Who will join Muse and U2 at Glastonbury?
This year is the 40th anniversary of the world’s most well-known music festival, Glastonbury. Organisers are hoping to make this festival the best in its illustrious (and, on occasion, not so illustrious) history by putting a together a bill that would make jaws drop. Anything less than big names for the headlining slots won’t do and it has been proven so far with the booking of U2 and the almost inevitable confirmation that Muse will join them. All that remains is to find a third headliner and, until last week, we were all under the impression that the Rolling Stones would make a rare festival appearance to headline the Pyramid Stage.
It turns out we were all wrong.
As mentioned on the site last week, the veteran rockers announced that they were not going to headline, leaving the field wide open. This is also the first year in a while where it’s been excruciatingly difficult to predict at least one of the headliners. So who could it be? eFestivals has the following listed on its site as rumours, which by their code means that it is not completely certain that it’s true but is a possibility:
Bob Dylan – The blues musician has a record of playing festivals so this wouldn’t be new to him. He is also one of the fewer artists who could compete with U2 in terms of legendary status. That said, if he does play then I’ll be running away as far as possible, having heard too many terrible things about his live shows.
Coldplay – If the quartet did come back to Glastonbury it would be their third headlining appearance and it will be five years since they last played. They haven’t necessarily winded down touring duties for Viva La Vida yet as a South American tour beckons and it’s possible that Michael Eavis, a huge fan, might have persuaded them to do it.
Fleetwood Mac – The Fleetwood Mac rumour has been circulating for a while now and it also surfaced last year, but Glastonbury themselves denied it. It’s gossip that won’t go away though, and probably not until the lineup gets announced in a few months.
Led Zeppelin – An absolute wildcard and, on the face of it, unlikely due to John Paul Jones’ involvement with Them Crooked Vultures, who are now strongly rumoured to play Reading & Leeds again, hinting that they’ll be touring for a while. You never know though, Eavis has managed to pull seemingly unthinkable feats in the past.
Madonna – Another rumour that, on the face of it, doesn’t add up since Madonna is currently working on a new album but it’s possible that the organisers are hoping to make up for the unfortunate Kylie Minogue cancellation in 2005 with another pop star of similar stature.
As I said, it’s very hard to guess. If I had to put money on any of those give it would be Bob Dylan, grudgingly I might add, but I’m not convinced that any of them will take the third slot. Who do you think it’s going to be? Drop a comment with your suggestions.
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Posted on January 15th, 2010 by Max
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