Headliners Quotes

You look for stars. You look for the makeup of artists who can have long lasting careers and who could be headliners.

It was a big deal for us to be on Ozzfest, especially as one of the main headliners and being the band that wasn't announced: the mystery band. We'd never played the second stage at Ozzfest, and all of a sudden we're on the main stage.

One of my first festivals was Oxygen 2006. It had this amazing lineup with the Arctic Monkeys on their first or second album, the Strokes, Kings of Leon, the Magic Numbers and then the Who and James Brown. I waited in the pit for a good eight hours to see James Brown.

There's a club called Headliners in Chiswick where I do a lot of my warmups for tours. For me it's a nice 'big-small' room: it's a 300 seater, which feels small but you can still get big laughs.

I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!

The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced.

It was kind of fun being the headliners.

Headliners, no matter the genre, usually are a person or band who has an ethos.

When people say 'stadium songs,' it's really negative. All the festival headliners, I've realised, are usually the worst bands.