Headliners 2015

[Justiceforcedave]

This thread has become the opposite of what we usually get. What happened to the overly optimistic "Led Zepplin, Prince, Bowie" predictions eh?

Are we hoping to under promise and over deliver?

[kalifire]

This thread has become the opposite of what we usually get. What happened to the overly optimistic "Led Zepplin, Prince, Bowie" predictions eh?

Are we hoping to under promise and over deliver?

I was just thinking that! This time last year you had huge names being banded around. I think a lot has to do with a certain somebody boasting about having the three biggest bands in the world booked, then we got headliners that completely undermined that description. It's dented hope a bit, I reckon. I'm personally still holding out for the purple one, but I'm glad nobody's really mentioning it because if he caught wind of it, we all know what would happen.

[mr gumby]

Foo Fighters

Eagles

Adele

That's what I'm thinking right now.

Foo fighters I'd watch. Eagles would be good as a Sunday legend act. Adele can sling her hook as far as I'm concerned.

[Gnomicide]

This thread has become the opposite of what we usually get. What happened to the overly optimistic "Led Zepplin, Prince, Bowie" predictions eh?

Are we hoping to under promise and over deliver?

I blame Roy Hodgson. Lowering peoples expectations since 1982.

[dentalplan]

This thread has become the opposite of what we usually get. What happened to the overly optimistic "Led Zepplin, Prince, Bowie" predictions eh?

Are we hoping to under promise and over deliver?

I guess so. We've had most of the real 'dream headliners' ruled out really. Jimmy Page is touring solo, Gilmour says no more Pink Floyd and he's touring solo, it'll be two years since the Bowie and Daft Punk albums, Prince is still a knob.

[Gucci Piggy]

Foo Fighters

Eagles

Adele

That's what I'm thinking right now.

Are Eagles really likely to play Glastonbury for a small fee? I thought most people thought they were unlikely last year until we found out they were in the area at the time and Neil added them as a rumour. Don't see anything at all to make them likely this year.

[Mardy]

Are Eagles really likely to play Glastonbury for a small fee? I thought most people thought they were unlikely last year until we found out they were in the area at the time and Neil added them as a rumour. Don't see anything at all to make them likely this year.

That's all true, but lets not get complacent. All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

[Gnomicide]

Eh up. Someone's set off Mardy's Eagles alarm.

Edited November 2, 2014 by Gnomicide

[Mardy]

Eh up. Someone's set off Mardy's Eagles alarm.

hehehe, it's like the batsignal. Ever vigilant. And it's stopped me posting something 'orrible on the Counting Crows thread, which I'd later feel bad about, so it's all to the good.

[dentalplan]

Don't see anything at all to make them likely this year.

I have a list...

[fatyeti24]

So, I'm just catching up on this thread. Am I right saying that the consensus is non the wiser, except where it comes to The Music, who were shit?

[fatyeti24]

Balls to the lot a ya. This is tantamount to cyberbullying you horrible horrible people.

And you're all wrong.

I bought both their albums at the time, and saw them live in Blackburn. But with hindsight, I wasn't in the best of health and my brief flirtation with indie rock brought me no pleasure.

I liked that one about dead people, but mainly because of the way he pronounced "up there" in his comedy Leeds accent.

[Matt42]

Just because she's on the rumours page.

Rihanna is set to release a surprise album this month apparently.

[dentalplan]

Way to ruin the surprise.

[Matt42]

Way to ruin the surprise.

She's doing a pretty bad job of it herself to be honest

[stuartbert two hats]

I bought both their albums at the time, and saw them live in Blackburn. But with hindsight, I wasn't in the best of health and my brief flirtation with indie rock brought me no pleasure.

I liked that one about dead people, but mainly because of the way he pronounced "up there" in his comedy Leeds accent.

You're a man full of surprises.

[Mouseboy11]

She's doing a pretty bad job of it herself to be honest

Swear she has an album out every fucking year.

[Matt42]

Swear she has an album out every fucking year.

Her last album was out in 2012 so she's had a considerable wait this time.

[kalifire]

Swear she has an album out every fucking year.

It feels that way, doesn't it. Surprisingly, it's actually nearly two years since her last album.

• Music of the Sun (2005)
• A Girl like Me (2006)
• Good Girl Gone Bad (2007)
• Rated R (2009)
• Loud (2010)
• Talk That Talk (2011)
• Unapologetic (2012)

There they are, according to wiki. I think she's just had such an insane number of singles (35 top 20 songs since 2005, including those she features in - that's nearly one every three months for the last nine years) that she feels over-saturated.

Edited November 2, 2014 by kalifire

[fatyeti24]

You're a man full of surprises.

My dislike of the genre comes from experience. My post Ibiza years, when I could face no more house for a while. A dark time.

[Matt42]

It feels that way, doesn't it. Surprisingly, it's actually nearly two years since her last album.

• Music of the Sun (2005)
• A Girl like Me (2006)
• Good Girl Gone Bad (2007)
• Rated R (2009)
• Loud (2010)
• Talk That Talk (2011)
• Unapologetic (2012)

There they are, according to wiki. I think she's just had such an insane amount of singles she feels over-saturated.

Pretty impressive cranking out 4 albums every year since 2009... That's gotta be tiring.

[kalifire]

Pretty impressive cranking out 4 albums every year since 2009... That's gotta be tiring.

No doubt, and when you factor in, as I mentioned, that she's had - on average - a new song in the top 20 every three months for nine years (!!), she must have her every waking moment scheduled and managed. I don't envy her that.

Edited November 2, 2014 by kalifire

[LondonTom]

The Script?! Efestivals really is going to the dogs in music taste lately

[fatyeti24]

My guess

The Script

T-swift

Rihanna

(I think I've cracked Matt42's headliner prediction algorithm)

[eFestivals]

Nearly 93 million people have watched this now. Jessie J should be in with a shout. You will all disagree no doubt. Brilliant.

No, it's the same nine pre-pubescent girls, each having watched it 10 million times.