Posted May 27, 200619 yr Virgin.net Music news Kylie to headline Glastonbury 2007 Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis has confirmed that Kylie Minogue is to close next year's event. Kylie was due to appear at Glastonbury 2005, but was forced to pull out to focus on her battle with breast cancer. However, she is making a good recovery and has told Eavis she will be fit enough to headline next year. He told the Daily Mirror: "Kylie is definitely going to be the Sunday night headliner. "We want her to do all the stuff she did on her Showgirl tour with the fairies and the trapeze. She's so Glastonbury. "I'm worried it's too early for her but she's really keen. Her people said they don't even need a contract - a handshake is enough." Speaking at the Ivor Novello Awards, Eavis claims he has booked all three headliners for next year's festival, but refused to disclose any more names. Acts rumoured to be joining Kylie on the Pyramid Stage include Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, Kaiser Chiefs and Arctic Monkeys. Is this brilliant news or would you prefer a more alternative rock act to headline?
May 27, 200619 yr Eric Clappedout? Dire Straits? Jesus... come on, Mr Eavis.... these 2 are hardly 'Glastonbury'. Yaaawwwwn.
May 27, 200619 yr Author Maybe he is going to book Eric Clapton or Dire Straits to help the festival goers to get some sleep after all the other exciting acts that will be on site? :D
May 28, 200619 yr What a load of sh!t Glasto 2007 is gonna be....... <_< I'm sorry, but I kinda thought the whole raison d'etre and ethos behind Glasto originally was to present cutting edge and challenging music, not just present a bunch of hoary old Industry slags... Christ, might as well get Simply Red or Sir Elton in there as well, then you've got the whole fukkin' set..... The truly great Glastos of the 90s when you had truly inspiring sets from the likes of The Orb, Orbital, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, The Prodigy, Mercury Rev, etc seem well and truly to have utterly vanished....... Sunday night should go to The Flaming Lips, Nick Cave, Morrissey or Tool, for they are the amongst the greatest, most inspiring bands on this Green earth......
May 28, 200619 yr I think a dance(ish) act should close it tbh. Either The Prodigy or The Chemical Brothers...
May 28, 200619 yr I think a dance(ish) act should close it tbh. Either The Prodigy or The Chemical Brothers... ..or Aphex Twin....
May 28, 200619 yr El Presidente are also apperaing at glastonbury, as they were rained off last year, theyve been promised a slot at the pyrimid stage
May 28, 200619 yr El Presidente are also apperaing at glastonbury, as they were rained off last year, theyve been promised a slot at the pyrimid stage That's one more reason not to go.... :lol:
May 30, 200619 yr the more c**p acts they get on the main stage the better! keeps all the morons there while I'm loving the stuff at the Other stage or John Peel stage...
May 31, 200619 yr the more c**p acts they get on the main stage the better! keeps all the morons there while I'm loving the stuff at the Other stage or John Peel stage... Why should we tolerate c**p bands (or indeed morons..) at Glasto for any reason? Talk about missing the point mate...... :unsure:
May 31, 200619 yr lol... i've been there 4 times... i think i know what the point of Glasto is and if you still think it's the 60's you are sadly mistaken. Glasto is and will always be the best Festi in the world (i've been to 30 or so in the US and all over Europe) and one of the main reasons is the HUGE amount of different music styles. Just double checked and the only time I ever went to the Pyramid Stage last year was for the end of New Order and beginning of Coldplay... sadly both bored me to tears (New Order is one of my top 5 ever bands). 2004 I only saw Wilco and Pj Havey on the Pyramid Stage... Never mind all that - I think YOU miss the point more of Glastonbury if you worry so much about what acts are there, espeicially the headliners. It's maybe 1/3 about the music for me and the 50 people I know that go regularly...
May 31, 200619 yr ..... its a sad shame to see someone of claptons talent (clapton is god was a common grafiti in the early 70's) now be derided as such... ok, he HAS gone very bland and has clearly lost the spark of passion that he had for the blues back in the 60's.... clappedout? ... probably, but just remember that he was one of our countries most respected, talented and loved guitarists...
May 31, 200619 yr well, me and my sister (xThe_Royston_Poisoner_x) are going next year, cant wait, i don mind about the line up, just as long as i see kaiser chiefs, el presidente and white stripes (Any of them indie/rock acts). im also loking forward to abit of camping, should be a laugh, well probably end up losing our tent...etc ..lol
May 31, 200619 yr lol... i've been there 4 times... i think i know what the point of Glasto is and if you still think it's the 60's you are sadly mistaken. Glasto is and will always be the best Festi in the world (i've been to 30 or so in the US and all over Europe) and one of the main reasons is the HUGE amount of different music styles. Just double checked and the only time I ever went to the Pyramid Stage last year was for the end of New Order and beginning of Coldplay... sadly both bored me to tears (New Order is one of my top 5 ever bands). 2004 I only saw Wilco and Pj Havey on the Pyramid Stage... Never mind all that - I think YOU miss the point more of Glastonbury if you worry so much about what acts are there, espeicially the headliners. It's maybe 1/3 about the music for me and the 50 people I know that go regularly... Glastonbury was set up to be a cutting-edge festival presenting, as you say, a wide variety of music, but NEVER mainstream tripe such as Kylie or Dire Straits, even acts such as Tony Bennett and Tom Jones had a certain jokey entertaining factor about it more than anything. I've been to more Glastos than you have mate and I think I know what it's about, if you really wanna get real arsey about it.... And when did I ever say anything about the 60s, if you actually bothered to read any of what I said I was going on about bands like Radiohead, The Prodigy, Sonic Youth, The Orb, Orbital, Mercury Rev, Chemical Brothers, P J Harvey, any of that 60s? I dont think so. When acts as great as this start going back there, maybe so will I.... Glasto is now nothing more than an over-priced Corporate event, I'm sticking to the better value European festivals until that changes...
May 31, 200619 yr ..... its a sad shame to see someone of claptons talent (clapton is god was a common grafiti in the early 70's) now be derided as such... ok, he HAS gone very bland and has clearly lost the spark of passion that he had for the blues back in the 60's.... clappedout? ... probably, but just remember that he was one of our countries most respected, talented and loved guitarists... Yeah, but let's face it, he's really got nothing to say anymore does he? Takes all this ideas from the black man's music (the blues) then infamously supports Enoch bloody Powell.....! Prat..... <_< And I wasn't exactly comfortable about the song he did about his dead son. Smacked ever so slightly of emotional manipulation.....
May 31, 200619 yr Glastonbury was set up to be a cutting-edge festival presenting, as you say, a wide variety of music, but NEVER mainstream tripe such as Kylie or Dire Straits, even acts such as Tony Bennett and Tom Jones had a certain jokey entertaining factor about it more than anything. I've been to more Glastos than you have mate and I think I know what it's about, if you really wanna get real arsey about it.... come on.. certainly kylie is the same 'jokey entertaining factor' as Tony Bennet et all... in my mind they are! i mean.. i'd just be going to look at her legs - lol! My first glasto I was dragged to see Rolf Harris. HORRIBLE!! And when did I ever say anything about the 60s, if you actually bothered to read any of what I said I was going on about bands like Radiohead, The Prodigy, Sonic Youth, The Orb, Orbital, Mercury Rev, Chemical Brothers, P J Harvey, any of that 60s? I dont think so. When acts as great as this start going back there, maybe so will I.... uh... nearly every band you just mentioned have played the last 3 years... i know as I saw them! I think the one or two really big mainstream acts to close the Pyramid is what a lot of the people want - so let them have them! There's always 2-3 bands I want to see at closing time so bands like this make my decision much is easier. Tbh how many REALLY big bands are out there that would make you happy (to close the Pyramid, not the Other Stage)? I can only think of Radiohead... maybe on a stretch U2 or REM (tho I'd pass on both them)... Pixies maybe? Anyways... there's only a handful that exist anyways and you can't get them playing every year! Glasto is now nothing more than an over-priced Corporate event, I'm sticking to the better value European festivals until that changes... It's certainly a MORE coroporate event than it was in the 60's (that was my point about earlier when saying the 60's), but its still far more green then any other festi i've ever been to with all the hippies, vegitarian food, good causes and money raised for charity... As for 'better value' european festis, which do you mean? As stated on another thread i'm off to beinicassim again this year (but as for value it's not - as you still have transport to add on)... and none of the european festis i've been to have the space that Glasto has nor any of the 'do-goodness' that Glasto has (or tries to have if you will). When was the last time you went to Glasto btw? Edited May 31, 200619 yr by IndiElectronica
May 31, 200619 yr The last time I went was when Radiohead headlined... There's quite a few bands/acts who could close Sunday - Eavis just has to be a little daring and a bit more adventurous..... The Flaming Lips The Cure Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Pixies Nine Inch Nails Depeche Mode Morrissey Hell, I'd even rather have Green Day than Kylie...... Why does Glasto have to dumb itself down just to appeal to the sheep....? I mean, could you see, for example, Download having McFly as headliners simply to have more "commercial appeal".....? The Wacken metal fest (which costs about 80 Euros for a three day ticket..) and M'Era Luna Goth/Industrial/EBM (70 Euros..) are the ones I'm planning on doing this year, and both are on concurrent weekends so me and my mates can make a little holiday in Germany out of it.... :) Travel's not that big an expense either, Easyjet or Ryanair gets you pretty damn close to where you need to be... Oh, and the Gothic "Treffen" festival in Leipzig - a whole city is your playground pretty much (you pay for your pass and it gives you admission to all the venues in Leipzig which take part, plus free Public Transport no less....), so let's talk about space....... :lol: :lol:
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