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Those were the days! I remember them doing it for Springsteen at Leeds Arena a decade or so ago, I think? They'd explicitly been non-committal on it - and then had counted two apiece for every punter in a queue around the town hall two hours before sale and handed them out at nine on the dot.

Manchester mostly gone on TM.

Aye. Far less scrutiny there to, as they say, meet the moment.   For any British headliner - especially a younger British headliner - a headline slot on the Pyramid stage is a rarefied moment. It kind of cements your status in the history books. Plenty will want to ensure they leave a lasting mark.

To be honest as well, a show at the end of July is well after the Coachella April option and even a month after Glastonbury. It's not like he's doing like Werchter the week after, or even like Mad Cool or something mid July

At first flush, if he's sticking to less than a dozen and a half songs, I'd assume this summer's shows will roughly look like:   1 People Watching 2 Getting Started 3 The Borders 4 Nostalgia's Lie 5 Spit of You 6 Dead Boys 7 Crumbling Empire 8 Spice 9 Howdon Aldi Death Queue 10 Wild Long Lie 11 Get You Down 12 Will We Talk? 13 Arm's Length 14 Seventeen Going Under   15 Remember My Name 16 Hypersonic Missiles   Still really not sold on Remember My Name over The Dying Light yet. The latter has that full E Street rush to it that seems like it would clear hurdles better live.