2024 Headliners

[Andy0808 v5]

2 minutes ago, SomeoneListeningIn said:

Been predicting this for a while but now J Hus has announced a UK arena tour I think he’ll headline Other next year.

I think due to legal issues; he can’t tour currently, (if he can, changed recently)

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Andy0808 v5 said:

I think due to legal issues; he can’t tour currently, (if he can, changed recently)

Literally just announced a UK arena tour.

[CaledonianGonzo]

3 minutes ago, Benjsh said:

Didn't know. Don't know the song. Doesn't that say everything about how irrelevant the single charts have become though? 

That style of music does absolutely nothing for me though tbf. 

It's also #1 on Spotify.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/dave-and-central-cee-sprinter-is-spotify-uk-most-streamed-song-in-a-single-day-in-2023-so-far-3452500

This week, it was confirmed that ‘Sprinter’ became Spotify UK’s most streamed song in a single day in 2023 so far. Currently, the track has amassed more than 20 million streams in just under five days. The track also broke the record for the most streamed hip-hop song in the UK in a single day in Spotify history.

[Andy0808 v5]

2 minutes ago, SomeoneListeningIn said:

Literally just announced a UK arena tour.

Ignore me then. I’m clearly a moron.

[Drinky]

49 minutes ago, Rose-Colored Boy said:

Stormzy and Mumfords are the only times they’ve taken a chance on a headliner in living memory

Is 2002 not considered living memory now?

[fraybentos1]

efestivals really loves Little Simz. There is no way she's headlining Glasto ever, sorry to say

[Benjsh]

2 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

It's also #1 on Spotify.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/dave-and-central-cee-sprinter-is-spotify-uk-most-streamed-song-in-a-single-day-in-2023-so-far-3452500

This week, it was confirmed that ‘Sprinter’ became Spotify UK’s most streamed song in a single day in 2023 so far. Currently, the track has amassed more than 20 million streams in just under five days. The track also broke the record for the most streamed hip-hop song in the UK in a single day in Spotify history.

Maybe I'm just getting old then. To me it's absolute shite on a stick.

Just a guy talking over pre recorded music mostly. If that is now what is worthy of Glasto headline act then my word I might need to pack it all in. 

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Yip

[Benjsh]

1 minute ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Yip

Doubt you'd be listening to it if you were nearly 40 though and brought up on Macca Jagger, Bruce etc

Definitely seems like it's one for you young ones then. I'd 1000% be elsewhere in the festival whenever he ever plays again. Probably like everyone else who is over 30-35 would be. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

I'm nearly 50

[goldfishboy]

8 minutes ago, Benjsh said:

Maybe I'm just getting old then. To me it's absolute shite on a stick.

Just a guy talking over pre recorded music mostly. If that is now what is worthy of Glasto headline act then my word I might need to pack it all in. 

 

you sound like my parents talking about rap back in the day

[Benjsh]

6 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

I'm nearly 50

And you listen to Dave? Fair play.....

It's not for me. 

3 minutes ago, goldfishboy said:

you sound like my parents talking about rap back in the day

Never been a fan of rap really either. Don't find it entertaining. I like to listen to instruments and watch a band live. Nothing will ever beat that for me. 

Tried to enjoy Jay Z, Kanye and Kendrick.....didn't land with me at all. I just don't get it and I suppose never will. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

It should be spelled with a C.

[MEGATRONICMEATWAGON]

11 minutes ago, Benjsh said:

Maybe I'm just getting old then. To me it's absolute shite on a stick.

Just a guy talking over pre recorded music mostly. If that is now what is worthy of Glasto headline act then my word I might need to pack it all in. 

 

You must like some rap from 70s/80s/90s tho, Grandmaster Flash? Run DMC? Slick Rick?

I love hip-hop but I'm not a really big fan of Central Cee either.

[FloorFiller]

19 minutes ago, fraybentos1 said:

efestivals really loves Little Simz. There is no way she's headlining Glasto ever, sorry to say

Yeah I agree. Think she’ll get a Pyramid slot in the next couple of years, maybe fourth down, and that’ll be her peak in terms of Glastonbury. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

To be fair it was me that brought her up, and just in the context of saying I'd prefer her to Loyle Carner - and said outright she was a long way away from it.

[Benjsh]

1 minute ago, MEGATRONICMEATWAGON said:

You must like some rap from 70s/80s/90s tho, Grandmaster Flash? Run DMC? Slick Rick?

I love hip-hop but I'm not a really big fan of Central Cee either.

Not really mate tbh. I know a few of the classics from a little later on from likes of Biggie and 2Pac etc but it's just not my style of music at all. 

Closest I ever got with hip-hop / rap was early Eminem when he was literally everywhere and even that didn't last for me. 

Give me a great band playing live over any hip hop act any day of the week. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

So you're unlikely to ever be on board with a balanced multi-genre Glastonbury line up.

[Hugh Jass II]

56 minutes ago, ciderdrenched said:

Agree with Little Simz, maybe 2025 or 2026 

Can’t see Simz ever taking the top slot. Critical darling for sure but nowhere near popular enough.

[CaledonianGonzo]

It is a pity as otherwise she's the full package.

[Hugh Jass II]

Simz did herself absolutey no favours by stealth dropping the follow up to SIMBI rugt before Christmas.

The thud it landed with still reverberates through East London.

[MEGATRONICMEATWAGON]

5 minutes ago, Benjsh said:

Not really mate tbh. I know a few of the classics from a little later on from likes of Biggie and 2Pac etc but it's just not my style of music at all. 

Closest I ever got with hip-hop / rap was early Eminem when he was literally everywhere and even that didn't last for me. 

Give me a great band playing live over any hip hop act any day of the week. 

Fair play. The Pyramid trio isn't ever going to please everyone, and tbh, that's the way it should be. If you spend each night at the Pyramid for the headliners, you miss out on some really great alternative headliner slots. It was a bit out of character that I was there two out of the three nights this year, but never had any interest in seeing Arctics. Hot Chip were absolutely blindin'.

[CaledonianGonzo]

3 minutes ago, Hugh Jass II said:

Simz did herself absolutey no favours by stealth dropping the follow up to SIMBI rugt before Christmas.

The thud it landed with still reverberates through East London.

Yes it did - but I understood it to be more of a mixtape type deal rather than the follow up proper.

[MEGATRONICMEATWAGON]

Really can't ever seeing Lil Simz rising up either, not unless she releases some more commercial hits, tracks more in-line with Venom, but even then she'd need at least two more albums to get up there.

[Hugh Jass II]

1 minute ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Yes it did - but I understood it to be more of a mixtape type deal rather than the follow up proper.

She billed it as a full album though.

Definitely a bit of a momentum killer.