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18 hours ago, Nobody Interesting said:

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Maybe a one off actually makes Stevie more likely given his age and health issues?

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18 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

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BST is the payday though - Glasto pay buttons, so probably wouldn't make financial sense to bring his whole band over without also getting that sweet Barclays wedge

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We shall soon see, itโ€™s not going to be a one off.

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Lolz at the idea of Glastonbury scheduling according to who someone's drummer is, mental. Interesting if Young is Saturday as that could suggest trying to keep folk on site on Sunday in a bid to stop the big Sunday exodus becoming a Thing.ย 

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4 minutes ago, Johndenis said:

Lolz at the idea of Glastonbury scheduling according to who someone's drummer is, mental. Interesting if Young is Saturday as that could suggest trying to keep folk on site on Sunday in a bid to stop the big Sunday exodus becoming a Thing.ย 


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beating traffic is a bad thing or trying to keep people on site so they spend money and make the aerial drone shots look pretty for the tv viewers.....

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40 minutes ago, Suprefan said:


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beating traffic is a bad thing or trying to keep people on site so they spend money and make the aerial drone shots look pretty for the tv viewers.....

Ridiculous, it's not about the money of people buying over priced food for a couple more hours, and If everyone leaves to beat traffic... Then that's just traffic at a different time.

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I think the main thing though is the reputational damage for the festival - could lead to making it harder to book headliners who don't want to be embarrassed by a half empty crowd on a Sundayย 

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Also it sucks for those at home who missed out to watch people not making the most of the entire weekend, but that's just a personal grievanceย 

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2 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

They tried for Madonna last year and it didn't pan out. SZA wasn't their first choice by a long shot.

Too true. Wishful thinking on my part.


But main point is thatโ€™s the stratospheric level that Sunday headliners should be, to bring the thing to a rapturous close. GenZ popsters are great, but not for that slot in that spot!

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4 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

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Probably, but SZA played BST on the Saturday and Dua wanted to do Friday.

Hmmm - I can see how that would have made this the only real way to structure them as they did last year.

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Well either that or have SZA play BST Sunday. Particularly as Kings of Leon could've played Hyde Park's Saturday looking at their schedule.

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7 minutes ago, LateStarter50 said:

Too true. Wishful thinking on my part.


But main point is thatโ€™s the stratospheric level that Sunday headliners should be, to bring the thing to a rapturous close. GenZ popsters are great, but not for that slot in that spot!

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And yet Kendrick did just fine on the Sunday in 2022.

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5 minutes ago, charlierc said:

Hmmm - I can see how that would have made this the only real way to structure them as they did last year.

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Well either that or have SZA play BST Sunday. Particularly as Kings of Leon could've played Hyde Park's Saturday looking at their schedule.

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BST are presumably paying more money so they get to call the shots on what happens when.

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3 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

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And yet Kendrick did just fine on the Sunday in 2022.

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So true. Maybe last year was just a bit of a one off then?

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Did they make more of planning departures in general advice and ended up freaking people offsite early?

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2 hours ago, Suprefan said:

beating traffic is a bad thing or trying to keep people on site so they spend money and make the aerial drone shots look pretty for the tv viewers.....

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If too many people try to 'beat traffic' they becomeย  the traffic they were trying to beat.ย 

Some people always leave on Sunday - it's expected.ย  Too many people leave on Sunday and this can cause problems.ย 

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4 minutes ago, LateStarter50 said:

So true. Maybe last year was just a bit of a one off then?

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Did they make more of planning departures in general advice and ended up freaking people offsite early?

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Last year was (hopefully) a one off, but SZA aside I'm not really sure what the root cause was.ย  True the Janelle -> Burna Boy -> SZA run didn't offer much for the dadrock demo - but as the old saying goes, plenty on elsewhereย 

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3 minutes ago, LateStarter50 said:

So true. Maybe last year was just a bit of a one off then?

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Did they make more of planning departures in general advice and ended up freaking people offsite early?

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People leaving were telling us there was nothing that they really wanted to see.

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26 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

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Last year was (hopefully) a one off, but SZA aside I'm not really sure what the root cause was.ย  True the Janelle -> Burna Boy -> SZA run didn't offer much for the dadrock demo - but as the old saying goes, plenty on elsewhereย 

I dont think there was, The National had a tiny crowd, James Blake and London Grammar and Justice have their niche audiences but not enough to make people stay and weren't even on stages big enough to make that much of a difference. We ended up watching The Feeling.

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It does seem like they booked the other stages for a massive headliner and got stuck.ย 

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