Worst ever festival line up?

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?

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