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 December 1 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.

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

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 

 

Recall folk saying the same about Cat Stevens two years back and they had to close the Pyramid Field lower down due to the size of the crowd.

[Monty Pythagoras]

Probably Rod just because people feeling obliged to see the "Legend Slot." Can't see any of the 3 main headliners getting anything outrageous.

 

Would imagine if Pulp rock up it'll be them, or a "Churnups" style band.

[Pipine]

I really don’t understand the predictions of Rod having a huge crowd.. I’m 51 and I have no childhood memories of thinking he was anything other than cringe.  I associate him with the Kenny Everett skit where his leopard print pants inflated and he floated off to the ceiling while singing Do You Think I’m Sexy. 😂

[CaledonianGonzo]

Probably why there'll be a lot of folk re-using their Shania leopardskin from this year.