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.

Is milli vanilli a solo act now?

anyhoo the “Great American State Fair” is another one of Grandpa President’s brainchildren and has replaced the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall this year

xp Vanilli died

BOLD PREDICTION: the entire concert will be an AI hologram, powered by multiple data centers in Utah and Kansas.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DY205fkPXX5/

Morris Day & The Time not actually playing it according to Morris' social media.

Vanilli died

Cole died in ‘95. Book Milli Clivillés you cowards.

heh yeah i was thinking it’s really just “C Music Factory”

i would like to hear all of their thoughts on crypto

the other funny thing about Milli Vanilli doing the Great American State Fair is that they are not American. Fab was born in Paris and lives in Amsterdam.

isn't that chilidog guy or whatever his name is into trump?

JELLY ROLL

It figures that most of the artists date from the Poppy Bush Interzone when Trump’s brain froze.

His daughter Tiffany put out a single once, how come he never gets her to sing at any events?
I mean, she's not that good but neither is Vanilla Ice.

he keeps intentionally forgetting she and her mother exist

More often than not this thread is just people posting slightly below average festival lineups, but "The Great American State Fair" is really a strong contender for lock thread status.

isn't that chilidog guy or whatever his name is into trump?

Suckin on a chilidog

Chilidog

"The Great American State Fair" is really a strong contender for lock thread status.

even if it was a festival and not individual gigs spread over three calendar weeks, I’d probably still wait until
they actually post the lineup before awarding a crown

or post the individual gig lineups for most state fairs, every year

not us though, we’re killing it

ok good Trump still has time to book Kid Rock

...and Ted Nugent

Young MC is also out. He posted that he didn't want to be at a political event. Which, I mean, it was probably pitched as "big cool party on the Mall for the 250th," it's the kind of thing any number of people would have been happy to play in the pre-MAGA times.

Yeah, I feel like without the political context this would just be an average nostalgia tour, probably pretty sad on some levels but mostly unremarkable and possibly even a little fun (wouldn't mind seeing Morris Day & The Time no matter how washed up). Far worse rosters have been posted itt.

IIRC “Freedom 250”, which is putting on the GASF, is Trump’s personal corrupt money laundering organization. “America 250” is the “official” one.

heh yeah i was thinking it’s really just “C Music Factory”

― The Immortal Bird of Avon (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, May 27, 2026 8:47 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

It's not even C, it's just Freedom Williams

I would love it if he billed himself as “feat. Freedom Williams

It was not C&C Music Factory, or C Music Factory, or even a Music Factory. It was just music, and we danced to it.

run that through an AI detector

Meantime, Riot Fest got announced for this year and this is...amusing:

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kqdyhnklmmv34nmml6btyqv6/bafkreicknsigepnqog2gawom5yf46wmt4fanl7u3h5rsmz2daiaa4fmcxe

Now Milli Vanilli are out too

Milli Vanilli singer Jodie Rocco told AP that neither she, her sister Linda Rocco nor any of the other group members had been asked to come

“My sister and I were shocked to see our name, ‘Milli Vanilli’, as one of the performers,” Jodie Rocco said

https://bsky.app/profile/phillewis.bsky.social/post/3mmwnrylnrc2h

Yeah, I feel like without the political context this would just be an average nostalgia tour

Vanilla Ice, Young MC, “Milli Vanilli” and “C+C Music Factory” are all playing county (not state!) fairs and casinos as https://www.ilovethe90stour.com

props to Treach for going with “Treach of Naughty By Nature”

They still have Rob Base in that lineup :(

The Commodores are also out, I'm starting to wonder if I should ask for a refund.

Get some of that slush fund money for being maliciously targeted by the federal government with fake music festival ads.

Surely the likes of Kansas and Styx and Night Ranger and Loverboy and other state fair staples featuring the original drummer's cousin or whatever is available. What are the dregs of Skynyrd up to? What about Journey, one of those assholes was all aboard the Trump Train.

Freedom Williams was going to drop out bcz he doesn’t care for Trump, but changed his mind bcz he heard ppl on social media wanted him to, and they got the Covid vaccine so are going to die imminently

which he announced in a seven-minute toilet video

Most of those state fair AOR acts seem to keep politics out of it other than vague patriotic crap, thankfully. Iced Earth guy was sprung from the clink by presidential pardon, maybe they're available?

I'm starting to think this whole festival is about as real as the Trump Phone.

The Trump administration just announced that they are extremely close to having a framework agreement in place gor Milli Vanilli to play at Freedom 250. The agreement is 90% complete, but currently stuck on the admin's stipulation that Milli Vanilli must declare that they have always wanted to play Freedom 250 because they are President Trump's biggest admirers.

Freedom 250 vs. Freedom 90

Turns out that the Milli Vanilli billed as playing is a) Fab Morvan and b) still VERY EXCITED to be playing.

(He did one I Love The 90s show in Irvine CA in March — so that’s 3/4 of the ILT90s night in DC still attached.)

https://consequence.net/2026/05/fab-morvan-milli-vanilli-great-american-state-fair/

so it's now
1 of the fake singers from milli vanilli
the rapper from c+c music factory
flo rida
vanilla ice

True American heroes , give them each a 250 dollar bill

so it's now

again, 100% of Flo Rida are playing the Flo Rida show, so that’s two dates intact

Both Flo AND Rida? In this economy?

Well, kiss my grits.

Surely the likes of Kansas and Styx and Night Ranger and Loverboy and other state fair staples featuring the original drummer's cousin or whatever is available. What are the dregs of Skynyrd up to? What about Journey, one of those assholes was all aboard the Trump Train.

althoughI know they were trying
they didn’t sound like Loverboy
where were all the girls screaming
they didn’t look like lover boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt5clZKTS7Q

^ fully admit that this first Elf Power album is my favorite E6 record after tge OTC stuff. it’s so relentlessly negative and fried sounding, fuck yeH

I used to love "A Dream in Sound," I'll have to put on some Elf Power!

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a61992