2025 Headliners

[charlierc]

2 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

What alternative universe have we slipped into that Beyonce playing again would generate bad media coverage?

I thought she was a one and out act tbh.

 

She's got singalongs though. She'd still be a popular booking.

[charlierc]

8 hours ago, K2SO said:

Also, not sure on Fender for Glasto as he'll be doing his own thing. His team may want to not potentially overexpose the Sam Fender live show, especially considering these comparatively small shows in December.

Selling out London O2 is comparatively small now?

 

I mean sure football stadiums are bigger but nice if you can get it to book arenas for your first shows in a while.

[northernangel]

3 hours ago, Chrisp1986 said:

Left Fender when he was on pyramid last time to go see Heaton. Just found it pretty self indulgent.

 

Had I been there that year I'd have done the same. Heaton and Abbott Sunday afternoon a few years back were part of a run of one of my favourite afternoons there sitting at my tent and chilling with music.

3 minutes ago, charlierc said:

Selling out London O2 is comparatively small now?

 

I mean sure football stadiums are bigger but nice if you can get it to book arenas for your first shows in a while.

 

It's not small but when stadiums became a become a factor in bands schedule an arena in quite intimate. The thing is so many bands play arenas now it's no longer your staple to headline really. That doesn't mean he can't.

[NorthernSoul52]

We do get acts headlining Glastonbury on their own stadium tours / with another UK headline show, but I could buy Fender passing on it (if he has been asked!) if they believe their own shows need priority.

 

But it would feel strange for him to turn it down at this stage, if so.

[Superscally]

17 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

We do get acts headlining Glastonbury on their own stadium tours / with another UK headline show, but I could buy Fender passing on it (if he has been asked!) if they believe their own shows need priority.

 

But it would feel strange for him to turn it down at this stage, if so.

No-one British, of Fender's size turns down Glasto I'd say... 

[NorthernSoul52]

6 minutes ago, Superscally said:

No-one British, of Fender's size turns down Glasto I'd say... 

That's what I think, yes. Of course, he may totally not have been offered it - there's absolutely no line that he has, by all accounts.

 

But you'd assume that if one of that crop of R+L bill-toppers of the young British variety - Fender, Fred, The 1975, Dave - were offered top spot on the Pyramid, they'd bite your hand off.

[stuie]

Have I missed something? What did Bey do?

 

[pigital]

Just now, stuie said:

Have I missed something? What did Bey do?

 

She went to a Kamala conference, people expected her to sing, she didn't, people got upset. 
Nothing more than that I think 🙂 

[stuie]

2 minutes ago, pigital said:

She went to a Kamala conference, people expected her to sing, she didn't, people got upset. 
Nothing more than that I think 🙂 

 

Oh I see.. it's Beyonce's fault Trump won then lol 

[Justcalledtosay]

4 hours ago, Chrisp1986 said:

Left Fender when he was on pyramid last time to go see Heaton. Just found it pretty self indulgent.

 

Funny that. SF set is in my top 5 Glasto sets. Granted i've only been to two festivals but still..

[Andy0808 v5]

Probably an absolute sucker for the bait he laid out. But I didn’t think Sam Fender subbing that year was anything more than a bloke enjoying and taking in the atmosphere of the slot he had been given.

Throw in the emotional vibe of ‘Spit of You’ and the fact it was so clear he wanted his dad to have been able to witness the opportunity he had been given. I ate it up. I also saw him at Finsbury a couple of weeks after and I didn’t think he was half as overcome by the crowd as he had been at Glasto. 
 

Obviously opinions are opinions, but I would say self-indulgent might be the wrong word 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

[NorthernSoul52]

2 hours ago, stuie said:

 

Oh I see.. it's Beyonce's fault Trump won then lol 

To be fair, The Guardian did suggest it was all the celebrity endorsements with a nice big picture of Beyonce.

 

I'd argue there's more too it than that, but this is the wrong thread.

[northernangel]

1 hour ago, Andy0808 v5 said:

Probably an absolute sucker for the bait he laid out. But I didn’t think Sam Fender subbing that year was anything more than a bloke enjoying and taking in the atmosphere of the slot he had been given.

Throw in the emotional vibe of ‘Spit of You’ and the fact it was so clear he wanted his dad to have been able to witness the opportunity he had been given. I ate it up. I also saw him at Finsbury a couple of weeks after and I didn’t think he was half as overcome by the crowd as he had been at Glasto. 
 

Obviously opinions are opinions, but I would say self-indulgent might be the wrong word 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

I don't get the idea his music would ever be considered something to go on and headline the top tier festivals with.

[MEGABOWL]

5 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

We do get acts headlining Glastonbury on their own stadium tours / with another UK headline show, but I could buy Fender passing on it (if he has been asked!) if they believe their own shows need priority.

 

But it would feel strange for him to turn it down at this stage, if so.

It would be a very strange move, especially with the fallow year to follow. If the album is up to snuff then he’s going to have a big year but this could well be a peak.

 

Working class kids, Springsteen-y guitar rock, songs that connect with a lot of people, he’s a dream for British festivals. Almost the perfect headliner especially with the general lack of Guitar acts making the top echelons. However I’d be surprised if he/his people were inclined to gamble on where he’ll be in 2027.

[Skip997]

😂

[stuie]

16 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

😂

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[Skip997]

2 minutes ago, stuie said:

😂

👍

[NorthernSoul52]

3 hours ago, northernangel said:

I don't get the idea his music would ever be considered something to go on and headline the top tier festivals with.

 

That's subjective though, surely - you get plenty of music that doesn't appear to have legs and is still there years later.

[NorthernSoul52]

52 minutes ago, MEGABOWL said:

It would be a very strange move, especially with the fallow year to follow. If the album is up to snuff then he’s going to have a big year but this could well be a peak.

 

Working class kids, Springsteen-y guitar rock, songs that connect with a lot of people, he’s a dream for British festivals. Almost the perfect headliner especially with the general lack of Guitar acts making the top echelons. However I’d be surprised if he/his people were inclined to gamble on where he’ll be in 2027.

Put it this way, I assume that if he's been asked, he'll take it. But he just might not have been at the top of the list for who they were chasing. (Which feels strange to me in itself, but if they have the budget to go bigger, why not?)

[OllieMadd]

Scenes when Fender brings out Big Andy Carroll and Joelinton as special guests. 

 

 

 

Yuck

[northernangel]

8 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

 

That's subjective though, surely - you get plenty of music that doesn't appear to have legs and is still there years later.

indeed, you either like him or you don't. he's clearly sold tickets but sounds dull as an artist. but that's me. 

[gorfield]

17 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, but instead of playing their own material, it's a covers show of would-be headliners, Bullseye-style, for two hours.

 

Plays it straight down the middle with For Those About to Rock (We Salute You), slows Disturbia to a crawl, falls into the front row of the crowd for Superstition and then encores with a fifteen-minute version of Celine Dion's A New Day Has Come while Warren Ellis swings from the rafters by his beard.

yes please!

[Mardy]

53 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

 

That's subjective though, surely - you get plenty of music that doesn't appear to have legs and is still there years later.

 

I've been baffled all bloody day about the return of Northside. They were a joke first time around, let alone 30+ years later.

[K2SO]

8 hours ago, charlierc said:

Selling out London O2 is comparatively small now?

 

I mean sure football stadiums are bigger but nice if you can get it to book arenas for your first shows in a while.

 

Well 20k is smaller than like 50k

[K2SO]

12 hours ago, northernangel said:

 

Yeah LDR I don't think it a Glasto shout but open tour shout. Only played in 23, didn't come away either a good rep overall from it, Reading not much different but Glastonbury, Reading then Glastonbury year after each nope. 

 

I would say there is too much bad media coverage on Beyonce personally. Rihanna would be my gut. If Rihanna had replaced someone previously but a baby stopped it then she knows the deal. 

 

I also think for a new act being given the Glastonbury bump, his arena tour, a stadium tour plus Glastonbury may see his career trajectory not go places after.

 

I could may be see Rihanna, Olivia and Stevie in that order.

 

Not sure I'm too sold on Stevie personally. I think the first two are probably right, but maybe the 3rd could come out of left field. How would a Robbie Williams Sunday headliner go down?