Lytham Festival 2025

[bingobear]

On 10/4/2024 at 9:15 AM, NorthernSoul52 said:

The Cure at Lytham would be insane.

looks like we can rule it out   according the uncut interview looks like November 1st album launch show which is now confirmed for the proxy then they've decided against festivals next summer and will return to the stage next autumn

[NorthernSoul52]

57 minutes ago, bingobear said:

looks like we can rule it out   according the uncut interview looks like November 1st album launch show which is now confirmed for the proxy then they've decided against festivals next summer and will return to the stage next autumn

Yeah, saw that. Hopefully means some quality shows down the line however.

[bingobear]

1 hour ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Yeah, saw that. Hopefully means some quality shows down the line however.

indeed.  I will always favour full gigs by The Cure over curtailed festival sets  sounds like Robert is keen on being out on tour for a while too

[NorthernSoul52]

Definitely one for the win.

[DomDom1984]

5 hours ago, bingobear said:

indeed.  I will always favour full gigs by The Cure over curtailed festival sets  sounds like Robert is keen on being out on tour for a while too

Until 2028 he said. Madness.

[charlierc]

On 9/25/2024 at 4:06 PM, northernangel said:

APE just don't book the kinda act that Biffy is from my view

I know this is an old response but APE books all kinds of things - hell, Bring Me The Horizon and Foals have done it as heads and I would argue that Biffy have some crossover with those two.

 

But I guess we'll see. Last year's didn't quite stray into their territory, but I think they'd be a decent enough booking. Either that or maybe Biffy could do Gunnersbury.

[northernangel]

11 minutes ago, charlierc said:

I know this is an old response but APE books all kinds of things - hell, Bring Me The Horizon and Foals have done it as heads and I would argue that Biffy have some crossover with those two.

 

But I guess we'll see. Last year's didn't quite stray into their territory, but I think they'd be a decent enough booking. Either that or maybe Biffy could do Gunnersbury.

I think Biffy could do Gunnersbury. I personally wouldn't class Biffy in the same vein as either of them two from my view. Early Biffy maybe more so but Biffy now you'd be more likely to find V Festival book lol.

[gfa]

7 minutes ago, northernangel said:

I think Biffy could do Gunnersbury. I personally wouldn't class Biffy in the same vein as either of them two from my view. Early Biffy maybe more so but Biffy now you'd be more likely to find V Festival book lol.

Gunnersbury would be a very small booking for them - would rule them out of ever doing major festival headline slots again imo

[northernangel]

2 minutes ago, gfa said:

Gunnersbury would be a very small booking for them - would rule them out of ever doing major festival headline slots again imo

That is true to be honest. Probably a little small but then out of all these bands Biffy Clyro have never been the one to be booked for any size of their own outdoor English gig.

 

I don't think they are that far from dropping down anyway to be honest. Even Victorious that might be 60k, don't book bands that headline major festivals. IOW for example occasionally book one huge act that could headline anywhere but the other headliners aren't main stage festival headliners. No IOW headliner is class as that in 2019 and in 2014 when they did it, it was a bit of a co-headliner thing and the other two headliners were certainly a bigger level. Download still probably will as they've allowed themselves to undersell themselves this year. Scotland obviously. 

[NorthernSoul52]

I think Biffy might skip some shows unless they can commit to it. And the sad fact is that Finsbury feels like a stretch at only 40,000.

[gfa]

APE still seem like the most likely place if they do a London show to me.

They seem do be doing Truck anyway which is pretty nearby, could skip London or do their own thing to be honest

[charlierc]

1 hour ago, gfa said:

They seem do be doing Truck anyway which is pretty nearby, could skip London or do their own thing to be honest

... what, has a rumour of Biffy at Truck surfaced?

 

Tbf that kinda also proves my point about APE given Foals have also headlined Truck and APE and I think there's a fair bit of crossover in Foals & Biffy fans. Royal Blood did Truck as well tbf.

[gfa]

15 hours ago, charlierc said:

... what, has a rumour of Biffy at Truck surfaced?

 

Tbf that kinda also proves my point about APE given Foals have also headlined Truck and APE and I think there's a fair bit of crossover in Foals & Biffy fans. Royal Blood did Truck as well tbf.

teasers using their msuic

[NorthernSoul52]

Biffy Clyro at Truck pretty much cements their place as an act out of the conversation at leading festivals.

 

Yet, they probably will remain in the conversation for TRNSMT thanks to home advantage and Download thanks to an aging pool of options, even if both of their performances drew lacklustre crowds, by all accounts.

[northernangel]

1 hour ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Biffy Clyro at Truck pretty much cements their place as an act out of the conversation at leading festivals.

 

Yet, they probably will remain in the conversation for TRNSMT thanks to home advantage and Download thanks to an aging pool of options, even if both of their performances drew lacklustre crowds, by all accounts.

Yeah if Biffy Clyro are at truck they've accepted where they stand. Truck being the smallest capacity one as well. They are likely going to be the big one they get like Royal Blood but it will look really weak for anyone except for Scotland to give them headline after that regardless of how big another band is they get.

[NorthernSoul52]

It may well be the case. Biffy Clyro one of the great "would've, should've, could've" bands for me, though to be fair, they pretty much did headline everything but Glastonbury back in the day.

[gfa]

1 hour ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

It may well be the case. Biffy Clyro one of the great "would've, should've, could've" bands for me, though to be fair, they pretty much did headline everything but Glastonbury back in the day.

Could they of really?

 

They only ever co-headlined reading lol, albeit closing both sites

[northernangel]

2 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

It may well be the case. Biffy Clyro one of the great "would've, should've, could've" bands for me, though to be fair, they pretty much did headline everything but Glastonbury back in the day.

 

10 minutes ago, gfa said:

Could they of really?

 

They only ever co-headlined reading lol, albeit closing both sites

 

Biffy headlined Reading outright I'm 2013. It's the only time they've ever got to do it themselves. They co-headlined after and filled in for someone. 

 

I've always said that Biffy should have been chosen to headline Glastonbury when they subbed it to Ed Sheeran who didn't really make the most of his chance. I'm not saying Ed should have played under them or even Biffy should have closed out the festival but that was their time. Theh had Puzzle, Only Revolutions, Opposites and Elipsis being the weakest of them overall easily. Really Opposites was the album for it to be done on and do it alongside Arctics and The Stones with Reading the year after. They were never going to headline Reading in that time and then Glastonbury the following year. I think from previous times Muse are the only band I remember playing Glastonbury after another festival here being Download. When you look at who played on the same day though they aren't exactly bands Glastonbury are lining up to book.

Edited October 15 by northernangel

[gfa]

1 hour ago, northernangel said:

 

 

Biffy headlined Reading outright I'm 2013. It's the only time they've ever got to do it themselves. They co-headlined after and filled in for someone. 

 

I've always said that Biffy should have been chosen to headline Glastonbury when they subbed it to Ed Sheeran who didn't really make the most of his chance. I'm not saying Ed should have played under them or even Biffy should have closed out the festival but that was their time. Theh had Puzzle, Only Revolutions, Opposites and Elipsis being the weakest of them overall easily. Really Opposites was the album for it to be done on and do it alongside Arctics and The Stones with Reading the year after. They were never going to headline Reading in that time and then Glastonbury the following year. I think from previous times Muse are the only band I remember playing Glastonbury after another festival here being Download. When you look at who played on the same day though they aren't exactly bands Glastonbury are lining up to book.

oh sorry missed this ignore - had a very brief look

[NorthernSoul52]

They also topped IOW in 2019.

[charlierc]

7 hours ago, gfa said:

teasers using their msuic

That would feel a bit like a giveaway then.

 

Truck have said they'll be announcing two of their headliners before Christmas, so if that's genuinely being used, feels like a spoiler.

 

Even if one Redditor said, "not quite the same high of 2022s headliners" (which were Bombay Bicycle Club, Sam Fender and Kasabian if you're keeping score)

[charlierc]

3 hours ago, gfa said:

Could they of really?

 

They only ever co-headlined reading lol, albeit closing both sites

 

1 hour ago, gfa said:

oh sorry missed this ignore - had a very brief look

Tbf I thought they were a co in 2013, but nope. Straight outright after Nine Inch Nails. Though to intents and purposes, I would say 2016 was more of an outright headliner. Even though they were co-head with Fall Out Boy in 2016, they were on second at both sites, played longer and had the bigger stage show.

[DomDom1984]

Aye. It was no different to how Biffy's own headline show at Bellahouston Park went that week too. FOB playing the same length.

 

EDIT: Biffy played longer actually so that was different. 

Edited October 15 by DomDom1984

[charlierc]

6 minutes ago, DomDom1984 said:

Aye. It was no different to how Biffy's own headline show at Bellahouston Park went that week too. FOB playing the same length.

 

EDIT: Biffy played longer actually so that was different. 

Yeah the YouTube lengths even say as such - 75 mins for Fall Out Boy, 90 for Biffy. So for all that it's co-head, I'd argue it was a 

 

Admittedly I had a more full-on dose of Biffy when I saw them in Birmingham 4 months later (21 songs at Reading 2016 vs 27 at the Birmingham show I caught), but still closer in length to a full headline show they were doing on that cycle. 

[gfa]

18 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

They also topped IOW in 2019.

IOW is a joke these days to be fair

They topped it alongside George Ezra / Fatboy and Noel Gallagher, probably a good slot to mark as the start of their fall down lineups actually