which have all now been poo pood by other shows.

They’re honesty the exact same thing. If you dive deeper into McFly they actually have heavier stuff than Busted (see Corrupted - cool live video of Rou Reynolds playing this live with them at Ally Pally). Plus they’re better live.   They’ll also get a massive crowd and they’re the same thing in the sense that’s where a lot of younger alternative folk started their music journey into heavy music, a gateway band as a lot describe Busted. I feel like this view on McFly seems to be the one from people that grew up listening to Busted so people want them to be heavier or something they’re not to kind of justify there liking for Busted. They’re both bands that write their own songs and play pop music end of. Thunderbirds are go and year 3000 have absolutely no ‘edge’ to them.    Steven Battelle from Lost Alone produced their most recent album which is worth a listen and Jason Perry from A also produced Radio Active which is worth a listen.    Fair enough if you don’t like them or didn’t grow up with them but people did, love them and will have a blast. It’s a win for McFly who love rock/alternative music themselves and for the fans who grew up listening to them. 

It's really too early to tell I think. I had zero expectations last year and then, bam, Arcade Fire and Pearl Jam, two of my favourite bands