Headliners 2015

[Bisque]

I loved Calvin's live shows (before he cut his hair era) but now he only DJs.

Live he'd be mid table Pyramid.

DJ headlining Other.

[ghostdancer1]

Headlined at T and co-headlined IOW last year, headlining Lollapaloozas across the Americas and got announced for some big European jaunts today alongside Muse. So it's not just the dance festivals but you're probably not wrong about him not playing live, I never really looked into it.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think he'll ever headline the Pyramid (despite the thread we're discussing him in) but if he's the highest paid DJ in the world headlining every festival then he may not give a shit about headlining second stage at Glastonbury.

fair enough, didn't realise he was now headlining regular festivals.

given that for half of the year he DJs every week in the same nightclub in Las Vegas and gets paid 200k a night for his troubles, i'd say once his fee is met, he'd have no issues with headlining the Other Stage, especially as fellow Vegas-superclub and US festival headliner Skrillex did the same.

whether Glastonbury would meet his fee is another matter...

[Gnomicide]

fair enough, didn't realise he was now headlining regular festivals.

given that for half of the year he DJs every week in the same nightclub in Las Vegas and gets paid 200k a night for his troubles, i'd say once his fee is met, he'd have no issues with headlining the Other Stage, especially as fellow Vegas-superclub and US festival headliner Skrillex did the same.

whether Glastonbury would meet his fee is another matter...

Jaysus. How much is to to watch him switch on his laptop in Vegas?

[Bisque]

Jaysus. How much is to to watch him switch on his laptop in Vegas?

Less than LMFAO doing five songs from what I heard out there. Still A LOT

[wrongturn]

She could, possibly, be an Other headliner.

It's done on both.

Flo could, possibly, play on the Other stage as headliner.

She's headlining something at GF 2015 then?

[Rose-Colored Boy]

she should headline the park

i imagine she likes parks

[Gnomicide]

she should headline the park

i imagine she likes parks

I see her sitting on a bench, drinking sherry from a bottle in a brown paper bag, shouting obscenities at pigeons, whilst weating something fabulous.

[Rose-Colored Boy]

she's basically Lily Allen

[MichaelsBeard]

What turgid suggestions at the moment! Really hope Glastonbury pulls a Prince, AC/DC or Fleetwood Mac out the bag to counter the perspective likes of Taylor Swift, Muse, Noel Gallagher, Foo Fighters.

Nothing particularly wrong with any of them headlining but such boring bookings.

[russycarps]

What turgid suggestions at the moment! Really hope Glastonbury pulls a Prince, AC/DC or Fleetwood Mac out the bag to counter the perspective likes of Taylor Swift, Muse, Noel Gallagher, Foo Fighters.

Nothing particularly wrong with any of them headlining but such boring bookings.

this is what every year is going to be like from now on. There's just barely any decent headline-type acts around anymore.

Headline speculation used to be a fun way of passing the long winter months. Now all it does is add to the gloom and misery.

[FrancisH]

What turgid suggestions at the moment!

I think most sane people have stopped convincing themselves year on year that bowie is going to headline doing Ziggy Stardust in it's entirety.

Also I notice people seem to be annoyed solely because it might be three contemporary bands and not three bands from the 70s/80s that have split up / rarely play live, but 'rarity' of headliner bands does not a good festival make, or at least that's not why I buy a ticket.

[DomDom1984]

Doesn't help when people think they know the headliner pool when they don't.

[5co77ie]

The Scum are rumouring Libs in talks to headline.

[Wooderson]

this is what every year is going to be like from now on. There's just barely any decent headline-type acts around anymore.

Headline speculation used to be a fun way of passing the long winter months. Now all it does is add to the gloom and misery.

Pop music in general going this way. Yet fest's in the US going from strength to strength embracing different formats. Interlockn for example. I've said for years that a big one off jam with a house band and various guests on the Sat night would be ace. Pooh poohed on here yet Swift gets moronic droogs posting videos day after day.

[Mardy]

Pop music in general going this way. Yet fest's in the US going from strength to strength embracing different formats. Interlockn for example. I've said for years that a big one off jam with a house band and various guests on the Sat night would be ace. Pooh poohed on here yet Swift gets moronic droogs posting videos day after day.

I said at the time, I'd love to see something like that, trouble is, most people want something they know and something they are familiar with. But it'd be great to see more collaborations, more unique moments and less 'bands turning up as one date in their summer tour'.

There are a lot of repercussions, a lot of as yet unseen consequences to doing something like this, but it would be worth trying, if you could get artist buying into it. Like that thing Savages/ Bo Ningen did at Le Guess Who a couple of days ago.

[Daniel Comino Royuela]

Could be Pharrel the "Beyonce" act this year?

Hope no!

[sisco]

The Scum are rumouring Libs in talks to headline.

Wouldnt click a link to the Scum but did to the Metro unfortunately who are quoting them. Says discussions about the stage they are headlining (other or pyramid).

Other would make perfect sense if say Taylor Swift is a headliner on one of the pyramid days

[Rose-Colored Boy]

Could be Pharrel the "Beyonce" act this year?

Hope no!

no

[dentalplan]

I said at the time, I'd love to see something like that, trouble is, most people want something they know and something they are familiar with. But it'd be great to see more collaborations, more unique moments and less 'bands turning up as one date in their summer tour'.

There are a lot of repercussions, a lot of as yet unseen consequences to doing something like this, but it would be worth trying, if you could get artist buying into it. Like that thing Savages/ Bo Ningen did at Le Guess Who a couple of days ago.

The thing is it'd just be so hard to do with the amount of festivals that acts are playing. I imagine a lot of bands are back on the road a couple of hours after their performance (should they not be playing again that weekend) so the only chance you have of a collaboration is when Brian May is kicking about.

[The Nal]

I've said for years that a big one off jam with a house band and various guests on the Sat night would be ace.

Would be great yeah. West Holts jam.

Theres a culture of that in the US that doesn't exist over here. A lot of bars and clubs in America work off that model. Gives an act the opportunity to promote themselves too as they don't need to cart around a band and a whole set up. Just a guitar or whatever and they can travel from city to city. Only issue is you end up hearing the same 30 tunes over and over!

[Mardy]

The thing is it'd just be so hard to do with the amount of festivals that acts are playing. I imagine a lot of bands are back on the road a couple of hours after their performance (should they not be playing again that weekend) so the only chance you have of a collaboration is when Brian May is kicking about.

Yeah, would mean a massive shift in the booking policy and who they have access to etc. But would be interesting., I was sort of hoping it's what the Park would develop into rather than the 'quite good bandsin theory but a fuck of a trudge away, especially if there's mud' place it has actually turned into

[Mardy]

What used to be where the park is?

The park and I both made our glastonbury debuts in the same year.

didn't it have that Africa Express thing the first year, I was hoping for more along those lines.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Saturday Night Pyramid Headliner 2016:

Steve Hillage, Nik Turner, Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor, Mik Artistik, Jamie T, Dumpy Dunnell, Chas Smash, Lily Allen, Herbie Treehead and the bloke who plays the flute from Shpongle jamming for 4 hours.

[dentalplan]

Yeah, would mean a massive shift in the booking policy and who they have access to etc. But would be interesting., I was sort of hoping it's what the Park would develop into rather than the 'quite good bandsin theory but a fuck of a trudge away, especially if there's mud' place it has actually turned into

I guess so. Though it wasn't really of any interest to folk here but Mumfords' thing this year was a house band collaborating with other acts across the lineup so it looks like something they've given a shot (albeit on a small stage) although it'll end up just being Mumfords who do that every year.

[The Nal]

What used to be where the park is?

The park and I both made our glastonbury debuts in the same year.

Couple of bank machines, a couple of toilets and then nothing

Edited November 25, 2014 by The Nal