Glastonbury - 22nd–26th June 2022

They have a broader appeal than KOL based off of Mr. Brightside alone. They're a total last minute panic booking of a headliner and from talks on EFests, they were the last headliner to be booked by a large margin when they couldn't lock down anybody else after Macca fell through. I totally get why they are booked in those situations though, they're a ridiculously obtainable crowd pleaser for the general public that will always make themselves available for any fest that wants/needs them, and they'll have the biggest/most involved crowd at Glastonbury, easily.

As an outsider looking in, it seems like Glastonbury in general can have pretty pedestrian headliners especially since their other stage closers are often so ace, as it seems like a lot of people go to Glastonbury and check out 2-4 concerts per day vs. a Coachella where you're scrambling to see 8-9, simply because of the size of it all and the fact that there's so much going on. And so a Coldplay or Killers can end up being a huge success for the crowd that only sees a few bands a day and is at a music festival for the whole experience, whereas with other fests the crowd might not be into it. And the music nerds will have a blast at the counter programming at the Other or John Peel or whatever which is always amazing.

But ultimately I think this is just another example that there weren't really a lot of genuinely huge headliners available for anybody this year, and fests handled it differently. Coachella promoted Tame Impala even though they're smaller to avoid a more pedestrian/over saturated headliner, Roo doubled down on Phish which has less of a widespread appeal but endless goodwill for their core fanbase, and Glasto stuck with The Killers who are less prestigious but genuinely a bigger band. I can't see a single major fest that didn't have to compromise to some degree on their headliners this year.

Do we know that they’re headlining? They were like the 6th leaked name? Agreed that they are a yawn headliner worse than the killers if so, tho...but i guess the killers are also headlining Woodstock? Haha

Aren’t the Killers huge in the UK? Like much bigger than here?

You post on a Bonnaroo based website to claim that Europe is better than the US.

you equated Kings of Leon to The Killers. That is far from the case for me. Especially in a festival setting. 

I would never claim to be fun at parties. I'm maybe tolerable in small get-togethers.

Lmao

So as days go by i'm becoming more and more fond of the lineup. I was initially a little underwhelmed, but this really is great.
What me and my GF are trying to decide now is to go ahead and attend (just the 2 of us), or if we should go to Belgium for a few days and then Rock Werchter instead. The trade up being: we get to go to another new country, more acts she's interested in on RW, and we have 2 friends who can join us as tickets are available.
Quite a conflict!

But the increase in the fun factor...  

Hot Chip are also headlining a smaller stage, it should be electric that night.

Here is Jamie xx playing the sunset slot at that stage four years ago.

Just booked my trains and car for London - Bristol - Bath - Glasto - Stonehenge - London.

Game on. Thanks for the advice folks!

Most/all of the 6 Hyde Park evenings in 2017 sold out. Killers did so before the others.