2025 Headliners

[steviewevie]

John Cooper Clarke for the legends slot.

[NorthernSoul52]

2 hours ago, across97 said:

AC/DC apparently touring the US next year, think they’d be a good booking taking O Rod and 1975/Fender into account. 

 Isn't there chat AC/DC will have Axl in some shape or form with them? Now that is cats among pigeons.

[NorthernSoul52]

2 hours ago, Jack The Stripper said:

She seems bigger than both Fender and 1975 to me at the minute, but perhaps it’s my algorithms telling me otherwise.

I think she currently is carrying a lot of critical and pop clout, but she's also released into a period where neither artist is active. Heck, the only thing The 1975 have done is be on her remix album, and that's because she's getting married to the drummer.

[Badlands]

5 hours ago, Davebrown said:

What would be your dream 3 headlines for this year?

 

top gear  live, university callange and the prime minister

[MEGABOWL]

On 11/18/2024 at 9:52 AM, incident said:

 

While they might not have booked stadiums yet at that point - in both cases they were already both more than big enough that they could have instantly sold out a stadium tour including multiple nights at Wembley.

 

Indeed, I've got a feeling that Adele announced her Wembley run on the back of the Glastonbury performance.

I agree they were big enough. But 2023 is the only time I can think of where there’s no debate because the three headliners literally detoured in the middle of their stadium tour to play Glastonbury. 

[NorthernSoul52]

Unlikely Clarkson would share a bill in any shape with the Prime Minister, given he's too busy slagging him off along with the BBC today.

[Skip997]

10 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

John Cooper Clarke for the legends slot.

Best suggestion all day if not ever. 
 

[NorthernSoul52]

Just now, MEGABOWL said:

I agree they were big enough. But 2023 is the only time I can think of where there’s no debate because the three headliners literally detoured in the middle of their stadium tour to play Glastonbury. 

 2016 and 2023 the biggest trio of headliners in the last decade for me. No argument brokered there.

[charlierc]

8 minutes ago, Badlands said:

top gear  live, university callange and the prime minister

Would be a departure from the usual bookings tbf.

[Rose-Colored Boy]

4 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

 2016 and 2023 the biggest trio of headliners in the last decade for me. No argument brokered there.

2017 was unbelievably massive all around whereas Elton was doing a lot of the heavy lifting in 2023. 
 

2011 still the most outrageous ‘how did they pull all of them together in one year’ bill in the fest’s history, tho. Regardless of the fact U2 were supposed to be there the year before. 

[MEGABOWL]

7 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

 2016 and 2023 the biggest trio of headliners in the last decade for me. No argument brokered there.

I know it’s not last decade but 2011 is the other one that looks monumentally

huge. By my reckoning the only year of three headliners that have also done the SuperBowl.

 

 

[Mardy]

15 minutes ago, Badlands said:

top gear  live, university callange and the prime minister

 

[charlierc]

2 hours ago, StuwieG said:

Not a chance Muse are still pyramid headliner material. What have they done in the 8 years since they last played? 

Still played stadiums and headlined festivals. So they could do a job, even if I agree a 4th time doing Glastonbury as a Pyramid headliner isn't really as exciting as a first time head.

 

I still feel like they're a Plan B or C if something else doesn't happen though. Although I'm assuming the rumour they turned down Download Festival but are still planning to tour Europe hints they are up to something.

[Rose-Colored Boy]

6 minutes ago, MEGABOWL said:

I know it’s not last decade but 2011 is the other one that looks monumentally

huge. By my reckoning the only year of three headliners that have also done the SuperBowl.

 

 

If U2 hadn’t postponed then 2010 would take the crown. Bookers were on one that year. 

[charlierc]

6 minutes ago, Rose-Colored Boy said:

2011 still the most outrageous ‘how did they pull all of them together in one year’ bill in the fest’s history, tho. Regardless of the fact U2 were supposed to be there the year before. 

As a trio, yeah, U2-Coldplay-Beyonce is the kind of bill stadiums would like to have. Even if I still am puzzled why U2 decided to plonk Glastonbury in the middle of a US leg of their 360 Tour and just fly Maryland to Somerset to Michigan. It just sounds like a great way to exhaust yourself and the fact they were all out of sync with each other for the opening song feels like the kind of mistake you make with such jetlag.

 

Speaking of U2, meanwhile, Adam Clayton said the following about their plans on an Italian radio station:

"We’re doing some more work this month, at the end of November, and in the beginning of December we going to be back in the studio. I think by the middle of next year, we’ll have a very good idea of how many songs we have to finish, and when we want to release it. And then a tour will follow on from that."

 

So I think this feels more likely of U2 being active on the road in 2026 rather than being a possibility this year. At one point I saw an account claiming U2 were going to be at Glastonbury this year, but the possibility seems to be receding.

[Talcroft]

3 minutes ago, Rose-Colored Boy said:

If U2 hadn’t postponed then 2010 would take the crown. Bookers were on one that year. 

Halcyon Days

[Rose-Colored Boy]

2 minutes ago, charlierc said:

As a trio, yeah, U2-Coldplay-Beyonce is the kind of bill stadiums would like to have. Even if I still am puzzled why U2 decided to plonk Glastonbury in the middle of a US leg of their 360 Tour and just fly Maryland to Somerset to Michigan. It just sounds like a great way to exhaust yourself and the fact they were all out of sync with each other for the opening song feels like the kind of mistake you make with such jetlag.

 

 

Just honouring their commitment innit. A lot of acts wouldn’t bother so I’ve always respected them for that, regardless of my feelings about Bono in general.

 

2013 also felt massive at the time and only doesn’t look so strong in retrospect because of the Mumfords fall off. 

[Rose-Colored Boy]

Basically only their doomed flirtations with Prince and Dave Grohl’s broken leg that prevented an unbroken run from 2010 through to 2017 that would’ve been the envy of the world. 

[Avalon_Fields]

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[northernangel]

If the three most rumored acts for Coachella happen then they're top line with make our current expected look very poor.

[NorthernSoul52]

23 minutes ago, Rose-Colored Boy said:

2017 was unbelievably massive all around whereas Elton was doing a lot of the heavy lifting in 2023. 
 

2011 still the most outrageous ‘how did they pull all of them together in one year’ bill in the fest’s history, tho. Regardless of the fact U2 were supposed to be there the year before. 

Yes, but Beyonce was yet to reach cultural colossus levels there, I'd argue - it just looks spectacularly massive in hindsight.

 

Know they're not exactly at the cutting edge of the cultural conversation anymore, but AM reliably remain one of the biggest homegrown rock acts of their generation, and GNR are one of the biggest live acts of all time. Even if neither blew the night away in question, on paper, they were very strong, I'd argue.

[Rose-Colored Boy]

12 minutes ago, Talcroft said:

Halcyon Days

Yep. And they’d started taking the same ‘no expenses’ approach to the 50th only for it all to go to waste. Crying shame. 

[NorthernSoul52]

Just now, northernangel said:

If the three most rumored acts for Coachella happen then they're top line with make our current expected look very poor.

Haven't even seen what they're nattering about, but Post Malone probably no more than an arena filler here, is he?

[Rose-Colored Boy]

Just now, NorthernSoul52 said:

Haven't even seen what they're nattering about, but Post Malone probably no more than an arena filler here, is he?

And that’s to his dedicated fanbase. Would go down like SZA with a general festival crowd. 

[northernangel]

20 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Haven't even seen what they're nattering about, but Post Malone probably no more than an arena filler here, is he?

 

Olivia, Gaga and Post going by what I just saw. Not saying its correct but that would be big