Pyramid Subs 2022

[sisco]

4 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

I’d agree with you but he has to be playing somewhere on Glasto Friday. Weird to not be anywhere Fri and Sat on a tour.

I mean he could announce something but I don’t know why it wouldn’t be in the initial wave of dates. 

You really believe that Harry Styles (who will announce more dates) will be playing Wembley Stadium, playing other stadiums and also headlining Coachella is going to sub? Really?

Id even accept people saying he could headline Saturday but subbing Billie…. Come on

[balthazarstarbuck]

10 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

I’d agree with you but he has to be playing somewhere on Glasto Friday. Weird to not be anywhere Fri and Sat on a tour.

I mean he could announce something but I don’t know why it wouldn’t be in the initial wave of dates. 

Nah. If he’s at Glasto it’s as a punter or playing incognito.

He may well have more dates to sell. Not saying he’s not there but zero chance he’s advertised at this stage. 

[Suprefan]

7 minutes ago, balthazarstarbuck said:

Nah. If he’s at Glasto it’s as a punter or playing incognito.

He may well have more dates to sell. Not saying he’s not there but zero chance he’s advertised at this stage. 

There are extra dates with all those gaps. So whats the discussion if he adds Thursday in Dublin? He aint doing 3 in a row and then youve got the travel issue going Sat to Sun.

 

If he was slated to play in any capacity for 2022 there wouldnt be the Germany gig on Sunday. It would be Monday at worst. Billie still has days off in her country jumping week right before Glasto, no reason why Harry wouldnt either.

Edited January 19, 2022 by Suprefan

[Hugh Jass]

Would it not look a bit weird to have a sub who’s playing multiple Wembley dates below a headliners who’s doing arenas? (Yeah I know Billie is doing loads of nights).

 

[Matt42]

17 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

Would it not look a bit weird to have a sub who’s playing multiple Wembley dates below a headliners who’s doing arenas? (Yeah I know Billie is doing loads of nights).

 

I do get what you’re saying. Is there any chance Harry could have been confirmed way back when and he’s just holding a slot he has bagsied for some time?

Eight or so months ago we wouldn’t have considered him a headline or nothing. This is the issue with not having two festivals, some acts have rocketed up and it’s probably been quite odd putting this lineup together.

Like I still think Dua Lipa is headlining other stage for this reason. It was probably all agreed not accounting for the fact that Dua would get bigger in two years time.

Edited January 19, 2022 by Matt42

[Suprefan]

 

46 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

Would it not look a bit weird to have a sub who’s playing multiple Wembley dates below a headliners who’s doing arenas? (Yeah I know Billie is doing loads of nights).

 

You can argue that Harry booked Wembley out of sheer efficiency. You can play to the same amount of people at Wembley in one night then it wouldve been with 4 dates at The O2. Billie just rebooked everything so that it mirrored the original tour. If there was a concern visually ( poster wise ) with that sort of thing then you keep Harry off the poster and drop him in later as a surprise slot. It wont be that big of a mystery anyway.  a surprise sub wouldnt really be seen as being put a notch down. Mumfords were going to do it and they headlined already albeit theyve lost a bit of their draw, its still fairly large name to put in that position anyway.

Edited January 19, 2022 by Suprefan

[kingcrawler]

Seems like a decent time to revive this. We know Noel is lined up for the Saturday but I don’t think we have any clue for the other slots do we? We now know Foals and Sam Fender are playing the Other stage, Haim are on before Noel and that Royal Blood most likely aren’t playing, so that’s a few of the obvious contenders ruled out. 

I’m not too sure who else is realistically left. Jack White is in London on the Monday and Tuesday after the festival and seems a decent shout, even if he’s not quite as big as he once was. Biffy Clyro are around too, though it might be a bit soon since the last time they subbed. Other than that, I think most of the suggestions have been acts who are headlining other festivals or are clearly big enough to headline, like Dave or Harry Styles. Lana Del Rey doesn’t seem like she’s active at all and we never knew who the 2020 Sunday sub were (I don’t think it was Mumford & Sons). Dua Lipa could do it but I think if she’s back it’ll be on the Other stage again. Wolf Alice are a contender and could play under Billie Eilish but again, they seem more likely for the Other stage.

I don’t really think she’s big enough but I wouldn’t be hugely surprised to see Lorde and her crystal skulls subbing at this point, just because she’s around and most other options seem unlikely.

[Hugh Jass]

I'm inclined to agree with you.

Jack White seems a decent shout for the Friday and I don't think they would have three guitar acts as subs, so yeah why not Lorde for the Sunday? She could easily have been booked a while ago before everyone realised what a clunker Solar Power was.

[the wonderwhy]

The National 

[Hugh Jass]

1 minute ago, the wonderwhy said:

The National 

They're headlining the Other when Styles is on.

[kingcrawler]

8 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

I'm inclined to agree with you.

Jack White seems a decent shout for the Friday and I don't think they would have three guitar acts as subs, so yeah why not Lorde for the Sunday? She could easily have been booked a while ago before everyone realised what a clunker Solar Power was.

Yeah Lorde’s tour dates make sense for playing on the Sunday and as you say, I don’t really expect there to be three guitar acts as subs. Saying that, while it might not be intentional I think they’ve booked a guitar/rock act as the Sunday sub every year since they bizarrely put Pendulum there, so Lorde doing it would be a bit of a change. I suppose there is no pattern and all that. I’m happy to just go with The National doing it though.

[1986]

Put The War on Drugs on before McCartney.

[Bigglue]

28 minutes ago, kingcrawler said:

Seems like a decent time to revive this. We know Noel is lined up for the Saturday but I don’t think we have any clue for the other slots do we? We now know Foals and Sam Fender are playing the Other stage, Haim are on before Noel and that Royal Blood most likely aren’t playing, so that’s a few of the obvious contenders ruled out. 

I’m not too sure who else is realistically left. Jack White is in London on the Monday and Tuesday after the festival and seems a decent shout, even if he’s not quite as big as he once was. Biffy Clyro are around too, though it might be a bit soon since the last time they subbed. Other than that, I think most of the suggestions have been acts who are headlining other festivals or are clearly big enough to headline, like Dave or Harry Styles. Lana Del Rey doesn’t seem like she’s active at all and we never knew who the 2020 Sunday sub were (I don’t think it was Mumford & Sons). Dua Lipa could do it but I think if she’s back it’ll be on the Other stage again. Wolf Alice are a contender and could play under Billie Eilish but again, they seem more likely for the Other stage.

I don’t really think she’s big enough but I wouldn’t be hugely surprised to see Lorde and her crystal skulls subbing at this point, just because she’s around and most other options seem unlikely.

Friday

Billie subbed by Dua

Saturday

Harry Styles subbed by Noel

Sunday

Paul McCartney subbed by Jack White

Think all dates match.

[Hugh Jass]

6 minutes ago, Bigglue said:

Friday

Billie subbed by Dua

Saturday

Harry Styles subbed by Noel

Sunday

Paul McCartney subbed by Jack White

Think all dates match.

Thought Dua could only do Saturday?

[Bigglue]

1 minute ago, Hugh Jass said:

Thought Dua could only do Saturday?

She is free Friday and Saturday

[FloorFiller]

Jack/Noel/Lorde would be a pretty decent trio.

Lorde obviously seems weaker now after releasing that last snoozer of an album, but I know some on here (me included) were predicting she could take a sub slot before that so it wouldn’t be the most outrageous booking. Still reckon she could be our yearly third down Pyramid pop star, but for lack of any other ideas I’ll stick with sub for now. 

Jack might not have the hype surrounding him that he did last time, but assuming he’s still gonna play a shitload of White Stripes stuff then he fully deserves the sub slot and I’d be really stoked to have him play. Hopefully he’ll lay off the white stuff pre-performance this time.

[FloorFiller]

Also, obviously it seems like they had a mystery sub for 2020 so I wonder if that’s something they might be carrying over aka possibly an act too big for that slot. Again, fuck knows who, but it might be why there aren’t too many obvious sub contenders. 

[Florian Saucer Attack]

55 minutes ago, kingcrawler said:

Seems like a decent time to revive this. We know Noel is lined up for the Saturday but I don’t think we have any clue for the other slots do we? We now know Foals and Sam Fender are playing the Other stage, Haim are on before Noel and that Royal Blood most likely aren’t playing, so that’s a few of the obvious contenders ruled out. 

I’m not too sure who else is realistically left. Jack White is in London on the Monday and Tuesday after the festival and seems a decent shout, even if he’s not quite as big as he once was. Biffy Clyro are around too, though it might be a bit soon since the last time they subbed. Other than that, I think most of the suggestions have been acts who are headlining other festivals or are clearly big enough to headline, like Dave or Harry Styles. Lana Del Rey doesn’t seem like she’s active at all and we never knew who the 2020 Sunday sub were (I don’t think it was Mumford & Sons). Dua Lipa could do it but I think if she’s back it’ll be on the Other stage again. Wolf Alice are a contender and could play under Billie Eilish but again, they seem more likely for the Other stage.

I don’t really think she’s big enough but I wouldn’t be hugely surprised to see Lorde and her crystal skulls subbing at this point, just because she’s around and most other options seem unlikely.

Why are royal blood unlikely?

[the wonderwhy]

Just now, Florian Saucer Attack said:

Why are royal blood unlikely?

Geezer who's saying Foals and Sam Fender etc is also saying they're not there (although he's not 100% on it). 

[AlexOvd]

54 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

They're headlining the Other when Styles is on.

Don't play with this 😁

[Florian Saucer Attack]

5 minutes ago, the wonderwhy said:

Geezer who's saying Foals and Sam Fender etc is also saying they're not there (although he's not 100% on it). 

Thanks. I'm happy about this, I don't care for royal blood at all

[AlexOvd]

Have a feeling we will have one sub no one is thinking about in the predictions... 

[Somto Unigwe Raphael]

The Vaccines on their post-pandemic lineup boost.

[Neondrift]

28 minutes ago, AlexOvd said:

Have a feeling we will have one sub no one is thinking about in the predictions... 

21 pilots tour dates line up for the Sunday or possibly Friday. Could be an unexpected contender. One of those big but not big enough to headline acts & would definitely please the mainstream crowd

[FloorFiller]

8 minutes ago, Neondrift said:

21 pilots tour dates line up for the Sunday or possibly Friday. Could be an unexpected contender. One of those big but not big enough to headline acts & would definitely please the mainstream crowd

I just don’t see Glastonbury going for them myself. Stranger things have happened, but I’d be surprised to see them booked. Reckon they’d cost a fuckload these days too.