Kings of Leon and the Verve will headline the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury this summer, according to friends of Q.
Despite whisperings in DiS's ear indicating the full story is yet to emerge, the BBC is reporting that the acts will play on Friday (27 June) and Sunday (29 June) respectively, joining Saturday’s bill-topper Jay-Z at the event.
So, no Radiohead then. Agree with the choices? Who would you have booked? DiScuss, as I’m sure you will.
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yawn
Well that's not to great is it :\
Jay-Z, Verve and Kings of Leon?
That's one pooooooooor set of headliners.
God good
If ever there was reason needed to not pre-register, get up at 5am and hit refresh for 5hours solidly, battling against some psychic "allegedly poor" students and connnected city bankers in a desperate attempt to maybe secure one measly ticket, that line up is indeed it
Thats gash that is.
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is it likely that
Mary J. Blige will be joining Jay-Z?
http://perezhilton.com/2008-02-07-2-4-1
hopefully this wont be true
Poor.
Kings of Leon would put on a good headline set I should imagine, but not for Glastonbury. Other Stage maybe... at a push.
Oh dear. Down the swanny.
agree about KoL
they were second from top at Reading last year and after they'd finished it felt like I'd seen a headline act. They were really impressive.
A magazine publishing a rumour is hardly confirmation is it?
Except for the fact that it's Q
Glastonbury's 'Official Media Partner', publishing it on behalf of the organisers.
And Emily Eavis is talking about it on NME.com
KoL should be great. They were the best band at Leeds last year. They can definitely pull it off.
It's good to see it's not one of the same old, same old.
I love these festival-headliner news stories
Allowing indie kids to moan about three acts that aren't indie enough for them from a bill of hundreds.
OMG! WHAT AM I GONNA DO! IF ONLY THERE WERE MORE ACTS TO BE ANNOUNCED! WHY AREN'T YOUTHMOVIES HEADLINING!!!
Who really cares?
If you don't like it don't go, as so many folk have said on so many different occasions there are thousands of bands and tonnes of things to do.
Easy....
don't go to the Pyramid stage after 8pm on any given day!
Its a bit like me complaining these acts are playing at the Manchester Apollo over three nights - Glastonbury has plenty of "venues" and the stuff off the beaten track is much better anyway.
Well, the people who want to go care.
And us who aren't have killed another 5 seconds of our tedious lives commenting on it. It all adds up.
^^^
Or generally don't really go to the Pyramid Stage. It's easily always the weakest line-up compared to the others. Last year I only watched Guillemots, Lily Allen and The Who on there.
exactly
noone really gives a shit about the main stage headliners do they?
Well, not strictly true.
I saw Radiohead headline Glastonbury twice. I gave a shit about that.
What happened to Kylie
For fucks sake? She had cancer you know...
OMG!!
whY aRent YoofMoviz 'eaDlininG?!!? ROFL LOL etc.
Comparatively, even razorshite are bigger than kings Of Leon, how on earth did they get there? they have exactly ONE song that may or may not be known by the general populace, and I don't think they have packed out wembley/the dome have they? methinks unsubstantiated rumour as well.
I see that the Verve have taken up their spiritual home
in the 'Sunday night boring old hasbeens so let's fuck off home and miss the traffic' slot.
The Pyramid Stage is for suckerz anyway
Heh
Why aren't they pulling out the big guns? I'm going to use the money to go on holiday instead.
bbc says its confirmed
bsp and leonard cohen to play as well
God why is everyone so hung up on these headliners
Last year all the good stuff was on the smaller stages. Contempory acts like Neds Atomic Dustbin, Jimbob from Carter and Cud.
God I fucking hate Glastonbury.
Probably because they dictate...
what the music / crowd at a festival is like?
I generally go watch bands I... you know... like? Each to their own though.
Sure, we all KNOW there's fields. And smaller tents (though you could argue there are better places to see more left-of-centre bands than Glasto anyway). And 3 hour queues for a shit. And other things to do.
But you kind of want one of them to be decent. I know for example that if the headliners were Radiohead / Led Zeppelin / Kylie, there'd be a lot more than 20 odd replies to this story
I was joking
Please re-read the last sentance. Interestingly the first time I went to Glastonbury in 1992 Cud, Carter and Neds where all on then too.
Glastonbury can lick my cubes.
I haven't gone for about 8 years anyway
So couldn't really give a toss (and can see we share the same thoughts on the festival these days). I just hate the fact everyone excuses the main acts like they're not important. They're probably spending 10% of the budget on them... Lets just reread that list:
Kings of Leon - meurgh...
Jay-Z - could be worse, but still...
The Verve - Zzzzzzz
I know
I'm sorry. I actually posted my reply about 5 minutes ago, but thanks to the wonderful posting structure on here, it appeared in the wrong place and 5 minutes later.
I expect you'll get this reply sometime on Tuesday
Last year...
... I saw.
1st night - Bjork, Other Stage
2nd night - Iggy, Other Stage & Madness, Lost Vagueness.
3rd night - The Who (until I got bored), Chemical Brothers, Other Stage and Cold War Kids in that pub tent.
See, it's all about the smaller stages.
It is a bit.....
....depressing, the line up. Compared to a couple of years back.
Last time I saw
Arcade Fire
Beirut
!!!
Bat For Lashes
Holy fuck (twice)
The Blood Arm
Spiritualized
Modest Mouse
Patrick Wolf
Broken Family Band
Iggy And the Stooges
Chemical Brothers
The Coral
SFA
Tinariwen
You Say Party We Say Die
I reckon I got value for money, and only one of those bands was a 'headline' act.
I think it's not bad
Good in that they are 3 that have never done it before. Radiohead, Coldplay, REM, etc. all have so glad they've been ignored. Dissapointing that they haven't got a stone cold legend like The Boss, Neil Young, Led Zep, Stones, etc - they haven't had one of these for a while now. Can't help thinking that the Verve & Kings of Leon might do some other festivals as well which makes it feel a bit less special