Truck Festival 2025

[Dales]

18 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Snow Patrol coming off Latitude?

 

My thoughts on them is that they may already have been signed in one of those Superstruct multi-festival deals. They played YNot and Victorious last year and thought they may have commited to this as part of a deal. I could well be wrong, it just plausable to me as it seems to be a bit of a pattern with Superstruct headliners to play multiple festivals over 2 years.

[NorthernSoul52]

8 hours ago, Dales said:

 

My thoughts on them is that they may already have been signed in one of those Superstruct multi-festival deals. They played YNot and Victorious last year and thought they may have commited to this as part of a deal. I could well be wrong, it just plausable to me as it seems to be a bit of a pattern with Superstruct headliners to play multiple festivals over 2 years.

It seems plenty reasonable, to be fair. Latitude has increasingly become a strange shout too - headliners there seem to span between those on the cusp of the rest of the UK's "major" festivals - Glastonbury (The Killers), Reading and Leeds (Liam Gallagher), Isle of Wight (George Ezra, Sting) - and then those who are on the mid-tier/Superstruct circuit.

[sheffinghell]

52 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

It seems plenty reasonable, to be fair. Latitude has increasingly become a strange shout too - headliners there seem to span between those on the cusp of the rest of the UK's "major" festivals - Glastonbury (The Killers), Reading and Leeds (Liam Gallagher), Isle of Wight (George Ezra, Sting) - and then those who are on the mid-tier/Superstruct circuit.

Sting is an odd one, he's doing Latitude/IOW, and also Lincoln Castle which can only be c. 5k, definitely smaller than the Piece Hall.

[Mcbatesman]

1 hour ago, sheffinghell said:

Sting is an odd one, he's doing Latitude/IOW, and also Lincoln Castle which can only be c. 5k, definitely smaller than the Piece Hall.

I think when you get to his status you can just do whatever you want lol

[charlierc]

2 hours ago, sheffinghell said:

Sting is an odd one, he's doing Latitude/IOW, and also Lincoln Castle which can only be c. 5k, definitely smaller than the Piece Hall.

 

18 minutes ago, Mcbatesman said:

I think when you get to his status you can just do whatever you want lol

Variety is the spice of life eh

[gfa]

18 hours ago, Mcbatesman said:

considering it only reopend may this year........the gig is in a few weeks time and is sold out on ticketmaster and seetickets

1 brixton gig sold out in a few months is still not very impressive for a headliner

[gfa]

3 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

It seems plenty reasonable, to be fair. Latitude has increasingly become a strange shout too - headliners there seem to span between those on the cusp of the rest of the UK's "major" festivals - Glastonbury (The Killers), Reading and Leeds (Liam Gallagher), Isle of Wight (George Ezra, Sting) - and then those who are on the mid-tier/Superstruct circuit.

Liam Gallagher and The Killers are hardly on the cusp - they are just open to extra paydays. Two stadium sellers

[foolee]

18 hours ago, Dales said:

 

I just wondered whether they would give them a bump to have a female headliner. I enjoyed Wet Leg last year and am a fan and seen them a number of times but had to admit it was obvious they got the slot to make the top line more diverse.

 

I get the feeling there will be a lot of enthusiasm in the industry to push TLDP to get another act that can take headline slots at the mid tier festivals. Sub would be about right for this but just wonder will they want to give them a bump?

Yeah I can see this. I wouldn’t mind it either as long as there is a bigger headliner to make up for it and/or a strong sub like Bloc Party or Kaiser Chiefs one of the days. 

[Mcbatesman]

45 minutes ago, gfa said:

1 brixton gig sold out in a few months is still not very impressive for a headliner

🤷 I see them as know smaller than Bombay bicycle club or wet leg

[charlierc]

A Halloween e-mail I got from these guys said, "We'll also let you into a secret... there's some big news coming soon."

 

So I guess there may soon be movement.

[charlierc]

On 11/1/2024 at 11:24 AM, Dales said:

I thought Courteeners may headline a day and think Kendall has made that even more likely now.

I was tempted to say that Courteeners headed it quite recently until finding out it was 2018 when they headlined it.

 

So... maybe not that recent.

[sheffinghell]

40 minutes ago, charlierc said:

A Halloween e-mail I got from these guys said, "We'll also let you into a secret... there's some big news coming soon."

 

So I guess there may soon be movement.

Got to be Truck, YNot and Tramlines announcements before the end of this month. Question is, will they be faffing about with clues, or just get it straight out there?

[NorthernSoul52]

2 hours ago, gfa said:

Liam Gallagher and The Killers are hardly on the cusp - they are just open to extra paydays. Two stadium sellers

The Killers weren't into stadiums in 2018 though. Still very much an arena act. There seemed to be a loose consensus they were on the way down - Brandon even quipped it at their JP slot the year before. ("You play it twice - on the way up and on the way down.")

[charlierc]

2 hours ago, sheffinghell said:

Got to be Truck, YNot and Tramlines announcements before the end of this month. Question is, will they be faffing about with clues, or just get it straight out there?

I assume Truck will write names on something like leeks, potatoes, fortune cookies, etc. It's what they usually do.

[charlierc]

1 hour ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

The Killers weren't into stadiums in 2018 though. Still very much an arena act. There seemed to be a loose consensus they were on the way down - Brandon even quipped it at their JP slot the year before. ("You play it twice - on the way up and on the way down.")

Their 2018 schedule was Isle of Wight, Latitude, TRNSMT and stadium gigs in Swansea and Bolton. Which can't be denied to be anything other than a very strange tour schedule.

 

I know they did Wembley in 2013 and BST Hyde Park in 2017 (being the first to sell out in a year when Green Day and Justin Bieber also played it) so they were still a big deal but that was such a strange sequence of bookings that year. I do wonder if they would've sold out more ambitious dates than that though in the way that they did for their 2022 dates (both when initially planned in 2020 and when it actually happened) without Glasto '19 though.

[gfa]

On 11/2/2024 at 1:16 PM, NorthernSoul52 said:

The Killers weren't into stadiums in 2018 though. Still very much an arena act. There seemed to be a loose consensus they were on the way down - Brandon even quipped it at their JP slot the year before. ("You play it twice - on the way up and on the way down.")

As Charlie said - whether they were doing stadiums or not they could definitely sell them if they did say a 3 stadium tour e.g. Manchester, Glasgow and London.

 

AM were also not a stadium act by the same logic just because they weren't doing them

Edited November 5 by gfa

[sheffinghell]

On 11/2/2024 at 2:43 PM, charlierc said:

Their 2018 schedule was Isle of Wight, Latitude, TRNSMT and stadium gigs in Swansea and Bolton. Which can't be denied to be anything other than a very strange tour schedule.

 

I know they did Wembley in 2013 and BST Hyde Park in 2017 (being the first to sell out in a year when Green Day and Justin Bieber also played it) so they were still a big deal but that was such a strange sequence of bookings that year. I do wonder if they would've sold out more ambitious dates than that though in the way that they did for their 2022 dates (both when initially planned in 2020 and when it actually happened) without Glasto '19 though.

They did Hyde Park before BST too, in 2009.

[charlierc]

6 hours ago, sheffinghell said:

They did Hyde Park before BST too, in 2009.

And in 2011. I recall that one because I was there, in the time when it was called Hard Rock Calling.

 

Main memory is a support act saying "Be glad you're here and not at Glastonbury, where it's raining", then during sub-headliner Kaiser Chiefs the rain arrived and carried on for the rest of the night. Talk about jinxing it.

[sheffinghell]

13 minutes ago, charlierc said:

And in 2011. I recall that one because I was there, in the time when it was called Hard Rock Calling.

 

Main memory is a support act saying "Be glad you're here and not at Glastonbury, where it's raining", then during sub-headliner Kaiser Chiefs the rain arrived and carried on for the rest of the night. Talk about jinxing it.

I was at the 2009 one (and Neil Young the following night), glorious sunshine! Hadn't realised they'd done 2 so close together.

[charlierc]

2 minutes ago, sheffinghell said:

I was at the 2009 one (and Neil Young the following night), glorious sunshine! Hadn't realised they'd done 2 so close together.

I mean, the two setlists weren't that far apart in what was played.

[miniman102]

Hoping for maccabees and the libertines 🎉

[Dales]

28 minutes ago, miniman102 said:

Hoping for maccabees and the libertines 🎉

 

I think we are expecting The Maccabees first big gig back to be All Points East. Can see The Libertines playing a few festivals but we might need to wait to find out as they will be looking to sell their own outdoor shows before appearing on festival poster's.

 

 

if they played Truck, do you think they are still likely to headline or maybe be a big sub/special guest like The Kooks? I think they would not look out of place headlining this with other stronger names on the other days.

 

[Jack01825]

Hopefully an announcement soon

[NorthernSoul52]

Or an announcement of an announcement. 

[sheffinghell]

3 hours ago, Jack01825 said:

Hopefully an announcement soon

Tramlines is now trailing an announcement, so this one won't be far behind.