Foo Fighters

[michael eavis' beard]

Assuming Holland and Belgium being lit up means they're returning to Pinkpop and Rock Werchter - both cancelled in 2015.  Now seems almost impossible they won't return to Glastonbury as well.

[the wonderwhy]

They've been ruled out of Pinkpop. Have just added Werchter though, yeah.

[russycarps]

 

43 minutes ago, Mezhyp1 said:

They've obviously spent their time away studying their bank balances, and they've realised they've not got anywhere near enough so they're returning to play every fucking festival and city in the world, nice work guys 

 

this is going to be one of those really special one-off legendary glastonbury sets that's for sure. 

[Smeble]

i know Glastonbury don't have to worry about not selling out but at what point do they start caring about how many other festivals their headliners are doing?

both Radiohead and FF(if they are doing G) are both doing multiple festivals next summer, at what point does that lessen their status ( and I mean the bands and the festival)

glastonbury is the pinnacle but they still need to be careful who headlines, Adele this year was huge, but they can't be complacent and just get the same bands as everyone else.

and yes I know it's not all about the headliners, but to the media and generall public it is.

Edited November 14, 2016 by Smeble

[Hugh Jass]

15 minutes ago, Smeble said:

i know Glastonbury don't have to worry about not selling out but at what point do they start caring about how many other festivals their headliners are doing?

both Radiohead and FF(if they are doing G) are both doing multiple festivals next summer, at what point does that lessen their status ( and I mean the bands and the festival)

glastonbury is the pinnacle but they still need to be careful who headlines, Adele this year was huge, but they can't be complacent and just get the same bands as everyone else.

and yes I know it's not all about the headliners, but to the media and generall public it is.

They can only book who's available and touring, it's pretty rare that an act will do GF completely as a one off. Even recent mega-headliners like Adele and the Stones were in the middle of huge tours. The big US acts especially do come over and spend the summer touring the European festivals.

In short: It doesn't matter.

[jparx]

The only chance they have of bagging festival exclusive rights, or at least a situation where an act is playing very few other European festivals, is if the act has a particular relationship with the festival (e.g. Adele and Coldplay). Otherwise, as Scruff says, they don't pay enough to go around demanding it.

And to be fair to Radiohead, they are hardly playing 100+ shows next year. Their tour (so far) is fairly limited.

Edited November 14, 2016 by jparx

[FloorFiller]

13 minutes ago, Smeble said:

i know Glastonbury don't have to worry about not selling out but at what point do they start caring about how many other festivals their headliners are doing?

both Radiohead and FF(if they are doing G) are both doing multiple festivals next summer, at what point does that lessen their status ( and I mean the bands and the festival)

glastonbury is the pinnacle but they still need to be careful who headlines, Adele this year was huge, but they can't be complacent and just get the same bands as everyone else.

and yes I know it's not all about the headliners, but to the media and generall public it is.

as much as it may pain us to admit, most bands aren't arsed that Glastonbury is Glastonbury and certainly aren't just gonna up and tour/say no to other festivals/paydays just to be some kind of Glastonbury exclusive. that said, in the past few years we've had U2 headline, a band who didn't do festivals and haven't done since, The Rolling Stones in their first festival headline slot in decades and Adele, another act who doesn't do festivals, all of whom are some of the biggest acts in the world, which is no small feat for a festival that pays a fraction of it's competitors worldwide. and chances are this year we'll have Ed Sheeran who'll no doubt be doing his first major festival headline show at Glastonbury, something he's voiced huge excitement about doing in the past. might not be a huge deal but it's something a lot of other festivals would love to have, and who knows if he'll be doing any other festivals (probably will though)

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

When was the last time that Glastonbury had an exclusive headliner? Does it go back as far as Bowie in 2000 or has there been one (or more) since?

[FloorFiller]

3 minutes ago, SPTFRE said:

When was the last time that Glastonbury had an exclusive headliner? Does it go back as far as Bowie in 2000 or has there been one (or more) since?

Adele this year

[brettredmayne]

4 minutes ago, SPTFRE said:

When was the last time that Glastonbury had an exclusive headliner? Does it go back as far as Bowie in 2000 or has there been one (or more) since?

Depends how you define exclusive , adele did her only festival appearance at Glastonbury so really that was an exclusive . 

In 2004 oasis just came back to play glastonbury I think minus 2 small warm up shows 

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

Just now, FloorFiller said:

Adele this year

Good shout. Any others? Just curious really. Before I started attending, watching the TV coverage I always had the perception that Glastonbury was the one festival that attracted the headline acts that were out of reach for the others. Maybe that was not necessarily the case, maybe it was but times have moved on? Those who've been attending for longer than I have are better placed to comment as I've only been going since 2008 

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

11 minutes ago, brettredmayne said:

Depends how you define exclusive , adele did her only festival appearance at Glastonbury so really that was an exclusive . 

In 2004 oasis just came back to play glastonbury I think minus 2 small warm up shows 

I mean acts where they haven't done a 30-date European tour or promoted a new album. Oasis in 2004 being a case in point

[Hugh Jass]

Don't recall Kanye playing many dates around GF last year?

[Tommy101]

I think Gorrilaz were exclusive ish? Isn't that one of the reasons they may have been a it disappointing - not being 'match fit'?

[Ovechkin]

muse only played one festival in europe last year - glastonbury

Coldplay and adele only played one festival, worldwide, last year - glastonbury

 

The argument that foo fighters are sellouts but not RH when radiohead have like 3 times shows announced including multiple festivals, lol

Pink pop or best kept secret in NL?

[incident]

Even if Glastonbury suddenly started caring about "exclusives", at this stage all the other Festivals announced by FF and Radiohead are elsewhere in Europe and so really wouldn't factor in anyway. Ultimately as far as the UK press, and the vast bulk of the UK potential ticket buying audience is concerned, what's happening at Pinkpop, Sziget, Roskilde, etc really isn't a consideration.

If you start getting fussy about having an acts only european festival apperance then the already small pool of potential headliners becomes absolutely tiny.

[Rose-Colored Boy]

11 minutes ago, incident said:

Even if Glastonbury suddenly started caring about "exclusives", at this stage all the other Festivals announced by FF and Radiohead are elsewhere in Europe and so really wouldn't factor in anyway. Ultimately as far as the UK press, and the vast bulk of the UK potential ticket buying audience is concerned, what's happening at Pinkpop, Sziget, Roskilde, etc really isn't a consideration.

If you start getting fussy about having an acts only european festival apperance then the already small pool of potential headliners becomes absolutely tiny.

And from a British TV perspective Glastonbury is so relatively early in the season that if they share headliners with the likes of Reading, people would say 'already watched them headline Glastonbury, don't want to watch them headline Reading too, what else is on', not the other way around 

[Justiceforcedave]

Unless you are potentially thinking about throwing your Glasto tickets back in the pot (because Foos are everywhere next year), I don't think the festival has much to worry about.

[Tommy101]

In my opinion the exclusive thing about Glastonbury is that it is Glastonbury. The heritage, range of entertainment available and atmosphere within the fence are far less accessible and far more important than the last few bands on one of the stages.

[jparx]

39 minutes ago, Ovechkin said:

muse only played one festival in europe last year - glastonbury

Coldplay and adele only played one festival, worldwide, last year - glastonbury

 

The argument that foo fighters are sellouts but not RH when radiohead have like 3 times shows announced including multiple festivals, lol

Pink pop or best kept secret in NL?

I don't get that argument at all either.

It's called a 'TOUR'. It's something bands do.

[Gozpot]

48 minutes ago, Ovechkin said:

muse only played one festival in europe last year - glastonbury

Ejekt Festival in Greece

Paleo Festival, Montreaux Jazz Festival and Gurtenfestival in Switzerland 

Festival de Nimes, Garorock and Eiffel Tower in France

Benicassim in Spain

U-Park festival in Ukraine

Sziget in Hungary

Lowlands in the Netherlands

Rock am See in Germany

Live Festival in Poland

 

Might want to recount.

Edited November 14, 2016 by Gozpot

[Ovechkin]

22 minutes ago, Gozpot said:

Ejekt Festival in Greece

Paleo Festival, Montreaux Jazz Festival and Gurtenfestival in Switzerland 

Festival de Nimes, Garorock and Eiffel Tower in France

Benicassim in Spain

U-Park festival in Ukraine

Sziget in Hungary

Lowlands in the Netherlands

Rock am See in Germany

Live Festival in Poland

 

Might want to recount.

Ouch, most have mixed them up with someone

[Matt42]

Erm I really don't get this argument at all?

the majority of UK festival goers don't give a rats ass about festivlas outside the UK.

[eFestivals]

3 hours ago, Smeble said:

 

i know Glastonbury don't have to worry about not selling out but at what point do they start caring about how many other festivals their headliners are doing?

 

They don't.

I happened to be stood next to Emily Eavis when she took a call from Jay Z's people, with them asking her what other shows they were allowed to book in.

She told them to fill their boots.

[Smeble]

5 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

Erm I really don't get this argument at all?

the majority of UK festival goers don't give a rats ass about festivlas outside the UK.

No argument, just curiosity about whether people care where else the headliners are playing.