Coldplay 2015

[Lucyjane83]

Not again :-(

[MrZigster]

1. Yellow

2. Yellow

3. Yellow

4. Yellow

5.... You catch my drift.

I've never got this lyric. OK, stars are yellowish, but who is yellow? Why are their skin and bones all yellow? Why would that make you want to swim and jump across things? Sounds like weird culty nonsense to me. Unless it's about someone who is jaundiced I guess.

[justperfect]

The Simpsons (in fact everyone who lives in Springfield) are yellow

[phillyfaddle]

A lazy booking from GFest - was hoping they'd take some risks again this year. Still, Reading & Leeds have gone for Mumford & Sons.......

Edited February 4, 2015 by phillyfaddle

[yellowsnow]

They need to pull it out the headliners on the other stages this night. I find Coldplay incredibly dull and boring and actually sad about this!

[russycarps]

They need to pull it out the headliners on the other stages this night. I find Coldplay incredibly dull and boring and actually sad about this!

that's rich considering your username is in their honour!

[Matt42]

This could be a strong year to make up for the fact they've booked a cheap repeat.

Think about it, if headliners are 'sorted' in jan / feburary they've got lots more to spend on acts lower down the bill.

Whereas it seemed like they were struggling to get three headliners in 2014 and 2013

[stocky3000]

Whereas it seemed like they were struggling to get three headliners in 2014 and 2013

You can maybe make an argument with last year not going entirely there way but I am not sure the same argument can be made for 2013

Arctics and presumably Mumford lined up comfortably with the Stones hanging around for a little while but never a 'struggle'

[danbailey80]

One of the biggest selling acts in the world and a clear favourite with the Glastonbuiry audience so an obvious choice if no one else available.

You can talk about 'taking risks', but why would you when there are 50 other stages to take a risk with.

Lots of moaning about being obvious and underwealming but no one's suggested a 'risky' band that would work headlining the biggest festival in the world. Suggestions please? Remember they need to be touring and available. Good luck.

[russycarps]

Lots of moaning about being obvious and underwealming but no one's suggested a 'risky' band that would work headlining the biggest festival in the world. Suggestions please? Remember they need to be touring and available. Good luck.

I think the standard answer to this is sigur ros isnt it?

[mrtourette]

Florence.

[Sketchead]

2011 was my first Glasto and I watched Coldplay. Enjoyed it.

Them playing this year doesn't excite me but it doesn't disappoint me either. I'll watch them if there's nobody else on that I like.

[Badlands]

Heres my defence for Coldplay in the interest of balance:

Parachutes was decent. Im sure if theyd split up after making that then we may look back fondly on it. Didnt realise the Buckley influence at the time as I didnt get into him till later.

Rush of Blood has a few decent tracks, Green Eyes and Warning Sign stand out for me now.

I liked that Jay-Z version of Lost. Much better than Graduation or Beach Chair (previous collabs between them and Jay/Kanye)

The Frank Ocean version of Strawberry Swings is great. I didnt know it had been released by them first mind.

I read earlier that hes knocking about with Jennifer Lawrence? Got to give the bloke props for that.

Fin.

[Pinkman]

Sunday

Elton John

Florence & The Machine

Alt J

Lionel Richie

[Justiceforcedave]

Sunday

Elton John

Florence & The Machine

Alt J

Lionel Richie

That reeks of Sunday Pyramid.

[russycarps]

I read earlier that hes knocking about with Jennifer Lawrence? Got to give the bloke props for that.

what?????????? what the hell is she thinking! he's a proper wet blanket! She could have any man she wanted (like me for example, I love her)

[Tuna]

Lots of moaning about being obvious and underwealming but no one's suggested a 'risky' band that would work headlining the biggest festival in the world. Suggestions please? Remember they need to be touring and available. Good luck.

Sigur Ros

The xx

The National

Hot Chip

Nine Inch Nails

Nick Cave for crying out loud!

Portishead (off the back of a new album)

QOTSA

And this is without much thought. Probably all of these bookings would be met with a "hmm...." but after 2 hours on the Pyramid, I'm confident that people will walk away thinking "ok, I get it". This is not even based on personal preference (don't really like NIN for example) but the caliber of band you're asking for certainly exists

Edited February 4, 2015 by Tuna

[tevaburger]

i know it's cool to knock Coldplay, but i bet there are quite a few closeted fans on here who just feel the need to ridicule them. I'm not a fan and wouldn't pay to see them...but...in 2002 i thought A Rush of Blood to the Head was a marvelous album, Politik is a great opener (especially live) and I even like Clocks, but Daylight through to Amsterdam is quite a finish to an album if you give it a listen. Even today...I didn't get the fuss with 'Parachutes' when it came out (people were calling them 'new Radiohead' which was ridiculous) apart from the final track of the album, and I detested "Yellow" but that second album really had me for a year.

Their Friday spot on the Pyramid in 2002 on the eve of the album release was quite good. Sometimes it's good to catch a band when they're really fighting for it, trying to make it big and I thought they took that initial headline spot quite well. The music since then has taken a turn for the worse and has been very pedestrian, attempting to hold onto the most generic (and even younger) audience that only purchases one or two records a year, and they've become less relevant and more annoying to snooty music critics such as myself, as has his prancing about on stage so confidently and smug...but for a year or so with that second album I thought they might have something in them, depending where they went with album #3. But then that came out, and the first single with a keyboard riff attempting to copy "Clocks" tipped off that they were not going to heading anywhere creative and they lost me.

Now...C Martin obviously views Glastonbury as a special place, so hats off to him for that. It seems like he goes just about every year, lobbied Eavis in lobbying the Boss to make an appearance in '09, so I really don't harbour much dislike for him, i'm just a bit indifferent... as for the band itself, I just thought it'd be nice for them to do one of those special guest surprise spots rather than be the first band to ever headline 4 times.

[bennyhana22]

I've enjoyed the last few weeks of Headliners banter, notwithstanding the occasionally less friendly bits. I haven't really got involved because my feeling is that I am pretty unlikely to find myself opting for the Pyramid headliner on any night. The bands that play those spots just aren't acts that interest me, as a generalisation.

It's my first Glastonbury, and I'm sure that i'd like one of my experiences to be being in the Pyramid crowd for a headliner, but I would need to be very keen on whoever was playing and the rest of the stages would almost have to have shut down for one of them not to be offering someone I'd much rather see. I am likely to be camped at The Park/Williams Green kind of areas.

As such, the 'announcement' of Coldplay did not cause a huge reaction from me, positive or negative. I don't hate Coldplay. Some of their songs are pretty good. As a band, their 'concept' doesn't interest me - i.e. I find nothing interesting about them. In terms of their music, it's vanilla, often bland, occasionally pretty well written poppy rock. Chris Martin, as a front man, doesn't do it for me. He always seems as if he's trying a bit too hard. I can't imagine for one second I'll be watching them, but can see why they're booked. The only criticism I would make would be to echo some others' sentiments that it is a bit lazy/easy a booking. I know that Glastonbury has moved significantly into the mainstream over recent times, but it still holds a magical quality in the festivalsphere and, in my opinion, should be trying to be new, fresh and exciting about who graces it's most coveted spots.

Anyway, I saw all three third stage headliners at Green Man last year (Teleman, EIY and Lanterns on the Lake) and had without question my 'best set of headliners at a festival' experience, so I am confident that GF2015 will offer me similar to that somewhere...but probably not on the Pyramid.

Ben

[morph100]

It's my first Glastonbury, and I'm sure that i'd like one of my experiences to be being in the Pyramid crowd for a headliner, but I would need to be very keen on whoever was playing and the rest of the stages would almost have to have shut down for one of them not to be offering someone I'd much rather see. I am likely to be camped at The Park/Williams Green kind of areas.

If you are going to the pyramid for the experience of a headliner then Coldplay would be good for you as not only do you already know most of the songs and like some of them, they will put on a very big 'show' and will bring in extra lazers, lights, fireworks etc that other headliners might not. Last time they played they built extra lighting towers going up the hill for the lazers......

[bennyhana22]

If you are going to the pyramid for the experience of a headliner then Coldplay would be good for you as not only do you already know most of the songs and like some of them, they will put on a very big 'show' and will bring in extra lazers, lights, fireworks etc that other headliners might not. Last time they played they built extra lighting towers going up the hill for the lazers......

Thanks, morph.

Trouble is, I am a bit of a music obsessive and know that I will either have identified already, or will have done homework to create, several alternative bands that I will want to watch more than Coldplay. I was, perhaps, not quite clear in my initial post - it would be a bit petty for me to have a go at Coldplay and demonstrate the unadulterated music snob that, undeniably, I am...as I get older I try not to be so vitriolic about the relative lack of merit that I find within so many popular bands, from many genres.

I know (think...!) that I will see some bands on the Pyramid, but being a bit of a festival veteran, I have no issue with not being a part of what is supposedly The Main Event™. That way, I can retain my internal snobbery, by being at the 'much cooler' venues, when the public (ouch) are waving their mobiles to Fix You!

Ben

[LondonTom]

Me too, actually.

Also Charlie Brown is a rip off of Starlight:

This explains so much about how I've grown to hate Starlight.

I wanted Muse to return (Even though the same arguments apply )

I'm pretty sure Coldplay have said that it's their "last album" for the past three albums now. I definitely remember them saying it before the release of Mylo Xyloto

http://www.nme.com/news/coldplay/59831

Are yo saying its just a conspiracy theory so can come back and headline Glastonbury?

What if the new "post gwennyth" chris Martin turns out to be a much darker beast than before and produces a cracker of an album now the heavy shackles of marriage have been lifted

This is what Coldplay are like post conscious uncoupling:

This could be a strong year to make up for the fact they've booked a cheap repeat.

Think about it, if headliners are 'sorted' in jan / feburary they've got lots more to spend on acts lower down the bill.

Whereas it seemed like they were struggling to get three headliners in 2014 and 2013

People say this sort of thing about fests most years, almost every time its turned out to be untrue. We will get similar acts to what would have been booked with or without Coldplay.

[Gucci Piggy]

This explains so much about how I've grown to hate Starlight.

I wanted Muse to return (Even though the same arguments apply )

Yeah exactly. It's the reason I didn't expect Muse. It'd have been a shit booking, but one that I'd have enjoyed; instead we get a shit booking that I wouldn't enjoy.

[FloorFiller]

Chris Martin and Beck are performing together at the Grammys on Sunday - hopefully Chris will put in the good word for Glastonbury and Beck will be along too. ONE good thing has to come out of them headlining

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

The Simpsons (in fact everyone who lives in Springfield) are yellow

Apu isn't.