Headliners 2016

[The Placid Casual]

7 minutes ago, Martin Ashford said:

There is one major problem here  - ADELE IS NOT FUCKING ROCK 'N ROLL

Didn't you desperately want Taylor Swift to headline last year?

[Badlands]

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Fair enough, just looked at the IOW from last year, I'll stand corrected.

[cornish hick]

8 minutes ago, Martin Ashford said:

There is one major problem here  - ADELE IS NOT FUCKING ROCK 'N ROLL - she is music for Valentine's Day compilations. SHE IS A BETTER LOOKING VERSION OF SUSAN FUCKING BOYLE - The perfect gift for Mother's Day and in all honesty the most improbable rock festival headliner of all time. I blame that arsehole Cowell for this. He has almost ruined British culture.

what rock festival?

[Gnomicide]

11 minutes ago, Martin Ashford said:

There is one major problem here  - ADELE IS NOT FUCKING ROCK 'N ROLL - she is music for Valentine's Day compilations. SHE IS A BETTER LOOKING VERSION OF SUSAN FUCKING BOYLE - The perfect gift for Mother's Day and in all honesty the most improbable rock festival headliner of all time. I blame that arsehole Cowell for this. He has almost ruined British culture.

Given some of the shite you listen to Martin, that is quite the rant.

[stuartbert two hats]

10 minutes ago, Martin Ashford said:

There is one major problem here  - ADELE IS NOT FUCKING ROCK 'N ROLL - she is music for Valentine's Day compilations. SHE IS A BETTER LOOKING VERSION OF SUSAN FUCKING BOYLE - The perfect gift for Mother's Day and in all honesty the most improbable rock festival headliner of all time. I blame that arsehole Cowell for this. He has almost ruined British culture.

I couldn't give a flying fuck if she's rock'n'roll or not.  It's not a rock festival, it doesn't have to have a rock headliner. 

[Mezhyp1]

The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Rock and Fucking Roll

Doesn't quite have the same ring to it does it 

 

[M!!!]

Straws firmly clutched while typing this but any chance Adele could be a secret set? Could still gain a massive amount of publicity from it (lots of 'Adele wows crowds with secret set' headlines/'and finally...' news stories etc.... Filmed but not shown live so can be edited to show the most 'stunning' moments along with her doing the whole overwhelmed cute thing without people realising how amazingly dull it actually is?! 

[eastynh]

4 minutes ago, Badlands said:

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6. Interrogation
    
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Fair enough, just looked at the IOW from last year, I'll stand corrected.

To be fair mate, they do not seem to have any plan with their sets. I have seen them on 2 consecutive nights in 2 different towns play completely different sets. If they were to headline a stage or tent then you would get a more varied set as it would predominantly be their fans who had been drawn away from other stages to see them. If they played the Pyramid with a more impartial crowd, then I think they would stick to the hits.

[Slugworth]

16 minutes ago, Martin Ashford said:

There is one major problem here  - ADELE IS NOT FUCKING ROCK 'N ROLL - she is music for Valentine's Day compilations. SHE IS A BETTER LOOKING VERSION OF SUSAN FUCKING BOYLE - The perfect gift for Mother's Day and in all honesty the most improbable rock festival headliner of all time. I blame that arsehole Cowell for this. He has almost ruined British culture.

Oh dear. Has T-Swizzle not brought out a new song recently? Chill man

[Martin Ashford]

1 minute ago, The Placid Casual said:

Didn't you desperately want Taylor Swift to headline last year?

Yes, but Taylor Swift is a pop/country/rock type of an act with a wide range of styles. Most of her songs have a massive feelgood factor even if they are about relationships. I just don't hear this in Adele's songs though, cards on the table, I haven't listened to a single album by her.

[Badlands]

1 minute ago, M!!! said:

Straws firmly clutched while typing this but any chance Adele could be a secret set? Could still gain a massive amount of publicity from it (lots of 'Adele wows crowds with secret set' headlines/'and finally...' news stories etc.... Filmed but not shown live so can be edited to show the most 'stunning' moments along with her doing the whole overwhelmed cute thing without people realising how amazingly dull it actually is?! 

 Keep clutching @M!!!. 

[The Placid Casual]

1 minute ago, Martin Ashford said:

Yes, but Taylor Swift is a rock type of an act.

 

[eastynh]

4 minutes ago, Martin Ashford said:

Yes, but Taylor Swift is a pop/country/rock type of an act with a wide range of styles. Most of her songs have a massive feelgood factor even if they are about relationships. I just don't hear this in Adele's songs though, cards on the table, I haven't listened to a single album by her.

Come on Martin mate, at least have a listen to her before you have a rant.

[Gnomicide]

6 minutes ago, Martin Ashford said:

Yes, but Taylor Swift is a pop/country/rock type of an act with a wide range of styles. Most of her songs have a massive feelgood factor even if they are about relationships. I just don't hear this in Adele's songs though, cards on the table, I haven't listened to a single album by her.

I know only the hits by both Adele and Taylor Swift. So I've probably heard maybe 3 Swift songs and 6 or 7 Adele. If I pick the one from each I know the most, it would be Shake It Off and Rolling in the Deep.

Which of those do you really think sounds the most like a Syco product? 

[Chawk]

42 minutes ago, Andy0808 v5 said:

Hang on, I thought Slayer was a joke; Is it still a joke? Was it ever a joke? 

We had 2 pages of discussion on them so they are as good as TBC in my eyes.

[chuckles07]

Ditto Kendal Calling last year on the Thursday night. Excellent night where they thought they would be playing to a small crowd looking for a quiet start to a big weekend, and the field was rammed with people well up for it, and the band responded big time. They would be fabulous for the sundown slot at the pyramid......

 

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[Martin Ashford]

3 minutes ago, eastynh said:

Come on Martin mate, at least have a listen to her before you have a rant.

A fair point, I will do that just to show a bit of fairness.

[Purple aki squat]

25 minutes ago, Martin Ashford said:

There is one major problem here  - ADELE IS NOT FUCKING ROCK 'N ROLL - she is music for Valentine's Day compilations. SHE IS A BETTER LOOKING VERSION OF SUSAN FUCKING BOYLE - The perfect gift for Mother's Day and in all honesty the most improbable rock festival headliner of all time. I blame that arsehole Cowell for this. He has almost ruined British culture.

How has anyone down voted this masterpiece?

The arsehole Cowell thrown in at the end, wonderful stuff.

 

[The Placid Casual]

1 minute ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

I think basically what Martin means is he fancies taylor but not Adele. 

Same tbh though.

[paddyclark]

4 minutes ago, chuckles07 said:

Ditto Kendal Calling last year on the Thursday night. Excellent night where they thought they would be playing to a small crowd looking for a quiet start to a big weekend, and the field was rammed with people well up for it, and the band responded big time. They would be fabulous for the sundown slot at the pyramid......

 

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Yes brilliant at Kendal.  The wife loved it even when he fell on top of her with a failed crowdsurf

[Untz]

6 minutes ago, Chawk said:

We had 2 pages of discussion on them so they are as good as TBC in my eyes.

I like your optimism, but if that's all it took then someone reading out various Radiohead related lists would be the headliner all night every night.

[eastynh]

11 minutes ago, Martin Ashford said:

A fair point, I will do that just to show a bit of fairness.

Good man. Best to give something to try. Nothing better than being pleasantly surprised when listening to something new.

6 minutes ago, paddyclark said:

Yes brilliant at Kendal.  The wife loved it even when he fell on top of her with a failed crowdsurf

Tim mentioned at a gig last week that he was going to stop crowd surfing as people are too busy taking videos of him, than to catch him. He reckons he got a nasty injury.

[thewayiam]

12 minutes ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

I think basically what Martin means is he fancies taylor but not Adele. 

Yeah but that's this whole board.

[sisco]

8 minutes ago, thewayiam said:

Yeah but that's this whole board.

I quite fancy both tbf

[Slugworth]

I fancy Adele.