The Glastonbury 2025 Crowd Size Debate Thread

[Talcroft]

Gotta take it when you can get it when the algorithms do that to you! 

The sort of act I wouldn't have dreamed of seeing when she was new (indie sleaze youth) but now would very much enjoy pretending I was there first time around. 

[GhostOfMaurice]

Natasha would be a solid booking, and I'd definitely consider seeing her.

[NorthernSoul52]

I don't think she'd outgun Avril, and plenty depends who she plays against.

 

But a very solid Other booking.

[Badlands]

Being closer to 50 than 40, and having seen Lavignes and Janelle’s crowds  this year on tv, I don’t feel confident predicting anything anymore.

[NorthernSoul52]

There were a few shockingly disproportionate crowds. 

 

My prediction - if Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds do play, it'll be smaller than we think. 

[CharlotteB]

7 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

There were a few shockingly disproportionate crowds. 

 

My prediction - if Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds do play, it'll be smaller than we think. 

 

Everything crossed for Nick Cave to play 🤞🏻 

[NorthernSoul52]

Faith will be rewarded, with any luck.

[gfa]

12 hours ago, Talcroft said:

Natasha Bedingfield in Avril's slot could be massive. Singalong Sunday. 

 

11 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

I don't think she'd outgun Avril, and plenty depends who she plays against.

 

But a very solid Other booking.

I'd expect her more early pyramid ala Rick Astley this year.

 

Thing with avril is she was hardly touring at all, for around a decade too. Natasha has been everywhere recently / in recent years.

 

I'd 100% be at natasha clashes permitting, avril really was the perfect storm as she was against nothing of much draw

[NorthernSoul52]

Yeah, there was a bit of a rarity factor in that one.

[Ebibibi]

For what it's worth I'm going as a group of 12 with an age range of 28-33 and absolutely none of us plan to see Rod Stewert. Compard to most of us seeing Elton previously.

 

I think the older crowd have a warped perception on Rod's popularity 

Edited Sunday at 04:23 PM by Ebibibi

[pc3036]

On 11/27/2024 at 3:23 PM, Nobody Interesting said:

I think, from reading this site for a decade, that the views on 'size/stature' of bands is skewed vs the reality out there in the big wide world.

Elbow are popular on here, out there less so.
Same goes for Neil Young and I expect to be slated for saying that LOL 

Anywho, crowd sizes, they will be big, small, bigger, smaller and personally speaking when I am in a crowd I am watching the artist, listening to the music, singing and dancing and not looking around to try and work out how big the crowd might be.

Maybe I am weird like that, who knows.

I like to get a clipboard and calculator out to work out the crowd size 

[henry bear]

I’ve given up predicting crowd sizes after Craig David and Rag n Bone Man packed out the Pyramid and Other respectively in 2017. 

[stuie]

3 hours ago, Ebibibi said:

For what it's worth I'm going as a group of 12 with an age range of 28-33 and absolutely none of us plan to see Rod Stewert. Compard to most of us seeing Elton previously.

 

I think the older crowd have a warped perception on Rod's popularity 

 

How does that compare with your groups interest in previous legends like Dolly, DiRo, Paul Simon etc? 

 

Just had a look at some stats as I thought maybe my 44 year old perception might be a bit warped!  Like a lot of us, my early musical interests were shaped by my parents and my mum is a bit of a Rod fan, so it resonates with me - his hits bring back family memories for me so I'm keen to see him. 

 

Anyway, he's had 10 UK number 1 albums and 31 UK top ten hits.  And the new metric of monthly Spotify listeners comes in at 12 million. Active for 6 decades, he has the vital stats to be eligible for the slot really.  

 

I guess we'll just have to wait and see his popularity with the Glasto crowd, but I expect it's in the same region as DiRo. 

 

[Old_Johno]

20 hours ago, stuie said:

 

How does that compare with your groups interest in previous legends like Dolly, DiRo, Paul Simon etc

For me it all comes down to sing-along-ability, Dolly has loads of bangers you can sing along to, same for Diana Ross, Kylie had massive crowds, Elton has loads.

 

Rod is a bit more chilled background music vibes for me. This is translates to really high listens on Spotify, same as SZA. Popular on paper from passive listening but I wouldn’t see them live unless there was absolutely nothing else on. 

[giantkatestacks]

The likelihood of guests is another thing that might sway it for me. So:

1. Is it last chance saloon territory

2. Is there good guest potential

3. Are they a rare sighting generally

4. Have I seen them before

[CanWeRest]

On 12/1/2024 at 5:51 PM, henry bear said:

I’ve given up predicting crowd sizes after Craig David and Rag n Bone Man packed out the Pyramid and Other respectively in 2017. 

 

The Rag n Bone man crowd was immense 🙀

[Ben7amin_]

On 12/1/2024 at 4:21 PM, Ebibibi said:

For what it's worth I'm going as a group of 12 with an age range of 28-33 and absolutely none of us plan to see Rod Stewert. Compard to most of us seeing Elton previously.

 

I think the older crowd have a warped perception on Rod's popularity 

 

Pushing 40 and 100% confident that something i want to see more than Rod Stewart will be on at the same time.  The chances of me watching him are somewhere near 0 

[Skip997]

22 hours ago, Old_Johno said:

For me it all comes down to sing-along-ability,

Maybe 

 

or could it be irony or too much alcohol?

[Superscally]

On 11/27/2024 at 8:44 PM, Talcroft said:

Natasha Bedingfield in Avril's slot could be massive. Singalong Sunday. 

For three minutes.

[Superscally]

On 11/27/2024 at 10:34 PM, NorthernSoul52 said:

There were a few shockingly disproportionate crowds. 

 

My prediction - if Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds do play, it'll be smaller than we think. 

Shut your filthy mouth

[BlackZeppelin]

If Jack White subs Nick Cave on The Other....it will be a lockout.