Acts Touring around Glastonbury 2023

[Chrisp1986]

1 minute ago, Hugh Jass said:

Where would Paolo place at Glasto these days? Other sub?

Really difficult. From memory was he effected by the electric storm last time that messed up timings for lily Allen, elbow, rudimental, interpol? Think he was 3rd down other? Guess depends if his new stuff flops or not but then not stopped Billie.....

Could he be acoustic headliner??? I say 4th down pyramid if he comes out of the barn with a belter

[sisco]

6 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

Where would Paolo place at Glasto these days? Other sub?

I’d say Sub other or 3rd Pyramid.

An acoustic header he is not! 

[Rose-Colored Boy]

34 minutes ago, Chrisp1986 said:

Really difficult. From memory was he effected by the electric storm last time that messed up timings for lily Allen, elbow, rudimental, interpol? Think he was 3rd down other? Guess depends if his new stuff flops or not but then not stopped Billie.....

Could he be acoustic headliner??? I say 4th down pyramid if he comes out of the barn with a belter

Other sub last time (and based on his placings at other fests should really have been headlining it).

Obviously the fact it’s a Scottish event is a huge caveat regarding his placing, but it’s still pretty impressive for a non-legacy act to be headlining a fairly big fest after eight years between albums - and it’s great to see him on the comeback trail regardless of how it goes sales-wise.

Edited September 14, 2021 by Rose-Colored Boy

[Matt42]

13 hours ago, dentalplan said:

That's proper wild. They never get anyone like that usually.

It's an 'exclusive north of England show' so they're playing somewhere down south around that time I guess.

BUT WHEEEEREE?

One O2 date

[Matt42]

21 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

Where would Paolo place at Glasto these days? Other sub?

Really hard as I thought in 2014 he was kinda underbilled. 
 

But he’s been so inactive that I dunno whether his stock has dropped.

Edited September 14, 2021 by Matt42

[Rose-Colored Boy]

7 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

Really hard as I thought in 2014 he was kinda underbilled. 

Aye. Would’ve made the whole top of the 2014 card look that little bit stronger if he’d taken one of the Other headline spots wasted on Skrillex and Buggy Boy. The clash with Elbow was stupid too.

Edited September 14, 2021 by Rose-Colored Boy

[Matt42]

10 minutes ago, Rose-Colored Boy said:

Aye. Would’ve made the whole top of the 2014 card look that little bit stronger if he’d taken one of the Other headline spots wasted on Skrillex and Buggy Boy. The clash with Elbow was stupid too.

Did he clash with elbow? I always remember his set being in the dark.

[Rose-Colored Boy]

9 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

Did he clash with elbow? I always remember his set being in the dark.

He was certainly meant to clash with Elbow. Can’t remember if he actually did after all the timings got messed up by the storm tho. All I remember is rushing through the mud after he finished because nobody was sure when the hell any of the headliners on the main stages that night were going to end up coming on.

Edited September 14, 2021 by Rose-Colored Boy

[kingcrawler]

I can see Paolo Nutini headlining Latitude, they seem to like him. I think his day at TRNSMT will sell out quite easily, he’s one of the acts people ask for every year.

[Rose-Colored Boy]

5 minutes ago, kingcrawler said:

I can see Paolo Nutini headlining Latitude, they seem to like him.

Yep. Fits it like a glove and hasn’t played it since 2011. Got to be there.

[Hugh Jass]

17 minutes ago, Rose-Colored Boy said:

He was certainly meant to clash with Elbow. Can’t remember if he actually did after all the timings got messed up by the storm tho. All I remember is rushing through the mud after he finished because nobody was sure when the hell any of the headliners on the main stages that night were going to end up coming on.

The timings were definitely screwed up. I watched Interpol with the intention of going over to Elbow afterwards, by the time I got from Other to Pyramid Elbow were just finishing up.

[Rose-Colored Boy]

9 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

The timings were definitely screwed up. I watched Interpol with the intention of going over to Elbow afterwards, by the time I got from Other to Pyramid Elbow were just finishing up.

Likewise, I turned up a few minutes before P-Nut was due on and saw all of Interpol instead! They kept flashing up updated timings for the Other on its screens, but without a smartphone you were completely in the dark as to what was going on elsewhere.

Edited September 14, 2021 by Rose-Colored Boy

[Gnomicide]

I watched Elbow and got round to The Other and (I think) he was just starting. 

I'm placing him as Pyramid headliner. Yeah, I know but I'd be happy.

We've spoken on here about how people can come back to more excitement because they've been away for so long. It would be one hell of a gamble for the festival but I'd imagine his album (there must be one) will do really well.

More realisticly I'd see him as Pymild sub or Other headliner.

[Hugh Jass]

Thinking about it I think he'd work well third on the Pyramid after DiRo.

[henry bear]

[Mattymooz]

1 hour ago, Gnomicide said:

I watched Elbow and got round to The Other and (I think) he was just starting. 

I'm placing him as Pyramid headliner. Yeah, I know but I'd be happy.

We've spoken on here about how people can come back to more excitement because they've been away for so long. It would be one hell of a gamble for the festival but I'd imagine his album (there must be one) will do really well.

More realisticly I'd see him as Pymild sub or Other headliner.

I think sub would be a good spot for him, in a year where people have been suggesting Wolf Alice and Haim for the sub slot, I think Paolo would easily get a bigger crowd than them

[John the Moth]

57 minutes ago, henry bear said:

Was gonna post this, they got one tie dipped in the cool June water.

[John the Moth]

Nailed on for Avalon Sunday Headline 😉

 

[Gnomicide]

1 hour ago, henry bear said:

Bugger, that's over Bearded weekend, I'd have been up for that.

[Rose-Colored Boy]

1 hour ago, Mattymooz said:

I think sub would be a good spot for him, in a year where people have been suggesting Wolf Alice and Haim for the sub slot, I think Paolo would easily get a bigger crowd than them

Only problem with that of course being that he hasn’t tried to sell a single tour ticket or album since 2014, so - unless his streaming stats are incredible - his popularity outside Scotland could have dropped off a cliff in the intervening years and the bookers wouldn’t know until it was too late. He doesn’t ‘do’ social media to maintain a fanbase either. Apart from a couple of random shows like headlining Hogmanay 2017, he’s just completely disappeared from the public eye for what will by next summer be nearly a decade.

Other sub definitely sounds less risky. If his comeback does go well they can always invite him back for a Pyramid sub/Other headline slot next time (unless of course he takes another massive break).

Edited September 14, 2021 by Rose-Colored Boy

[FloorFiller]

I really don’t see Paolo moving up the lineup at Glastonbury after such a long break. Third down Pyramid would be my guess (although I may have said that about like fifteen acts at this point…) or same slot as last time. 

[parsonjack]

26 minutes ago, John the Moth said:

Nailed on for Avalon Sunday Headline 😉

 

Hmm...not feeling it myself.  Good as it would be.....it would be a 6 night run, and a bit of a jaunt from Glasgow to Pilton and back to Liverpool.

[Matt42]

Really struggle to place him. I think he’d work 3rd / 4th down pyrmaid / other sub. Then again I could even see him third down other… which is ambitious but he’s taken a long break and it’s really hard to gauge whether the festival would still push him as a marquee act.

[Ayrshire Chris]

[Ayrshire Chris]

4 hours ago, henry bear said:

Love a bit of Alice!  He was meant to be touring with The Hollywood Vampires but the Johnny Depp situation might have affected that.  The Cult are a decent shout.