Worst ever festival line up?

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!

Loads of acts I'd very happily watch there.

likewise.
a lot more interestging than most of the uk festivals (if not all of the wones i have seen).

wones = ones

Moderat being billed higher than Blink 182 is pretty o_0 or do they play like arenas in that area of the world?

Do Blink 182 still play arenas in the other area of the world?

Oh Christ they still do here.

http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/Blink182-tickets/artist/945149

Agree that if that festival was going on in the UK it would be fairy refreshing

The best UK lineup I've seen so far (by far) is Safe As Milk, but it's £150 a ticket

Actually it's £200 but you get a berth

had to sell my ticket for safe as milk :(

Things you were shockingly old to find out: Erasure are still together and performing! Had no idea.

was thinking the other day about how dull all of the mid-sized British festivals (and a lot of the smaller ones as well) look this year, everything boring 6Music-friendly schmindy with some half-decent dance music thrown in if you're lucky. Is it more homogeneous than in the past? Is it something to do with lack of Glastonbury this year meaning things will sell even if very dull?

glastonbury is happening this year .. its next year they are taking a break.

ah okay, thanks. I suppose that can be ruled out as a cause then!

There are three kinds of UK festival
- Super-commercial one-dayers headlined by Bastille
- Hippie ska drug-fests headlined by Gentleman's Dub Club
- Posho adult-oriented camp-outs set in the beautifully rainy Cotswolds headlined by Joanna Newsom

via chaki

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6hKsevUwAA4DnS.png

Animal Collective playing a festival called "ID10T" ... please tell me that's real!

Monster Energy Drink Comedy Tent

I know those words, but that sign makes no sense.

I'm sure pitchfork readers that were frozen in 2006 will be very excited if they thaw in time for Sunday.

Cosplay Welcome!

what's garfunkel & oates?

the last few festival line ups in this thread are kinda not that bad.

http://festileaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/pinkpop-poster-2017-featured.jpg

(pinkpop)

Yeah, c'mon..

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poor Richard Ashcroft

I love Garfunkel and Oates. Two funny women who sing funny songs.

I don't even remotely understand who that last festival is meant to be aimed at.

Moderat being billed higher than Blink 182 is pretty o_0 or do they play like arenas in that area of the world?

Roskilde goes on late and tends to put a DJ on after the headliner on the main stage, and I assume Blink are headlining a smaller stage.

sum 41 too low

Returning to that awful 1988 Reading Festival - No problem with the Friday, The Ramones followed by Iggy? c'mon.

The other days? Well, the best thing about that was that it was going bad year-by-year until that one, so It Had To Die!

I love Garfunkel and Oates. Two funny women who sing funny songs

That's a relief, I thought it must be a new duo of Art Garfunkel and John Oates.

poor Richard Ashcroft

Just comeuppance imo.

These people.

http://hopeandgloryfestival.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Announcement_web-1-683x1024.jpg

^^^^^^^^^ winner

That can't be real, surely!?

What happened to Badly Drawn Boy? He was supposed to be a massive star, now he's spent over a decade propping up the bottom of shitty festival lineups.

I mean, fucking hell, you couldn't possibly come up with a worse line-up than that. Either way, it's some expert trolling!

Last time I saw anything from BDB he was going mental and calling an audience cunts, chucking his harmonica at them

He seems really unpleasant

Badly Behaved Boy

They should have got Crispy Ambulance to headline

"Football Legends Charity Darts Match, Charlotte Church in Conversation, The Liverpool International Air Guitar Competition"

^^^ HMHB lyric

"Try to imagine your favourite bands, huge tunes, combined with a decadent Victoriana carnival, wicked fun, with a heavy dose of outrageous sideshows, and you’ll begin to get a picture of what HOPE & GLORY festival is. A festival of proper music and real anthems."

AND they've got a clay trampoline, for those who'd prefer hospital.

the fact that the twang have apparently been floating around doing their thing for over a decade now has gotten me down

'The Membranes & 25 Piece Choir'

?!?!?!?!&^&^%$$^^$^?!%>?{?!?!?

"Charlotte Church's Late Night Pop Dungeon"?