Worst ever festival line up?

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:

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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

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one more try

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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/