2024 Headliners

[FloopFiller]

40 minutes ago, Colorblindjames said:

Listen mate you made no attempt to seriously reply to the points I've made and instead decided to play the man. Your comment got the response it deserved. 

"What a strange argument, even from you." 

Whataboutism isn’t a valid point.

[mouserat]

I do think there's an 'apples and oranges' to any comparison between Dave and a US act like Frank Ocean/Tyler/Childish Gambino, purely because Glastonbury is always going to be much more likely to give a leg up to a UK act no matter who has more streams/number ones/sold out stadium tours. And this is even more pronounced if it's a genre outside the festival's "usual" for headliners historically. 

You are much more likely to get someone like Snoop Dogg or Eminem headlining the Pyramid than Frank Ocean or Tyler the Creator, even if the latter artists are more exciting, but you're also more likely to get Dave than Eminem because of that UK bias.

[guypjfreak]

Queen 

[Guest]

6 hours ago, Suprefan said:

Tyler has his own little festival that sells out with no lineup announced in prior to ticket sales and Dave could never muster such a thing.  You can watch it this weekend if you want and see how he can pull all of it together cause of who he is friends with. Dave would be at the bottom of the schedule is he played.

 

 

the reason your mum doesnt knoe a certain artist is cause you lot wanna keep new and interesting artists off the big stages and just put the boring safe ones up there.

That's really interesting thank you for letting me know

[stuie]

6 hours ago, Suprefan said:

Tyler has his own little festival that sells out with no lineup announced in prior to ticket sales and Dave could never muster such a thing.  You can watch it this weekend if you want and see how he can pull all of it together cause of who he is friends with. Dave would be at the bottom of the schedule is he played.

Still spectacularly failing to understand America is not the UK. 

6 hours ago, Suprefan said:

the reason your mum doesnt knoe a certain artist is cause you lot wanna keep new and interesting artists off the big stages and just put the boring safe ones up there.

Do you know we don't do the bookings?

[Superscally]

6 hours ago, Suprefan said:

Tyler has his own little festival that sells out with no lineup announced in prior to ticket sales and Dave could never muster such a thing.  You can watch it this weekend if you want and see how he can pull all of it together cause of who he is friends with. Dave would be at the bottom of the schedule is he played.

 

 

the reason your mum doesnt knoe a certain artist is cause you lot wanna keep new and interesting artists off the big stages and just put the boring safe ones up there.

Just because America thinks (or tells you) they're interesting, doesn't mean they're any good...

[CaledonianGonzo]

Glastonbury just wouldn't book anyone like Tyler, The Creator*.

Too feart, too conservative, too parochial.

(*Except for Earl Sweatshirt who played this year)

Edited November 10, 2023 by CaledonianGonzo

[CaledonianGonzo]

Actually, I always forget he's already played.

https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.theguardian.com/music/2013/jul/01/tyler-creator-glastonbury-2013?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From %1%24s&aoh=16996092390169&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fmusic%2F2013%2Fjul%2F01%2Ftyler-creator-glastonbury-2013

[stuie]

5 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Actually, I always forget he's already played.

He did indeed - in spite of the petition to pull him! 

https://www.change.org/p/tell-glastonbury-no-to-rape-culture-pull-tyler-the-creator

[CaledonianGonzo]

Sosie B just needed to be a bit more edgy.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

1 hour ago, sisco said:

Someone for the younger audience.  For example FredAgain would have done fairly well I’d imagine 

Yes, good shout. I very much doubt he would have taken it, though. Rumour has it, he was offered the Other headline slot for the Friday but turned it down. No doubt, he already has his future plan in place. Everything he seems to do appears to be deliberate and carefully mapped out

[northernangel]

6 hours ago, Suprefan said:

Tyler has his own little festival that sells out with no lineup announced in prior to ticket sales and Dave could never muster such a thing.  You can watch it this weekend if you want and see how he can pull all of it together cause of who he is friends with. Dave would be at the bottom of the schedule is he played.

 

 

the reason your mum doesnt knoe a certain artist is cause you lot wanna keep new and interesting artists off the big stages and just put the boring safe ones up there.

So you're trying to suggest that an American rapper does well in a country where rap is and always has been one of it's music focal points? Rappers and Hip hop acts are the first thing that enters my head musically when I think America. Doesn't mean it translates to the UK though. 

[Colorblindjames]

1 hour ago, FloopFiller said:

Whataboutism isn’t a valid point.

Either are your milquetoast musical tastes.

[stuie]

4 minutes ago, Colorblindjames said:

Either are your milquetoast musical tastes.

Setting yourself apart from the groupthink and the milquetoast again? 

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

* muttering "Wait'll they get a load of me!!!" to myself as I prepare to shock the squares on the Glastonbury forum by revealing my love for Eminem*

[american idiot]

Hoped this would be an interesting conversation but can’t say I’m surprised it’s devolved so quickly into whatever this

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

Milquetoast is 2023's Cuck

Another one to add to the eFests glossary

[gfa]

18 hours ago, american idiot said:

How is it not even close when Tyler has had more top 10 albums than him? Especially when half of Dave’s hits have come off the back of collaborating with Central Cee (who is exponentially more popular among young people), not solo work.

and I don’t mean to come off sounding like I don’t like Dave’s music, I do. He’d probably smash a headliner set. I’m just curious where your line of thinking comes from.

Dave has headlined R&L, Wireless etc before - Tyler has never done shows nearly that big here.

8 hours ago, Suprefan said:

Tyler has his own little festival that sells out with no lineup announced in prior to ticket sales and Dave could never muster such a thing.

Bad Bunny could also do this in the US yet couldn't sell out Pryzm Watford over here.

Suprefan with another stupid comparison (shocker!)

[Jacksamthompson]

18 minutes ago, gfa said:

Dave has headlined R&L, Wireless etc before - Tyler has never done shows nearly that big here.

Bad Bunny could also do this in the US yet couldn't sell out Pryzm Watford over here.

Suprefan with another stupid comparison (shocker!)

tyler has headlined wireless... and parklife.

[gfa]

27 minutes ago, Jacksamthompson said:

tyler has headlined wireless... and parklife.

right scrap that lol

R&L defo a bigger show though than either of them

[tomf3]

1 hour ago, american idiot said:

Hoped this would be an interesting conversation but can’t say I’m surprised it’s devolved so quickly into whatever this

Agreed. Thankfully Glastonbury is musically diverse, and seems to quite enjoy booking headliners that are a bit of a surprise and certain people moan, but then in hindsight turn out to be a great booking. So really anything could happen! 

[Skip997]

2 minutes ago, tomf3 said:

Agreed. Thankfully Glastonbury is musically diverse, and seems to quite enjoy booking headliners that are a bit of a surprise and certain people moan, but then in hindsight turn out to be a great booking. So really anything could happen! 

Not very often though, most are very predictable "safe" bookings*.

*West Holts and The Park excepted

[stuie]

2 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

Not very often though, most are very predictable "safe" bookings*.

*West Holts and The Park excepted

It's really no surprise that they book big acts (safe) for the big stage. 

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

West Holts and The Park also book safe acts i.e. acts appropriate for the size of the stage and the likely demographic.

[FloopFiller]

2 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

West Holts and The Park also book safe acts i.e. acts appropriate for the size of the stage and the likely demographic.

Yep, there’s just a lot more of them at that mid-level size (and the size of them often varies) so it’s harder to initially predict.