2025 Headliners

[Suprefan]

18 hours ago, Ben7amin_ said:

 

Snow Patrol is exactly the kind of slot that in my head halfway down the Pyramid is far to big for them.   But in reality will be very popular, they are a top booking for the "I will not listen to any music that came out after 2008" crowd who always show up at Glastonbury in numbers 

they still sell out arenas in the uk and europe. Not too big of a slot. Look st Keane this year. And they are of the same era and are just as much a draw. 

[Euphoricape]

14 hours ago, glimmers_of_hope said:

Looks like download have teased Green Day with pushing their early bird tickets. Green fireworks in the picture and something about wake me in June...

https://www.kerrang.com/amp/are-download-festival-teasing-green-day-for-2025

 

I think several people thought they were going for download rather than glasto. Looks like it's fairly nailed on now. 

I'm hoping they play a few other UK shows next summer too. Rumours of playing Eden sessions. 

[Skip997]

16 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:, you want someone of the Billy Joel mould - cross-generational appeal, singalongs for days - to close out Sunday.

Why?

[NorthernSoul52]

12 hours ago, stuie said:

was just going to say someone like stevie wonder before I finished reading your post.  The optics are right for three different headliners with both current acts and a legendary pro. 

 

Bang on the money. Still think we should be keeping powder dry on some of the up-and-comers - but then, arguably, a headline slot possibly ringfences them for the future. I don't view Florence and the Machine as being a bigger draw now than they were when they stepped up in 2015, but equally, them taking that slot at short notice does mean we could announce them for next year and point to it as a safe pair of hands. (Had they not taken 2015 off, there's a chance it would have been Biffy Clyro, perhaps, and that would have likely ringfenced them in the way doing Download did for them in 2017.)

 

It's going to look a lot better to have people like Olivia Rodrigo, Dave, Fred again..., Sam Fender and The 1975 already as bill-toppers in case they go off a commercial cliff next. You never quite know.

 

But then again, you may get situations like Mumford and Sons where, with the best will in the world, Glastonbury won't go back knocking again. So much to weigh up.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Dave ain't happening.

[NorthernSoul52]

Just now, CaledonianGonzo said:

Dave ain't happening.

 

Next year? No. But it was more a general sense of the artists they could if they chose to go down those routes, and said artists were happy to jump at the gig.

[NorthernSoul52]

6 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

Why?

For some reason, this isn't showing whichever message has been quoted, so not sure which it is.

[CaledonianGonzo]

10 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

 

Next year? No. But it was more a general sense of the artists they could if they chose to go down those routes, and said artists were happy to jump at the gig.

 

Never say never, but that combined with the fallow year does feel like it places him into the Close But No Cigar group along with folk like The 1975 and Biffy Clyro.

[NorthernSoul52]

2 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Never say never, but that combined with the fallow year does feel like it places him into the Close But No Cigar group along with folk like The 1975 and Biffy Clyro.

A lot depends if absence makes the heart grow fonder. To highlight a shout there, think The 1975 are still in contention - might be off the road now, but the profile was as big as it's ever been when they wrapped up the run earlier this year.

 

2026 being a fallow may hurt them, but there's a lot in play.

[Skip997]

15 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

For some reason, this isn't showing whichever message has been quoted, so not sure which it is.

Why Billy Joel just to appease the “I came to Glastonbury by mistake” crew

[CaledonianGonzo]

5 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

A lot depends if absence makes the heart grow fonder. To highlight a shout there, think The 1975 are still in contention - might be off the road now, but the profile was as big as it's ever been when they wrapped up the run earlier this year.

 

2026 being a fallow may hurt them, but there's a lot in play.

They'll be having to fight Chappell Roan for a headline spot in 2027 - and she'll win.

[NorthernSoul52]

1 minute ago, Skip997 said:

Why Billy Joel just to appease the “I came to Glastonbury by mistake” crew

 

Not sure it would be to appease them. It would be to offer someone who's got that massive appeal that extends across a four-quadrant demographic and pack enough singalongs in to leave those in the field with a high.

 

Piano Man, Uptown Girl, Just the Way You Are, New York State of Mind, We Didn't Start the Fire, It's Still Rock and Roll to Me, You May Be Right. There's a lot to pack in there.

[NorthernSoul52]

Just now, CaledonianGonzo said:

They'll be having to fight Chappell Roan for a headline spot in 2027 - and she'll win.

 

I fear Chappell Roan will have to fight herself.

[WhoOdyssey]

22 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Those rogue brackets get everywhere.

 

He's very much a man for the non-record buying public though. #7 with a new record is soft, which tells you where the commercial power is driven from instead.

Physicals for Fred’s album aren’t out until November. It could easy reach a new peak then, and probably would’ve been a #1 if combined with his opening streaming numbers.

[NorthernSoul52]

3 minutes ago, WhoOdyssey said:

Physicals for Fred’s album aren’t out until November. It could easy reach a new peak then, and probably would’ve been a #1 if combined with his opening streaming numbers.

A fair point. Physicals drop next week for the last BMTH record, which will likely help it hit a new peak. Was surprised it tanked as low as it did off streaming alone when the tour in the winter went like hot cakes.

[gfa]

16 hours ago, Ben7amin_ said:

My Theory is that after Elton John and the we will not get out the chairs no matter how big a crowd issues.

 

the Bookers pick acts that they think the (I will not listen to any music recorded after 2008 and the Picnic Blanket brigade) will hate to try and push them onto other stages - for that reason I do not think acts like Sterophonics will even be considered for sub Headliner anymore - This is just a theory 

Stereophonics weren't been accepting a non pyramid headline slot at glasto and i assume they have stopped trying to get them

 

They could definitely do pyramid sub still - helped massively by the fact they haven't been at the farm for a long time

[NorthernSoul52]

I think Kelly still sees them as bill-toppers or subs, save for stuff like Radio 2.

 

If he doesn't, then I still think they command a fee that, for whatever reason, Glastonbury have not seen fit to stump up.

[Alex DeLarge]

Will be interesting how Chappell maintains the hype on a second album. 

 

Just to throw a name into the conversation - will be interesting to see where Sabrina Carpenter goes from here.

[NorthernSoul52]

I honestly didn't expect Carpenter to break out like she has. But I also don't know if she'll ascend above arena status.

 

Roan meanwhile looks like she could, but the toll she says fame has taken on her life suggests to me that she could look to retreat after this somewhat. It could go one of two ways; - full Kate Bush, with absence and rarity likely to stump up further success, or diminishing returns that drop her lower down the ranks.

 

That's partially why I think Roan is a longshot to headline. It's very much going to be on her terms, I believe, but she has to decide what those terms will be, and that may well dictate her live future. 

 

Again, there's always going to be a lot of factors at play.

[charlierc]

On 9/23/2024 at 5:11 PM, glimmers_of_hope said:

Looks like download have teased Green Day with pushing their early bird tickets. Green fireworks in the picture and something about wake me in June...

https://www.kerrang.com/amp/are-download-festival-teasing-green-day-for-2025

 

I think several people thought they were going for download rather than glasto. Looks like it's fairly nailed on now. 

Subtle.

 

But yeah it's been rumoured for a little while and a Green Day fan site that correctly predicted them for Germany's Hurricane/Southside Festivals also said Download, who you'd imagine won't be inclined to share with Glasto.

[charlierc]

12 hours ago, Euphoricape said:

I'm hoping they play a few other UK shows next summer too. Rumours of playing Eden sessions. 

Slightly different vibe to The Script, who've just been announced for an Eden Sessions show.

 

That show is on the Wednesday of the week of Glastonbury so could put them in the ballpark for a Glastonbury Friday set.