Acts Touring Around Glastonbury 2024

[CaledonianGonzo]

Let's book Shaun Ryder, Bez, Andy Bell off of Ride and Zak Starkey doing whatever the f**k it is that they do rather than f**king Vince and Andy.

[CaledonianGonzo]

They booked the wrong Andy Bell!

[Mich1268]

They seem to be doing quite a lot of dates in the UK

[The Red Telephone]

Any of Erasure, The Human League or Tears For Fears would be great

[CaledonianGonzo]

Erasure in The Hives slot, deploying all manner of f**king face melters.

[FloopFiller]

42 minutes ago, The Red Telephone said:

Any of Erasure, The Human League or Tears For Fears would be great

80s synth pop/new wave type bands are a genre that is strangely absent from Glastonbury at large. There are tons of these bands who do the likes of IOW every year but never hit the farm. I do wonder if they all just want better slots/money than Glastonbury would give them, as they’d no doubt get kind of low novelty slots rather than the high billings they’d get elsewhere. 

[NorthernSoul52]

Tears for Fears would be fantastic there, but also probably wouldn't get booked to sub the Pyramid, which is a shame. Somewhere Saturday afternoon or third down Sunday feels like my guess.

1 Everybody Wants to Rule the World
2 Secret World
3 Pale Shelter
4 No Small Thing
5 Sowing the Seeds of Love
6 Change
7 The Tipping Point
8 Mad World
9 Break it Down Again
10 Woman in Chains
11 Head Over Heels / Broken
12 Shout

[Ayrshire Chris]

Erasure for me,I think I post that every year😉😊

[NorthernSoul52]

11 hours ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

Erasure for me,I think I post that every year😉😊

Erasure is an odd one because I love them on record, but the lone time I saw them, they were unexpectedly tosh. Was a massive disappointment. 

[MEGABOWL]

12 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Tears for Fears would be fantastic there, but also probably wouldn't get booked to sub the Pyramid, which is a shame. Somewhere Saturday afternoon or third down Sunday feels like my guess.

1 Everybody Wants to Rule the World
2 Secret World
3 Pale Shelter
4 No Small Thing
5 Sowing the Seeds of Love
6 Change
7 The Tipping Point
8 Mad World
9 Break it Down Again
10 Woman in Chains
11 Head Over Heels / Broken
12 Shout

One of my dream bookings but one that I think won’t happen

[NorthernSoul52]

2 minutes ago, MEGABOWL said:

One of my dream bookings but one that I think won’t happen

Can be a bit pricey, I heard? And tend to want excellent billing at events.

I think they'd want the sub slot. I don't think Glastonbury would give them it.

[charlierc]

13 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Tears for Fears would be fantastic there, but also probably wouldn't get booked to sub the Pyramid, which is a shame. Somewhere Saturday afternoon or third down Sunday feels like my guess.

I remember them opening for The Killers at BST Hyde Park several years ago and being much more impressed by them than I was for Elbow in-between TFF & TK.

[dondo]

18 hours ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

Erasure for me,I think I post that every year😉😊

Erasure plus OMD for me.  

[Pipine]

The latest Erasure tour live album popped up on my Spotify this week and Andy bell sounds in fine form tbh… they’d be great on the farm. 

[Kalopsia]

48 minutes ago, dondo said:

Erasure plus OMD for me.  

Would love both of these!

[NorthernSoul52]

Saw OMD supporting a-ha in Doncaster a few years ago, and blew 'em off the park.

a-ha are a weird one. Seen 'em three times, and the two times they've played a straight bat, they've wobbled between average and mediocre.

But then I saw their unplugged show at The O2 about six years ago, and that's possibly in my twenty best gigs ever. It was genuinely astounding how much light and shade they found in that format.

[eatingglitter]

On 2/3/2024 at 10:00 PM, NorthernSoul52 said:

Tears for Fears would be fantastic there, but also probably wouldn't get booked to sub the Pyramid, which is a shame. Somewhere Saturday afternoon or third down Sunday feels like my guess.

1 Everybody Wants to Rule the World
2 Secret World
3 Pale Shelter
4 No Small Thing
5 Sowing the Seeds of Love
6 Change
7 The Tipping Point
8 Mad World
9 Break it Down Again
10 Woman in Chains
11 Head Over Heels / Broken
12 Shout

This is my dreammmmm. Although I'd also want that version of Laid So Low from the Greatest Hits which seems to have absolutely disappeared from existence. 

[NorthernSoul52]

2 minutes ago, eatingglitter said:

This is my dreammmmm. Although I'd also want that version of Laid So Low from the Greatest Hits which seems to have absolutely disappeared from existence. 

I can't say I can recall that one. Missing in the streaming age?

[*biggreg*]

Probably of no surprise to most of us.... this puts them near / in the area for the weekend before?

[mouserat]

2 minutes ago, *biggreg* said:

Probably of no surprise to most of us.... this puts them near / in the area for the weekend before?

So many of the Trinity College Dublin gigs last summer were bands also at Glasto so think this makes them very, very likely to be there. Do they still merit a Pyramid sub slot or could you arguably move them to third down (as good as One Day Like This is at sunset)?

[Kaboom Boxer]

8 minutes ago, mouserat said:

So many of the Trinity College Dublin gigs last summer were bands also at Glasto so think this makes them very, very likely to be there. Do they still merit a Pyramid sub slot or could you arguably move them to third down (as good as One Day Like This is at sunset)?

Just had a look to see which other artists have gigs at Trinity between the beginning of May and end of July and came up with this list:

• Jane's Addiction (free Sat & Sun)
• Suede (free Sun)
• Tom Odell (free Sat)
• Paul Weller (free Fri, Sat & Sun)
• Villagers (free Fri & Sun)
• Manic Street Preachers (free Sun)

Edited February 5 by Kaboom Boxer
updated with availability

[NorthernSoul52]

25 minutes ago, Kaboom Boxer said:

Just had a look to see which other artists have gigs at Trinity between the beginning of May and end of July and came up with this list:

• Jane's Addiction (free Sat & Sun)
• Suede (free Sun)
• Tom Odell (free Sat)
• Paul Weller (free Fri, Sat & Sun)
• Villagers (free Fri & Sun)
• Manic Street Preachers (free Sun)

I'll have Suede into Manics on the Other Stage mid-afternoon. Give 'em an hour each.

[ClementsMike]

36 minutes ago, mouserat said:

So many of the Trinity College Dublin gigs last summer were bands also at Glasto so think this makes them very, very likely to be there. Do they still merit a Pyramid sub slot or could you arguably move them to third down (as good as One Day Like This is at sunset)?

They dropped to third down last time (2022) so yeah.

They suited the Park Slot too, I reckon.

[NorthernSoul52]

Two years is a pretty quick turnaround, but it is Elbow.

Stick 'em somewhere, they'll still be a treat.

[FloopFiller]

40 minutes ago, mouserat said:

So many of the Trinity College Dublin gigs last summer were bands also at Glasto so think this makes them very, very likely to be there. Do they still merit a Pyramid sub slot or could you arguably move them to third down (as good as One Day Like This is at sunset)?

Really don’t see them being booked again so soon after playing the Pyramid in 2022. Think they’ll skip this album run and potentially be back on the next one.