Worst ever festival line up?

This years T In The Park festival may have the worst line up In its history, but what are the worst you have ever seen?

http://i.imgur.com/7SgZu9W.jpg

Most festival lineups in the past five years are interchangeable and indistinguishable from one another.

i feel like the promoters arent even trying here

a) if I were sorry enough to be one of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, I'd be quietly devastated by this poster; b) I'm amazed at the low billing of Jessie Ware and Modest Mouse.

Modest Mouse (the only band on the bill i like) have never had any hits in the UK

Charli XCX is also really low.

Hard to justify Jessie Ware being any higher on that bill. There's a couple of things I'd see on the Friday and the Saturday, but the Sunday looks pretty dire.

admittedly I am prejudiced in that I have no fucking idea who the wombats are

I hadn't even noticed Jessie J was playing

T in the Park is always wey-heytheladslagerlagerlager though isn't it so mid-tempo hands-in-the-air rock singalongs always the order of the day.

It wasnt like that when it started in Strathclyde Park, Hamilton.

Sunday night line-up on the first T in the Park, Strathclyde Park July 1994:

Primal Scream
Del Amitri
Teenage Fanclub
Crowded House
The Saw Doctors
Gun
Grant Lee Buffalo
Baby Chaos

Id rather see Primal Scream headline T In The Park over Primark Scream who headline this years.

Holy shit, that line-up's fucking awful!

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds headlining over The Prodigy? #scotland

the prodigy headlined in 95 (was amazing). the next year they played about 3rd on the bill so in daylightdespite having had #1s and being huge. I forget if it was Pulp or Radiohead headlined that day. (i saw Leftfield instead of Radiohead and Afghan Whigs instead of Pulp)

Leftfield finished about 20 mins before the curfew time so i left early to get a taxi up the road (was too knackered to walk 15 mins up the hill ) and i walked outside to the surreal site of 200 riot police in full kit. Nobody else around. Apparently a few hours earlier some motherwell casuals had crossed the park to try burst their way in. (half the park is in Hamilton half is in Motherwell and TITP was on the Hamilton side)

the Kink Festival in Orlando last year had a solid 1-2 punch conclusion of Gojira and Mastodon, but the rest of the lineup was...

Puddle of Mudd
Nonpoint
Devour the Day
Crobot
Islander

the Puddle of Mudd show was so embarrassingly bad. at one point Wes (the lead singer) went on a weird (probably substance-inspired) rambling monologue, and then he says "so I talked to my mother this morning" and my friend yells back "and she said 'make sure to lock up when you come in tonight!'".

also they did a limp dicked cover of War Pigs god I wanted to murder em.

but seriously tho I know Mastodon/Gojira have a wider appeal than other metal bands but who the fuck thought pairing them with nu-metal acts that nobody likes anymore was a good idea.

oh and hardly anybody showed up until the last two bands, apparently the festival was a huge bust and did poorly financially

what a strange kind of festival to have gojira and puddle of mudd. I suppose mastodon have softened a bit so possibly could have fans of both but....

Never heard of the others.

Nonpoint are having some kind of resurgence apparently. they opened for Megadeth and they had a fuckin' street team at the show (wtf is this 1999).

weirdly heartened to hear that puddle of mudd are still going

Guilfest wins this title every year but yeah, for a festival as big as T in the Park this is wretched.

Gutted that Wireless, which is around the corner from me, has leaned EDM this year. Kendrick and Nicki Minaj are playing, but Avicii and David Guetta are headlining. Clearly this is the summer of the EDM hacks.

I keep forgetting that people like The Script and Twin Atlantic (a) exist and (b) are huge. Only on ILM would anyone be surprised that Jessie Ware and Charli XCX are low on the bill.

New Prodigy single is the worst thing you will hear at that festival or at least joint worst.

it's very terrible, this is true.

My vote goes to T in the Park 2015 (10-12 July)

http://riseabovefest.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/MONDAY-RAF.png

Note Nonpoint (here sadly identified as Non Point) crossover, but the lineup's a million times worse than the Orlando festival HSB mentioned.

i take it that wasn't what rollins meant when he said he was going to rise above

TITP turned into a shitter V festival

Godsmack as a headlining act!?!

maine, tbf

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 was also at the Dodger Stadium show, Shelleyan Orphan was also on that bill. see The Cure: Classic or Dud? for my night.

c'mon morrisp, you are better than this and this is ILM goddammit. there is no need to call people "“uncle”! Lol. tho your last post sort of saves you a bit but the Pixies and the Cure connection is obvious. Throwing Muses playing again at a Cure show also seems right as well in 2019.

Lol!

I guess Throwing Muses and Pixies also have certain historical connections that I wasn’t thinking about

A: the mad decent festival seems like it was a trolling/fake thing since the beginning but I wont lie, it seems stupid fun and would have probably been a success considering everyone involved on the music-side.

I’ll say this, if one music label/collective could be branded into an amusement park / festival of sorts, mad decent would be it. Diplo and friends are in the very comfortable spot of influencing both the mainstream and the counter-cultural aspect of it, whatever that means.

The point is that if asked for investment money on a mad decent festival, I would have blindly said yes. Diplo alone has a connection with fucking everyone from Justin Bieber to Alan Vega.

B: I know a lot of people who are fans of Cure, Pixies and Deftones. I don’t see how those headliners are controversial in the same slot.

If we change those three headliners to something similar but not quite, likes let’s see:

Pet Shop Boys
Jack Johnson
Perfect Circle

Then yeah, I would have said: “this is a fucking terrible idea”, even though I wouldn’t mind seeing them in a different setting. However Cure, Deftones and Pixies together seem like it would attract a more common crowd than what you may think.

I can picture a white jeep circa 1999 with stickers on the back for Cure, Pixies, Deftones. And of course NIN. Likely RHCP or Jane's Addiction too.

I can definitely imagine my friends who were into the pixies in the early 90s rolling their eyes at The Cure, but yeah by the end of the decade those two constituencies seem to have merged.

that mad decent fest was definitely not a “troll.” it was heavily
promoted at the big festival here (boston calling) and the billie eilish show in june (she was one of the headliners and i’m betting she fueled a lot of ticket sales). the stadium where it was held was likely banking on it being huge as its concert schedule this year was much more sparse than 2018’s, which had taylor, beyoncé/jay-z, and two kenny chesney shows as its high points (this year there were only five shows total counting mad decent).

that said the heat this past weekend would have likely put the kibosh on it like it did with ozyfest in nyc. miguel can’t catch a break!

never underestimate the festival promoter with "ideas" who books a bunch of different acts hoping they'll attract several distinct groups and bump up ticket sales

not to mention the world’s largest bouncy house

tunes on the sand upthread has nailed the 'regional lib dem' aesthetic

given the 80k capacity (and less than gushing publicity), i am suspicious that the ozyfest cancellation was a lucky case of them being able to make more money through insurance than ticket sales but what do i know.

I keep getting Amazon email spam for this festival, even though I've clicked "Unsubscribe" several times. Therefore, it is the worst festival:

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https://pitchfork.com/news/the-black-madonna-furious-over-appearing-on-amazons-music-festival-lineup

really gonna miss out on what's going on with Beeple and Ouchhh and "a drone light show celebrating women in tech"

I have a lot of feelings on this from multiple directions, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it doesn't seem like that compelling of a festival proposition

can't wait to see Kacey Musgraves (?!) perform as drones spell out ADA LOVELACE in the sky

looks fun and there's cheap tickets with various promo codes floating around out there. i'll be there.

I posted last year's lineup last year up above.
I think this one is less bad but a lot actually, but still...

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jeez at sliding mastodon in on the second tier below limp bizkit

the amazon fest was great in case anyone cared

http://www.cyber-heritage.co.uk/eclipse/sun18.jpg

Compared to everything upthread that one looks like good fun actually. Except for Snow Patrol. But why are they so far down the bill? Is this an old one?

"Mushroom & DJ Milo" suggests this is a vintage '90s festival, not a retro '90s festival.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_11,_1999

Not strictly a music festival, but still https://www.alostweekend.com/

That is where you go if you've done a lot of bad things in your life

*cringe*

this is almost too easy but it's kind of amazing

https://assets.blabbermouth.net/media/rocklahoma2020poster.jpg

http://assets.blabbermouth.net/media/rocklahoma2020poster.jpg

where the turds come sloshing down the plain

I caught The Hu a few months ago and they were excellent live. But probably better experienced in a club half-filled with every Mongolian-American in the metropolitan area instead of the middle of the day in a field with a bunch of Staind fans.

Florida’s Sunfest consistently wins the title

http://www.sunfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/PressReleaseBlogGraphic.jpg

^moded billing for Melissa Etheridge, imo

Wow i can see Kevin Gates AND Tower of Power!

melissa etheridge back to back with sean paul sounds good

you can hear come to my window then shake that thing LIVE and in quick succession

Come to my window
Gal dem lookin hype and I got to know

it's like a buffet including buffalo wings, sushi, lasagna, waldorf salad, and a basin filled with M&Ms.

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal) at 12:10 20 Feb 20

Wow i can see Kevin Gates AND Tower of Power

this is actually really awesome

^^ that thought actually crossed my mind!

would actually pay to see tower of power backing gates

Wish they still had Lenny

the thread where all the tower of power fans pop out of the woodwork

Not a festival but omg ew

https://dannywimmerpresents.com/aaronandsully/#

Castle Donington Monsters of Rock 1990 – Whitesnake, Aerosmith, Poison, the Quireboys, Thunder (in that order) – must take some beating. When Whitesnake are the best band on a bill, you know it's bad.

would be nice to see a "best festival lineups" thread getting bumped instead of this

Well, I look forward to more videos of Aaron Lewis's old man temper tantrums anyway.

would be nice to see a "best festival lineups" thread getting bumped instead of this

― DT, Tuesday, September 15, 2020 7:55 AM bookmarkflaglink

so create one then

I support your idea for a new thread, DT.

TS: worst ever festival vs no festivals at all