Worst ever festival line up?

This years T In The Park festival may have the worst line up In its history, but what are the worst you have ever seen?

http://i.imgur.com/7SgZu9W.jpg

Most festival lineups in the past five years are interchangeable and indistinguishable from one another.

i feel like the promoters arent even trying here

a) if I were sorry enough to be one of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, I'd be quietly devastated by this poster; b) I'm amazed at the low billing of Jessie Ware and Modest Mouse.

Modest Mouse (the only band on the bill i like) have never had any hits in the UK

Charli XCX is also really low.

Hard to justify Jessie Ware being any higher on that bill. There's a couple of things I'd see on the Friday and the Saturday, but the Sunday looks pretty dire.

admittedly I am prejudiced in that I have no fucking idea who the wombats are

I hadn't even noticed Jessie J was playing

T in the Park is always wey-heytheladslagerlagerlager though isn't it so mid-tempo hands-in-the-air rock singalongs always the order of the day.

It wasnt like that when it started in Strathclyde Park, Hamilton.

Sunday night line-up on the first T in the Park, Strathclyde Park July 1994:

Primal Scream
Del Amitri
Teenage Fanclub
Crowded House
The Saw Doctors
Gun
Grant Lee Buffalo
Baby Chaos

Id rather see Primal Scream headline T In The Park over Primark Scream who headline this years.

Holy shit, that line-up's fucking awful!

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds headlining over The Prodigy? #scotland

the prodigy headlined in 95 (was amazing). the next year they played about 3rd on the bill so in daylightdespite having had #1s and being huge. I forget if it was Pulp or Radiohead headlined that day. (i saw Leftfield instead of Radiohead and Afghan Whigs instead of Pulp)

Leftfield finished about 20 mins before the curfew time so i left early to get a taxi up the road (was too knackered to walk 15 mins up the hill ) and i walked outside to the surreal site of 200 riot police in full kit. Nobody else around. Apparently a few hours earlier some motherwell casuals had crossed the park to try burst their way in. (half the park is in Hamilton half is in Motherwell and TITP was on the Hamilton side)

the Kink Festival in Orlando last year had a solid 1-2 punch conclusion of Gojira and Mastodon, but the rest of the lineup was...

Puddle of Mudd
Nonpoint
Devour the Day
Crobot
Islander

the Puddle of Mudd show was so embarrassingly bad. at one point Wes (the lead singer) went on a weird (probably substance-inspired) rambling monologue, and then he says "so I talked to my mother this morning" and my friend yells back "and she said 'make sure to lock up when you come in tonight!'".

also they did a limp dicked cover of War Pigs god I wanted to murder em.

but seriously tho I know Mastodon/Gojira have a wider appeal than other metal bands but who the fuck thought pairing them with nu-metal acts that nobody likes anymore was a good idea.

oh and hardly anybody showed up until the last two bands, apparently the festival was a huge bust and did poorly financially

what a strange kind of festival to have gojira and puddle of mudd. I suppose mastodon have softened a bit so possibly could have fans of both but....

Never heard of the others.

Nonpoint are having some kind of resurgence apparently. they opened for Megadeth and they had a fuckin' street team at the show (wtf is this 1999).

weirdly heartened to hear that puddle of mudd are still going

Guilfest wins this title every year but yeah, for a festival as big as T in the Park this is wretched.

Gutted that Wireless, which is around the corner from me, has leaned EDM this year. Kendrick and Nicki Minaj are playing, but Avicii and David Guetta are headlining. Clearly this is the summer of the EDM hacks.

I keep forgetting that people like The Script and Twin Atlantic (a) exist and (b) are huge. Only on ILM would anyone be surprised that Jessie Ware and Charli XCX are low on the bill.

New Prodigy single is the worst thing you will hear at that festival or at least joint worst.

it's very terrible, this is true.

My vote goes to T in the Park 2015 (10-12 July)

http://riseabovefest.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/MONDAY-RAF.png

Note Nonpoint (here sadly identified as Non Point) crossover, but the lineup's a million times worse than the Orlando festival HSB mentioned.

i take it that wasn't what rollins meant when he said he was going to rise above

TITP turned into a shitter V festival

Godsmack as a headlining act!?!

maine, tbf

is there something particular about Maine?

maybe not the worst ever but i follow fred durst for whatever reason and he posted this and it made me thinkg of this thread

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-U9mjWCQAAZu_s.jpg

Hopsin's Wikipedia entry is depressing.

never heard of hopsin

Imagine Odd Future, but even shittier.

'featuring everlast'

It's still 2002 in vast swathes of America it seems

The aptly-named Amnesia Rockfest is always good for a laugh. This year:

http://static.deathandtaxesmag.com/uploads/2015/02/amnesia-rockfest-2015-lineup.jpg

At least they're honest.

that's the ideal festival for someone who's been in a coma for 15 years whose family want to take them to see live music but their doctors don't want them to know how long they were unconscious for just yet

that should say Michale Graves "formerly" of Misfits, dammit

I bet Snoop is in for a rapturous reception at that festival.

it'd be great if all he's doing is lecturing

The Pixies seem like an incongruous inclusion too.

what's with all the bands having preplanned album sets. I mean I know this is a thing now and I've seen many shows like this and have no objection to the format, but the choices for the album are a bit weird. ie why aren't Deftones doing "White Pony", I know people like "Around the Fur" but it's pretty far removed from who they are as a band now. I realize "And Out Come the Wolves" was Rancid's commercial breakthrough but it isn't as if it sounds that different from their other albums, a mixed set would be more fun from them.

Offspring performing Americana? fucking terrible album! at least when they did Smash in its entirety last year it was fun to relive all of the songs that got me excited as a 13 year old.

Mostly tho this poster looks like it was pulled from 2003.

http://www.rock-fest.com/lineup

I win

Redlight King, god they are so bad

re: Rise Above Fest, Butcher Babies are one of the worst bands I've ever fucking heard. There are plenty of phenomenal female-fronted metal/rock bands out there that are making great music. This one insults the audience by pretending these bands don't exist and presenting female-fronted metal as a novelty, solely playing off of the hotness of its two leads, while playing generic nu-metal that sounds fresh out of 2001.

some decent (and once-decent) acts playing the amnesia fest. lost in time, but not complete garbage.

I would go for Slayer, Bad Religion, Descendents, All, Buzzcocks, Flogging Molly, Coheed (fuck off), Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Melvins, Fear Factory, Down, and Propagandhi. not a bad lineup at all.

I've driven through rural northern Minnesota a bunch of times in the summer and always see signs for the

oops, the MOONDANCE JAM and the lineups are fascinating.

xp yeah, Amnesia Rockfest doesn't look that bad to me. Slayer, SOAD, Melvins, Refused, Ministry, Deftones playing Around the Fur, Pixies, Descendents. i usually consider festivals to be worth as much as their best few bands. even if half of the bands suck, it can get tough seeing more than 4 or 5 bands in one day. it's not like anyone's forcing us to watch every band on the lineup.

I was tempted to post the lineup for Woodstock '99 earlier, which I still consider the worst concert of all time, but the lineup had 5 or 6 bands I would be ok with seeing.

I really want to see Skinny Puppy someday.

yeah, amnesia fest redeemed by SP alone (and melvins, slayer, refused, soad, deftones, descendents, etc). still, must feel weird for the better bands in such a lineup to find themselves in such tired company. "hey, at least it pays the bills."

I recall Carcass talking about being lined up with the nostalgia acts and in a way becoming one.

saw the buzzcocks on their 1st reunion tour, circa 1999. they put on a great show, which i attended with several old friends and an (not my) anal masseuse. so yeah, them too.

I recall Carcass talking about being lined up with the nostalgia acts and in a way becoming one.

would make sense were not surgical steel such a complete fucking triumph

For real

http://www.bigweekends.com/images/29-141554Shiiine%20Weekender%20Image.jpg

still, must feel weird for the better bands in such a lineup to find themselves in such tired company

I think a lot of bands are basically in and out of festivals in half a day and I doubt the rest of the lineup even registers half the time. If you're doing 20 festivals in a row in as many countries, who cares who you shared a bill with in Portugal or Norway, somewhere deep in the middle of the run?

is Rancid doing a number of "Wolves" 20th ann'y shows this year? i can't seem to tell from their website.

i'd go see that if they played nearby. that album's so great, top to bottom.

also, how huge is Twin Atlantic? what size venues do they play in Europe? i saw them several years ago in a small-town-America strip mall space that held about 75 people on what must've been their first tour in this country. their van had all kinds of logos and shit on it. weird scene.

to their credit, they didn't phone in the show. they could've.

think Twin Atlantic are like university-sized venue level in the UK, as opposed to arena-sized, but I've never knowingly heard a song of theirs or met anyone who likes them so not best placed to gauge

Twin Atlantic seem absolutely huge amongst students and folk in their late teens/early 20s around here, but they are a local band so that makes sense. I have never knowingly heard anything by them.

Every year I feel bad that I've never been to a festival until I hear workmates talking about T and then I feel a sense of relief. This year's line-up makes me feel old, and at peace with that.

who's in Lo-Fidelity Allstars these days? if that's a Wrekked Train reunion then pisces' one is worth going to a few times over

except the entire audience will be red-faced dads who haven't listened to music since their first year of full-time employment

Blur are heading back to Hyde Park with their first album in more than a decade.
They'll headline the British Summer Time festival on 20 June.
The band, who got back together for a pair of reunion shows in the park six years ago, join Taylor Swift, Kylie and The Who on the bill.

mmm, bit of a mixture, that.

got a giggling fit after reading the words "Pat Nevin DJ Set", is this something he does very often?

yeah he does the indie pop club night scene quite a bit

his favourite band is the Cocteau Twins

xxpost about Pat Nevin: Yes, it is, he's done a fair few of the London indiepop nights (and probably more in Scotland).

That Shiiine one is really weird for reasons I can't put my finger on. Like, yes, they're all old reformed bands, but they don't quite belong together? Probably very narcissism of small differences but they seem like their demographics should be at least a little different?

Those distinctions vanish when you consider a gap of 25 years (!) and the economic realities of putting on a festival aimed at middle-aged people.

I don't know, I think actually the distinction to me has increased - like, I can't see the lumpy guitar people wanting to see the dance acts any more, whereas "back in the day" of course those people would want to go to both. Like, is it a baggy/dance revival festival or is it a SwaggerofOasis festival? Those people to me seem like they'd no longer be the same? I am probably wrong.

saw the buzzcocks on their 1st reunion tour, circa 1999. they put on a great show, which i attended with several old friends and an (not my) anal masseuse. so yeah, them too.

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i feel like we've left this post unexamined for far too long

^yes, what?!

better than scooting across the carpet

Like, is it a baggy/dance revival festival or is it a SwaggerofOasis festival? Those people to me seem like they'd no longer be the same?

Given who the headliners are, it's the former, and it's not like 808 State and The Orb don't fit into that in some way, it's hardly like they've booked Jeff Mills or Basic Channel. If anything the incoherence sets in further down the bill, the gap between the Telescopes and arse end of Britpop shit like Space feels much bigger, but it's not like the demographics of either fanbase are large enough to justify their own festival at this stage.

Judging by the state of the people trying to get into Bez's Acid House at Glastonbury the contingent of ageing baggy ravers off the leash for the weekend is still sizeable.

Space aren't playing, it's the Space Monkeys(!)

How the fuck do you get away with calling yourselves Oasis UK, even if you are a tribute band?

Space are on there as well, between Cud and the Lo-Fidelity oh god kill me now.

Both Space and the Space Monkeys are playing.

Looking at it again, MDC is right, I think I just associate 'Shiiiine' with particularly Oasis-type things, but their use of it was actually off the back of 10000 earlier, baggier shine songs.

ah my bad, i was blinded by the terribleness

i feel like we've left this post unexamined for far too long

true, Buzzcocks first reunion was years before that

http://www.rock-fest.com/lineup

I win

I love the tag line for this: "Where We Just Rock"

and that red font that's used makes the line-up nearly illegible. (on purpose?)

You do win.

I can only imagine the crowd for this.

Also, promoter/webguy apparently thinks it's still 2014. Terrible line-up but I find it strange that Aerosmith has no where better to play than in the Cadott, WIS in the middle of July.

I can only imagine the crowd for this.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okwOw6kAk64&list=UUqSxfWAkdPG2tX_kvyLjX9Q

"USA" chant at 1:13

this year's Reading lineup if the all-male acts are cut out

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-ozrTYWwAItEgm.jpg

lol

Saw it on Twitter, 1000 responses that say "Charlotte H left Ash in 2011 and Jamie T has a female drummer"

So, yeah.

I'm surprised there's anyone in Britain who doesn't know that Jamie T has a female drummer.

Ultra is gonna have a special stage this year for people who, uh, hate Ultra

http://thump.vice.com/en_us/topic/words

oh dang, sorry for the bad link, original article is 404 now but... http://www.residentadvisor.net/feed-item.aspx?id=84010

Great to see Bez on the same bill as Space Monkeys, one of whom he had a pre-arranged bare knuckle fight with a few years ago. Look at him bleeding like a pig
http://www.donnelly24.com/images/bez/bez-3.jpg

HAPPY Mondays star BEZ hits rock bottom as he is battered in a brutal bare-knuckle brawl.
The dancer - real name MARK BERRY - took part in the sickening underground scrap this week after a longrunning feud over his ex-fiancee Monica Ward.

He suffered angry-looking cuts and bruises in the organised bout - as did his furious love rival, SPACE MONKEYS bassist DOM MORRISON.

The fight was only stopped when a paid referee stepped in after 15 punishing minutes.
The shocking snaps, taken in a scrapyard office in central Manchester, mark the latest grim development in a bleak year for potless ex-Celebrity Big Brother winner Bez, 46.

In August city magistrates issued a two-year restraining order preventing him from contacting ex Monica, 43.

He was then fined £140 for breaking the order by sending her text messages last month.

Morrison is now thought to be in a relationship with Monica - with whom Bez has a two-year-old son, Leo.

A source said: "The fight's been the talk of Manchester for weeks. Two local brothers Anthony and Christopher Donnelly were involved in putting Bez and Dom in the same room to sort out their problems.

"It was really bitter and they only wanted to sort it out one way - with an old-fashioned straightener.

"They went at it like animals with a lot of blood and sweat. Bez looked cut up but gave as good as he got. It was a draw in the end and they both managed to walk away."

The source added: "Bez is having a horrible time right now. He's struggling to keep on top of things." Bez made his name in the '80s and '90s with his manic dancing and maracas with The Happy Mondays.

sad to see the depths to which uncle peter has fallen in the post-reeves and mortimer years

Popjustice ‏@Popjustice 2m2 minutes ago
Sobering. How it would look if Reading and Leeds wasn’t a right old fucking racket

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-sHqCWWsAAf-Oz.jpg:large

tvmic

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/feb/25/reading-leeds-festivals-why-so-few-women-on-bill

obligatory "more like wurst festival" post

Erm, not quite sure what Wilco is thinking about here: http://gatheringofthevibes.com/

not a festival exactly but...
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10452378_10153209295275649_7120608047030764940_n.jpg?oh=09d22df5dcda7099ca47994c09ecf171&oe=554C9F44&__gda__=1434906385_8e9796d5290ea9157f55d57f08f493c1
yeah me neither

if nobody shows up they can still claim there were tons of nano punks there

WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT NEW MASHUPS YOU CREATE!

"And introducing DAVE THE BUTCHER"

CLOCK PUNK. Surprised Broth Viking isn't on there.

this is their best event surely:

https://files.list.co.uk/images/i/imaginarium-x3-stargateimg-lst157034.jpg

For Imaginarium's third birthday, celebrate all that's sci-fi, Egyptian, mythical, god/goddesses and just regular out-there. A night of full-costumed, full-on house, techno, goth, cyber rave.
Imaginarium X3: Stargate:IMG

After scans reveal an unknown energy source on a forgotten desert planet the Voodoo Lynch Mob descend to the surface where they find a strange portal-like ring half submerged in the dunes. Deploying the crew and a brace of shuttles the relic is hauled back to the orbiting Imaginarium for further studies.

The Imaginarium's engineers hook it up to the starship's central computer but as they start to run tests there is a huge power surge, the lights go out and a golden, winged figure steps out of the gate. Wind and lightning swirl around the cargo bay and spheres of pulsating light fly out and enter the bodies of the Mob and their crew.

Guttural voices spring forth from the suddenly golden-robed Mob: 'I am Ra' 'I am Anubis' … It seems the captains have been possessed and it's time for an Egyptian adventure in Outer Rave Space.

Featuring the finest in London's underground DJ talent, incredible dancers, the finest costumes, the heaviest dance floor on the scene, full dungeon, couples area, interactive performances, fully custom decor and the friendliest, most accepting crowd in this greatest of earth's cities Imaginarium is ready to once again rock your body as we celebrate three years of Imaginarium.

Dress code: Egyptian mythology, sci-fi soldiers, gods and goddesses, creatures of gold, ancient warriors, slaves, fetish, goth, cyber, rave, sci fi or just plain out there.

No effort, no entry: no streetwear, just be fabulous.

wonder how many people just did the old bedsheet toga thing

Nah, people who go to those things go all out.

full-on house, techno, goth, cyber rave

This means psytrance and gabba, btw.

And maybe Depeche Mode and NIN pitched up.

I'm visiting imaginariumevents.com but am just getting the WordPress installer for the site.

pretty cyberpunk

Nah, people who go to those things go all out.

yeah you're right of course. there's a pretty big rave gear / dress-up-like-a-cyber-pirate shop in brighton and i always wonder how it keeps going - guess it's mostly nights like that. maybe i should go in there one day on some sort of psytrance mr ben adventure

every town must have a small but hardcore contingent of cybergoths and judging by the average indoor market, the clothing must be relatively cheap. the metalworks is a pretty big venue afaik, right?

Not really. It's the Slimelight club. I've seen bands like Chrome & Extreme Noise Terror there. Capacity is apparently 750 though.

It looks like a pound shop version of the FKA Twigs Two Weeks video, and given the Twigs crowd the other week appeared to be like 50% 20-year old lesbian goths I'd say they'd got it pretty much on-trend for their market.

ah didn't realise electrowerkz = metalworks

so anyway, London FAP?

lots going on at sunfest

Fall Out Boy •Pixies •Lenny Kravitz •Paramore •Hozier Kaskade •BOSTON •Sammy Hagar and the Circle Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros •Wilco
311 •Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley •SOJA Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington AWOLNATION •Lindsey Stirling •Matisyahu •Iration Milky Chance •ScHoolboy Q •Eddie Money John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band
Letts •The Shadowboxers •Bo Ningen •Lizzo •Copeland Knox Hamilton •Hundred Waters •Kehlani •Bea Miller •Zeale Dreamers •The Spazmatics •Elliot Root •Johnnyswim SomeKindaWonderful •The Hip Abduction •The Rico Monaco Band
Dear Tatiana •Dew Pendleton Band •FELICITY •Jonnie Morgan Band JS THE BEST •Jumbo Shrimp •Kasson •Leaving Haven •Morning Fatty •Sidereal The Inverted •The McNaughstys •Trial by Stone •YARDIJ

not as bad as the OP, but the '15 lollapalooza lineup is pretty dreadful.

But, for some reason, 3 day passes appear to be sold out. Not that I'm interested or anything...

well yeah the 4-5 big headliners are reliable sellers, but that doesn't make it a good festival.

Looking upthread I reckon T still wins this one, would sooner listen to metal and Macca than banterladrock any day of the week. And I really hate metal and Macca

https://www.facebook.com/rockfestcadott/photos/pb.56685499151.-2207520000.1427314934./10153761081994152/?type=3&theater

Metallimacca the new collaboration and follow up to lulu.

D(xpost) ammmit. You'll just have to imagine the wonders of Nickelback, Avenged Sevenfold, Shinedown, Bush, Hinder, Jackyl...

lol i came here to post that. hopefully mine works:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBCcxL1UwAEGk4b.png

would love it if one of these fests would sneak an aerosmith logo at the bottom just to see if anyone notices

poor judas priest. what did they ever do to deserve this? bush probably did something to deserve this, but i feel bad for them anyway.

I dont. Seems like they will do anything for money if they appear on that bill.

Yes! Thanks Global T.

Dying at NØTHING MØRE

That poster looks a little like a denim jacket I customised with a permanent marker when I was 11

BOBAFLEX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB0hg4_JH0I

http://media.tumblr.com/91276c34e59e0978feb6e6a5cd80c514/tumblr_nlu3fqNfTd1s5bvslo1_500.png

one more try

https://40.media.tumblr.com/91276c34e59e0978feb6e6a5cd80c514/tumblr_nlu3fqNfTd1s5bvslo1_500.png

The CRAGARS

I briefly dated a woman and asked her to go to the Winnipeg Folk Fest with me, but she declined because she was going to Rockfest in Cadott instead. The relationship didn't last much longer.

http://www.livestocklongdon.co.uk/music/

http://www.livestocklongdon.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Livestock-Festival-Poster-Updated-724x1024.jpg

Are there three worse headliners in a British festival this year?

Dear god

Jack of All....what?

ffs

the organisers must have mad cow disease

'johnny kowalski & the sexy weirdos'

holy shit

http://swingamajig.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/7217537_orig.jpg

I AM THE ID

They're not going to live up to their name are they?

Unlike Johnny Kowalski and the Sexy Weirdos

Everything apart from 'sexy' is probably true.

Oh, that's them up there.

So now you see what I'm driving at.

This is what the Id looks like, in case anyone was wondering:

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/CkgMkEluDIU/hqdefault.jpg

What, like a CGI Chris Morris?

http://www.gentlemenoftheroad.com/stopovers/aviemore/

a friend of mine lives near that and was so excited last weekend about it.
(to be fair, he will be raising money for his charity there .. so he has good reason)
i tried to feign enthusiasm, but when he said m&s i could not help but blurt out re my disgust.
that said, the very best, are a lot of fun live.

yeah i was gonna say it's not the worst lineup in the world. i'm excited about our local festival and the headline acts there are the brand new heavies and the neville staples band, so... but i guess it's good you now get these smaller local festivals that double as community projects.

but i guess it's good you now get these smaller local festivals that double as community projects.

we have one of those near here.
the line ups have been pretty dire but it still sells out within minutes,
the whole village really loves the whole event.

In those circumstance I think you almost don't need good bands, you just need them to be not actively terrible and for the beer to keep flowing. Ben Howard and the Mumfords would be a step too far for me, if it were on my doorstep I'd leave for the weekend.

good point. few people go to our local fest because of the acts - they go because it's got a reputation for being a lot of fun, although i can imagine a known headliner helps justify the entrance fee.

Yeah this weekend there's this annual Fête de la Musique street festival thing here in town, the (dozens of) bands and DJs are uniformly terrible and rarely above the "bar band" category but still there's something like a hundred thousand visitors and people absolutely love it.

http://90sfest.com/

http://www.thebaysidetigers.com/img/barron2.jpg

http://bestevents.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/1434065287_11336969_10152909911432483_69043541609529419_o.jpg

12 HOURS!
8 BANDS!
11 DJs!
+FOOD!

PLUS
PERVY
PATRIOTIC
PERFORMANCES!

frobisher and djp to thread

Industrial BBQ

At first I thought the festival was literally for fans of industrial size barbecue grills, and I was like wow, I didn't realize BBQ enthusiasts are so heavily into metal. But then I managed to parse the title in my head.

Unbelievably, Livestock has managed to get worse since the poster I shared a couple of months ago. They've added Toploader on the Saturday. FUCKING TOPLOADER!

Toploader was always a very misleading name for that band. They're not "top", and they're a "loader" shit.

misleading?

http://s1.appliancesonline.com.au/images/product/awn552sn/external/8kg-top-load-speed-queen-washing-machine-awn552sn-high-4.jpg

Sexy Weirdos were promoted by three lines on the final line-up list.

the band names on that livestock poster are amazing. I refuse to believe there is really a band calling themselves 'penny for the workhouse'

OMG, All Hail Regale's facebook page

Members: crig - voice n noises ... tata - funk ... bail - ivory's ... woz - the axe .. ad / mikey - beats
Genre: sexy
Home Town: walsall .. brum .. midlands

The Jungle Doctors:

http://amazingradio.com/wp-content/uploads/Jungle-D.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oOqcVN1kz8

That were right good. (Very low expectations, mind you.) This whole baggy thing might catch on.

Livestock has to be the thread leader, surely? A striking lack of transition between the headliners and supports. It jumps straight from unfondly-remembered ex-Top 10 acts to seemingly unknown bands, who the organizers shuffled around at random on the poster. Poor old I Am The Id got bumped down by 7 lines. Not wanting to be unfair on any of those bands, except maybe Mumford & the Bear and late addition to the bottom of the bill The Nick Parker Band. Hope we see a legal action by the real Nick Parker.

Courtesy of Should Festivals be Banned?, here's a former nominee. Based on amusing artist names, I think I would go to this.

http://web.archive.org/web/20110618101324/http://www.electricforestfestival.com/lineup/artists

t in the park is this weekend at the controversial new venue

having waded through the incoming punters this afternoon, reckon Clapham's own South West Four must be up there

this one taking place two blocks from my parent's place

http://katastro.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/kaaboolineup.jpg

^ https://www.kaaboodelmar.com

8 More Special Acts don't even have a Soundcloud.

there's a lot of garbage on that bill, but 10-12 decent to great acts mixed in, two to three of them quite appropriate to southern california not counting ether snoop dogg or no doubt

Need a thread for a fstival line up that half of ILX thinks is the worst but the other half thinks its the best line up ever

This years V festival
http://i.imgur.com/jNngBUE.png

That Livestock one up there is the first time I've literally never heard of any of the bands

but the other half thinks its the best line up ever

Lol seriously?

tbf there are a TON of travis fans on ilx

why does it always raaain on me!

*vigorously snaps fingers*

plenty of bieber and rihannna fans on ilm. the stuff like travis/kaiser chiefs is the acts everyone on ilm agrees are shit

that bill is probably what t in the park will be like in 5 years

With the exception of Katy B, Years & Years and the 90s acts, the rest of that bill is regarded by most of ILM with indifference or contempt. I can't think of a single ILXer who would be driven to defend it as an entity, much less rep for it, beyond "well there's obviously a market for it".

a few did on my fb post but n/m

I mean everything below the headliners, unless there's a groundwell of Sia fandom I wasn't previously aware of.

I wonder if there is a petition by outraged mainstream 'indie' fans?

No one is invested enough in the V festival to care, and those that do go every year are likely to be more or less okay with the lineup. It's been pretty much a pop festival for years now. You'd have to be a particularly antidleluvian kind of dullard to get angry about it especially when Reading and numerous other bland Home Counties festivals already exist.

no Rihanna fans on ILM no.

speaking of which
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/older-criminals-sentenced-to-attend-v-festival-20160223106489

Unfunny.

there is a sackful of shite amongst this 3 day scottish festival

T in the Park 2016 Lineup
http://www.spin.com/2016/02/t-in-the-park-2016-lineup-stone-roses-calvin-harris-lcd-soundsystem-the-1975/

http://static.spin.com/files/2016/02/t-in-the-park-2016-lineup-640x320.jpg

Couple of weeks back my teenage nephew told me that no-one goes to T in the Park for the bands, just the Slam tent.

Is this good? It's gotta be better than Kasabian etc surely.

Slam present SLAM TENT at T in the Park 2015 (in alphabetical order):

Thursday:
Animal Farm (Quail + Turtle + Lamb)
Ben Sims
Clouds

Friday:
Adam Beyer b2b Joseph Capriati
Âme
Ben Klock
Eats Everything
Slam
Telford

Saturday:
Annie Mac
Art Department
Gary Beck
Jackmaster b2b Joy Orbison
Lil Louis
Maceo Plex
Rødhåd
Visionquest

Sunday:
Alan Fitzpatrick
Claude VonStroke
Dense & Pika
Dixon
Dubfire
Loco Dice
Maya Jane Coles
Surgeon & Lady Starlight

aye, not all my cup of tea but some top notch stuff for an epic swedge fest nonetheless

a lot of festivals esp of an indie persuasion have the effect of assimilating even acts I like into a general soup of mediocrity when you're looking at the bill. the Slam tent does the inverse and makes me think I'd have a great time watching ppl I don't really care about (like Slam)

That's pretty much a flat-pack assembly festival dance lineup, you'll be able to see most of that lot at virtually any festival this summer. I'm pretty sure I read the phrase 'Jackmaster b2b Joy Orbison' more than I do 'Hello' in 2016.

Obviously it's better than virtually anything on the main stages and I'm sure it'll do the job just fine, but there's nothing exciting or unique about it.

https://vine.co/v/Ohzi0uh1pI3

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CcH8XauVAAAxXOS.jpg

Is that a 90s-themed festival? Most of the acts seem to be 90s (with a few 80s) has-beens.

that's a hell of a way to spend a saturday

remember birthdays from 25 years ago

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpl1/v/t1.0-9/12799224_1290514427630336_5975366578227873762_n.jpg?oh=92c66b4ea1d4856bcea333368242a4b8&oe=57540B34

Butthole Surfers
Gus
Howlin' Maggie
Poe
Reverend Horton Heat
Seven Mary Three
Solution A.D.
The Refreshments
Toadies
The Verve Pipe

totally misread that as knockathon

ugh... that guy's 20 years old :-(

I made this silly thing ten years ago. Would apologize for the poor photoshopping, but who cares?

http://s5.photobucket.com/user/weejay/media/festival.jpg

TBH I would prefer to go to this festival than most of those above.

Agh, I hate you, photobucket.

http://i.imgur.com/A39oCe2.jpg

http://www.livestocklongdon.co.uk/music/#attachment wp-att-1504/0/

Brave attempt to outdo last year.

good to see johhny kowalski & the sexy weirdos rightfully moving up the bill

Wake up leo the restless kings

from kendal calling
"Thingumabob & the Thingumajigs are "Salford's finest moustachioed vaudeville ukulele band""

http://i.imgur.com/6jvL7Bz.jpg

got this cracker with my post today, love the crappy collage at the top

http://i.imgur.com/k3YCPP5.jpg

Altern-8 playing => cannot be worst ever festival line-up

Who is in The Ramones 2016?!?!

i believe that one is from 1988.

Indeed

How can Urban Cookie Collective still have gigs when Diane Charlemagne died last year? Blasphemy!

I'm definitely going since Radiohead are playing my hometown for the first and only time ever but something a bit weird abt this one:

http://i.imgur.com/er1jWRG.png

(probably 20-30 acts tba)

http://i.imgur.com/4P53q2X.png
this will be so much fun!

Loads of acts I'd very happily watch there.

likewise.
a lot more interestging than most of the uk festivals (if not all of the wones i have seen).

wones = ones

Moderat being billed higher than Blink 182 is pretty o_0 or do they play like arenas in that area of the world?

Do Blink 182 still play arenas in the other area of the world?

Oh Christ they still do here.

http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/Blink182-tickets/artist/945149

Agree that if that festival was going on in the UK it would be fairy refreshing

The best UK lineup I've seen so far (by far) is Safe As Milk, but it's £150 a ticket

Actually it's £200 but you get a berth

had to sell my ticket for safe as milk :(

Things you were shockingly old to find out: Erasure are still together and performing! Had no idea.

was thinking the other day about how dull all of the mid-sized British festivals (and a lot of the smaller ones as well) look this year, everything boring 6Music-friendly schmindy with some half-decent dance music thrown in if you're lucky. Is it more homogeneous than in the past? Is it something to do with lack of Glastonbury this year meaning things will sell even if very dull?

glastonbury is happening this year .. its next year they are taking a break.

ah okay, thanks. I suppose that can be ruled out as a cause then!

There are three kinds of UK festival
- Super-commercial one-dayers headlined by Bastille
- Hippie ska drug-fests headlined by Gentleman's Dub Club
- Posho adult-oriented camp-outs set in the beautifully rainy Cotswolds headlined by Joanna Newsom

via chaki

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6hKsevUwAA4DnS.png

Animal Collective playing a festival called "ID10T" ... please tell me that's real!

Monster Energy Drink Comedy Tent

I know those words, but that sign makes no sense.

I'm sure pitchfork readers that were frozen in 2006 will be very excited if they thaw in time for Sunday.

Cosplay Welcome!

what's garfunkel & oates?

the last few festival line ups in this thread are kinda not that bad.

http://festileaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/pinkpop-poster-2017-featured.jpg

(pinkpop)

Yeah, c'mon..

Xpost-withdraw

poor Richard Ashcroft

I love Garfunkel and Oates. Two funny women who sing funny songs.

I don't even remotely understand who that last festival is meant to be aimed at.

Moderat being billed higher than Blink 182 is pretty o_0 or do they play like arenas in that area of the world?

Roskilde goes on late and tends to put a DJ on after the headliner on the main stage, and I assume Blink are headlining a smaller stage.

sum 41 too low

Returning to that awful 1988 Reading Festival - No problem with the Friday, The Ramones followed by Iggy? c'mon.

The other days? Well, the best thing about that was that it was going bad year-by-year until that one, so It Had To Die!

I love Garfunkel and Oates. Two funny women who sing funny songs

That's a relief, I thought it must be a new duo of Art Garfunkel and John Oates.

poor Richard Ashcroft

Just comeuppance imo.

These people.

http://hopeandgloryfestival.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Announcement_web-1-683x1024.jpg

^^^^^^^^^ winner

That can't be real, surely!?

What happened to Badly Drawn Boy? He was supposed to be a massive star, now he's spent over a decade propping up the bottom of shitty festival lineups.

I mean, fucking hell, you couldn't possibly come up with a worse line-up than that. Either way, it's some expert trolling!

Last time I saw anything from BDB he was going mental and calling an audience cunts, chucking his harmonica at them

He seems really unpleasant

Badly Behaved Boy

They should have got Crispy Ambulance to headline

"Football Legends Charity Darts Match, Charlotte Church in Conversation, The Liverpool International Air Guitar Competition"

^^^ HMHB lyric

"Try to imagine your favourite bands, huge tunes, combined with a decadent Victoriana carnival, wicked fun, with a heavy dose of outrageous sideshows, and you’ll begin to get a picture of what HOPE & GLORY festival is. A festival of proper music and real anthems."

AND they've got a clay trampoline, for those who'd prefer hospital.

the fact that the twang have apparently been floating around doing their thing for over a decade now has gotten me down

'The Membranes & 25 Piece Choir'

?!?!?!?!&^&^%$$^^$^?!%>?{?!?!?

"Charlotte Church's Late Night Pop Dungeon"?

that sounds like something v different than she intended

"The Membranes will be bringing their critically acclaimed gig with a 25 piece all women choir to the Lexington on Friday June 3rd"

Looks like this is a regular thing at the moment.

that sounds like something v different than she intended

Does it, though?

"Charlotte Church's Late Night Pop Dungeon"?

her whole current tour is billed as this.
and i bet its bloody brilliant.

it very well might be! I was only focused on the "dungeon" name, my only experience with her music is when the label was trying to push her as a Josh Groban-type artist which I gather she hasn't been doing for over a decade.

Explaining the Pop Dungeon concept, Church said: “Down the dark, dark stairs, upon the bloody gallows of soft rock, through the oubliette of cheese, into the torture chamber of disco, you are welcomed to the Late Night Pop Dungeon.

“The Grand High Executionatrix, dungeon mistress Charlotte Church ,and her ten-piece ultra-metronomic post-punk-disco-R’n’R’n’B backing band will give her MK Ultra treatment to the greatest tunes that time forgot, and some that will forever haunt our collective memory. Bring dancing shoes – the floor is on fire.”

There is a festival planned for Pioneer Square in Seattle this year that has the worst lineup I've ever seen.

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/enhanced/webdr03/2013/2/28/11/enhanced-buzz-6834-1362070250-1.jpg

This would have been the worst but it was cancelled.

Wonder why.

Re previous, Hope&Glory, dunno there are a few good things in there, and the rest are mostly not awful. if you were to watch until you were ready to move on, should be OK I think.

So what is the best UK festival this year? Does one exist? Compared to a lot of European and US festivals, I find it hard to find one that caters to my music taste, isn't a totally basic commercial nightmare, isn't a total hippie dread-fest, is still fun, goes on late enough into the night, isn't massively oversubscribed and isn't way overpriced. That said, I really miss being in a field over the summer and hearing music. Is Europe the way to go?

Safe as Milk looks p good;

https://safeasmilkfestival.com/sam17

Counterflows festival always has seem great performances:

http://counterflows.com/

I'd love to go to Safe As Milk. I Doubt I could convince any of my mates to go - they're all Boomtown Fair fans. Alas, the plight of the hipster music fan living in a small city.

You have to feel sorry for The Verve Pipe, having a similar name to a far superior band.

the verve pipe must be seriously lousy

we were merely freshmahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhn
AIAHAOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

i blame dog latin

http://thequietus.com/articles/22112-safe-as-milk-cancelled

aw what?
i had a feeling something like that might happen for some reason.

Hello people how is everybody doing! Glad for being here!

fkn hell Younced why did you have to get Safe As Milk cancelled

I knew that lineup was too good to be true. It seems every time I see a UK festival with a really good lineup, it gets canceled. Happened with Jabberwocky, Temples Festival in Bristol last year, Bloc in London in 2012, umpteen ATP fests. And yet there are dozens of rubbishy things that go ahead without a hitch every year.

The problem is that "really good lineup" =! "commercially viable", in fact you could argue that the better the lineup the less viable it is. I can't say I'm surprised that Safe as Milk is cancelled either.

think things like this are just not going to be possible in the UK in the foreseeable future without sponsorship or (presumably increasingly scarce) arts funding. uncertain if SAM was funding itself in any way aside from ticket sales but I doubt its partnerships were providing much revenue, or that Newcastle (where the organisers are from and which cut its arts budget by 100% a few years ago before walking that back in some way) is likely to prop up a festival taking place in another country

conversely Big Ears in the States appears to be supported by a mixture of craft beer companies and wealthy liberals with bottomless wells of cash: http://bigearsfestival.com/partners/

Also I hate to say it but Prestatyn as a location is wtf. I wonder why they thought they could succeed where ATP had failed with more or less the same business model.

And it's in April which is a funny time to be standing outside watching music.

Still, such a shame. I love festivals but I don't like the idea of spending a lot of money on something that isn't up to scratch. I look at US and Euro lineups and feel so jealous. Maybe Europe is the way to go after all. Get a holiday out of it too.

xp I went to a Bugged Out Weekender there in 2000, my memory was that it was busy enough but their website differs

November 17th 2000 was the date of the Bugged Out Weekender at Pontins Holiday Camp, Prestatyn. The cast was beyond stellar: Underworld and Reprazent live, The Chemical Brothers, Dave Clarke, Felix Da Housecat, Green Velvet, Richie Hawtin, Carl Craig, DJ Hype, James Lavelle, Jon Carter, Gilles Peterson, Roger Sanchez, Slam, Justin Robertson, X Press 2, Lottie, Craig Richards, Yousef, Harvey, Mark Rae, Jacques lu Cont, Mr Scruff, Bent, Rob da Bank…the list goes on and on. Even Doves played an acoustic set in the pub run by the Heavenly Social. Thing is only 1500 people (half the capacity) turned up meaning that at best you were able to dance to the Chems without being crushed or see the whites of Karl Hyde’s eyes as he performed but at worst there were sometimes only a handful of people dancing in some of the rooms. Looking at the line-up it still makes us think, ‘What the fuck happened there then?’ But I guess Prestatyn in North Wales was probably not the best choice, it was inflicted with biblical weather in the weeks leading up to it (in fact it was almost cancelled due to flooding). The train system was also fucked that month with regular trips from London to the area taking nine hours. Still, there were still a lot of good memories from it – the best being the spirit of the people who did make the trip – with the NME summing it up perfectly by calling it “a spiritual success”. We take solace in that when we recall that we lost our shirts (pants and socks) that weekend…

zero memory of Underworld playing oddly but the midnight-6am run of Hawtin > Green Velvet > Dave Clarke was nuts

goose island is owned by inbev and four roses is owned by kirin

i wonder if there's anything mailchimp won't sponsor

let's hope not!

here's hoping big weed wants to support everything in 5 years

how do 21 pilots play every festival? also weezer. do they have different bands like the blue man group who play for them? also, i am going to this because these are all of my favorite bands:

It’s time to round up your crew, book your flights and start planning your Pineapple campground kingdom! The fifth instalment of Big Pineapple Music Festival returns to the lush hinterland of Queensland’s Sunshine Coast on Saturday 27 May, with camping available from Friday 26 May.

Birds of Tokyo • Peking Duk • SAFIA • Northlane • Cloud Control • The Veronicas • City Calm Down • LDRU • DZ Deathrays • Horrorshow • Vera Blue • Harts • Alex Lahey • BOO SEEKA • NGAIIRE • Polish Club • Sampa The Great • Bootleg Rascal • Jack River • Nicole Millar • Pierce Brothers • Citizen Kay • BEC SANDRIDGE • Fortunes. • Moonbase • Lastlings • Benson • Winston Surfshirt • Ocean Alley • West Thebarton Brothel Party • Gold Member • Hey Geronimo • Bearfoot • In2natioN • Buck Dean And The Green Lips • High Tropics • Arpier • The Hi-Boys • DJFRO

okay, fine, i'm not going. i like alternate universe festivals though where i don't know who anyone is. winston surfshirt!

okay it looks like frank ocean/chance the rapper/21 pilots/weezer just travel the world together. they must have the same agent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw4uf1cdB3g

rock fest vid blowing my mind right now

'crowbar' and 'sidewise'... there's no way these are real bands

areal o'hanlon used to be the compere on some bbc stand up show on saturday nights after motd in the 90s, even as a child easily amused by any sort of comedy i found him a bit bad and boring.

xpost it's "Crobot" in this video

Crowbar are very real and very awesome

wrong thread lol xp

xp Crowbar is dope.

rock is pretty sad. rock is getting into listening to dixieland in the 50s or 60s territory.

i mean like rawk rock. though indie rock can be pretty sad too.

buckcherry play all these fests and they are "newer" than people like sammy hagar obviously but the lead singer of buckcherry is pushing 50. rock = older than the hills.

rockfest - first I was thinking 'yeah I can see this being popular' but by the end I was like 'yeah no that's ludicrous'

i like alternate universe festivals though where i don't know who anyone is

lol other countries

other countries are totally alternate universes to me!

i mean they might as well be. i only read about them and see pictures of them during the newsreels before my westerns and gangster movies.

i still listen to feedtime a lot anyway...

i listened to the go-betweens last week....

it had never EVER occurred to me how much this song sounds like an echo & the bunnymen song until last week. how did i miss that after all this time? could totally be an echo b-side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ErQVGYpUQY

Had to check this was actually from 2017:

http://i.imgur.com/PMRG8tel.jpg

optimo 20th anniversary lineup:

Confirmed to play (in alphabetical order)
ADULT. - (USA LIVE)
Apeiron Crew (DNK)
Aurora Halal (USA-LIVE)
Avalon Emerson (USA)
Becky Marshall (SCOTLAND)
Black Madonna (USA)
Ben UFO (ENG)
Carla Dal Forno (AUSTRALIA LIVE)
Equirnonn (JAMAICA LIVE)
Errorsmith (DEU-LIVE)
Happy Meals (SCO-LIVE)
KING AYISOBA (GHA - LIVE)
K-X-P (FIN-LIVE)
Midland (ENG)
MISS RED + The Bug (ENG - LIVE)
Nurse With Would (OUTER SPACE LIVE)
Optimo (Espacio) (SCO)
Sal P (USA)
Sofay (SCO)

(not to imply for a second this is a bad lineup!! but cause we seems to be talking about 2017 fests here. this is one of the most insane lineups i've ever seen.)

counterflows looks amazing as well. time to try glasgow more.

that looks mint. planned to see King Ayisoba last week but he+band were delayed getting into the UK cos if visa issues aiui

lol @ nww hailing from outer space

Nurse With Would

http://www.beardedtheory.co.uk/line-up

Friday
SKUNK ANANSIE & SLAVES
THE ALARM
FEROCIOUS DOG
JAYA THE CAT
FLIGHT BRIGADE
Faerground Accidents

Saturday
SEASICK STEVE
NEW MODEL ARMY
Alabama 3
AFRICAN HEAD CHARGE
Anti-Pasti
Skippinish
Josh Doyle
THE MOCKING JAYS

Sunday
MADNESS
VINTAGE TROUBLE
GLASVEGAS
SUGAR HILL GANG & FURIOUS FIVE
THE SELECTER
Nucleus Roots
GOLDBLADE
Smiling Ivy

https://www.moonstock2017.com/moonstock-2017-lineup

though ozzy performing during the eclipse kinda sounds cool

M Resort Spa Casino partnered with Gangster have announced that Fiji Water and Hempful Farms will join Heineken and Findlay Chevrolet as sponsors for Rock Into Spring, a three-day pool party taking place April 28 – 30, 2017 at M Resort’s pool.

FRIDAY:
• CHINO XL AND RAMA DUKE 4:00 PM
• BATTLE OF THE BANDS WINNER 4:15 PM
• STATE OF MINE 4:50 PM
• RECLAIM THE SKY 5:35 PM
• DJ JOSH TODD OF BUCKCHERRY 6:20 PM
• NEVER SAY DIE 6:55 PM
• 9ELECTRIC 7:40 PM
• DJ LETHAL FROM LIMP BIZKIT – HOUSE OF PAIN 8:25 PM
• ALIEN ANT FARM 9:00 PM
• BUCKCHERRY 10:30 PM
SATURDAY:
• BEHIND THE FALLEN 3:15 PM
• QUOR 4:00 PM
• SILENT THEORY 4:45 PM
• VYCES 5:30 PM
• ARTIFAS 6:15 PM
• AMERICAN GRIM 7:00 PM
• SHALLOW SIDE 7:45 PM
• ADELITAS WAY 9:00 PM
• ART OF ANARCHY 10:30 PM
SUNDAY:
• THE BROKEN THUMBS 2:00 PM
• LOLA BLACK 2:45 PM
• ALIVE IN BARCELONA 3:30 PM
• BLACKLITE DISTRICT 4:15 PM
• ANOTHER LOST YEAR 5:00 PM
• BOBAFLEX 6:00 PM
• EVE TO ADAM 7:30 PM
• TRAPT 9:00 PM
• SICKPUPPIES 10:30 PM

that festival should practically be in BBS font

lol sick puppies

art of anarchy now has scott stapp on vocals

Speaking of Scott Stapp...

http://www.vanyaland.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Make-America-Rock-Again.jpg

will probably be a mushroom cloud of Aqua Velva

Saw this advertised in the paper today. Aside from the headliners, bits of Saturday are salvageable, but not Sunday.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBzpSy7XcAEhkYV.jpg

IMO!

de la soul and steve mason (no idea what his more recent music is like) and then no thanks

(and actually I've seen de la soul at a festival before and it wasn't that great a show)

somehow I find "John Lewis Food Village" provides the grimmest lol

"Food? Yeah there's a Waitrose round the corner"

Now.

I'm not saying this is the worst festival, right?

Because this is the "Worst festival lineup" thread. Which is a different thing.

so:

Bluesfest returns to The O2 with
some of the world’s leading
blues-inspired artists. Chic feat
Nile Rodgers headline the Friday
night and Daryl Hall & John Oates plus very special guest Chris Isaak will play the Saturday.3

Now.

YGM?

every artist on that list rules. Steely Dan and Doobie Brothers are also playing. RULES.

As I say.

But: Bluesfest?

Hope And Glory fest mentioned upthread has gone totally tits up
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/live-hope-glory-festival-latest-13438301

this "cancelling festivals the day of" seems to be a new, innovative trend

Postponed until 1970 apparently

Usually these take the cake:

http://www.bottlerocknapavalley.com/

ROCK N' FUCKIN' ROLL

the Shiraz and Roll circuit

No line-up yet, and not sure just how much music there will be, but worth keeping an eye on for this thread: Conservatives to hold one-day festival after response to Jeremy Corbyn’s Glastonbury appearance

Mid Norfolk MP George Freeman is credited with the idea, the aim of which is said to be increasing the party’s grassroots support.

[...]

Now, the Financial Times reports he has raised £25,000 for the event, which will be held in September. Freeman said he had also had “some wonderful offers of help of sponsorship and venues” and the idea for a right wing festival “seems to have struck a chord”.

He likened the one-day festival to a “cross between Hay-on-Wye and the Latitude festival” and described it as a reaction to the “increasingly corporate, expensive and exclusive” Tory party conference.

Freeman’s event will be invitation-only, with only between 150 to 200 people to attend. He said it would be like a “first rave, you’ll remember who you brought.”

“Aim isn’t Glastonbury (!) More like grassroots #PoliticsFest: Big Tent. Philosophy. Culture,” he added on Twitter.

Emphasis mine etc. etc.

Rumoured line-up

http://i.imgur.com/dtuZR3c.jpg

Kate Bush is a conservative bastard?

Sadly, it seems that way (recent-ish interviews)

She thinks Theresa May is great

was not expecting this sad news when clicking on this thread

You could probably add Laura Marling to the bill, and Alex James of course. And might as well invite all the Blairite riff raff to this do as well, get fucking Lineker in there DJ'ing with Dan Hodges.

It would not surprise me that Laura Marling is a tory. Has she said as much?

It would be even less surprising than Kate Bush, cos Marling is the daughter of a baronet rather than a doctor. Or does that work the other way round? Fuck knows. My only evidence is that Marcello once referred to her as a "Tory twat".

The one time I had to endure her live show she came across as stuck up and self-involved, so I guess there was always that

I'd assumed that the thread had been revived to talk about Wilderness ...

http://i.imgur.com/UVK45mc.jpg

the sponsor banner at the bottom is amazing

£60's a lot for a quieter bar and different toilets

It is very reassuring that you can purchase Soylent Green Yeoman's Mash Pots at so many familiar and easily accessible discount stores.

love mash love mash pot

PARTYBABY

Would go to that. Incidentally, do you know S Club are now S Club 3?

My only evidence is that Marcello once referred to her as a "Tory twat".

Who hasn't Marcello referred to as a Tory twat? He probably says it to himself in the mirror in the mornings.

who actually is "tony roberts (as seen at NTAF 2016)"?

presumably not the actor who starred in several early woody allen movies

What the fuck is a Yeoman Mash Pot

I mean, I googled it, but

winning an ilx vegetables poll near you in mere hours

I love how people are so ready to write off Laura Marling because Marcell o called her a "twat"

This took me 5 seconds of googling

https://www.ft.com/content/a63127c2-fe07-11e6-96f8-3700c5664d30

i saw this one in high school. it didn't go to midnight. they cut off the power in the middle of melanie's set, and she finished the song in tears, unamplified.

Pop Concert on Labor Day

SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES AUG. 29, 1975

An all‐day music festival, called the first Annual New York Pop Concert, will be held Monday at Freeport, L.I. Raceway. It is scheduled to begin at 11 A.M. and last until midnight. Sponsored by the new Jefron Productions, the Labor Day event will include Melanie, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Orleans, Tom Paxton, Batdorf & Rodney, Barnaby Bye, Aztec Two‐Step, Outlaws, Skyking and Jayne Olderman.

I love how people are so ready to write off Laura Marling because Marcell o called her a "twat"

This took me 5 seconds of googling

https://www.ft.com/content/a63127c2-fe07-11e6-96f8-3700c5664d30

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown),

you need a premium account to read it

if you google the url you'll get a readable link.

don't care what Kate Bush feels politically, she's as classic as it comes.

" a cryptic reference, Marling explains"

BastardBury isn't a real festival.

https://i.imgur.com/d7ftuyx.jpg

https://discourse-cdn-sjc1.com/business2/uploads/drownedinsound/original/3X/3/4/34f3cd56e778ad06c49108258c85acc2b81a6ea5.jpg

I'll pick you up when you arrive NV!

lol

oh I saw that advertised a long while back, might've even mentioned it on ILX

imagining "an evening with Bez" in a Force 9 in the middle of the North Sea is unenticing

scuttle the vessel for the good of all mankind

one time I did that crossing and it was so choppy that I was stood in this office somewhere in Leiden I think the next day and the whole floor felt like it was still going up and down

As a student I once crossed to Newcastle. We got into a brawl with some Newcastle lads who'd drank up before we took off. Fuckers broke my watch, and a friend of mine was too busy puking then entire trip to help us out. It's more or less exactly what I imagine this "cruise" to be.

yeah but with that Inspiral Carpet organ riff playing on a constant loop

imagine that ship roaming the seven seas like the Flying Indieman

omg I've just realised The Farm (acoustic), they'll be trawling for all the overboard jumpers for a month

the ferry doesn't even go to Amsterdam

No mercy xxxp

Aahhaha it's going to Rotterdam but that just doesn't sound as cool

they save that for the Beautiful Sou'wester cruise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgmV5ubqetQ

This is amazing, from last years cruise. And indeed, the organ man, the organ.

"The 3 amigos venture off on a quality weekend of live music and good times. "

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if the novels of joseph conrad have taught me anything, bez is the one you can trust to come through in a typhoon

I could be wrong but I think a ticket on this thing is cheaper than a ferry ticket for the weekend, maybe I'll take some earplugs and go for a day out in Rotterdam

You're not wrong, by the looks of it, 159,- is cheap.

Looking at that video, does it just.. stop at 4 in the afternoon? Didn't seem to be a single frame of night-time activity.

after 4pm is reserved for the keelhauling of the minor indie celebrities

I was running late for work after feeling compelled to read the entire exchange about this mini-cruise

thanks lads, good humorous start to my day

https://i.imgur.com/q79okCb.png

forward slash means you only get whichever one turns up

Is one able to sneak drugs onto these 'music cruises' or is security tight enough that you're stuck buying 11 dollar coors light

not even sure you can smoke inside on the ferry nowadays and it would be physically impossible to do it on deck in March

With Bez on board I think they'll turn a blind eye

I have a friend who just got back from this cruise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Boat#The_Rock_Boat_XVIII

he's been in previous years. it sounds like a hell to me. no idea about the drug sneaking but I know they regularly try to sneak on liquor because I get a story about how many bottles the luggage checkers found versus how many they missed

that is the original rock cruise, the one that spawned all the others. former coworkers of mine have been attending since it began

I mean, on the rare occasion he's come back talking about a band I haven't heard of that was in the lineup that later breaks out

but more often there's an anecdote about some one-hit artist from the 90s who performed and then got drunk with everyone

a music fest w/that lineup and calling it "Victorious"....if they can make like Dunkirk and evacuate the concertgoers from that beach maybe.

I played at Shiiine a few months ago. Actually had an OK time, despite none of the three or so bands I actually liked playing that day.

As we were unloading I heard a band covering MGMT's 'Kids' in the distance, which I assumed was some covers band playing in one of the pub venues, but when they followed it up with Starsailor's 'Four To The Floor' I realised it was the sound of Starsailor themselves at work, adding something a little 'contemporary' to their set

I also got to watch Embrace alternate their hits with new material which contains millennial whoops and latter-day Take That-esque choruses in a no way desperate attempt to get on Radio 2. During this I noticed Lammo standing nearby.

Like I said, it was fun

awesome, good times!

https://imgur.com/a/qCq13

Not the worst, just the most WTF??

huh

https://i.imgur.com/a4RUMIZ.jpg

looks fake but it's not fake

hopin for a Slayer/Gucci Mane collabo set

REIGN IN BURR

generate a random list of musical acts, sort by popularity, put on a festival poster, done

Raining Blood by Slayer ft. Bonnie Tyler

A bunch of big name rappers and grime artists, some horrible horrible EDM DJs, oh and Slayer, fuck it why not?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWkvqb3W4AE9HK_.jpg:small

It's in Iceland though, I doubt the population can support multiple large festivals aimed at multiple demographics, even if they are all hugely into music.

Glastonbury alone is like half the size of the entire population of Iceland.

I would totally attend a concert in Reykjavik to see Slayer, Stormzy and Gucci Mane in quick succession. Speaks to me as a family-type popular concert, and I'm not surprised there'd be Icelanders who're able to dig all three. I have strong doubts about the names below though.

Back to Beach presents "Gosh don't you miss the 90s" fest

Bonnie Tyler to bring back Reading '88 vibes

xpost Hepcat and original line-up Fishbone are classic.

wow never mind 1000 incarnations of the roses fest, see you in huntington beach april 28

https://www.satelliteranchfestival.com/

I can't even tell you how happy I am that we live in a world where not only are Radioactive Sandwich, Kluster Phunk and Funkadelic Astronaut all real bands, but are all going to be in the same place at the same time.

Drawing on inspirations from classic funk bands and present day electronica, Funkadelic Astronaut blends the best of both worlds to provide a unique sound that they call “Funktronica”.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkEoYzVXcAEitph.jpg:large

love dj harvey but it's no hedgesfest

Never even heard of anybody on there.

Acid Corbynism

how has this entire party not dissolved from embarrassment already

"(DJ + Percussion Set)" ftw

I hear Yanis Varoufakis is doing a secret set down the Rabbit Hole.

"pub quiz with Ed Miliband MP"

would go along if that was actually in my local.

(I would like to hear Stealing Sheep's Suffragette set, I like Stealing Sheep.)

oh man i LOVE them

how is there no stealing sheep thread, they're way more interesting than animal collective

i only know the first stealing sheep album but that was very good indeed

I wonder how we're supposed to pronounce "TWT"...

"pub quiz with Ed Miliband MP"

would go along if that was actually in my local.

― mark e, Thursday, August 9, 2018 9:50 PM (yesterday)

I mean at this stage you'd probably only need to ask nicely.

This gig is making me side with not transforming the world

in fact these people are all exhausting, I might just turn gammon

oh the second one (from 2015) is super good too!

how bad is this, and if I go to see Future will I have extreme EDM fatigue?

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad77486506fbeed45eb1f16/t/5ae7acf9f950b727213fc9db/1525132597096/515+Alive.jpg?format=1000w

the rl grime album represents all that is horrid abt this sort of shit

update: the price for even a single day is prohibitively expensive, holy shit

however commentary still welcome

god. just imagine. i love cashmere cat but not surrounded by that

oh if only this were real

http://i66.tinypic.com/ao9rv4.jpg

https://www.ticketquarter.co.uk/online/branding/articleImages/facebook/PoloFestFacebook.jpg

ahhh ha ha ha at Toploader on TWO days

Hey! What's wrong with MC Paul Barman?

'gok wan dj set' is a perfectly proportioned and unflushable fragment just bobbing around my consciousness forever

Is Mel C going to be there while they play her mixtape? Or is this actually a DJ set?

They just found the tape, she doesn't even know.

I just had to go to this for the weekend:

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Keep in mind, two nights were evacuated due to lightning so no Miguel (or DJ Snake, or Revivalists and a few others). Basically a mash-mash of soundcloud rap, DJs and pseudo-hippie folk/jjam bands. People were happy and high but I was miserable.

I've heard of maybe three acts on that lineup...

I sort of liked Too Many Zooz, Rapsody and Jacob Banks. The Polish Ambassador was silly fun (and a great name!). Vulfpeck was like if Earth Wind & Fire was a Michigan frat band. Cashmere Cat is a big name, but I didn't give a poop about his performance.

Rapsody is good, isn't she?

yeah, liked her. much better than the likes of Lil Gnar and Juice Wrld.

That graphic for "Aux Cord DJ'S" on Friday / day one - I'm trying to figure that out. Is that a group or are they saying that all the DJ's to the right are playing via aux cord? And that's a feature.

Vulfpeck are really popular and talented musicians but yeah Earth Wind And Fire frat band is absolutely the description

Oh, they could play! They just couldn't stop playing.

NNE Proudly Presents - BE HERE NOW - Paisley's first All Day indie festival - Saturday 29th September 2018 - Paisley Town Hall.

Hosted by Fools Gold Indie Clubnite, get set for a full day & night of iconic indie anthems with some of the country's finest tributes with a truly festival feel;

Confirmed bands so far;

Ocean Colour Scheme - Recreating the classic sounds of Ocean Colour Scene is no mean feet. With an attention to detail often missed by tributes, these guys deliver a true "close your eyes and it could be the real thing" experience. For fans of OCS, you won't want to miss what is a powerful and anthemic homage to the one of the UK's song-writing giants.

Loaded - the UK's hottest Primal Scream tribute deliver all the band's hits with a big band sound. Backed by brass, percussion and backing vocalists, the band have been ensuring audiences get their "Rocks" off to the classic anthems of Bobby Gillespie's legendary indie rockers

The Muldoons - The Muldoons originally formed in Paisley in 1989 and developed their much loved guitar based songs on the indie scene through the 90s. The band reformed in 2017 and, after a sell out comeback gig at Paisleys Bungalow, went on to finish 2017 supporting Inspiral Carpets Tom Hingley. 2018 kicked off with a spectacular sold out headline gig at Glasgows legendary King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, followed by a great set at O2 ABC Glasgow

God Like Genius - The UK's leading tribute to the music of iconic songwriter Noel Gallagher, God Like Genius deliver a journey from early Oasis classics through to High Flying Birds anthems.
The six piece band brings the big sound required to do justice to the songs that defined a generation.

Appy Mundays - Reliving the heady Madchester vibes of the infamous Hacienda, Appy Mundays bring you the cult classics and best-selling hits of Manchester's number one baggy band the Happy Mondays.

The Complete Stone Roses - The Complete Stone Roses are one of the UK’s most well-known, most seen and most successful tribute bands. Selling out venues across the UK and Ireland regularly, they have helped to carry on the music of one of the UK’s most influential bands - The Stone Roses. As tributes go, these guys are top of the tree....

So join us for what will be one of Paisley's biggest music events of the year.

https://www.facebook.com/events/350481778777885/

FAP?

this made me lol, thank you

esp thinking about this
Appy Mundays - Reliving the heady Madchester vibes of the infamous Hacienda, Appy Mundays bring you the cult classics and best-selling hits of Manchester's number one baggy band the Happy Mondays.

I have trouble believing that there's a worse lineup than this ever.
They probably have NRA-sponsored shooting games at the midway.

http://rocklahoma.com/img/_admat_01.13.19.jpg

"so yeah i just went through the CD binder in the floorboard of the Durango and made my list. crazy thing everyone was totally free and happy to do it."

“Blackberry Smoke”
“Buckcherry”
“Black Stone Cherry”

^ Ha! Was just about to mention that... what a hat trick!

I am hoping beyond hope that Osbourne, Frehley and members of Dirty Honey and Charlie Bonnet III's band get together for a jam session at a dingy beer bar under the moniker Ozzy's Dirty Acehole.

What are the chances that both Godsmack and Staind are missing from that line-up.

Have just seen this advertised on reddit:
https://i.imgur.com/eNe6EHj.png

Not necessarily terrible, but what a strange combination.

two English metal bands from the 1970s probably have a strong crossover in terms of listeners who would sit through both, if not in dedicated hardcore fanbase

feel like they probably would have had to play together before...

yup

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

Y’all like indie?

https://justlikeheavenfest.com/

i'm going, so all the hater can fuck off!

😂😘👍

oh no not indie

so let me explain, i'm going for MGMT and Beach House. getting YYY, Phoenix and Grizzly Bear (wink) seems like a bonus for $99.

It’s all good 🎹🎸🚢

That just like heaven festival should be called 10 year challenge festival. Most of those bands released probably their last best album in 2009.

I’d totally pay $100 to see them.

I kinda like that 10 year challenge festival idea... 2020 you get to choose a lineup of LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend, Black Keys, Sleigh Bells, Caribou, Yeasayer and Deerhunter.

2021: Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, St Vincent, Girls, Destroyer, Florence and the Machine, Yuck, M83

And so on

On 2028 you get Parquet Courts, Mitski, Rolling Blackouts CF, Idles, lets eat grandma and Carseat headrest

That just like heaven festival should be called 10 year challenge festival. Most of those bands released probably their last best album in 2009.

I mean I was assuming that's essentially its premise, rather than them having accidentally booked two dozen acts all strongly associated with a very specific era and demographic

https://onthebluecruise.com/the-bands/

(P.S. I know someone who is going on that cruise)

it's happening right now! aaaaaa!

"Just Added: TODD RUNDGREN"

helicoptering in!