Paul McCartney and The Cure now favourites for Glastonbury Festival headline

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Sir Paul McCartney and The Cure now favourites for Glastonbury Festival headline spots
Jack Whatley
November 22, 2018



The, what seems now national, pastime of predicting who will headline Glastonbury Festival has taken another turn with Betway slashing odds on Robert Smith’s The Cure and Sir Paul McCartney joining Stormzy as the headline acts for the 2019 festival.

Rumours have been surfacing online that The Cure, who are making their way across the world as part of a huge tour, alongside Sir Paul, who is doing the same, will be the next names confirmed for the festival at Worth Farm.

Other names which were previous favourites, including Liam Gallagjer, Arctic Monkeys and Elton John have slid down the pecking order, leaving The Cure and Macca as frontrunners.

Betway’s Alan Alger said: “With Stormzy confirmed and two even-money shots at the head of the market, we look close to having our Glastonbury headliners confirmed.

“The Cure and Paul McCartney have both been well-backed and are now clear of Liam Gallagher, 3/1, and Arctic Monkeys, 5/1, in the race to headline the Pyramid Stage.”

But if the announcement that Stormzy will headline Friday night’s festivities tells us anything is that we should always expect the unexpected when it comes to Glastonbury Festival.

Check out the odds for who will headline Glastonbury 2019 below.

Glastonbury Headline Act 2019:

Paul McCartney Evens
The Cure Evens
Liam Gallagher 3/1
Arctic Monkeys 5/1
Elton John 10/1




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Glastonbury 2019: The fake lineup poster naming Sir Paul McCartney and The Cure as headliners
Can you spot the mistake which gives it away?
By Robin Murray
21 NOV 2018

With Stormzy confirmed as the first headliner for Glastonbury Festival 2019, bookies and ticket-holders are now hard at work trying to predict who will join him.

The grime star will grace the legendary Pyramid Stage on Friday night and a host of major acts have been rumoured to do so on Saturday and Sunday, with the likes of The Cure, Paul McCartney and Arctic Monkeys among the potential bill-toppers.

But a line-up poster is already doing the rounds on social media which names the aforementioned former Beatles singer and The Cure as the other two headliners, as many are predicting.

Of course, the poster is not genuine, though. Firstly because the lineup is not traditionally released until spring time and secondly because the dates on it are incorrect.


The fake Glastonbury poster being shared on social media

Next year's festival will run from June 26 to 30, but the poster says it'll be from June 21 to 25. The dates they have used match those of Glastonbury 2017, suggesting the poster was made using a 2017 festival poster as a template.

Other big names on the fake poster include US-rapper Childish Gambino, sultry popstar Lana Del Ray and rock legend Liam Gallagher, who performed on The Other Stage in 2017.

There are also a number of other errors in the line-up, including the misspelling of Lily Allen's first name as 'Lilly'.

The poster also doesn't have a year on it, and instead just says '20', with the last two numbers edited out.

The first rule of creating a fake Glastonbury Festival line-up poster, is to use the correct date. pic.twitter.com/9KBw3DwSNj

— GlastoWatch (@GlastoWatch) 19 de noviembre de 2018

It's understood to have been created by a Twitter user who shared it as their own prediction of what the 2019 lineup might look like, reports The Daily Mail.

The speculative poster has received plenty of attention on Twitter, with fan account Glasto Watch sharing it along with the caption: “The first rule of creating a fake Glastonbury Festival line-up poster, is to use the correct date.”

So it looks like we’ll have to wait at least a few more months before learning the genuine lineup...



Paul McCartney Live At Glastonbury 2004