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Hmm interesting Why is that -  I would say given there current stock it makes them more likely to open the other than a normal slot?    First successful albums in lets be honest (a long time).  Paralells with James when they were selected to do it in 2016!  If anything the early slot had been designed to highlight an act as oposed to just putting them on first -  Hard Fi in a regular line up on the Other stage would be pretty close to the bottom of it - you would think anyway, 

Get Viagra boys on there and this is pretty much perfect! Great work 👍😎

I hope you’re right. I would prefer a proper headliner on Thursday. But I can’t see any of Boris B/Nelly F/Justice playing the 4th down slot when they’ve been given sub headliner billing on the poster.     I thought Leaks said ages ago there would be a single rock headliner?    Looking at who’s around next summer I think it’s one of QOTSA, Sam Fender or Vampire Weekend. I thought Kings of Leon were possible as well but they’ve got US dates either side of Sziget so not likely.   QOTSA was just a random guess out of those three. Fender would probably fit the demographic better tbh. 

I didn't even know he had solo material out!

I don't know. But I do know there are hundreds, if not thousands of acts that can sell out stadiums and never get to headline the Pyramid stage. Likewise there are acts that do not have the massive track record of selling out stadiums that might. I'm not sure that's 'the' key metric used to be honest.  Also, I said one or two more massive hits, not a whole set of them. Don't get me wrong, I love him, and I'd be at the stage in a heartbeat if he was headlining. But in terms of individual songs, and the 'stats' he's had a good few less hits than Billie when she headlined, (we're talking a millions vs billions on the board, quite a difference.) Olivia if she does headline (similar story here.) His streaming / sales figures are even lower than Sza, by some margin. BUT, I don't think this is always a good metric either, if there was ever any doubt then Sza proved that. And you're right, things could look very different after February anyway. 🤞 When somebody is the right fit (which I think Sam is) and it's the right time (this I'm not so sure about,) then it's just meant to be, isn't it? Stadium tours, streaming numbers, album sales etc are all just noise really. The pyramid crowd just want to be entertained, and more often than not it's music that they're familiar with that gets the party going on the main stage. In this respect, it's certainly not going to hurt any potential Pyramid set, if his album is great and spawns a couple more hit songs, is it?