Worst ever festival line up?

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'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.

which of those bands is most likely to have the saddest mosh pit ever

xpost lol that's sad re: forgetting words. actually surprised they did 5-pre BNG songs. I think last tour I peeked at they were doing one or two

I mean, this was back in 1999 so I guess they had to pad out the setlist a little at that point.

ahh, I should have guessed by the name of the tour lol

The Fray and Red Clay Strays same day

Massive missed opportunity to feature David Gray and Maddie & Tae

+ Janelle Monae

Robert Cray ft. Manu Katché

I wish, that would be awesome.

Heard you were down with the AK
Now I see at the festival with Red Clay Strays?

You

“GGD” made me go back to the flyer, and I realized it was for Goo Goo Dolls, not Gang Gang Dance. for a second i was like “Gang Gang are reuniting??!!!!”

“GGD” made me go back to the flyer, and I realized it was for Goo Goo Dolls, not Gang Gang Dance. for a second i was like “Gang Gang are reuniting??!!!!”

There is no such band called Yam Haus, no one got together and practiced and wrote songs and said "hey I know let's call ourselves Yam Haus", impossible.

― chr1sb3singer

yam haus truther

weird they couldn't get Hippo Campus for this

lol Yam Haus, the poor man's Hippo Campus

The band's name “Yam Haus” stands for “You Are Me."

HipHaus Yampus

Yam Haus makes a bunch of tiktoks of themselves doing Taylor Swift covers to build buzz

Kind of telling that when I googled "Yam Haus", "Yam Haus LLC" popped up a lot. Dudes are serious.

hahah i saw that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNNMgbhXJ2U

Himbo Haus

https://i.imgur.com/9cG935v.jpeg

Union jack really the stamp of quality there, eh?

I hope Timmy Mallett and Eddie the Eagle Edwards insist on playing a song with each acts jools holland style

T’pau should really be higher in the bill

what do you do with Eddie the Eagle at a festival? are they gonna set up a little ski jump for him or something?

Hot Chocolate actually seem to have three original members (not Errol of course, RIP big Tory fella). Not bad going in this day and age!

Well yeah but to be brutally honest the main reason I'd want to see Hot Chocolate is to hear Errol.

Timmy Mallet! That's incredible.

I'm imagining 'Lottery Winners' are literally some 50 something Britpop loving lottery winners who've bought their way on to the bill.

loool @ "Mike Joyce (The Smiths) *DJ Set"

only thing I would watch there is the Christians and I wouldn't really have high expectations for that

I have it on good authority that Nik Kershaw is worth seeing. Paul Young might be alright too I suppose. Possibly Deniece from 5 Star although that's pushing it. The rest of it can get in the swing bin. Sonia!

my sister went to see Paul Young ten years ago and said his voice was totally shot and his performance was abysmal. But maybe thats what playing in Aylesbury does to a man

I would imagine that even in his heyday Paul Young was not known for his blistering live performances.

Would watch Man vs. DJ Food

For a second I thought Matt Ford's big band was the big band of centrist dishrag Matt Forde. Wouldn't be entirely un-apt.

I'm not going to fucking google "the south" but is that some sort of beautiful south spin-off?

like is it that dave guy with his granny on bongos?

haha i was almost 100% otm:

After forming "The South" in 2008, Hemingway along with Alison Wheeler from the Beautiful South line-up, released their first album since 2006 entitled Sweet Refrains. The album, featuring songs written by keyboardist Damon Butcher and guitarist Phil Barton, was recorded and released in 2012.

haha

Don't want to post recent Paul Young videos, but christ alive I don't know how he gets any bookings at all. He's been completely fucked for years now

touring has taken a heavy toll, he needs to spend more time recuperating at home. apparently every time he goes away he leaves a piece of him etc etc sorry

loool

Paul Young might be alright too I suppose.

OK I just watched a bit of a recent live clip and I take this statement back, oof.

Just checked a couple of videos out, had assumed you just meant that his voice was fucked, not that he was fucked.