2025 Headliners

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1 hour ago, charlierc said:

I swear this isn't even the first time this has been suggested.

 

That's because it's the same person doing "a bit".

[Euphoricape]

Stewart Lee to headline Leftfield stage

[NorthernSoul52]

Bill Bailey to top Park. 

[Skip997]

Doug Stanhope 4am Truth Stage 

[K2SO]

Peter Kay's current UK tour sold more tickets than Taylor Swift's recent UK tour. Need we discuss further?

[DomDom1984]

Yes. We do. I think we should discuss it until the Friday of the festival. 

 

If Peter Kay isn't in a discussion, someone should be asking "Where's Peter Kay?"

Edited 7 hours ago by DomDom1984

[stuie]

1 hour ago, K2SO said:

Peter Kay's current UK tour sold more tickets than Taylor Swift's recent UK tour. Need we discuss further?

 

The Pyramid stage is a music stage.  Need we discuss further?

[NorthernSoul52]

Peter Kay is a musician. Need we discuss further?

 

(*Said with tongue firmly in cheek.)

[henry bear]

On 11/23/2024 at 9:58 AM, emmanuel said:

But personally I prefer to use an international metric for how good they are. I find it suspicious when is someone is presumably so good (Fender), but yet no one in continental Europe or USA seem to bother. I mean half of the bands playing at Glastonbury could probably also play the Forest National in Brussels or Roseland Theater in Portland.

I'm not judging if they pick him, I just find it weird. All the music I've ever listened was "international", so it is just a phenomena I don't really understand.

Why limit yourself to only liking acts that are popular worldwide? I find it quite bizarre. If I like music, that’s all that counts - it doesn’t come into it how popular they are worldwide, here, or anywhere.

Plenty of hugely popular acts here struggled elsewhere, Oasis struggled to sell arenas in the USA in their prime, as did Queen in the 80’s. Glastonbury aren’t going to book a hugely popular UK acts just because they don’t mean much in Belgium

[charlierc]

1 hour ago, DomDom1984 said:

Yes. We do. I think we should discuss it until the Friday of the festival. 

 

If Peter Kay isn't in a discussion, someone should be asking "Where's Peter Kay?"

Peter Kay needs to be louder, angrier and have access to a time machine.

[tarw]

1 hour ago, stuie said:

 

The Pyramid stage is a music stage.  Need we discuss further?

If we’re going to be pedantic it’s a contemporary performing arts stage that has had circus performances headlining it. 
Still Kay would be a bad idea 

[stuie]

11 minutes ago, tarw said:

If we’re going to be pedantic it’s a contemporary performing arts stage that has had circus performances headlining it. 
Still Kay would be a bad idea 

 

Eh? Citation needed please... who/what are the circus performances that have headlined it? 

[Skip997]

2 minutes ago, stuie said:

 

Eh? Citation needed please... who/what are the circus performances that have headlined it? 

ArChaos 1990

[stuie]

15 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

ArChaos 1990

 

Well, I didn't know that! 🙂 

 

It's not exactly a precedent for Peter Kay to headline 35 years later, mind.  

[Skip997]

Just now, stuie said:

 

Well, I didn't know that! 🙂 

 

It's not exactly a precedent for Peter Kay to headline 35 years later, mind.  

Agree. Peter Kay would be the worst booking ever. And that’s saying a lot 

[Jack The Stripper]

39 minutes ago, tarw said:

If we’re going to be pedantic it’s a contemporary performing arts stage that has had circus performances headlining it. 
Still Kay would be a bad idea 

Based on the clips I've seen, Kays recent material is hardly contemporary. 

[emmanuel]

43 minutes ago, henry bear said:

Why limit yourself to only liking acts that are popular worldwide? I find it quite bizarre. If I like music, that’s all that counts - it doesn’t come into it how popular they are worldwide, here, or anywhere.

Plenty of hugely popular acts here struggled elsewhere, Oasis struggled to sell arenas in the USA in their prime, as did Queen in the 80’s. Glastonbury aren’t going to book a hugely popular UK acts just because they don’t mean much in Belgium

That's not what I've said. All acts that I listen just happen to be known worldwide, it is not that I exclude anyone. I've lived in five different countries and use news source and friends advice from all over the world and of course, internet, promoters newsletter, to find out about good bands. I stand by what I've said, acts that are only popular at one place in 2024 is bizarre to me, and doesn't sound like something that would fit my taste. I mean my first language is not English and I know very well that European artists, for different reasons, including their lyrics, are not popular at all outside of their country, but I rarely get any interest in these regional artists. And come on, Queen were popular worldwide in 1980s, even in the pre-internet days.

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1 hour ago, stuie said:

Well, I didn't know that! 🙂 

 

It's not exactly a precedent for Peter Kay to headline 35 years later, mind.  

 

The way it's been mythologised, the Archaos booking came about because being considered a "performing arts" festival rather than a "music" festival helped secure the licence so the festival made the booking to make a statement.

 

Judging by the set times, it feels like it was more of an "extra show after the headliners" type affair, given that The Cure and Happy Mondays played before the Archaos performances and both are considered to have headlined that year.

[stuie]

13 minutes ago, incident said:

 

The way it's been mythologised, the Archaos booking came about because being considered a "performing arts" festival rather than a "music" festival helped secure the licence so the festival made the booking to make a statement.

 

Judging by the set times, it feels like it was more of an "extra show after the headliners" type affair, given that The Cure and Happy Mondays played before the Archaos performances and both are considered to have headlined that year.

 

ah that's interesting... thanks. I'm surprised I've not heard that before, or it's not in the book.  As far as I remember! 🙂  

[LoveAndTheft]

9 hours ago, charlierc said:

I swear this isn't even the first time this has been suggested.

Yep it seems to be gathering some momentum, which makes me think there is something in it.

[NorthernSoul52]

Disappointed nobody took the circus act line and used it to roundly bash Mumford and Sons there, but we live and learn.

[charlierc]

3 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Disappointed nobody took the circus act line and used it to roundly bash Mumford and Sons there, but we live and learn.

I went to see a recording of The Last Leg in 2018 where Mumfords were a guest and I had more fun watching them join a comedy skit than I did hearing them play a song.

[NorthernSoul52]

Just now, charlierc said:

I went to see a recording of The Last Leg in 2018 where Mumfords were a guest and I had more fun watching them join a comedy skit than I did hearing them play a song.

I actually quite like Marcus Mumford whenever I've seen him in chat, and I think their "gone-electric" moment yielded a very fun live song in The Wolf.

 

But aye, cannot say the earlier material was of a vintage that particularly spoke to me.

[Avalon_Fields]

If it were true, it’s seems to indicate to me they were struggling to sign up 3 strong headliners. I’d find it difficult to believe they’d actively choose a comedian instead of a top music act/band

[NorthernSoul52]

I cannot believe that The 1975, Sam Fender and Olivia Rodrigo would all rule themselves out or turn it down to necessarily pave the way.