2025 R&L Festival

[tomjfx]

Surely Eminem has to be there unless he's doing his own stadium dates. He's announced he's doing a few festivals/concerts later this year in the Middle East. He usually comes to the UK after he releases an album too

[nathanh]

54 minutes ago, tomjfx said:

Surely Eminem has to be there unless he's doing his own stadium dates. He's announced he's doing a few festivals/concerts later this year in the Middle East. He usually comes to the UK after he releases an album too

Whilst he has a good relationship with R&L we have to weigh up the highly likely possibility of Glasto too aswell as stadium shows. Cant see him doing Glasto AND R&L.

Edited October 12 by nathanh

[gfa]

16 hours ago, nathanh said:

Whilst he has a good relationship with R&L we have to weigh up the highly likely possibility of Glasto too aswell as stadium shows. Cant see him doing Glasto AND R&L.

this never happens - zero precedent for it whatsoever.

 

It will be stadiums / BST and Glasto OR R&L.

 

It will become clear soon I reckon

[nathanh]

2 hours ago, gfa said:

It will become clear soon I reckon

100% if no shows get announced I imagine its R&L

[gfa]

14 hours ago, nathanh said:

100% if no shows get announced I imagine its R&L

Hard to say. R&L tend to announce quite early at the moment, next month seems likely.

 

BST often announce in the new year, as do glasto for headliners.

 

It seems quite likely Eminem will be ruled out of R&L by not being announced for it, rather than by being announced elsewhere and then being ruled out by default if you get what i mean

[charlierc]

19 hours ago, gfa said:

this never happens - zero precedent for it whatsoever.

 

It will be stadiums / BST and Glasto OR R&L.

 

It will become clear soon I reckon

I remember The Killers did both Glastonbury and Reading as a sub-headliner in 2005. Can't recall anything more recent than that for being so prominent at both of those events in the same year. Lower down slots, sure - Last Dinner Party did both this year - but not quite the same yaknow.

[charlierc]

2 hours ago, gfa said:

Hard to say. R&L tend to announce quite early at the moment, next month seems likely.

 

BST often announce in the new year, as do glasto for headliners.

 

It seems quite likely Eminem will be ruled out of R&L by not being announced for it, rather than by being announced elsewhere and then being ruled out by default if you get what i mean

Certainly if Eminem is their big name head for 2025, they'll be going all in on announcing him first. You'd have thought.

 

Although one year recently, did they announce all the heads in one hit?

[NorthernSoul52]

Wait, Eminem is doing this now?

[nathanh]

46 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Wait, Eminem is doing this now?

Hes been in the discussion for quite a while now. But depends if he gets booked by Glasto

[NorthernSoul52]

Miss everything around these parts.

 

R+L have got history with him, and the pockets to do it. Unless he's very tuned onto British cultural cache, cannot see why he'd do Glastonbury over this.

[tomarchbold]

do you think its possible we get both eminem and foos? 

 

i think itll only be one of the two in my opinion

 

[charlierc]

6 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Wait, Eminem is doing this now?

[charlierc]

2 minutes ago, tomarchbold said:

do you think its possible we get both eminem and foos? 

 

i think itll only be one of the two in my opinion

 

Depends on what the talent booking budget is. Years ago they would've had that kind of cash to play with.

[Benj]

18 minutes ago, charlierc said:

Depends on what the talent booking budget is. Years ago they would've had that kind of cash to play with.

Or rather the acts would’ve been much cheaper

 

When did Eminem last do a big tour in the UK?

 

Always hard to judge these days with everyone’s exposure being so personalised by social etc butI feel like he’s pretty big at the moment, compared o the last few cycles

[charlierc]

10 minutes ago, Benj said:

Or rather the acts would’ve been much cheaper

 

When did Eminem last do a big tour in the UK?

 

Always hard to judge these days with everyone’s exposure being so personalised by social etc butI feel like he’s pretty big at the moment, compared o the last few cycles

Said his last big UK shows were 2 nights at Twickenham in July 2018. So it'll have been 7 years by next summer.

[BenG92]

On 8/2/2024 at 10:25 AM, BenG92 said:

Fontaines D.C. to headline one night, sub at a minimum. 100k+ sold already this year and they just added Finsbury park. MASSIVELY broad appeal across the dark fruits crowd, the heads, and the yoof. Calling it now. 

 

Finsbury Park just sold out, potentially 45,000. The boys are massive. 

[northernangel]

19 minutes ago, BenG92 said:

 

Finsbury Park just sold out, potentially 45,000. The boys are massive. 

Exactly the reason they don't want to accept a sub slot at Glastonbury. Not many Glastonbury subs shift the tickets they currently are. 

[Sam Y]

1 hour ago, BenG92 said:

 

Finsbury Park just sold out, potentially 45,000. The boys are massive. 

I think we won't see them again at reading as a non-headliner

[NorthernSoul52]

Finsbury is 40,000, innit? 

[p0sterb0y]

[NorthernSoul52]

I would say "surely not so soon!".

 

But this is R+L. 

[Sam Y]

7 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Finsbury is 40,000, innit? 

45 so basically 

[Sam Y]

5 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

I would say "surely not so soon!".

 

But this is R+L. 

There’s a chance he could do Glastonbury but I’m unsure they’ll have two new headliners with him and Olivia Rodrigo who looks certain  

[gfa]

40 minutes ago, Sam Y said:

There’s a chance he could do Glastonbury but I’m unsure they’ll have two new headliners with him and Olivia Rodrigo who looks certain  

It seems Fred is a certainty - with few rumours of anyone else.

 

2 younger headliners seems near inevitable.

 

Its worth noting 2022 had Kendrick and Billie, so fair precedent (I know Kendrick isn't super new but he only became headline size around 2018-2019 in the uk)

[NorthernSoul52]

It does feel bold to have three young ones. But if they're big enough, it's not exactly a stretch.