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The hilarious thing about Neil Young is that 15 years ago people were saying the exact same thing as if it was some badge of honour - "I couldn't name a single Neil Young song if I tried!"   His popularity hasn't increased in this time, he hasn't had any hits, but nor has it waned. He didn't really help himself by leaving Spotify for a few years, and you'll rarely hear his music in any films or on TV, but that's why he is so legendary - he has remained true to his muse and his art. I would argue he was once the perfect Glastonbury act, but the festival has changed a lot in the past 15 years.   In my opinion he's not far off The Cure in terms of status - a few well-known songs, but ultimately an enormous following of dedicated and committed fans.   Take this with a pinch of salt, but it's my belief (through various friends who really aren't trustworthy!) that the Eavis's were after Neil Young & Crazy Horse for many years.   If he is indeed booked for 2025, my guess would be that CH were booked, but due to illness within the camp, Neil has had to come up with an alternative backing band quickly, hence the emergence of the Chrome Hearts. Promise of the Real are on an extended hiatus, which is a shame as although Chrome Hearts are fantastic (and essentially POTR anyway), I think POTR would have been the perfect choice nowadays.   For any doubters, no, you probably won't know many songs, but there was a time that wasn't the point. If you want to listen only to songs you know, in the order that you've already seen on setlist.fm, you can easily stay at home and listen to Spotify.   I reckon he'd nail it. Again.

That is definitely how I felt.  NY was miles better than Springsteen but then Blur was one of my favourite Pyramid headliners ever.   Most other years I think NY would have been the standout Pyramid headliner.  

So there’s two stages at this? I.e Madness will clash with QOTSA? (Never thought they’d be on a line-up together!)

I was curious why I haven't received any notification about The Hard Quartet today (I follow PS on twitter) and it looks like Primavera moved to Bluesky.

TBH, they are all saying "tickets for IOW instead" and that's all you need to know haha