Hurt/Heal 2021 - Ultimate Headliners Edition!

[Hugh Jass]

50 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

I'm coming for you Deadmau5!

If Bugg isn’t immediately and violently shot down within five posts then quite frankly eFests will be dead to me.

[HeyPorter]

2 hours ago, Gnomicide said:

I'm coming for you Deadmau5!

Loads of dance acts for you to gun for. 

[Gnomicide]

4 minutes ago, HeyPorter said:

Loads of dance acts for you to gun for. 

Currently setting up 20 new eFests accounts.

[SheffJeff]

I was tricked into going seeing Alt-J in 2017 by my stupid fucking brain so I'm gonna be gunning for them from the get go.

[waltere]

1 hour ago, SheffJeff said:

I was tricked into going seeing Alt-J in 2017 by my stupid fucking brain so I'm gonna be gunning for them from the get go.

 

[SheffJeff]

21 minutes ago, waltere said:

 

I've seen that before actually and it's one of those annoying tunes that sticks in your head... bit embarrassing when you're walking round tesco doing a big shop singing 'ah put it in my butt, ah put it in my butt etc. etc.'

[kalifire]

11 hours ago, mcshed said:

Before Jake Bugg? First one out in that lot will be a hotly contested title.

At least Jake Bugg plays an instrument.

[mcshed]

4 hours ago, kalifire said:

At least Jake Bugg plays an instrument.

Deadmau5's hat > Jake Bugg's guitar

[Hugh Jass]

8 hours ago, kalifire said:

At least Jake Bugg plays an instrument.

And Hitler was a vegetarian, but you'd still stop him.

[Punksnotdead]

Jake Bugg was very popular for a brief period. Inexplicable maybe, but undeniably true.

[stuartbert two hats]

11 minutes ago, Punksnotdead said:

Jake Bugg was very popular for a brief period. Inexplicable maybe, but undeniably true.

He was never "headlining the Other Stage" popular though.

[Homer]

I actually quite liked his first album (it's possible I'm in the wrong thread).

[Punksnotdead]

1 minute ago, stuartbert two hats said:

He was never "headlining the Other Stage" popular though.

More popular than Boy Better Know I would say?

[Gnomicide]

1 hour ago, Homer said:

I actually quite liked his first album (it's possible I'm in the wrong thread).

Yeah, it's good. I'd probably gone to watch him if it didn't clash.

I last saw him at Bearded Theory in 2018 when he was sub headliner to Jimmy Cliff. It was a decent set.

[Hugh Jass]

I recall Bugg being on the Pyramid early afternoon in 2013, remember bumbling around and him being on in the background. Think he may even have played the Acoustic that weekend too.

No way he should have jumped from that to Other headliner in 12 months.

[fraybentos1]

1 hour ago, stuartbert two hats said:

He was never "headlining the Other Stage" popular though.

He subbed T and Reading/ Leeds that same year I believe. He was very popular for a period of like one year.

[st dan]

I think there is a fair argument for booking certain artists to headline The Other Stage whilst at their most popular, and riding the crest of the wave. Otherwise you’d have the same establish artists booked every couple of years for the slot, who aren’t big enough for the big gig on the Pyramid. 

Obviously this will leave some acts like Jake Bugg that will raise some eyebrows looking back years later, but at the time I think it was a booking that made enough sense, and added some ‘variety’ to the slot. 

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

2 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

He was never "headlining the Other Stage" popular though.

Edit: he was never "headlining the Other Stage, subbed by Pixies" popular though

[Punksnotdead]

13 minutes ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

Edit: he was never "headlining the Other Stage, subbed by Pixies" popular though

Fair point. I didn't mind though, as it meant I could see Pixies and Mogwai at The Park.

[incident]

1 hour ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

Edit: he was never "headlining the Other Stage, subbed by Pixies" popular though

True, but if they'd put the Other Stage in the correct order that day, I'd not have been able to catch all of Pixies, then nip straight over to the Pyramid just in time for the start of Metallica. Being able to achieve that run of Manics > Pixies > Metallica more than makes up for any strange placement decisions.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

Yeah, @Punksnotdead and @incident, sometimes weird placements have their advantages! 

[Fishman]

5 hours ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

Edit: he was never "headlining the Other Stage, subbed by Pixies" popular though

Wasn't the theory that it was supposed to be Metallica, Pixies, JB (and Prince on the main stage). When the Purple One pulled out, Metallica were shifted across and the JB jumped up and filled the gap as Pixies couldn't headline as they had to leave immediately after their set to be elsewhere?

[Hugh Jass]

3 minutes ago, Fishman said:

Wasn't the theory that it was supposed to be Metallica, Pixies, JB (and Prince on the main stage). When the Purple One pulled out, Metallica were shifted across and the JB jumped up and filled the gap as Pixies couldn't headline as they had to leave immediately after their set to be elsewhere?

I always thought Pixies subbed because the festival didn’t want too similar acts clashing on the two biggest stages.

[Fishman]

7 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

I always thought Pixies subbed because the festival didn’t want too similar acts clashing on the two biggest stages.

Yeah - maybe, but aren't there loads of examples of bemusing 'two similar acts clashing'?

[Hugh Jass]

I didn’t watch Pixies... but I also didn’t watch Jack White who was on the Pyramid at the same time. No idea what I was up to that evening.