Boston Calling 2019 - May 24-26

Kids See Ghosts too. Would be absolutely psyched. Hoping the camp flog gnaw show isnt a one off.

pretty cool fake someone posted on reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/bostoncalling/comments/9bnon1/made_a_fake_poster_to_get_myself_psyched_a_mix_of/

Just saw Childish Gambino in a 9th row seat at a packed td garden tonight. He's breathtaking live. I know this is his last Gambino tour but I really hope he still does a festival run next year. He'd be a perfect return headliner.

YES

I feel like if they are going to book The Cure, they've gotta have one or two bigger rock/indie names in the top 10.

Maybe drop Disclosure and throw in a Vampire Weekend, Lana, etc.

EDIT: also this festival is dumb if it doesn't book Anderson Paak

Post Malone as much as it kills me to say would def be a headliner here. If cap is 30k or whatever, he sold out in Mansfield *twice* this year and unless he all of a sudden drops off the face of the earth between now and BC, he'll def still be headliner status.

..that being said SZA would be great since she couldn't do the Championship Tour in Mansfield this year, and I could see death cab.

Pretty sure Disclosure has said they have no plans for live shows at this time lol

Maybe it's that I just don't "get" The Cure, or that I'm too young, but the idea of them headlining makes my brain hurt. There's no way they are big enough. They played Agganis when they were in town 2 years ago, so I think they'd be in the QOTSA/National time slot. Also, the article I saw said most of their "20 festivals next year" would be in Europe, so I'm not penciling them in for BC just yet.

They were #2 at ACL in 2013 and #1 at Lolla. A lot of their appeal (excluding their great discography) has to do with their highly respected live shows. You should not be worried at all if The Cure if your #2 or even #1.

Edit: Roberts tweet said mostly in Europe which opened up the door for this

I think Muse will do their US headline tour first before jumping into a fest circuit, they are due to announce their world tour for 2019 within the next month or so.

Yeah it's either this, Coachella, or ACL imo. Unless SK wants to bust out the big bucks.

The only reason they wouldn't headline is if they don't want to. The Cure aren't taking anything but a headlining gig.

My logic:
Like you said, most of the festivals they're playing will be in Europe. Which probably means about 4-5 U.S. fests. I think the biggest fests here are going to be a bit more hesitant to book The Cure because of the demographics they're forced to cater to by nature of bringing in 50k+ attendees. And if they were booked they likely wouldn't be the marquee booking they'd hope. Which means it's probably more likely they aim for 2nd tier fests, with maybe one big one. Europe's festival season is largely stuffed into June and July, so if they're there those months that leaves a pretty limited selection of available U.S. fests, of which BC feels like a relatively prime candidate. When you factor in that BC has a history of booking 80s/90s alt rock bands in a way that most other fests of their size don't (Tool, Pixies, Beck, The Replacements, Built to Spill, etc.) you have to imagine the interest would definitely be there on their end.

Still not saying it's a sure thing by any means, but I think it's more likely they play BC than a good portion of other U.S. festivals. It'd make sense if they did 2 or 3 in May, go to Europe, then come back for another 1 or 2 here (a return to Lolla, ACL, or Voodoo being the most likely)

Only reason I'm pretty optimistic about KSG or some form of Kanye headlining is because he's never played Boston Calling before and hasn't been to boston in general in a long time. The last two #1s are artists who haven't played boston in quite a while. Since Drake just played 3 shows at the garden, that leads me to believe he won't be returning. At least not as the #1.