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.

Afroman & Ying Yang Twins at the very bottom of this Trumpstock looks weird to me

Been apropos to have had Lydon/PIL on that bill.

AI-generated?

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TIL that Sublime now features Bradley Nowell's kid on vocals.

(prompted by seeing their name without the usual "with Rome" addendum and doing some googling)

Corey Feldman isn't bad unlike most hyperpop pc music artists

devastated to discover that "Goth Babe" isn't a goth babe

you know, I've seen that act listed before, and.. wtf

Goth Babe is if Instagram was a musician

I was ambushed by that lineup first thing this morning when I looked at Facebook and I thought “this day will live in infamy”

GuilFest

Saturday: The Jacksons, Soul II Soul, Leo Sayer, Stereo MC's, Sleeper, The Wedding Present, Odyssey, N-Trance, Bay City Rollers, Baby D
Sunday: Razorlight, KT Tunstall, Elvana, Altered Images, Dub Pistols, Dutty Moonshine Big Band, The Amy Winehouse Band, The Primitives

"Elvana is a British crossover tribute band which performs the music of American grunge band Nirvana in the style of an Elvis impersonator."

ffs

They would probably better if they were from a non-English speaking country.

Also the presence of the Stereo MCs and Wedding Present

^^^ doesn’t sound entirely terrible fest

Not really seeing much Elvis? xps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oni9GQScpQ

When asked to perform a set of Nirvana covers at a friend's party, the band realised that they did not bear any resemblance to the members of Nirvana, and so decided instead to perform dressed as Elvis Presley.
[...]
The lead singer has described his Elvis impersonation as being "everyday, slightly-dodgy" and as "punk rock".[3]

he's definitely trying to do the Elvis timbre with some of the grunge vocal harshness and it ends up sounding like neither

A Kurt impersonator and a ‘68 Comeback Special band doing Nirvana songs would be way better.

"punk rock" as a convenient euphemism for "half-assed," as per tradition

otm

https://i.imgur.com/29YyP3K.jpeg

Sleep Token are even worse than Bullet For My Valentine.

The UK are becoming world leaders in shitty bad rock/'metal'

yeah, but McFLY !!!

its a shame as there is much great underground metal in the UK in last few years; but the kids - worldwide - latch onto the worst shite.
used to have to work Download, and could generally have a fun day regardless due to how many stages (once saw Status Quo do the hits right before they showed an England world cup match - REAL ENGLAND) and some decent stuff in the undercard usually - but that Saturday above would be a massive struggle to find anything half acceptable.

the thing that poster misses is that Venga Boys are playing in the campsite stage. a better band than anything on the Saturday (except maybe the darkness)

Are they taking the vengabus to download?

Yo, if you show up on Sunday to see Meshuggah, Jinjer, Power Trip, Municipal Waste and Turbonegro, you could have a pretty good time. Post denied.

some terrible band names there but "Seven Hours after Violet" and "Survive Said the Prophet" are really something

I continue to be baffled by the popularity of Sleep Token.

can't think of anything I want to do less than watch the Darkness play at a festival in the year of our lord 2025

I still can't believe there is a band actually called Dead Poets Society.

whenever i see steel panther, i have to bring up the factoid that the band's guitarist has a line of guitar pedals carrying names so great that i have to put the examples in hidden text. you've been warned.

the pussy melter and the butthole burner. delightful.

Yeah, I think there are four bands on that entire bill I would be happy to see, including the Darkness. And one band on that entire bill I have paid to see in the past, and would pay to see again (Meshuggah). But by and large, that whole fest looks 90% composed of bands you would have seen in the noon slot at Ozzfest.

I mean, I could craft a day with Opeth, Alcest, Power Trip and Cattle Decapitation.

I didnt even see Opeth or Cattle Decapitation!

i don't know if I wanna hang out on a board where we have to hide the phrase "butthole burner"

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i'm willing to admit i may have only heard of two of these because i'm old

2 as well (Deadmaus, Martinez Brothers). I suspect Eater isn’t the vintage punk band.

Amelie Lens and Dimitri Vegas are Belgian DJs, so I know two more than you :-)

9 for me, wouldn’t be my favorite festival but if someone bought me a ticket i would go

Why do so many of them have B2B in their names?

B2B means the named DJs collabing

Ok “Angerfist” is a dope name

8 for me. (I wouldn’t go unless tabes had a +1.)

B2B means that DJs who normally play alone are trading off, record after record, taking their cue from the previous selector. In a club environment, this can be fun because the audience feedback can shape the night more directly, with clever follow-ons or pranks acknowledged by a crowd attuned to the styles being played.

At a festival it’s more of an escape clause for DJs to not get frustrated at building a set with peaks and valleys, only to see it fall on uncaring or over-intoxicated young ears; at least you and your pals are having fun riffing off or one-upping each other, and you don’t have to worry about losing the crowd (or “losing” the b2b) if they have no attention span.

In my experience, B2Bs rarely work well unless there's already established chemistry there.

“Can” was deliberately chosen :)

pretty much acknowledged at this point that a lot of b2b sets are gimmicks but when it works, it works

listening to the Harvey/Weatherall b2b RA podcast the past few days has cemented the fact that yeah, when it works it really works