2024 Headliners

[Porcelina]

I assume there's no new album either, and it's just the usual legacy cash grab tour again.

[stuie]

54 minutes ago, Porcelina said:

I assume there's no new album either, and it's just the usual legacy cash grab tour again.

It’s supply and demand. He’s not robbing people of their cash by not making a new album. Attendance is optional! 

[CaledonianGonzo]

I always struggle with that argument as it applies to heritage acts.  You're going to hear the classics, not yards of middling new material.

[incident]

4 hours ago, Porcelina said:

I assume there's no new album either, and it's just the usual legacy cash grab tour again.

Hopefully, yes.

(though probably worth adding - a true Cash Grab tour generally wouldn't include Glastonbury amongst limited dates).

Edited February 4 by incident

[Aromaticmusic1]

Why is everyone certain that it’ll be Stevie, Coldplay, dua

[Drinky]

1 hour ago, Aromaticmusic1 said:

Why is everyone certain that it’ll be Stevie, Coldplay, dua

People talk, and that’s what they’re saying.

[clarkete]

2 hours ago, Aromaticmusic1 said:

Why is everyone certain that it’ll be Stevie, Coldplay, dua

 

[westholtschic]

21 minutes ago, clarkete said:

 

How good would he have been at the farm 

[Hugh Jass II]

6 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

I always struggle with that argument as it applies to heritage acts.  You're going to hear the classics, not yards of middling new material.

How often does a heritage act release new material that actually stands with their classic stuff?

Doom and Gloom slapped hard, but struggling to think of many others.

[Neville Street]

I’ve not properly listened to it, but the Hackney Diamonds tracks sounded good. Maybe a bit “Stones by numbers” but not rubbish.

[Alex DeLarge]

20 minutes ago, Hugh Jass II said:

How often does a heritage act release new material that actually stands with their classic stuff?

Doom and Gloom slapped hard, but struggling to think of many others.

 

Off the top of my head:

David Bowie - Blackstar

Johnny Cash - The American Series

Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow

A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from here... thank you for your service

Depending on your definition of "heritage" - My Bloody Valentine - mbv, Slowdive - Slowdive as well

 

[GrumpyRaver]

27 minutes ago, Hugh Jass II said:

How often does a heritage act release new material that actually stands with their classic stuff?

Doom and Gloom slapped hard, but struggling to think of many others.

Black Sabbath - 13 is a great album.

[Hugh Jass II]

4 minutes ago, Alex DeLarge said:

Off the top of my head:

David Bowie - Blackstar

Johnny Cash - The American Series

Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow

A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from here... thank you for your service

Depending on your definition of "heritage" - My Bloody Valentine - mbv, Slowdive - Slowdive as well

 

Blackstar is a great shout.

[GrumpyRaver]

I suppose you could also count Ballad of Darren, tbh…

[NorthernSoul52]

Doom and Gloom absolutely slaps. Whooped when I heard it in the last Avengers film.

[Joey Peeps]

Don't know if New Order can be billed as a heritage act but Music Complete is one of their best records.

[NorthernSoul52]

1 minute ago, Joey Peeps said:

Don't know if New Order can be billed as a heritage act but Music Complete is one of their best records.

Probably are these days, but a very good point.

[Kalopsia]

14 minutes ago, Hugh Jass II said:

Blackstar is a great shout.

Right up there with his best work for me. 

[Hugh Jass II]

Back to the original question… does anyone really want new material from Stevie Wonder these days?

Does anyone want 3-4 songs taking the place of older, and invariably better, material?

[Avalon_Fields]

41 minutes ago, Hugh Jass II said:

Back to the original question… does anyone really want new material from Stevie Wonder these days?

Does anyone want 3-4 songs taking the place of older, and invariably better, material?

Erm, no! Just checking, probably fair to say his last good new recordings were some songs on Hotter Than July. 1980.

[NorthernSoul52]

I mean, not really, but it depends what the show even is. If it's two half-hours punctured by a DJ set, then maybe I wouldn't mind the new tunes in the middle instead.

[Avalon_Fields]

1 hour ago, Hugh Jass II said:

How often does a heritage act release new material that actually stands with their classic stuff?

Doom and Gloom slapped hard, but struggling to think of many others.

Almost never, but they can sometimes produce material that’s worthwhile. From 2023 I reckon all of these made decent albums, without being classic: The Pretenders, The Rolling Stones, OMD, Paul Simon, Blur, Peter Gabriel, Cat Stevens.

[NorthernSoul52]

38 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:

Almost never, but they can sometimes produce material that’s worthwhile. From 2023 I reckon all of these made decent albums, without being classic: The Pretenders, The Rolling Stones, OMD, Paul Simon, Blur, Peter Gabriel, Cat Stevens.

This might stoke controversy, but think there's at least two tracks from I/O that could stand in Peter Gabriel's all-time top-ten solo songs. (One of them is not Live and Let Live, but that is probably my favourite from the record. Absolutely slapped live.)

[Dreamingofsunnydays]

1 hour ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

I mean, not really, but it depends what the show even is. If it's two half-hours punctured by a DJ set, then maybe I wouldn't mind the new tunes in the middle instead.

Why would there be a dj set in the middle?

[NorthernSoul52]

4 minutes ago, Dreamingofsunnydays said:

Why would there be a dj set in the middle?

I may be missing something here, but thought people had been talking that at his most recent shows, there had been some kind of DJ break? Have I got the wrong end of the stick again?