[Music] Glastonbury 25

[Randy McNob]

didn't know the prodigy were still going since Keith Flint left us.

Not heard of Olivia Rodrigo?

 

[Hotchilidog]

Not a bad lineup. Plenty to see there. Not sure if I am going to try for resale. I knew Lucy Dacus had left a Glastonbury shaped hole in her dates but I bought a ticket for Brixton anyway knowing it would clash with the festival.

 

[jackalbion]

Awful headliners, decent bands on the undercard. I popped to Glasto last week and it really is the weirdest town I have ever been to in the UK (inc. Hebdon Bridge). Full of magic potion shops and witches but a couple of cracking pubs though.

I've never been to the town itself, but Hebden Bridge is the weirdest place I've been to, so it must be weird.

 

[AstroSloth]

The Lineup finally released. Not overly enamoured with the headliners, but the undercard has some great stuff.

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Turns out that Turnstile are like buses, you wait years to see them once and then see them twice in a month.

 

[bhafc99]

Neil Young is a worthy headliner, but The 1975 and Olivia Rodrigo don’t do it for me. Especially Olivia Rodrigo as the closing act. But some crackers further down the bill.

My 20 to see (if I was going , that is):

Neil Young
CMAT
English Teacher
Self Esteem
Charli XCX
Raye
Amyl & The Sniffers
Bob Vylan
Japanese Breakfast
Lucy Dacus
TV on the Radio
Wolf Alice
Overmono
Kae Tempest
Katy J Pearson
Sprints
St Vincent
Fatboy Slim
Floating Points
Wunderhorse

 

[jackalbion]

Turns out that Turnstile are like buses, you wait years to see them once and then see them twice in a month.

Osees good, Wolf Alice the big one for me.

 

[Wozza]

Neil Young is a worthy headliner, but The 1975 and Olivia Rodrigo don’t do it for me.

Guessing you're not, say, 18-34 years old...

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

What a massive disappointment

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

The Cure have only played Glastonbury once in the last 30 years. I thought 2025 will be a certainty on the back of their greatest album ever, songs of a lost world

 

[Mellotron]

Parcels worth a go if you like life-affirming, tight studio 54-esque funk.

 

[The Clamp]

It’s a good job Glastonbury is way more than the music because that is a weak line up. Even Neil Young is not great live these days.

 

[Randy McNob]

I've never been to the town itself, but Hebden Bridge is the weirdest place I've been to, so it must be weird.

a 2nd hand clothes shop and snakebite pub?

 

[JackB247]

It would appear they've been turned down by just about every major band in the world to end up with The 1975 as a headliner.

Rodrigo choice is baffling and not right for a Glasto crowd.

 

[albionalbino]

I've been to every Glastonbury since 2001 and I very rarely go anywhere near the pyramid stage.
There's far more to Glastonbury than headliners but I get that most people prefer Coldplay or whatever to Shangri La or Block 9.
CMAT, Ezra Collective, Goat are my priorities this year but I'll probably miss one or more of them!

 

[jackalbion]

It would appear they've been turned down by just about every major band in the world to end up with The 1975 as a headliner.

Rodrigo choice is baffling and not right for a Glasto crowd.

I mean love them or loathe them, other than Arctic Monkeys they're probably the biggest current British Rock Band out there at the moment, not my cup of tea, but they deserve it IMO. Olivia Rodrigo probably one of the biggest acts world wide currently, its certainly a better booking than SZA.

 

[Randy McNob]

I mean love them or loathe them, other than Arctic Monkeys they're probably the biggest current British Rock Band out there at the moment, not my cup of tea, but they deserve it IMO. Olivia Rodrigo probably one of the biggest acts world wide currently, its certainly a better booking than SZA.

Are they? 1975 sound like AN Other radio pushed pop act. Big British rock is a bit of a stretch / or are we redefining rock now?

 

[jamie-oh]

some absolute belters on that lineup for me:

kneecap
deftones
weezer
alanis morissette
neil young
busta rhymes
turnstile
bob vylan
gary numan


there's a bit of shite to swerve, but thats not tricky at all. All things considered i'm right chuffed and its going to be amazing (like it always is!)

 

[jackalbion]

Are they? 1975 sound like AN Other radio pushed pop act. Big British rock is a bit of a stretch / or are we redefining rock now?

I'd say their earlier stuff was more rock based, but probably more skewed towards pop, genres are very hard to define now. I wouldn't say they've been that pushed by radio, but then again, I'm not sure how any band these days is meant to be successful without any radio airplay. Very popular with everyone aged under 30 odd. Multiple nights at the O2 and Finsbury Park sold out, its nice to see someone not within the old tired headliners we've all seen 100 times before, Glastonbury is very good at that IMO, it can't be the same roundtable of Foo Fighters, Arctic Monkeys again and again.

 

[Pevenseagull]

would love to see TV on the Radio again. cracking band. Tempted by their London show but it would be a lot of standing up so probably no good for me... oh well.

 

[DFL JCL]

DEFTONES.