Adele headlining glastonbury

Bygone_Tones

Yawn

ICBM

I quite like Adele, but… likewise.

I also like Lana Del Rey, but she was dire at Glastonbury. No life to it at all, and she looked bored and as if she didn't want to be there.

I wonder which old-timer will do the Dolly Parton/Lionel Richie slot this year, and be the best thing there again?

cruxiform

ICBM said:

I wonder which old-timer will do the Dolly Parton/Lionel Richie slot this year, and be the best thing there again?

My money's on Stevie Wonder as he's over here in the summer. Although that would be very cool. Certainly much better than Adele.

jpttaylor

ICBM said:

I quite like Adele, but… likewise.

I also like Lana Del Rey, but she was dire at Glastonbury. No life to it at all, and she looked bored and as if she didn't want to be there.

I wonder which old-timer will do the Dolly Parton/Lionel Richie slot this year, and be the best thing there again?

Believe that slot's being filled by Jeff Lynne's ELO this year.

Likewise underwhelmed by Adele - Saturday night headliners are usually the big attraction, with light show, fireworks etc. It's not a night for belting out Someone Like You while your makeup runs.

Moe_Zambeek

It's probably an indication of the dearth of big (new) acts these days. Who else could have headlined? Any candidates? I can't think of any.

Dominic

Adele - undoubtedly talented but isn't day to day life sometimes dreary enough and then to have to suffer this morose ,self -indulgent boring music ..................at least Leonard Cohen made a proper job of it and Tom Waits to a lesser degree

Why is it that suddenly in the last 5 years pop music has become one of 2 things ;

either Gangster / Rappy  stuff or this dreary melancholy type empty music (include Coldplay) Adele ,Emily Sande,Ed Sheeran etc

What happened to all the uplifting ' proper' pop -where are Duran Duran when you need them !

Iamnobody

cruxiform;1008890" said:

ICBM said:

I wonder which old-timer will do the Dolly Parton/Lionel Richie slot this year, and be the best thing there again?





My money's on Stevie Wonder as he's over here in the summer. Although that would be very cool. Certainly much better than Adele.

Stevie Wonder played in 2010 - a bit soon to have him back?

The good thing about Glastonbury is the headliners are rarely the best watch anyway. There's so much else to see.

boogieman

Adele, Coldplay and Muse confirmed so far. What a snoozefest.

earwighoney

When I went to Glastonbury, I think I only saw one act perform at the Pyramid stage - the rather magnificent Elvis Costello.  All the other time I spent watching acts at other stages.  I remember there was a lot of fuss about Coldplay headlining on Saturday which was when I saw Squarepusher. 

There are a huge number of different stages at Glastonbury, there's generally something great on if you're prepared to take a chance. 

ICBM

Moe_Zambeek said:

It's probably an indication of the dearth of big (new) acts these days. Who else could have headlined? Any candidates? I can't think of any.

Calvin Harris or/and Taylor Swift

Dominic said:

What happened to all the uplifting ' proper' pop -where are Duran Duran when you need them !

Sadly Duran Duran weren't very good last time they appeared on Jools. Their new guitarist doesn't fit and the material wasn't very good.

Apart from the above, try -

OneRepublic

Imagine Dragons

Years & Years

p90fool

I thought Adele had always said she didn't want to headline big festivals, saying herself that she wasn't an appropriate act for that?

Heartfeltdawn

p90fool said:

I thought Adele had always said she didn't want to headline big festivals, saying herself that she wasn't an appropriate act for that?

Maybe her local bakery has sent her the invoice for last year's cake delivery account and caused her to change her mind.  

Chalky

Have you noticed how Adele has been advertised, no sorry, featured on the BBC News website for several weeks so far this year. Her publicist must be due a big bonus for all that free advertising at licence payers expense...

Heartfeltdawn

Chalky said: Have you noticed how Adele has been advertised, no sorry, featured on the BBC News website for several weeks so far this year. Her publicist must be due a big bonus for all that free advertising at licence payers expense...

It's more of a statement on how few truly big names there are in British music now. Compare the number of platinum albums last year compared to 1995. She gets shedloads of coverage because there's sod all else to cover. As I said in another thread, the industry has revolved around her album because they couldn't allow it to fail because there's fuck all else with that selling power. If it failed, the industry is in a big shitty mess. 

thecolourbox

Glastonbury is much better to watch afterwards anyway when theh highlights videos are on the website so you don't have to listen to the twats of R1 chuntering away and you've no risk of clicking on somebody you've no interest in listening to

EricTheWeary

boogieman said:

Adele, Coldplay and Muse confirmed so far. What a snoozefest.

Dear God 

earwighoney said:

When I went to Glastonbury, I think I only saw one act perform at the Pyramid stage - the rather magnificent Elvis Costello.  All the other time I spent watching acts at other stages.  I remember there was a lot of fuss about Coldplay headlining on Saturday which was when I saw Squarepusher. 

There are a huge number of different stages at Glastonbury, there's generally something great on if you're prepared to take a chance. 

but yeh kinda that. Long, long time since I went but it's the experience and the choice of stages so the headliners don't matter all that much.

Flink_Poyd

This seems to be the pattern with Glastonbury, announce a slightly different or "controversial" headliner then Internet gets its knickers in a twist.

Bod

Chalky;1009143" said:

Have you noticed how Adele has been advertised, no sorry, featured on the BBC News website for several weeks so far this year. Her publicist must be due a big bonus for all that free advertising at licence payers expense...

That's exactly my problem with Florence and the Machine. The BBC "predicted" they would be the new act of year several years ago then proceeded to ram them (her) down our throats at every available opportunity, announcing at the end of the year that they were right.

ICBM

Bod said:

That's exactly my problem with Florence and the Machine. The BBC "predicted" they would be the new act of year several years ago then proceeded to ram them (her) down our throats at every available opportunity, announcing at the end of the year that they were right.

They did the same with Elbow before that, and it really put me off. It took several years before I actually listened to them properly and discovered that they were in fact quite good.

Axe_meister

Pity Brian Johnstons hearing has gone. I recon ACDC would go down a storm.

breakstuff

Given the recent tread for nostalgia and lack of big hitters I reckon even Steps could smash it.

And I'm only half joking.