Friday other stage opener

[Bobinup]

I'm pretty sure travis have died in relevancy bar those who remember their songs from 2000

Edited June 3, 2014 by Bobinup

[Porcelina]

Surprisingly, their album from last year reached #3 in the album charts.

[Amy Lawn]

What about The Cure?

[FloorFiller]

Surprisingly, their album from last year reached #3 in the album charts.

[CHRLY]

Beady eye are definitely bigger, especially when it comes to festivals. Didn't they headline second stages at R+L & TITP in 2012?

[FloorFiller]

Beady eye are definitely bigger, especially when it comes to festivals. Didn't they headline second stages at R+L & TITP in 2012?

[Bobinup]

that they did - and that same day Travis played third down on the third stage, under Alt-J and Twin Atlantic

case closed!

Edited June 3, 2014 by Bobinup

[FloorFiller]

So are you saying that Glasto should follow the booking policy of R&L and T In The Park, i.e. book dependent on how hot each act is that month? I guess we should campaign for Sam Smith to headline instead of Metallica then!!

[FloorFiller]

and i think we've gone a bit off course here. we're talking about an act who will be a 'Special Guest' opening the Other on the Friday. Travis it will not be

[CHRLY]

and i think we've gone a bit off course here. we're talking about an act who will be a 'Special Guest' opening the Other on the Friday. Travis it will not be

[Amy Lawn]

I actually went to see Beady Eye over MCR at Leeds in 2011, and remember enjoying it. I bought that first album and thought, for an album of 60s and 70s rock pastiches made by a group of dads who had written some utter rotters in the past, it was very entertaining for a couple of spins. Enjoyed seeing Liam's swagger and exaggerated snarl performing a bunch of songs inspired by the music he loved as a teenager, I thought he was a funny bloke.

The last time round though, he was God-awful. In every way. It's amazing the difference between being in a crowd full of boozed up Mancs and post-Oasis goodwill can do versus a crowd of bemused, hungover Glastonbury punters half-expecting Daft Punk on a cloudy Friday morning.

[Ratpat]

How about one of these, as they're all already around for the weekend:

[FloorFiller]

How about one of these, as they're all already around for the weekend:

[Gnomicide]

Because I like to keep up my hipster credentials, I'd just like to say that I'd bloody love it to be Aerosmith. It won't be but still.

[CHRLY]

In other news that is a terrible poster

[Bradders]

and i think we've gone a bit off course here. we're talking about an act who will be a 'Special Guest' opening the Other on the Friday. Travis it will not be

[Rose-Colored Boy]

I'm pretty sure travis have died in relevancy bar those who remember their songs from 2000

[nofunciona]

Aerosmith playing two consecutive sets then?

[Rose-Colored Boy]

This is unlikely to be a comeback gig

Edited June 3, 2014 by Zac Quinn

[FloorFiller]

Why not?

[FloorFiller]

I'm pretty sure Metallica have died in relevancy bar those who remember their songs from 1991, but there'll be more than enough of those at the all-age Glastonbury festival who do so it surely doesn't matter at all

I'm not even a fan but if a band can generate this kind of atmosphere halfway through a Radio 1 festival like T In The Park then frankly they can more than do so when the good people of Glastonbury are on the high that comes with the beginning of the best weekend of their year

[Rose-Colored Boy]

an act making their big comeback at an unadvertised set seems like a bit of a weird thing to do (although Florence seems like a big fan of the festival so i wouldn't be shocked if it was her. doesn't mean she has to play any new material or anything)

Edited June 3, 2014 by Zac Quinn

[nofunciona]

Surely the extra intrigue that follows a special guest slot like this would be great for a returning artist as everyone will be talking about it.

Edit: what he said ^

Edited June 3, 2014 by nofunciona

[FloorFiller]

See I think the opposite? Surely a band who turns up announced is already guaranteeing themselves being discussed again and again over the weekend, and if the BBC cameras are there well we know how good Zane Lowe and Lauren Laverne are for hyping up the highlights reels on their Sunday night coverage..

[H.M.V]

If I never hear "why does it always rain on me " again it will be too soon. Radio murdered that song then gave it a good flogging.

I can still remember the shitty job I was doing at the time listening to that song be played about 50 times a day.

so I'll be hoping it most definitely isn't Travis. Sorry.

Still keeping everything crossed and hoping with all my hope that its the Foo's.