Legends Slot 2025

[NorthernSoul52]

1 minute ago, Looother said:

I'm up for an entire hour of fake endings and reprised choruses of rocking in the free world. I'm not sure Neil Young actually has to be there for it to be brilliant.

Four-dimensional chess-like thinking. I dig it.

[FKA SOSOTWS]

5 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

C'MON SUGAR, LET ME KNOWWWWWWW

 

Absolute scenes. Far more party starter than Neil Young coughing through The Needle and the Damage Done. (I would be very happy with Neil Young too, let me stress.)

 

If Cat Stevens can play Legends slot then so can Neil Young. Just book some braindead party act to play the Pyramid after Young to keep those other punters happy.

[NorthernSoul52]

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

[wro_lap]

I was happy enough with Rod, now my hopes are firmly up for Neil! He's one of Michael's favourite artists, and I remember he said he was really keen to get him playing in 2020. Might be a bucket list item for Michael to see him on the farm again...

[NorthernSoul52]

How is Michael's health right now? He didn't appear too good in the flashes I saw this year.

[Jamm]

Why has this Neil Young rumour come from?

 

I don’t want to believe. I can’t let myself believe.

 

If Neil is there then I really don’t care who else is there, you can have McFly, Girls Aloud and Peter Kay headline if the festival got Neil and I wouldn’t complain one iota.

[StoneCircle]

19 minutes ago, Jamm said:

Why has this Neil Young rumour come from?

 

I don’t want to believe. I can’t let myself believe.

 

If Neil is there then I really don’t care who else is there, you can have McFly, Girls Aloud and Peter Kay headline if the festival got Neil and I wouldn’t complain one iota.

 

The Peter Kay rumour is a wind up dug up from years ago by the same person - see update in the thread.

 

Edited 17 hours ago by StoneCircle

[Jamm]

8 minutes ago, StoneCircle said:

 

The Peter Kay rumour is a wind up dug up from years ago by the same person - see update in the thread.

 

That part of the post was tongue in cheek hence why he was listed next to McFly and Girls Aloud as headliners. I’m fully aware Peter Kay will not be headlining.

[StoneCircle]

14 minutes ago, Jamm said:

That part of the post was tongue in cheek hence why he was listed next to McFly and Girls Aloud as headliners. I’m fully aware Peter Kay will not be headlining.

 

I realise that, just trying to stop the Peter Kay fake news spreading across other threads! 😄

[Mr Boo]

I would be giving this a miss, but Gary Barlow tour dates work for Glastonbury 😳

Edited 4 hours ago by Mr Boo

[NorthernSoul52]

Patience a banger, no argument brokered. 

[balti-pie]

oooh, Neil Young. Bloody hell. Even just as a rumour its got me smiling a silly grin. one million percent there, camping out at the pyramid all day type stuff. would even get the old incontinence pants out for that one 👍

[DomDom1984]

Hadn't even considered Gary Barlow. I'm a fan of Take That, so would definitely be seated for it. And it doesn't seem wildly unbelievable. 

 

 

[Fred Zepplin]

From Neil Young to Gary Barlow in the blink of an eye. Why do we do it to ourselves every year 

[NorthernSoul52]

Gary Barlow surely not Legends material on his own, though? 

[JayDiesel]

My concern with Barlow would be that it almost confirms that the Pyramid Stage is now just a glorified 'Radio 2 in the Park'.

 

I appreciate it's there to provide the biggest suction of crowd, but it's been remarkably bland, a handful of acts aside, for the last few years. The Legends Slot is admittedly the most R2ITP slot at the fest - other than maybe the 12pm Pyramid opener - but at least there have been a lot of actual legends in the last decade; Dolly, Jeff Lynne, Diana Ross. Surely we can't have fallen as far as the Barlow?

[Jamm]

Barlow could well perform - but it certainly wouldn’t be the legends slot. 

[efcfanwirral]

2 hours ago, Mr Boo said:

I would be giving this a miss, but Gary Barlow tour dates work for Glastonbury 😳

It'd be such a waste not putting Take That in full on

[DomDom1984]

I've never seen Neil Young as a possible for the slot btw. If Barlow doesn't play that slot, I don't see him playing anywhere else on the bill.

 

[The Nal]

 

[Skip997]

1 hour ago, JayDiesel said:

My concern with Barlow would be that it almost confirms that the Pyramid Stage is now just a glorified 'Radio 2 in the Park'.

 

There’s always been a touch of that about the Pyramid 

[henry bear]

1 hour ago, Fred Zepplin said:

From Neil Young to Gary Barlow in the blink of an eye. Why do we do it to ourselves every year 

It only takes a minute. Everything changes

[OllieMadd]

You're all insane for thinking Gary Barlow could play the legend slot at Glastonbury. Things are getting mental in here

[NorthernSoul52]

Could just be his massive son fancies going. Tour would get in the way. 

[majormajormajor]

1 hour ago, JayDiesel said:

My concern with Barlow would be that it almost confirms that the Pyramid Stage is now just a glorified 'Radio 2 in the Park'.

 

I appreciate it's there to provide the biggest suction of crowd, but it's been remarkably bland, a handful of acts aside, for the last few years. The Legends Slot is admittedly the most R2ITP slot at the fest - other than maybe the 12pm Pyramid opener - but at least there have been a lot of actual legends in the last decade; Dolly, Jeff Lynne, Diana Ross. Surely we can't have fallen as far as the Barlow?

 

The festival has kind of moved into more of a MOR vibe IMO. Still love it to pieces, of course.