Other Stage Headliners 2015

[FakeEmpire]

Matilda, Breezeblocks, Tesselate, Left Hand Free are probably the bigger alt-J hits.

[kingcrawler]

I wouldn't be surprised if Beck was this year's Pixies/Smashing Pumpkins i.e. subbing a newer act on the Other Stage (like alt-J maybe?)

Yeah, either that or 3rd down on the Pyramid is where I see him.

[Tomjoll]

I wouldn't be surprised if Beck was this year's Pixies/Smashing Pumpkins i.e. subbing a newer act on the Other Stage (like alt-J maybe?)

I think this is a good shout and one i'd personally be delighted with.

[kingcrawler]

Can someone point me in the right direction of Alt-Js good stuff? What's their most well known song. Im struggling to understand how they could headline.

I'd guess Breezeblocks, Hunger of the Pine, Every Other Freckle and Left Hand Free are their biggest songs.

I'm not a massive fan of Alt-J but I love Hunger of the Pine. Was quite looking forward to their last album after hearing it but the rest of the album wasn't great.

[wilem]

Her Manchester gig at Castlefield is supposedly her first European show so that rules her out.

Assuming that information is from her directly and Castlefield haven't just stated that themselves? Could retract it at a later date

[JohnnyMilb]

Chemicals

Florence

Primal Scream

[kingcrawler]

Assuming that information is from her directly and Castlefield haven't just stated that themselves? Could retract it at a later date

Well the gig is part of the Manchester International Festival and they say it here:

http://www.mif.co.uk/event/bjork

[wilem]

Well the gig is part of the Manchester International Festival and they say it here:

http://www.mif.co.uk/event/bjork

Yeah I guess it does seem unlikely - wouldn't rule it out though

[FuzzyDunlop]

Wish list

Chems

Placebo

Beck

Hot Chip

Faithless

Iggy Pop

Realistically

Not that

[South]

I'd take Beck or Chems for Saturday \ Sunday.

SFA could make a strong appearance somewhere, there'll be a lot of love for them.

I've also seen Ian Brown before at Glastonbury, headlining Sunday and it wasn't busy (no auto-tune!) and do wonder if Stone Roses headlining a Sat \ Sun would be feasible.

Other Stage would be packed, but then it's been packed plenty of times before, as die-hard a fan as I am, I get the feeling the ship has a sailed a bit on the main excitement to see them, so they'd not draw as full a crowd as people might expect.

[South]

and on a totally off-topic point, it would seem my post count was reset at some stage. I appreciate I post about x10 comments a year as I'm a serial lurker, but I've been on these forums for close to 10yrs!

[Alan_C]

I'd take Beck or Chems for Saturday \ Sunday.

SFA could make a strong appearance somewhere, there'll be a lot of love for them.

I've also seen Ian Brown before at Glastonbury, headlining Sunday and it wasn't busy (no auto-tune!) and do wonder if Stone Roses headlining a Sat \ Sun would be feasible.

Other Stage would be packed, but then it's been packed plenty of times before, as die-hard a fan as I am, I get the feeling the ship has a sailed a bit on the main excitement to see them, so they'd not draw as full a crowd as people might expect.

Ian Brown solo is not Stone Roses though. I reckon they would get the biggest headline crowd of the weekend.

Chemical Brothers, New Order, Faithless, Suede (probably JP) would be a good bunch of headliners on lower stages.

[McCor]

Suede

Chemical Brothers

Noel Gallagher

[eFestivals]

and on a totally off-topic point, it would seem my post count was reset at some stage. I appreciate I post about x10 comments a year as I'm a serial lurker, but I've been on these forums for close to 10yrs!

the post counts have been reset in the past when the forums software wasn't so good and caused me to need to purge the database now and then, but it's not been done for many years how (I'm not sure how many, but I reckon it's probably 4 or more).

[neil999]

Suede

Chemical Brothers

Noel Gallagher

dont think suede are big enough, manics didnt headline other last year

[Gnomicide]

Frank Turner announcement in 36 minutes.

[South]

the post counts have been reset in the past when the forums software wasn't so good and caused me to need to purge the database now and then, but it's not been done for many years how (I'm not sure how many, but I reckon it's probably 4 or more).

cheers Neil, thought it might be that (or just that I'm posting in my head when lurking and not actually posting at all! :-) )

[Tdiz]

Frank Turner announcement in 36 minutes.

really he is at SXSW where you got this from?

[Mezhyp1]

Wish list

Chems

Placebo

Beck

Hot Chip

Faithless

Iggy Pop

Realistically

Not that

This wouldn't be far off my wish list as well, I really hope that there's not someone I want to see with Kanye clashing

[Gnomicide]

really he is at SXSW where you got this from?

His Twitter account.

The announcement will probably be another show at SXSW but you never know.

Edited March 20, 2015 by Gnomicide

[Tdiz]

His Twitter account.

The announcement will probably be another show at SXSW but you never know.

Ah fair enough I dont use twitter really. Yeah could just be another SXSW show hopefully he will play glasto though this year.

Also just thought it could be an album announcment

Edited March 20, 2015 by Tdiz

[ghostdancer1]

Neil, what's your info on Alt-J now? i thought the other day you seemed to have info that someone else was headlining the Other on Sunday?

[South]

talk of Suede, MSP, Chem's, New Order, Stone Roses, Faithless, Placebo gives the Other Stage headliners a distinctive feel of circa. 1997 :-)

I'm not saying I prefer someone 'new' for the sake of it e.g. Alt-J, and some of the above are in my fav acts, just that all of those acts are not really 'now' and a lot more 'then'*

* I appreciate Chem's have had plenty of recent output, but even their most recent album was 5yrs ago, MSP are touring an album from 20yrs ago (though did tour new material last year).

[eFestivals]

Neil, what's your info on Alt-J now? i thought the other day you seemed to have info that someone else was headlining the Other on Sunday?

nowt has changed.

[Mezhyp1]

nowt has changed.

What's made Alt J go TBC rather than SR, this makes me think they might not be headlining the other, feel free correct me