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

i'm sure i must have heard the cure but i genuinely can't recall what they sound like - free pass for tori amos's cover of "love song"

OMG

Moby post-Play is a very different animal from Moby pre-Play:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJCFHw2Y5WQ

Actually this is the better mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeat_4h-x3M&feature=related

I actually only like about 12 of those bands, it's a pretty poor return on headliners considering how amazing the festival is.

I just want to post this link again. This is why Glastonbury is awesome. I have had so many memories like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkdxfgq2ykQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoJ_0UXb7SU&feature=related

I went to this thing in 1993, mostly to see the Velvet Underground who played at like lunchtime or something. Anyway, I think there's some wrong info here. The way I remember it, the show on Sunday finished with the Stereo MCs then the Orb. Not Christy Moore.

Stereo MCs and then The Orb would have been the second stage, without a doubt.

Huh? You are probably right. This was the only time I went and I cannot even remember that there were two big stages.

That Raving Kebab thing makes me miss the UK

I would have sworn that neither the Black Crowes or the RHCPs played in 1993 either. I guess the main stage is where all the shite lives.

I woke up during the Velvet Underground's set, totally missed them.

Lou was in a bad mood. That's my main memory.

You would think they'd have been headlining, I suppose it was just a bit less regimented then? It's a bit difficult to get much concrete information pre-1995 or so, so I just went on what the posters + Wikipedia said.

I just about knew who they were at the time, tbh. They just looked like boring old people when I watched them on the tv after I got home!

I was probably more excited about Radial Spangle or Tripmaster Monkey or something

Probably still playing in the Glade on Saturday night, just before Aphex Twin.

KINGS OF LEON

Virtually everyone from 1990 to 94, except the Mondays and The Cure, is a total "how the fuck did they get there?" pick, but I suppose the festival was much smaller.

― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Monday, June 21, 2010 6:42 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

that era makes way more sense to me tbh. except for shakespeare's sister whuuuuuut.

like 2008: the verve and jay-z. really?

kings of leon are in the upper half of bands on this list

KoL are terrible but also not very glastonbury

just terrible streamer rock garbage

it will take a tremendous act of persuasion to wrench me away from Stereophonics. have seen Skunk Anansie live and they weren't bad. they weren't my thing but they weren't bad.

lol christy moore

would kinda like to see christy moore after a load of e and ket to be honest...

Kings of Leon for me too. Hate them.

I think in the old days it wasn't necessarily programmed so the best bands were headlining on the main stage. But I have to say that I do not think it is preposterous for Carter USM to have headlined because however strange it may seem in retrospect, at the time their cultural standing was as a hugely popular party act at which one could go fucking mental and they were REALLY popular amongst that particular kind of music fan who goes to festivals. Didn't see them at Glastonbury but I was at Reading 10 months earlier where they were 2nd top billing and it was one of the most intense/scary crowd reactions I've ever experienced. I really was thinking "jeez, I hope people are not dying down there".

In fact in the first 3 mins I thought my own life was in danger cos I was stupidly far too close to the front. I got thrown/swept back about 50 yards with fists and boots flying everywhere.

People used to be programmed later because they were "festival acts" but that sort of culture, somewhat for the good, has kind of died off

oh what you said haha

I just thought about Senser for a minute or so, then moved on.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Voted for Kings of Leon then went on a SB spree

would kinda like to see christy moore after a load of e and ket to be honest...

I saw The Sawdoctors in similar circumstances in some smallish tent at the same time The Killers were on in 2007. Woah.

british people cared about Skunk Anansie?!

even american dudes who taped "120 minutes" every night wouldn't know who the fuck she is

xpost -- Them and Laina Dawes. And apparently nobody else.

i honestly can't find the words to describe how small of a "splash" they made in america. like spin never even reviewed one of their records.

I have never heard of Skunk Anansie but wiki says "members include Skin, Cass, Ace and Mark Richardson" and that "the name "Skunk Anansie" is taken after the West African folk tales of Anansi the spider-man,[1] with “Skunk” added to "make the name nastier"."

voted Kings of Leon but have not heard half of the 90s picks

not the pitchfork richardson i assume? xp

British people gave a fuck about a British band popular in Britain when Americans happened not to have heard of them? How outrageous.

According to someone I know who interviewed him in an article about headlining Glastonbury, The Levellers' Mark Chadwick claimed that The Stones have never played because they are "afraid of failure"

Well, to be fair, clearly the Levellers never had that fear in general.

well, sic, american indie rock had these people called "anglophiles" who worship the brit charts and kept up stocked on yawny BS like Ned's Atomic Dbag and Oasis and The Darkness. Even they weren't fucking with Skunk enuf to spread the word.

Whiney i totally remember reading about Skunk Anansie in American rock mags

Some dude's right -- they had American releases, were talked about, etc.

the mark richardson in skunk anansie was the drummer of british shitty poodle rock band Little Angels.

Skunk Anansie toured early on with pre-fame Slipknot. I remember listening to the radio 1 rock show and it was a skunk anansie tour report from the USA where skin was raving about these guys in masks and how exciting they were. This was the 1st time I heard of them. A year later and they were huge.

fwiw I'm about 90% certain that Skunk Anansie's headline set at Glastonbury only happened because someone big dropped out at short notice. They weren't *that* popular here

don't know if it's a point in our favor or yours that Slipknot were successfully foisted on the UK but Skunk Anansie couldn't make it in the states

Slipknot >>>>>>>>>>>>> Skunk Anansie, you weiner

both suck

but neither are as bad as The Little Angels were

i honestly can't find the words to describe how small of a "splash" they made in america. like spin never even reviewed one of their records.

You do know that the Glastonbury festival doesn't take place in America, and therefore this doesn't matter, right?

Skunk Anansie didn't feel like they should be headliners at the time, they were reasonably popular but not headliner material. Either they couldn't fill that third slot, or someone pulled out before they announced the lineup (they were definitely on the first published lineup at the top of the bill, I remember eyebrows being raised at the time).

I think what probably happened was that the organisers thought their next album was going to send them absolutely massive and that just didn't happen. Radiohead were not really that big in early 1997, when they would have been booked, but their set coincideded with the release of OK Computer that sent them absolutely stratospheric. Hell, even Jay-Z wasn't really big enough in Britain to headline the festival and has subsequently become huge here.

Headliners pre-95 or so are excepted from this because the festival was so much smaller.