2019 Headliners

[strummer77]

5 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

All that had been announced before that point were Rokia Traore, Nas, Disclosure, Hot Natured, David Rodigan, SubFocus, Aluna George, Eats Everything, Rudimental and The Congos. So we got all 3 headliners and loads of others, more than has been on recent posters, all at the same time.

Interesting. I think from memory AM were ‘confirmed’ on here prior so it wasn’t a shock - and people were by this point expecting the Stones (if slightly nervous it wouldn’t ever happen) but people were still unsure about Mumford until that evening

Edited March 2, 2019 by strummer77

[Gnomicide]

3 minutes ago, strummer77 said:

Interesting. I think from memory AM were ‘confirmed’ on here prior so it wasn’t a shock - and people were by this point expecting the Stones (if slightly nervous it wouldn’t ever happen) but people were still unsure about Mumford until that evening

Sounds right but officially it all came out on the 27th March at 7pm. I had thought it was Radio 1, not Absolute as someone said further up, poster dropped at the same time. I remember sitting on my bed, laptop on, radio on, texting mates and watching eFests explode.

[strummer77]

13 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

Sounds right but officially it all came out on the 27th March at 7pm. I had thought it was Radio 1, not Absolute as someone said further up, poster dropped at the same time. I remember sitting on my bed, laptop on, radio on, texting mates and watching eFests explode.

Was definitely on Radio 1 

[Gilgamesh69]

What was the reaction like to The Stones being confirmed?

[Hugh Jass]

1 hour ago, strummer77 said:

Yep. So the Stones and Mumford were basically announced at the same time

The ultimate good news/bad news double.

[CaledonianGonzo]

8 minutes ago, Gilgamesh69 said:

What was the reaction like to The Stones being confirmed?

The usual mix. A lot of folk chuffed, a lot of folk going "Is it just me that isn't interested / the Pyramid's for squares anyway".

[Avalon_Fields]

2 hours ago, morph100 said:

Has Michael Eavis come out and said this is the best lineup yet? 

Not quite. He’s on record as saying there’s only 35 festival years that have been better...

[CaledonianGonzo]

To be fair the poster design is quite easy this year - they just need to take 2017s and strike off a lot of the names with a magic marker.

[The Nal]

14 minutes ago, Gilgamesh69 said:

What was the reaction like to The Stones being confirmed?

[CaledonianGonzo]

Also a lot folk who'd seen them in the A Bigger Bang era and thought at that point the game was up.

[Gnomicide]

The 2013 headliners thread only got to 459 pages before the headliners were announced.

Bloody amateurs.

 

24 minutes ago, Gilgamesh69 said:

What was the reaction like to The Stones being confirmed?

The confirmation came in at page 108 of the dedicated Stones thread.

 

Edited March 2, 2019 by Gnomicide

[strummer77]

19 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

The usual mix. A lot of folk chuffed, a lot of folk going "Is it just me that isn't interested / the Pyramid's for squares anyway".

I think the reaction was a lot more positive than usual to be fair. Nobody really could say the booking wasn’t justified. The negative comments were more questions surrounding whether they were still any good live and would they live up to the hype (and it turned out, they could) 

[The Nal]

16 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Also a lot folk who'd seen them in the A Bigger Bang era and thought at that point the game was up.

A lot of folk who saw vids of the same tour from a few months before and thought at that point the game was up. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Heh.....reading some of that back. Russtrodamus carps predicting an empty field after 20 minutes.

[Keithy]

Poster will be Thursday at 11am. Because that's when my flight to Stockholm takes off and I won't have a signal for a few hours.

[Avalon_Fields]

They’re timing the kill or cure main line up announcement when we reach page 1000. Or 10,000 if we’re unlucky. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

2 minutes ago, Keithy said:

Poster will be Thursday at 11am. Because that's when my flight to Stockholm takes off and I won't have a signal for a few hours.

Jammy

[tumbles]

My FB memories for today showed that U2/Coldplay/Beyoncé line up/poster dropped for 2011.

Edited March 3, 2019 by tumbles

[sisco]

1 hour ago, tumbles said:

My FB memories for today showed that U2/Coldplay/Beyoncé line up/poster dropped for 2011.

That early?? Thought it was normally April (apart from the last few years when it’s been late March)

Just looked at the thingy..... all hail the thingy! The last 2 have been announced 29th and 30th March with the 2 before that being the 14th and 4th April.  Another 4/5 weeks to go then. 

Edited March 3, 2019 by sisco

[tumbles]

27 minutes ago, sisco said:

That early?? Thought it was normally April (apart from the last few years when it’s been late March)

Just looked at the thingy..... all hail the thingy! The last 2 have been announced 29th and 30th March with the 2 before that being the 14th and 4th April.  Another 4/5 weeks to go then. 

Well I’m concluding from my status as I’ve mentioned Elbow confirmed and then also mentioned U2/Coldplay and Beyoncé attending on the replies. Maybe it was just the headliners confirmed ?‍♂️

[Gnomicide]

1 hour ago, tumbles said:

My FB memories for today showed that U2/Coldplay/Beyoncé line up/poster dropped for 2011.

 

38 minutes ago, sisco said:

That early?? Thought it was normally April (apart from the last few years when it’s been late March)

Just looked at the thingy..... all hail the thingy! The last 2 have been announced 29th and 30th March with the 2 before that being the 14th and 4th April.  Another 4/5 weeks to go then. 

They'd all been announced in February. The poster came out on 14rh April.

[tumbles]

7 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

 

They'd all been announced in February. The poster came out on 14rh April.

Nice one - so Elbow must of be one of the 13 I guess. Can’t recall the chems being announced same day but probably were. God I loved that Sat night in 2011

[Gnomicide]

35 minutes ago, tumbles said:

Nice one - so Elbow must of be one of the 13 I guess. Can’t recall the chems being announced same day but probably were. God I loved that Sat night in 2011

They weren't.  I only have official announcements though so it may have been a self confirm.

https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/more-line-up-announced/

[tumbles]

Argh another duplicate 

Edited March 3, 2019 by tumbles

[utwothefly]

1 hour ago, Gnomicide said:

 

They'd all been announced in February. The poster came out on 14rh April.

I remember U2 were heavily rumoured after not doing 2010. Then they dropped a massive hint (pretty much confirmation) on their website way before tickets went on sale. Probably the only time I’ve ever been 100% sure a headliner playing. People connected to the band knew and it got out. Doesn’t seem like that’s happened since then