Prince bottles the glasto crowd...

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so who is this 'fantastic' replacement going to be?

Sting 2-1fav
Richard Ashcroft 4-1
Paul Weller 7-1
Van the Man 7-1
Inspiral Carpets 33-1

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 28 March 2003 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

doesn't look promising whoever it turns out to be.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 28 March 2003 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

shit buzz if you bought a ticket expecting prince and you got sting instead...

― robin (robin), Friday, 28 March 2003 18:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Man this is poor news. To be fair Robin, the tickets haven't gone on sale yet.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 28 March 2003 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)

For the first time in my life, I cross my fingers and pray it's Weller.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 28 March 2003 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Though the fact that my mixtape has just thrown up Prolapse as I was reading the word 'fantastic headliner' cannot be a coincidence.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 28 March 2003 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

fuckin prince man.. what a dickhead

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 28 March 2003 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Michael Jackson.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 28 March 2003 19:29 (twenty-three years ago)

"But they're great." .... it's got to be a band then. Re-formed Genesis (minus Peter Gabriel)?

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 28 March 2003 19:32 (twenty-three years ago)

it might be R.E.M. but aren't they already down to play the Friday night? with Radiohead on the Saturday?

other possibilities:

Coldplay
Travis
New Order
Stereophonics
Pulp
Oasis
Blur

but seeing as its last on Sunday night you expect an ageing rocker of some sort don't you

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 28 March 2003 19:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Elvis Costello suddenly just popped into my head, and it does seem rather plausible...

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 28 March 2003 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

New Order would be the only band on that list that's in the same league, really.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 28 March 2003 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Bachman Turner Overdrive. Woo hooh!

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 28 March 2003 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

ELO

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 28 March 2003 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

ELO would actually be pretty neat.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 28 March 2003 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

It would, that's why it's better than the silly Bachman Turner Overdrive suggestion.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 28 March 2003 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Hawkwind!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 28 March 2003 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)

What odds it just ends up being The Coral?

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 28 March 2003 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

well they're too hep for Sunday night, as are White Stripes, Strokes etc.

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 28 March 2003 20:34 (twenty-three years ago)

But they play old people's instruments and look permanently miserable onstage.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 28 March 2003 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

thats teenagers for you

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 28 March 2003 20:42 (twenty-three years ago)

OK I am now going to do a list of 'big old time Sunday night headliner bands' that I really don't want it to be, in the superstitious belief that if I think of them then it won't be them: BTO, ELP, U2, Genesis (tho a PG revival would be quite funny), Oasis, Blur, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd..)

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 28 March 2003 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

U2 would be interesting just because of the novelty of seeing them on a festival stage in what, nearly 20 years?

or it could be the Manics...

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 28 March 2003 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

:-(

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 28 March 2003 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

yep my money's on RHCP but that does make it a bit...rock,
all weekend. last few years they've had at least one darnce band
on the big stage. what if (gulps) it really is the stones as
predicted, or has that one been officially scotched ?

oh there was me imagining :

'SUN SOAKED 2 HOUR PRINCE SET WOWS GLASTO CROWD'
his royal purpleness prince was reunited with
his legendary peak-period revolution band last night
in what organisers are already calling the greatest
main stage gig in 30 years...

oh stop it.

― piscesboy, Saturday, 29 March 2003 13:35 (twenty-three years ago)

oh please, his peak band was the Sign 'O' the Times/Lovesexy band.

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 29 March 2003 13:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Eric Clapton?

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 29 March 2003 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Momus?

― chris (chris), Saturday, 29 March 2003 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

DAFT PUNK (i wish)

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 29 March 2003 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Sigur Ros?

― chris sallis, Saturday, 29 March 2003 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Seamus O Donnell, leader of The Feckless Eejits

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 29 March 2003 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, joined by Ben Cohen, Todd Edwards, Romanthony, Pharrell Williams and 100 party robots preferably

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 29 March 2003 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

er, Daft Punk not Sigur Ros that is

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 29 March 2003 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

the party robots go around enforcing party rules on people in the wasteland of the future where corporations own the world, but the indie fans continue to try and wipe out humanity, so one man played by gabriel byrne travels back to ancient Ireland to fight Caesar and kill the original indie fan.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 29 March 2003 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Maha! It's Moby!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 11:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Imagine looking forward to Prince and then getting Moby instead. As cruel an April Fools Day prank as I've ever heard.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 11:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe Moby will do a Prince covers set. He did a good Joy Division.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 11:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't imagine anything I would enjoy less. It would be like a toad pretending to be an eagle.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Wait, that last sentence makes it sound cooler than it should be.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 11:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Depends on how far the toad launched itself into the air.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 12:00 (twenty-three years ago)

At least toads are lickable. Moby is not, unless you are Natalie Portman.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 12:01 (twenty-three years ago)

This image is sick and wrong, and now I will not be able to have breakfast.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Motorhead?

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

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