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Should have gone all in, and just played it on a loop.

Very few songs there that didn't sound better live than compared to Wild God itself. The four-gospel chorus really leans into it - which begs the question why There She Goes, My Beautiful World has been cast away from the festival run the other year, given it would be perfectly geared for such a performance.   The modified live tempos and arrangements on From Her to Eternity and The Mercy Seat really helped connect me to them. On raw points, it probably comes up just shy on the whole from the Skeleton Tree show I caught in Manchester, but will say that the two versions of those songs were stronger for me for the night. (Cave/Bad Seeds in Manchester '17 is probably knocking on the door of my all-time top-ten shows though.)

He hasn’t, but I’d hazard a guess 3rd on the main stage (idles were 4th and they seem a bit bigger than them at the moment)

My point was not that there's no newer bands doing stadium shows, because there are, when they're in the spotlight for a few years. I highly doubt that any of them will be doing it 30 years after their break through tough, unless it's those once off that creates interest because of limited availability. That's why we'll say that artists aren't big enough, because either they have to book them on their way up like Sam Fender (before only doing solo shows) or on their decline (like KOL). And 5 years later most of them are forgotten. Out of the above, I'd still say that Taylor Swift is the only exception to the rule. She'll probably stay big and relevant as long as she wants to. The others might sell out smaller venues or the odd major stadiums in specific cities, but not even close to the 80-90's mastodons.

Obviously I know that it's never going to be that decisive but stuff like this gives me hope that it won't be as close as a lot of polls suggest.