Glastonbury fans rage over 'painful' first act announcement as the 'final nail'

[Lover]

Glastonbury fans rage over 'painful' first act announcement claiming the 60s legend is the 'final nail' in the festival's coffin

 

 

 

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[Popboi.]

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Edited November 26, 2024 by Popboi.

[no_better]

Yeah Rod Stewart meh whatever but it's not like there are not other stages and 1000000 things to do, are these people buying Glastonbury tickets to stand still in front of Pyramid stage for 3 days?

[Gelato]

they have a point. when filling that slot you need an older artist whose discography is still relevant to young people, like kylie and dolly in the past. not just someone who had a lot of success several decades ago.

 

girls aloud would've been a far better choice.

[Helix]

making articles about a few tweets with less than 10 likes should be just banned. That's the opinion of nobody

[wigglytuffer]

Hate to be THAT guy but the Sunday Legend slot is not a headliner, it's the Sunday Legend slot. It's on at 4pm on the final day when you're winding down after being on the farm since Wednesday. It's always been filled with people from yesteryear. Dolly, Shania, Lionel Richie, Diana Ross, Rod Stewart definitely fits that and if not, there's about 95 million other stages to go to and enjoy

 

They're already going more commercial with their Friday headliner being a pop girl (Billie, Dua) so i think we can let the oldies have this one idk 🤷🏼‍♂️ Also the Gen-Z kids will get down and dirty to "Do ya think I'm sexy" after the TikTok trend 

[Phaunzie]

What's wrong with Rod Stewart?

[Lover]

5 minutes ago, Phaunzie said:

What's wrong with Rod Stewart?

this tbh

he's a REAL UK legend.

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Stewart is among the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 120 million records worldwide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Stewart

[Princess Aurora]

Not this 

[Malkuth]

Aren't there like 100 artists performing? And multiple at any given moment? I feel like it doesn't really matter if he performs there. You're never going to be a fan of all the artists at Glastonbury and you just watch someone else if an act you don't like is on.

[Daddy]

I would be mad too if that would happen to me

[SinnerCity]

The legend slot is for the old people, what are they talking about, he's definitely a good fit

[Uncatena]

this is SUCH a non-issue considering what the legend slot is. their line-up is ALWAYS good. 

[EndofASadMovie]

Sounds like those few people are not just his fans. Rod Stewart classics are still relevant today 

[Buffy]

Rod Stewart is a legend. What a bunch of buffoons 

[l3disko]

Here I was expecting the first act announcement to be Sabrina Carpenter or Ice Spice. 

 

 

Rod Stewart is an old respected legend.

 

He is farrrrrrrrrrr from the potential 'final nail'.

[Fitzswiftie]

5 hours ago, Gelato said:

they have a point. when filling that slot you need an older artist whose discography is still relevant to young people, like kylie and dolly in the past. not just someone who had a lot of success several decades ago.

 

girls aloud would've been a far better choice.

That's what the entire Sunday 5pm slot is for, older performers. Just look at that slots history this century.

2000 - Willie Nelson

2002 - James Brown

2003 - Issac Hayes

2005 - Brian Wilson
2007 - Shirley Bassey
2008 - Neil Diamond
2009 - Tom Jones

2010 - Ray Davies
2011 - Paul Simon

2013 - Kenny Rogers
2014 - Dolly Parton
2015 - Lionel Richie

2016 - Electric Light Orchestra
2017 - Barry Gibb

2019 - Kylie
2022 - Diana Ross

2023 - Cat Stevens

2024 - Shania Twain

 

And Dolly and Kylie aren't really the best examples since the former was more a celebrity than a musician in stature (the 2014 fest was my first one at 16 years old when she played, and most uk folks under 25 only knew her as Hannah Montana's aunt and not any of her own music, that obviously changed afterwards since her catalogue got a humungous boast) and in 2019, the latter wasn't relevant to any heterosexual under 30 in best part of a decade, 

 

 

[Jukebox]

Yeah it's not a headlining slot it's just the legend slot that they do every year. Rod Stewart is a massive name for that, the people that go for the legend slot will be going crazy for him and the people who stumble in out of curiosity will end up singing along to songs they didn't even know were his. 

[Dante Silva]

I'm a little shocked.
His fanbase is restricted to boomers.

[Abracadabra]

He's not headlining  Are these people dumb? He's playing the legends slot, which makes sense tbh. Although Cher would have been a more gag worthy choice

[midnightdawn]

His vocals are awful these days.