Worst ever festival line up?

I dunno, Bonnaroo marketed to jam band kids with the idea that jam band kids have wide listening palattes. That audience didn't go anywhere I don't think

a lot of large multi-day festivals just schedule a little bit of something for everyone instead of going down one specific lane. kills me when kids (including people up to early 20s here, now) complain that a main stage of a local festival is a snoozefest for the afternoon. that's when the middle aged and their small children just sit in a lawn chair and passively listen as their kids run around

maybe you're right but this doesn't seem inclusive so much as chaotic, especially wrt to billing placement. Tenacious D goes sixth? Noah Kahan ahead of Flaming Lips playing Yoshimi? And who ARE 50% of these acts? i recognize only five names in the bottom nine lines, i probably need to listen more. maybe there's a unifying theme of crunchy jam that is going over my head

that all said, there's at least a full day of sets i would happily go to here

old people will see the Flaming Lips play earlier in the evening and leave before the young person act they've never heard of to beat traffic

vulfpeck is a jokey, chops-y, music school grad funk pastiche act, some discussion here: Vulfpeck - C/D?

Who is the "young person act" in the top five lines?

imagining the cognitive dissonance of setting up a day of going from Digable Planets to Vieux Farka to 100 Gecs to Yonder Mountain String Band to Chic

and do you go to the Yola stage or the Gex stage?

forks, this is fucking Bonnaroo, I don't know what to tell you

i mean, if you're arguing "it's just two decade old bonnaroo refried" okay, but it's not the current bonnaroo by any stretch of the imagination!
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ie you can pick roughly genre/generation amalgamated days for those dates in a way that echoland doesn't afford.
i am now wondering who the current touring members of 3-6 are

Bonnaroo has been bought by LiveNation and is basically a streaming numbers/tour booker clusterfuck.

This, however, is basically what you posted

https://external-preview.redd.it/4if0QUhbJRHNLi55bgvACUnjyfhaBRXvGmepI38H99A.jpg?auto=webp&s=8968678c2fcf679ada1a0efd7ebbbbeb91cc720b

Odesza over Lil Nas X?

xp we're not arguing with each other here, though i maybe like that 2002 bonnaroo lineup in toto better than the 2023 echoland.

Jurassic 5 = Digable Planets
Ween = Flaming Lips
Galactic = Vulfpeck
Ben Harper = Tyler Childers
Amon Tobin = 100 Gecs
Bela Fleck = Plant/Krauss
Phil Lesh & Friends = Phil Lesh & Friends

It's the same fuckin thing

Bela Fleck = Plant/Krauss

i had never heard of or listened Liquid Stranger until today, sounds like a snowboarding video game or an nft

Bela Fleck and Alison Krauss are both bluegrass players who branch out, I don't know if you think Plant is gonna go up there and do "Tall Cool One" or what

I've seen both bands live, I'm aware. it's still a stretch imo.

i think you want to argue today though

marketed to jam band kids with the idea that jam band kids have wide listening palattes

this is 100% otm - the non-jambandy acts on that bill are all the nonjamband-type music that jamband ppl also listen to.

Had been looking forward to announcement of the Just Like Heaven lineup (we had fun last year), but this is fairly weak:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmsCesSagAM8ueq?format=jpg&name=900x900

if we're just using this to post lineups, gov ball dropped now
http://www.governorsballmusicfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/gb23-admat-transparent.png

xpost

I know a lot of y’all think you’re Real Haters and that hating on whatever the new thing in music is is always gonna be fashionable, but I need you to understand that the worst time in music history was the early 2010s, when bands that sounded like this were headlining festivals pic.twitter.com/kI2E5TPyvs

— Spicy Big Dad (@ObeseChess) January 16, 2023

whiney, if you would like to get mad about something, sofi tukker is now on a bigger line than pusha

xp, i think you're well aware that i not only like tuneyards but that i like that song a lot, so you can go play obese chess with spicy big dad

xpost I'm done with festivals, tbh. None of the stuff the kids like these days seems especially suited to see in a live setting

sofi tukker is gonna be kendrick counter-programming for the edm kids

tuneyards is better than 99% of the acts on this thread, absolute truth, garbage tweet.

Old and busted: "how many records have you sold?"

The new hotness: "what's your average festival font size?"

whiney aren't you hype about big ears? i think yer only done with rock festivals.

Oh yeah, Big Ears all the way. I'm done with the big mega-festivals

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

between winter jazzfest and globalfest, i saw like 18 sets over the mlk weekend. festivals can be fun!

odesza taking over the world due to people a few years younger than me is def one of the biggest things i have no clue about

the last festival I went to that wasn't local was Unsound in 2019, so I'm probably due

i'm going to Hell in the Harbor metal (outdoor) fest in May. haven't been to Baltimore since 2016 so will be nice. logistics going t o be 'fun' to work out but overdue.

festivals ultimately though are as good as the people putting them on. there are good festivals, there are bad festivals.

I get frustrated at the festivals that constantly require you to make poison pill choices between bands because everybody you want to see is playing opposite each other. that's the downside of those festivals that are packed with too many acts in a single day. also hate ones that have excess sound bleed due to stages being too close to each other. feels like sometimes listening to a Charles Ives piece.

I also prefer to take breaks. cannot sit through like 6 straight bands for like 8 hours. during the 70000 Tons of Metal Cruise I only ever saw 4 bands a day, whereas friends of mine made it to like 30-40 sets. I picked the ones most important to me and had a blast and yeah I missed a few I'd have liked to see but i wouldn't have enjoyed them if I got no breather.

it's a balancing act and criticizing other people for not being able to maintain a self-appointed quota is a fool's game.

Struggling to process this powerfully weird lineup. pic.twitter.com/idUYlRR9aj

— King Kitt, Bin Goblin (@IndustrialPet) January 22, 2023

damn Just Like Heaven with the big 'hey sorry you're 30 now but come relive college days' energies

Is that real?

I cannot possibly count the times in my life I wanted to see both Big Country and Nazareth

But really the hidden gem here is two chances to see Drew Dixon.

so many bands where the lead singer is dead

BAY CITY ROLLERS

If I remember correctly, Rednex are now a franchise - if you have the necessary funds, YOU can start your own local branch of the Cotton-Eyed Joe hitmakers

— 🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 (@robmesure) January 23, 2023

Per wiki

In early 2018 the Rednex performer pool grew to include 17 people... During the same weekend, August 10-12th, Rednex performed with three different line-ups in three different territories, totaling 13 performers, which was a new record. Zoe, Moe Lester the Limp, Spades and Pervis the Palergator did shows in Romania and Hungary, while Billy Ray, Ace Ratclaw, Boneduster Crock, Misty Mae and Jiggie McClagganahan did shows in East Germany (Berlin & Schwerin), and Abby Hick, Rattler, Cash and Joe Cagg did shows in West Germany (Bonn & Frankfurt).

Where did you come from, Crock Jiggie Hick

Your Favorite Member of Rednex

Moe Lester the Limp was totally robbed in that poll