Headliners 2015

[rawaudioinput]

Glasto 2009 apparently took months to sell out; I think if they did book that calibre of headliners one year we'd see the end of the instant sell-out, if they did it again the year after the festival would go bankrupt

[dentalplan]

Well as they've pointed out, the headliner pool is running dry and they're trying to refocus a lot onto the nightlife of the festival and stuff instead of the biggest acts. This might give them a bit of room to experiment in future with headliners when they feel comfortable about that so there could be a few acts that have risks taken on them. However that'd be unlikely to mean they'll give the gig to acts that didn't reach that level in the previous twenty years like PJ Harvey so people may have to start listening to and supporting new music.

[rawaudioinput]

I'm all for keeping doors open and giving acts the step up to become headliners, but you can't have Glasto all of a sudden book Green Man/End of the Road headliners and expect it to be viable

Edited January 23, 2015 by rawaudioinput

[The 38 year old virgin]

If peej was the headliner one night, would any users here object?

[brettredmayne]

Glasto 2009 apparently took months to sell out; I think if they did book that calibre of headliners one year we'd see the end of the instant sell-out, if they did it again the year after the festival would go bankrupt

2009 sold out on the Sunday

[bennyhana22]

If peej was the headliner one night, would any users here object?

No, I'd be there. But it ain't gonna happen. Not Pyramid...

Ben

[jonodillieono]

People may have to start listening to and supporting new music.

This is not a world I'd like to live in

[ICGenie]

Yeah - I was there and she got it badly wrong.

Though not just in Murrayfield - I think it was the same setlist wherever she played.

Yup - I went all the way to Amsterdam ad it was probably the best Madonna show I've ever seen. Mind you, I like her last album and am not a massive fan of her 80s stuff. A nostalgia set would be awful, she really isn't a chicken-in-a-basket performer. She's always "toured the album" she's not like the legion of old stars who just pimp themselves on their previous success.

It's amazing how people are happy for an artist to be a sell-out when it suits them...

[FuzzyDunlop]

2009 sold out on the Sunday

I don't think it did. It was my first glastonbury. We got ours on the sunday. Pretty sure a few other mates got them a few days later, if memory serves.

2010 sold out on the sunday

[cornish hick]

that's why last time they headlined the Other Stage they were one of the acts of the whole festival, it was an emotional high that everyone who was there thought was incredible!

not everyone - god awful caterwalling

[donthaveacoolname]

I don't think it did. It was my first glastonbury. We got ours on the sunday. Pretty sure a few other mates got them a few days later, if memory serves.

2010 sold out on the sunday

from wikipedia but its the way i remember it:

On 22 January 2009, at Midem 2009, Michael Eavis announced that 90% of the event's 137,500 tickets had been sold. He also stated that although headliners had not been confirmed, he was awaiting confirmation from the acts he had approached.^[6]

Re-sale[edit]

Reserved tickets which did not have their remaining balance paid by the deadline were put back on sale on 2 February 2009 and it was announced the next day that the event had sold out, with the majority of reservations being balanced by 1 February deadline.^[7] A re-sale of cancelled tickets was held on 5 April 2009 at 9:00 am. These tickets sold out by 10:15 am.^[8]

[DJL]

I don't see the appeal of wanting an artist you like having a big push to headline the pyramid over a smaller more intimate stage. For lack of a radiohead or bowie, Chemicals on other, belle and sebastian on the park and hot chip on west holts would do me nicely..

[rubenz]

I don't see the appeal of wanting an artist you like having a big push to headline the pyramid over a smaller more intimate stage. For lack of a radiohead or bowie, Chemicals on other, belle and sebastian on the park and hot chip on west holts would do me nicely..

Hot Chip headlining westholts - now your talking!

[Mezhyp1]

Hot Chip headlining westholts - now your talking!

Christ now we are talking, i would love to see hot chip headline any stage, would be absolutely brilliant

[FuzzyDunlop]

Never seen Hot Chip. I'd be pleased if they were on this summer. I'd have thought Hot Chip into Chemical Brothers on the other stage rather than west holts though?

[WS_Jack_III]

Never seen Hot Chip. I'd be pleased if they were on this summer. I'd have thought Hot Chip into Chemical Brothers on the other stage rather than west holts though?

this is my hope too

[willutalk]

I don't think that a babd the size of Hot Chip headlining West Holts is out of the equation because Disclosure did so and they are huge at the moment.

But Chemical Brothers with their massive presence at Glasto and having headlined in 2000 would be far too big.

[michael eavis' beard]

Saw Hot Chip headline John Peel in 2007. There back catalogue was a fraction of what it is now but it was a brilliant set!

[Bisque]

Ed Sheeran is now famous enough to get his own Madame Tussaurds waxwork model?

[Rose-Colored Boy]

Ed Sheeran is now famous enough to get his own Madame Tussaurds waxwork model?

Yes?

[rubenz]

Never seen Hot Chip. I'd be pleased if they were on this summer. I'd have thought Hot Chip into Chemical Brothers on the other stage rather than west holts though?

Their sunset set when they subbed Flaming Lips in 2010 was an emotional time for all concerned

Think they should get a crack headlining Other if poss though!

[SloopJohnB]

Ed Sheeran is now famous enough to get his own Madame Tussaurds waxwork model?

Possible headliner? It could be the year of the gingers

[Rose-Colored Boy]

Possible headliner? It could be the year of the gingers

Nope, the Wembley dates are his only UK gigs this year

[SloopJohnB]

Nope, the Wembley dates are his only UK gigs this year

Ah well....just a thought haha

[ancient_one]

Ed Sheeran is now famous enough to get his own Madame Tussaurds waxwork model?

They probably melted down Ron Weasley and Chris Evans to make it.