2023 legend slot

[Alcatraz]

7 minutes ago, eddie_corrigan said:

Headlined jazz world (yeah i still call it that) in 2011 against Beyonce and they were all sorts of ace. great way to finish any festival

Was that not Kool and the Gang? (who indeed were ace)

[CaledonianGonzo]

13 minutes ago, Alcatraz said:

Was that not Kool and the Gang? (who indeed were ace)

It was.

KC and the lads are also a WH sort of band

[MEGABOWL]

2 hours ago, Hugh Jass II said:

I get sick of saying this but the festival can only book who is available and willing to take the gig.

Taylor, Beyoncé, Madonna, Pink, etc are all for one reason or another unavailable.

People seem to think Emily can just pull a headline sized female act out of her backside at a minute’s notice.

Yep. And I get sick of people ignoring Emily saying only last June that some years they will have all-male headliners. There’s a weird selective listening thing going on.

[Alcatraz]

Just now, CaledonianGonzo said:

It was.

KC and the lads are also a WH sort of band

Yeah and the most recent live video of them I can find is this

Which honestly looks like a great big pile of sloppy fun

[CaledonianGonzo]

1 minute ago, MEGABOWL said:

Yep. And I get sick of people ignoring Emily saying only last June that some years they will have all-male headliners. There’s a weird selective listening thing going on.

To make the headliners look less odd they should move some of them down the bill and move some non-headliners sized acts up into the top slots.  Other festivals do it all the time.

[listenstolotsofcrap]

42 minutes ago, scaryclaireyfairy said:

It’s gonna be the year of the out of date and out of tune sausages if our assumptions are correct. 
 

Im old and didn’t end up sticking around for any of the Pointy headliners last year so I’m not hugely arsed but there’s a distinct lack of appeal for the under 25s (or 35s?). I hope we’ve got it terribly wrong. It’s all well and good knowing there’ll be plenty elsewhere skewed to a younger age group but it’s not great to not have that represented in top line for the Pyramid. 

8/10 my ten-person group (23-25yrs) will go see AM, half for Elton, maybe 2 for GnR. I'm personally not interested in any of the three as headliners but might be dragged to AM or Elton.

Stick KC on West Holts though and I'll be happy as anything.

[Alex DeLarge]

I think it's pretty clear that Emily Eavis hates women. Can't she just ask Beyonce, Rihanna and Dua Lipa to play? And for Stevie Nicks to do the legend slot?

[sisco]

1 minute ago, Alex DeLarge said:

I think it's pretty clear that Emily Eavis hates women. Can't she just ask Beyonce, Rihanna and Dua Lipa to play? And for Stevie Nicks to do the legend slot?

Stevie, would you mind cancelling your tour dates as we need a female name at the top of the poster 

[FloorFiller]

Can’t wait for next year when we have two of Madonna/Taylor/Dua/Rihanna headlining and possibly a female Sunday legend so we have months of the opposing moaners having their say on the festival going all ‘pop’ etc. 

[gfa]

54 minutes ago, BenG92 said:

I find it really funny that they could just rename Other to "the Parklife stage" and their work is done.

Fred Again / The Prodigy / The 1975. Easy. The 1975 would be absolutely perfect as a big Other name to drag people away from Elton. 

Still think the 1975 would never accept other (and if they did they'd be very stupid to).

[listenstolotsofcrap]

Just now, gfa said:

Still think the 1975 would never accept other (and if they did they'd be very stupid to).

If what's been said about them being offered a headline slot in 2021 is true then I think they're bound to headline on the back of their next record or even next year. Not at the top this year perhaps due to being too similar to AM, but a JP secret set?

[Jose Pose]

19 minutes ago, sisco said:

Stevie, would you mind cancelling your tour dates as we need a female name at the top of the poster 

They must have needed a Nonce at the top of the poster the year the Who did it.

[eddie_corrigan]

44 minutes ago, Alcatraz said:

Was that not Kool and the Gang? (who indeed were ace)

ineed it was....

[WhoOdyssey]

2 hours ago, BenG92 said:

It did almost exactly as well as The Car - but of course the boys have the bigger back catalogue (that they'll mostly avoid)

UK 2022 end of year album chart:

The Car - #17
Special - Not in the Top 100 (and released about 3 months earlier)

First week sales:

The Car - 119,016 
Special - 5,245

Quite a difference there!

Edited February 3, 2023 by WhoOdyssey

[Hugh Jass II]

2 hours ago, Neil said:

not a minute's notice, she's got a whole year to sort it.

And far in advance do you think tours are booked?

Matt heard about Beyoncé’s dates in 2021.

[Neil]

3 minutes ago, Hugh Jass II said:

And far in advance do you think tours are booked?

Matt heard about Beyoncé’s dates in 2021.

so she'd have had two years to book beyonce. we all have to do our jobs with external factors effecting what we can do and when.

[Jose Pose]

2 minutes ago, Neil said:

so she'd have had two years to book beyonce. we all have to do our jobs with external factors effecting what we can do and when.

And some do them a lot better than others. 

[BenG92]

10 minutes ago, WhoOdyssey said:

UK 2022 end of year album chart:

The Car - #17
Special - Not in the Top 100 (and released about 3 months earlier)

First week sales:

The Car - 119,016 
Special - 5,245

Quite a difference there!

Ahh I'd totally misread something else I was looking at - never mind then, bit more of a gap 🤣 

[GeezLouise]

33 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

Can’t wait for next year when we have two of Madonna/Taylor/Dua/Rihanna headlining and possibly a female Sunday legend so we have months of the opposing moaners having their say on the festival going all ‘pop’ etc. 

I do think that next year is going to be female across the board. 

[maelzoid]

6 hours ago, a6l6e6x said:

Gary glitter just got out?

Glastonbury-shaped hole. But John Peel stage, amiright!?!?

[Superscally]

10 hours ago, clarkete said:

People (on here) regularly site that, but didn't she join about thirty years after they started? 

Not to diminish her role, but wondering why it's so regularly mentioned. 

Probably because people say they're an all male band, which they're not any more? 

[henry bear]

Some very unlikely names being bandied about for the Legend slot. To make life easier, here’s a fail-safe flowchart:

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Just been watching the Hitsville documentary - they should definitely get Smokey Robinson on that stage at some point.

[Superscally]

4 hours ago, maelzoid said:

Glastonbury-shaped hole. But John Peel stage, amiright!?!?

Yer not wrong laddie

[clarkete]

1 hour ago, Superscally said:

Probably because people say they're an all male band, which they're not any more? 

Pfft, you and yer bloody facts