Worst ever festival line up?

but on the flipside, a regular ole show = I only have to muster enough energy to watch 2 or 3 bands, so my back isn't likely to go out

1996: Metallica headlines Lollapalooza, causing much teeth-gnashing.
2021: Journey plays Lollapalooza, causes ____________?

i only ever attended one festival of that ilk before and i just did cocaine in my tent all weekend and saw beastie boys on the first night and bjork on the last night.

seems like you might not have really made the most of it tbh

some "fest" that is actually just different shows at venues in a city - sure, that's a different thing

yes i forgot about this, this is a very good and fun kind of fest

always wanted to make it to gonerfest in memphis but feel like i missed my window and am now too old to be able to drink enough to have a good enough time at it

atp type festivals with chalets >>> outdoor festivals with tents. past a certain age, anyway.

i've never attended a festival where you camp overnight on the grounds and with any luck i never will

i was born old

but thinking about this reminded me that both times i attended maryland deathfest me and my friends stayed on a houseboat in fells point. 10/10 experience

I have no further need to attend an outdoor music festival of any variety

I had a great time at Glastonbury 2019.

the thing to remember with large outdoor festivals that take place in cities is that a fair number of people over age 25 just roll in around 6pm

I was aghast at this in my early 20s, and with age have realized that the experience of sweating my ass off in the sun to see a handful of acts I’m interested in and killing time checking out a few that might be ok over the course of an entire afternoon is a mediocre value proposition

the mixed-venue festivals that take place in the evenings/night time are still for me

I don’t know what this is (it was promoted into my feed), but the number “88” does not have positive connotations for me:

ANNOUNCING: HEAD IN THE CLOUDS MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL!!

NOV 6TH & 7TH 2021 @ BROOKSIDE AT THE ROSE BOWL PASADENA, CA.

PRESALE STARTS FRIDAY MAY 28TH @ 10 AM.

REGISTER FOR PRESALE ACCESS NOW @ https://t.co/NZ2YI86eDR ❤️🌥❤️☀️ pic.twitter.com/FX1my3tevo

— 88rising (@88rising) May 26, 2021

88 Rising is an Asian-American record label. It has very positive connotations in China.

^^ thanks for that, did not know

good to know, thx. my heart skipped a beat at the name!

lol yeah that could cause some misunderstandings

I'm on their mailing list and every time I get one of their emails I wince a little. But context is everything.

this isn't the WORST lineup but

it’s TIME ✨ saturday, may 21 in pasadena! want in? register now at https://t.co/I1diy5uSCZ for early access to tickets + mark your calendars for the presale starting thursday, june 24 at 10am PT pic.twitter.com/o5TQ6O5qJy

— justlikeheavenfest (@JLHeavenFest) June 21, 2021

Is it already time for Millennial nostalgia tours?

this lineup just wrote a strongly-worded letter to your local MP about how expensive childcare is

i give it a 7.6

I've seen ten of the 19 bands on that bill live and had a fine-to-fantastic time at all of them.

if this constitutes posting in the "worst festival lineups" thread, what constitutes a "good festival lineup" by ILM standards? 🤔

I mostly posted it here bc I didn't want to start a new thread for it and there's no "okay festival lineups that will give millennials mixed feelings" thread

I'd love to see a Freedom Rock-style commercial for this.

You know they tried to get The Strokes to headline that.
Incredible lineup.

ooh a festival for the middle-aged

There this one a week before if you want to skew a little older.

https://aegwebprod.blob.core.windows.net/content/content_images/173/ucG2PcpyadkW3jf0eNacob77J8XXmge653Ne8k2W.jpeg

https://cruelworldfest.com/

The most (personally) tantalizing part of the Just Like Heaven poster = "Performing Apologies to the Queen Mary"

I love the Just like Heaven lineup unironically. I’d definitely go if I lived in California. Sure, probably anyone who gives a fuck about those artists is in their mid to late 30’s in 2021 but I’ve seen several of those live and they were great fun. Particularly !!!, Chromeo and Santigold. Who knows if they still have it 15+ years later but they were good live in their prime. MIA and Modest Mouse were not that memorable when I saw them in primaverasound 2007.

I just mentioned it to my wife (she was already aware of it)… we may actually buy tix.

(“mid to late 30’s” – bless your heart, lol)

Is there a ’90s equivalent to the ’00s & ’80s themed festivals posted above(?)

(I ask because… I Love the ’90s™)

Xxpost: mid 30’s to mid 40’s then? Lol

Xpost: In the mid 00’s there was Creamfields which started in the UK and had several 90’s acts attached to it. I’d definitely buy tickets for a 90’s thing too.

1. I've gone to my fair share of shows and I was at the right age for the peak of most of those artists and the only ones I've seen live are Modest Mouse (M&A era - my first show actually, yes I started going to shows late) and maybe Wolf Parade? I'm not sure if I've seen the latter but there's like a 65% chance I've seen them

2. so is Goldenvoice just gonna start a festival for every age demographic? have they started one for little kids yet where it's just Pinkfong headlining every night?

them jeans and more cinespace dj’s

More likely I’ll end up at the pinkfong festival nowadays

The Love the 90’s festival in Madrid just happened a week ago. Need to read some reviews on it, the lineup is sort of deliciously tacky:

https://www.dodmagazine.es/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/love-90s-festival-2020.jpg

Oh wait it seems it has been postponed to 2022

Here’s the updated one:

https://www-wakeandlisten-com.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/AW/s/www.wakeandlisten.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/love-the-90-madrid.jpg

I think the main problem here is that most of the artists featured are one hit wonders. I’m all in on the concept though. If you make a 90’s festival with say, Christina Aguilera, Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls headlining that shit will outsell Coachella in seconds.

In the mid 00’s there was Creamfields which started in the UK and had several 90’s acts attached to it. I’d definitely buy tickets for a 90’s thing too.

Creamfields is from the ‘90s! They’ve only skipped 2021 since 1998

Oh my bad! A bit disappointed that there are not all 90’s acts! I thought that was sort of the concept of the festival!

(I mean 2020 - tickets are sold out for 2021, which is obviously very cool and fine

I feel like this Just Like Heaven festival does an amazing job of capturing the feeling of bands I’ve seen (in the mid ‘00s) and enjoyed but mostly because those were the concerts my friends wanted to go to, and they were kind of the group consensus? There are a few in the mix that were more my taste, but seeing the funnel of time winnow things down into a refined snapshot gives me a hint of nostalgia and a greater hint of “oh, this is what it feels like”

This fest looks bad-ass, basically the ultimate throwback line-up of acts that long ago perfected the 45-minute long cash-in festival set.

The Once Upon A Time In LA Fest, a one-day throwback rap and R&B party, might have 2021's best festival lineup https://t.co/HKqKwBBrO0 pic.twitter.com/x05BjA7leR

— Stereogum (@stereogum) June 22, 2021

(I wonder if you added them all up how many original, founding or key members are represented, total?)

Is “Draked” a Drake tribute band?

Dra-ked Edge

(it actually appears to be Drakeo The Ruler, who I’ve never heard of)

that's Drakeo The Ruler, recently released from a couple of years being held in solitary in a supermax prison on completely fictitious "rapping about murder" charges, hours after the DA prosecuting him was voted out.

The case of Drakeo the Ruler embodies everything fucked up, morally reprehensible, & systematically racist about the US criminal justice system.

If you're just following this case, they've locked up Drakeo's entire rap crew on charges ranging from murder to commercial burglary & vandalism. Using fascist gang and conspiracy laws, they're holding them w/out bail and trying to use their lyrics against them in court.

The D.A. isn't even saying that Drakeo committed the murder in question, or even ordered it. They're claiming that because he went to a party with the alleged intent to kill someone (and didn't do it), he's culpable for everyone's crimes who he went to the party with.

The D.A. is claiming that the Stinc Team, one of the best LA rap crews ever is a gang & by rapping about the Stinc Team, Drakeo's songs are recruitment advertisements for "the gang." Therefore, he's also guilty of any crime anyone in the Stinc Team commits. It's absolute insanity.

Anyway, free the ruler and the whole Stinc Team. Cold Devil stays the best rap album of the last two years. Fuck the LAPD and the LA Sheriff's Department, etc.

It should be unreal that this shit could still happen in 2019 but here we are.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/drakeo-the-ruler-speaks-to-tablet-from-prison

https://www.thefader.com/2019/07/11/drakeo-the-ruler-murder-trial-los-angeles-report

https://genius.com/a/interview-drakeo-the-ruler-talks-about-murder-trial

https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/11/13/21563566/drakeo-the-ruler-trial-release-prison-interview-we-know-the-truth

https://www.passionweiss.com/2020/12/04/drakeo-we-know-the-truth-review/

i find it funny that these festivals that have been discussed in this thread for the past day or so cater towards a demographic that is increasingly wary of festivals

Hmm. Can you expand on that?