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a couple of people shouting "play Creep!" at Leeds does not spell the downfall for the band. People were doing that in 97!

And people were shouting "play the beatles!" at macca every time he did a wings song...

Radiohead will be the last great headliner before the festival slips into complete mediocrity (in terms of who headlines the main stage)

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Theres no Radiohead "downfall". Just that their new stuff doesnt have the broad appeal needed to headline the Pyramid Stage.

Again.

In rainbows has much more broad appeal than kid a, amnesiac and hail to the thief and they headlined in 2003 on the back of those albums - and brought the house down.

king of limbs does not mean they are no longer headline material. That's just mental.

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Theres no Radiohead "downfall". Just that their new stuff doesnt have the broad appeal needed to headline the Pyramid Stage.

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So your jumping to the conclusion that they new work they are doing isn't going to pyramid stage material either? Which is just preposterous to suggest

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a couple of people shouting "play Creep!" at Leeds does not spell the downfall for the band. People were doing that in 97!

And people were shouting "play the beatles!" at macca every time he did a wings song...

Radiohead will be the last great headliner before the festival slips into complete mediocrity (in terms of who headlines the main stage)

You conveniently ignored the part about the crowd "visibly thinning" which is my point.

That is complete profanity, up there with the most ridiculous things I've ever seen

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I love Radiohead fans.

They would storm it if they played the Reading 2009 set.

Well they didn't at Reading! Not amongst the non Radiohead fans. One or two older tunes aside. Once the casual festie goers left the crowd (Radioheads fans) tightened up and the atmosphere picked up.

Glasto these days is about Beyonce, Mumford and Sons, Dolly Parton etc. The broader crowd have no interest in compressed dot music played live.

As interesting as it is.

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Theres no Radiohead "downfall". Just that their new stuff doesnt have the broad appeal needed to headline the Pyramid Stage.

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I disagree. I saw them play a 'new stuff' heavy setlist when they headlined Optimus Alive in Portugal & it went down a storm. By far the biggest & liveliest crowd of the weekend. They hadn't played in the country for years previous either, so a good majority of the crowd would have been expecting 'the hits'.

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You conveniently ignored the part about the crowd "visibly thinning" which is my point.

it's Leeds crowd! The arcade fire crowd there was the smallest crowd the festival has ever had by all accounts, yet they stormed it at glastonbury. Those pricks are only pleased by dung like blink 182 etc

You're all over the place here chum.

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it's Leeds crowd! The arcade fire crowd was the smallest crowd the festival has ever had by all accounts, yet they stormed it at glastonbury.

You're all over the place here chum.

Arcade Fires crowd thinned out too last year (it wasn't huge to begin with) and I found the majority of their set really boring.

I thought there were a lot more people there when they played the Other Stage in 07.

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You conveniently ignored the part about the crowd "visibly thinning" which is my point.

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I love Radiohead fans.

I'm not a particularly massive Radiohead fan, I've seen them a couple of times and always been massively impressed, I just can't get my head round the fact someone can argue against them being pyramid headliner material

And the crowd at R/L, let's face it, is completely shit, and getting worse

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Arcade Fires crowd thinned out too last year (it wasn't huge to begin with) and I found the majority of their set really boring.

I thought there were a lot more people there when they played the Other Stage in 07.

I'm just baffled by why a bands suitability for glastonbury is being judged by the reception they received from a leeds crowd.

especially when the band in question has put in 2 of the best headline slots of all time.

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I'm not a particularly massive Radiohead fan, I've seen them a couple of times and always been massively impressed, I just can't get my head round the fact someone can argue against them being pyramid headliner material

And the crowd at R/L, let's face it, is completely shit, and getting worse

Glasto crowd can be shit at times and is getting worse.

Do you really think In Rainbows and TKOL stuff will work to a Pyramid crowd now? 30 minute runs of Nude, Give up the Ghost, 15 step, Feral, Reckoner, Bodysnathers etc?

Ive noticed a huge change in Glasto crowds in the last few years. Much much more casual.

My point is that the field would be rammed.... to start....

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