2025 Headliners

[NorthernSoul52]

It's Olivia Rodrigo, Sam Fender and Rihanna, but it's actually a fake-out, and each night the Bad Seeds storm the stage to play one of the late-era trilogy in full.

 

Push the Sky Away on the Friday, Skeleton Tree on the Saturday and Ghosteen on the Sunday, followed by an extended encore of From Her to Eternity where security all don Warren Ellis disguises and perform synchro dances.

[jonnytee1]

With reference to the Strokes conversations, I saw them at Reading and Leeds when they headlined in 2011 and it was not great, however the output form the band wasn't at its best at that time either. 

 

I saw them last year at APE and i thought they were fantastic and lets face facts, their most recent album was a cracking return to form.

[setboppoys]

Stevie Wonder returns.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Care to elaborate?

[belfast]

2 hours ago, jonnytee1 said:

With reference to the Strokes conversations, I saw them at Reading and Leeds when they headlined in 2011 and it was not great, however the output form the band wasn't at its best at that time either. 

 

I saw them last year at APE and i thought they were fantastic and lets face facts, their most recent album was a cracking return to form.

Seen them start of 2020 and thought they were brilliant. Julian as usually completely blocked and trying to smash the drum kit with the mic stand.

[foolee]

6 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Care to elaborate?

Just think they’re on a wind up looking at previous posts.  

[fraybentos1]

1 hour ago, setboppoys said:

Stevie Wonder returns.

you do realise people can see your previous posts?

[CaledonianGonzo]

Haven't looked at the dates of their previous posts, but I think it's established that for a period of time Stevland was in the frame to headline a night this year.

[Andy0808 v5]

I will never understand the rush some people seem to get, for trying wind up about 20 people at most. 

[4AssedMonkey]

On 11/2/2024 at 1:22 PM, CaledonianGonzo said:

Thing is, if it's not Stevie or Eminem or Rihanna (with the latter two having given the finger to the paltry fee) then there aren't many other names in the vicinity that scream Glastonbury headliner.
 

I dunno if they'll want a re-run of last year where they hoist someone up a level and it doesn't pan out 

 

Maybe we've been too hasty to write off Green Day.

 

 

 

Similar thoughts rattling round my head.  Who is active/available/established enough to comfortably fill that third slot?

[incident]

13 minutes ago, 4AssedMonkey said:

Similar thoughts rattling round my head.  Who is active/available/established enough to comfortably fill that third slot?

 

As in 1995, as in 2025. It's time for Pulp to save the day.

[4AssedMonkey]

Just now, incident said:

 

As in 1995, as in 2025. It's time for Pulp to save the day.

 

They were on my list of possible candidates.  As were: -

• Stevie Nicks
• Depeche Mode
• Stevie Wonder
• Billy Joel
• Eurythmics/Annie Lennox (massive swing for the fence with that one....)

Chaka Khan probably not mainstream enough.

[incident]

5 minutes ago, 4AssedMonkey said:

They were on my list of possible candidates.  As were: -

• Stevie Nicks
• Depeche Mode
• Stevie Wonder
• Billy Joel
• Eurythmics/Annie Lennox (massive swing for the fence with that one....)

Chaka Khan probably not mainstream enough.

 

Have said many times that I'd love Billy Joel, but for the last few years he's kept to a remarkably consistent pattern of "at least 2 weeks between shows" - so unless he's prepared to vary that the Liverpool show the Saturday before Glastonbury would seem to indicate that he's not on the table.

Edited 5 hours ago by incident

[CaledonianGonzo]

Think the two shows were also announced as his only European gigs.

[Crazyfool01]

So whos left that is available ? @incident did you have a list at one point ? 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Not gonna pretend I'm not intrigued by setboppoys's post.

[SilverLining]

18 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Not gonna pretend I'm not intrigued by setboppoys's post.

I looked at the history and thought there, 'Did they not confirm the headliners for last year before they were announced?'

Then I remembered how absolutely obvious the headliners were for a while before announcement.

[incident]

36 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

So whos left that is available ? @incident did you have a list at one point ? 

 

That was a legends slot thing, and drove me crazy trying to compile it.

 

Would imagine headliners would be even worse..

[CaledonianGonzo]

Can't be arsed to check the timing of what was known when, but someone else could try to work it out.

[incident]

11 minutes ago, SilverLining said:

I looked at the history and thought there, 'Did they not confirm the headliners for last year before they were announced?'

Then I remembered how absolutely obvious the headliners were for a while before announcement.

 

They absolutely were not. At least, not for the Sunday night.

 

The headliners were announced on 14th March 2024. We thought Stevie Wonder was headlining up until approx 2 weeks before that, and it was another few days before SZA came firmly into the picture.

[Crazyfool01]

7 minutes ago, incident said:

 

That was a legends slot thing, and drove me crazy trying to compile it.

 

Would imagine headliners would be even worse..

was thinking about doing a 2025 headliner game ( forgotten its name ) will try and do it when I get a free few mins unless anyone fancies sending me a list of the possibles we still have 

[stuie]

2 hours ago, Andy0808 v5 said:

I will never understand the rush some people seem to get, for trying wind up about 20 people at most. 

Just had this on Facebook. I didn’t join a group called ‘Glastonbury 2025’ so it’s some old group that’s changed its name and knocked up a fake poster!

 

whats the point? For 5 likes 😂
 

[setboppoys]

3 hours ago, fraybentos1 said:

you do realise people can see your previous posts?

the ones where i said sza coldplay and dua lipa were headlining?

[fraybentos1]

3 minutes ago, setboppoys said:

the ones where i said sza coldplay and dua lipa were headlining?

A week before it was announced and was already known. You also mentioned green day and KoL 

[northernangel]

4 minutes ago, stuie said:

Just had this on Facebook. I didn’t join a group called ‘Glastonbury 2025’ so it’s some old group that’s changed its name and knocked up a fake poster!

 

whats the point? For 5 likes 😂
 

Biffy, Eminem and The Prodigy would be great as headliners