Worst ever festival line up?

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!