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Partly inspired by the Glastonbury thread - in particular this post
You would have thought that after a three year hiatus the organisers could have come up with a stronger line up?
What would your dream line up be? Sticking to the Shaun Keveney podcast theme of 5 great acts (dead, alive, split up, whatever)...mine would be:
Los Albertos
Culture shock
Chumbawamba
Springsteen
Chris Liberator
Feel free to post a photo of yourself at a festival. This is Glastonbury early 90s, one of my favourite pics from back in the day.
I didn't really do dance music so i missed that but wish I'd made more effort. Thoroughly enjoying Bonobo right now, so my ideal line up would have enough of that genre so i can fill in what i missed.
Then I'd have Pulp, perfect festival band. Idles, always impressed when I see them. Maybe Primal Scream, as long as they go heavy on Screamadelica. [Fingers crossed for later on; anyone know where i can source some herbal cigarettes at short notice?]
But to me the fun of festivalks, particulary i-festivals now is channel / stage hopping and seeing what there is. I'd never heard of Phoebe Bridgers, but she was just on and I spent 20 happy mins in her comapny that I'd have missed otherwise.
I basically want to go to Donington Monsters of Rock 94. Therapy?, the Wildhearts, Sepultura and Pantera all in their absolute prime, Headswim and Biohazard... And all on staggered stages so no clashes, and just one day- perfect. Download these days would stretch it to be 4 days long.
Prodigy, Prodigy, Prodigy, Prodigy, Prodigy
Just five acts?
in this order I reckon...
The Go! Team
Manic Street Preachers
Beastie Boys
Jesus And Mary Chain
Ride
Underworld
Chemical Brothers
Prodigy
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Kasabian
Followed by a week off work to recover.
Cream
Jimi hendrix
Happy Mondays
Led zeppelin
Prodigy
I basically want to go to Donington Monsters of Rock 94. Therapy?, the Wildhearts, Sepultura and Pantera all in their absolute prime, Headswim and Biohazard…
Ha northwind, I was going to post exactly that
My first festival!
My mate got crushed in the chaos at biohazard, then they pulled the plug after the stage got overrun, Evan Seinfeld ( now a pornstar!) tried to start a riot so they put Therapy on early, terrovision were a bit shit iirc, Wildhearts were ace, Therapy blew me away , Sepultura & Pantera absolutely smashed it......
Pantera threw several pint glasses of with 1/3 pint of beer and a big lump of hash in the bottom out into the crowd and people were brawling for them
Them came Aerosmith & Extreme 😳
So we went and sat behind a tyre wall to smoke the teenth of hash that we'd brought between 4 of us
My mates younger brother drank 2 litres of cider on the coach and puked up the minute we got off & spent the entire day in the 1st aid tent (he's a mega rich business bod that pretty much retired to Italy to ride his bike by 40)
I bought a pantera pot leaf t-shirt that my parents hated
Uncle Tupelo
Led Zeppelin
Parliament
Kate Bush
Gram Parsons
Prodigy
The Cure
Stone Roses
The Clash
Bowie
Depeche Mode
Has to be 6
Shooglenifty, then fat white family on a tent stage. Then outside for spiritualised, nick cave and the bad seeds and the levellers in 1989 form. Bit mixed up but it's a fantasy day right?!
Mazzy Star
Slayer
Tool
Aphex Twin
Beastie Boys
Bit of a mixed bag there.
Prodigy
Chemical Brothers
Pete Tong Classical Orchestra
Madness
Skruigners
Bongzilla
Electric Wizard
Sleep
Belzebong
All still alive though so if we’re talking dead ones
Nirvana
Pantera
Astroqueen
Black Sabbath
Kyuss
The Doors
The Stone Roses
Queen
James Brown
Hendrix
60's rolling stones
The Jam
Happy Mondays
Supergrass
prodigy
and on the chillout stage
Marvin Gaye
Portishead
orbital
massive attack
Audioslave
Metallica
Sepultura
Alice in Chains
Megadeth
Pop Will Eat Itself
Chemical Brothers
Orbital
Prodigy
RHCP
Chemical Brothers
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Oasis (peak, mid 90s vintage only)
Nirvana
Motorhead (early eighties vintage)
Ozric Tentacles (late eighties vintage)
Miles Davies just doing whatever
The KLF (with a heavy trance vibe)
Muddy waters is playing solo outside a hipster clothing store that is run by Lee Perry. Ian Brown is working there and Lee is giving him a hard time.
John Peel compare, must read football scores
Cider bus and that stall doing the delicious falafel I had once and never found again
Green Day
Rammstein
Blondie
Foos
Carpenters
Led Zeppelin
Humble Pie
Supercharge
Warren Zevon
The Blockheads
Magnum
Megadeth
Wings
Roxette
Mozart
Bowling for Soup to get the crowd going
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
The Darkness
Halestorm
Shinedown
Five Finger Death Punch (with KWS joining for Blue On Black)
Rammstein
Then I'd have a blues stage with all the old dead people playing, in the gaps while they did changeovers on the main stage.
Sticking to 5, as requested.
Metallica
Prodigy
Oasis (1995 vintage)
Radiohead (1996 vintage)
Kylie (every festival needs a pop/fun act)
Blimey, never thought I'd see Kenny Wayne Shepherd mentioned on here and absolutely love the idea of a blues stage. May I suggest the sadly departed John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, BB King, Big Mama Thornton, Gary Moore, Peter Green. Buddy Guy is still living fortunately.
Pink Floyd
Prodigy
Pulp
Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
Sex Pistols
Edit: and Queen
I can’t count.
The Who
Van Halen
Gary Moore
Fleetwood Mac
Status Quo (early/mid 1980s line up with Alan Lancaster still there). Just brilliant at getting the place going.
And Motorhead as a back up.
Depends what mood Im in and also If we can include those no longer here so here goes.
No longer here without getting ridiculous...
Freightened rabbit
Big country
Beastie Boys
Prodigy
Bowie
All still kicking
Wu Tang
Charlatans
Bicep
Stone Roses
Chemicals.
^^^^ I'll swap the prodigy for 'The Clash' 😀
Alice In Chains (Layne)
Prince
Van Halen
Ryan Adams
Soundgarden
New model army, chemical brothers, faithless, Damned and Manic street preachers (with the caveat I pick the setlists)
This is really difficult, because I’ve seen so many bands live, and quite a few at festivals over the years, but of those artists I’ve never seen, I’d include Genesis, (Gabriel era), Queen, David Bowie, Eagles, The Police, Joni Mitchell, CSN&Y, Radiohead, Ghost and Tool.
Several years ago at the IoW Festival the three headline acts were The Prodigy, Blur and Fleetwood Mac, and at various times but not necessarily at festivals I’ve seen Björk, Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Kate Bush, Yes, The Clash, The Jam, Ian Dury, Neil Young with Pearl Jam as his band, Steely Dan, The Doobie Bros, Soundgarden, Faith No More…
Out of the first list, Radiohead, Ghost and Tool are the only ones I’ll ever stand any chance of seeing, though, sadly. ☹️
Yeah, That would be a pretty good dream festival, compiling a set list might be a challenge, though…
Thought of some more additions to a dream festival:
Talk Talk
XTC
Jeff Buckley
Sandy Denny
R.E.M.
NoMeansNo
The Dreadnoughts
Bad Brains
Butthole Surfers
African Head Charge