Worst band to have headlined the Glastonbury Festival in the last 20 years

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow IIRC

also featured Juliette Lewis singing PJ Harvey's "Can Hardly Wait"

Juliette Lewis meets PJ Harvey! Sorta:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ5NUoT6Ujs

Haha xpost. But...different song?

Apologies for my psychotic appearance at the start of the clip BTW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKnlo7sLfa0&feature=related

ta-dah

And there we go.

Anyway back to talking about when Ralph Fiennes headlined Glastonbury:

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hahaha MINIDISC = the hi tech format of the future

I still rue the day I talked myself into buying a minidisc recorder

I blame this movie, actually

You were distracted:

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somewhere in the office we have a copy of "evil empire" by ratm on minidisc, remember when they were selling prerecorded minidiscs?

Um....in its day minidisc was an awesome format.

The trouble is, its day lasted for about a, well, day.

I used it professionally and personally from about 1995 till about 2004.

many people still record gigs with it

people still use tape reels, too

Can't see anyone else as limp and dreary as Travis. At least Stereophonics occasionally give rocking a bit of a half-hearted go.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Ironically their debut single was called "All I Want To Do is Rock"

only 2 votes for muse? really?

i don't get what people have against skunk anansie. they don't seem important enough to hate, and most of the other lumpen britpop acts on that godforsaken list were a good deal worse.

minidisc was actually pretty good, i used on for years at work to record interviews...just thought it was funny in the context of the movie

Ironically their debut single was called "All I Want To Do is Rock"

even at that stage they were desperately toning it down - live the song had been All I Want To Do Is Fuck

i don't get what people have against skunk anansie.

whiney is just "hugging it out" and "keeping it posi"

Can I place 800,000 votes for Muse on behalf of everyone who forgot to vote thanks

oh, and nothing wrong with minidiscs btw

Even own "Loveless" on prerec.

Funny story someone told me over the weekend. Siobhan Fahey's at a party a few years ago and meets Michael Eavis. She says "Thanks for letting us headline in 92, we had a fantastic time." He looks at her uncertainly and says, "No I don't think so. What band were you in?" "Shakespear's Sister." Eavis shakes his head: "No, I think you must be mistaken. You never headlined Glastonbury." Siobhan insists they did. Eavis wracks his brain and asks who else was on the bill. Siobhan says Lou Reed was on before them. Eavis looks delighted and says, "There you go! Lou Reed must have headlined!" Finally Siobhan gives up and walks off. She can laugh about it now, apparently.

Was also reminded that Ash only headlined Sunday in 1997 because Steve Winwood pulled out. Steve Winwood?!?

Shakespears Sister headlining definitely seems bizarre now but they had some pretty big hits at the time. lol at that story...

Can't see anyone else as limp and dreary as Travis. At least Stereophonics occasionally give rocking a bit of a half-hearted go.

I actually saw that Travis headline set and it was quite sweet and enjoyable, have to say. I didn't want to see them either, but I was already there for some reason and the proximity of the cider bus and toilet facilities suddenly made it very doable. I'm not a fan but they kinda won me over a bit, I remember a cool cover of The Band's "The Weight" and all the usual singalong tunes they had at the time, it was awwwright with me... but Pyramid headline sets are always a bit like that, you usually stand at the back and watch the screens drinking cider and letting it wash all over you, other areas of the festival are more engaging, just the way it is...

Didn't see any of the Pyramid headliners this year and don't feel like I enjoyed the festival any less. Would have liked to see Stevie, avoided Muse by the plague and while I was vaguely curious about Gorillaz apparently they came very close to bombing.

There are 2 or 3 Skunk Anansie songs that are worth the careers of some of the bands lower down that list.

it's astonishing to me that gorillaz are still, like, a popular thing. their songs are all totally ropey and non-distinct, how and why do people give a shit about them?

racking my brains to try to remember the titles of the skunk anansie songs i didn't mind in the 90s. easily better than your happy mondays, primal screams, oasises, verves, arctic monkeys et al.

I think plenty of Gorillaz songs are way catchy. Not so much on their latest, though (which I still like).

it's astonishing to me that gorillaz are still, like, a popular thing. their songs are all totally ropey and non-distinct, how and why do people give a shit about them?

Lex otm. Plus who is interesteed in how many famous old hasbeens Damon Albarn has in his address book?

The entire concept just seems really smug, even by Albarn standards.

Muse in 2004 were a really good band. Much better than 80% of these.

I mean, let's be frank here, a 9 year old could have played guitar better than Lou Reed managed in his guest spot (xp)

Hmm, maybe more like 50%. The Cure, 3 votes?!

I don't much like big festival crowds, but my gf was baffingly insistent on seeing the headliners - Gorillaz ok (Dizzee *much* more enjoyable immediately before), but Albarn's arts-page curatorial good taste kills fun - of c it was great to see Mark E Smith reading lyrics from sheet of paper in front of a giant inappropriate crowd (and he sounded good), but the 'enjoy my excellent smorgasbord' attitude was joy-draining.

Muse were professional. I'd rather take out my bowels with a tent peg than see them again.

So I was reading about last minute headliners, and (even thought neither of them ended up playing) can anyone shed any light as to why the hell Steve Winwood was chosen to headline 1997 with Neil Young further down the bill? By any rationale that decision makes no sense at all.

Because you could sing his name to the tune of "Steamy Windows" by Tina Turner.

His management probably insisted on it.

Michael Eavis has said Steve Winwood is one of the artists he's most looking forward to seeing at this weekend's Glastonbury Festival

FYI Mumford & Sons would walk this poll if we were to rerun it.

i dunno i think it'll be forever difficult to look beyond stereophonics in any 'worst' poll

Re. Steve Winwood. You have to remember that (at least in those days) Glastonbury is not all about bands. And beyond that, it' not remotely focussed about the main stage. In the 80s and 90s the pyramid stage was pretty MOR which was fine because there's like 50 other stages with shit going on.

When Winwood took to the stage there was likely Stereolab raging away at the other (huge) stage, Billy Bragg in a big top and so on.

Last time I was there was '93 where iirc Ultramarine, Stereo MCs and The Orb packed way more in front of the second stage than watched the Black Crowes on the Main Stage. I realise the main stage/headliner thing is way more of a thing now.

My memory is that the 'headliner' as people have it nowadays, was some big act we didn't mind missing as we got the jump on the exiting population going home.

Jesus christ, that Top 3.