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I will Arctic Monkeys probably had the biggest leep I'd seen from a band. The Killers as well in my mind. Two bands to do it at the time off of absolutely banger albums. 

In a way, yeah. I saw Billie in 2019 and she was super awesome. Played 4th down the bill of the LL mainstage. Did I think it was a headlining worthy set?  When she dropped her second album and started headlining, I was a bit disappointed. Felt too early in her career, definetly immature. With that being said, Billie was an anomaly - she's almost unprecedentedly acclaimed (youngest to win 4 of  the big 4 in the grammys at the same year, she has the same amount of Oscars as Tarantino), so maybe it was inevitable. 

I am probably biased in wanting to hear a few songs like I Let Love In, (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?, Lime Tree Arbour and Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow that I somehow missed on the original tours. My budget was simply smaller in 1998 so I couldn't really travel to shows! I certainly think these are as much "hits" as anything currently played, as quite a few were MTV videos, etc, but I suspect that most people have largely forgotten those. There were a few rarities at recent non-album focused All Point East shows, but I think we all have to realise that the Bad Seeds have almost no overlap with the band from 20 years ago, so I almost feel it is better that they play the new album in full, as a "real" band, rather than playing cover versions of older songs.

The Olivia Rodrigo thing has put me in mind a bit about a chat a couple of us were having in the Primavera forum earlier this year/around the time the line up was announced.    I think another thing that is important to note is that diversity, particular gender diversity, seems to be a massive pre-requisite for the modern festival audience and I think promoters are very in-aware of this. I don't think that's a bad thing at all by the way, but I do think festivals the size of Werchter, Glasto etc have had to adjust their booking strategies accordingly in order to get female artists (or female-fronted bands) to the level of headliner to address the issue quite quickly. There are hardly any out-and-out ticket sellers from rock/alt that fit that criteria so they've had to cast the net wider with acts like Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa etc to address a previously existing imbalance and ensure they aren't left behind.

I dont know why people insist of adopting such attitude. Why are you socmad? Man did I insult you or something?   true, I didn't know many of her popular songs. But I don't need more than watching 30 minutes of her set online to confirm my impressions on her as a performer.   Yes, she's inexperienced. No, I don't think that being a good ticket seller at the peak of your extremely short career is an indication for performance abilities. I don't deny that she is headlining festivals, I'm saying that soon enough, festivals that chose to change strategy and book headliners like Olivia as HEADLINERS will see a decline in ticket sales. Just like happened in Coachella who started booking acts like Blackpink, and will happen soon in Glasto (Maybe? Dunno the brits may be more loyal)