Favourite festival line up you've seen?

goldrush

A reply that I posted in the Blind Melon thread last week got me thinking about all of music festivals that I've been to over the years and wondering what my favourite line up was.

I've been a lot festivals in the UK and Australia over the years, a ton of the Reading Festivals since 1994, Glastonbury a couple of times, Isle Of Wight, Hard Rock Calling and of course Lollapalooza in 2007 and I genuinely think the best festival I've ever seen was at Reading in 1995. Yes, there have been better performances at other festivals (PJ at Lolla or Reading 06, Neil Young at IOW 2009 for example) but for the overall line up I think Reading 95 is the winner for me:

Check out the line up http://www.readingfestival.com/2011/history/1995 - take a look at Sunday's main stage line up in particular...

FRIDAY
Smashing Pumpkins
Green Day
Hole
Teenage Fanclub
Beck
dEUS
Juliana Hatfield
China Drum

SATURDAY
Bjork
Paul Weller
The Boo Radleys
Tricky
Throwing Muses
Shed Seven
Foo Fighters - on the smaller second stage!

SUNDAY
Neil Young w/ Pearl Jam (Mirrorball tour)
Soundgarden
Pavement
Mudhoney
Buffalo Tom
Babes In Toyland
White Zombie
Blind Melon
No FX
Pennywise
Carter USM
Paw

Obviously Neil and PJ was special anyway but seeing Soundgarden, Pavement, Mudhoney and Blind Melon on the same afternoon just floored me. Foo Fighters' second ever UK show, and on the small stage, was awesome too (it was the show where too many fans tried to cram into the tent and the sides of the tent started falling down!)

I'd love to know what everyone else's favourite festival line ups are

JOEJOEJOE

2008 Lollapalooza

NIN
Radiohead
Rage Against The Machine
The National
Love and Rockets

Won a free trip to the festival!


Also, Lollapalooza 1992
RHCP
Ice Cube
Ministry
Jesus and Mary Chain
Lush
Oh, and PJ/TOTD.....William Reed from Jesus & Mary Chain played a song with PJ!

red mos

I thought ACL 2009 was bad ass. Had like 6 stages, but the Headliner stage had:

PJ (Headlining)
Dead Weather
Toadies
Clutch
dodos

Saw a few other acts breifly in between set changes: Michael Franti and spearhead, Ben Harper,

Awesome awesome show.

ilockyer

This is a difficult one because it's very easy to look back on a festival 10 years ago and say, wow, what an amazing line-up that must have been, when most of the bands were unheard of and still cutting their teeth as live acts. I'd always go with the one that has the most good memories, and for me that's Glastonbury 2003. The Music, String Cheese Incident, Inspiral Carpets, Jimmy Cliff, REM, Los Lobos.

Yellow Ledbelly

I'll have to go with Bonnaroo '08....Metallica one night and PJ the next...it don't get any better than that for me.

South of Seattle

Either the 1st Tibetan Freedom Concert in SF:
The Smashing Pumpkins, Chaksam-pa, Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Pavement, Cibo Matto, Biz Markie, Richie Havens, John Lee Hooker, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine, Sonic Youth, Beck, Foo Fighters, Björk, De La Soul, Fugees, Buddy Guy, The Skatalites, Yoko Ono/Ima and No Doubt.

or

Lollapalooza '94:
Main Stage: The Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, George Clinton & the P-Funk All Stars, The Breeders, A Tribe Called Quest, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, L7, Boredoms (first half of tour), Green Day (second half)

Side Stage: The Flaming Lips, The Verve, The Boo Radleys, The Frogs (first six dates only), Guided by Voices, Lambchop, Girls Against Boys, Rollerskate Skinny, Palace Songs, Stereolab, Fu-Schnickens, The Pharcyde, Shudder to Think, Luscious Jackson, God Lives Underwater, King Kong, Charlie Hunter Trio, Shonen Knife, Blast Off Country Style, Souls of Mischief, Cypress Hill, The Black Crowes

AndySlash

JOEJOEJOE wrote:

2008 Lollapalooza

NIN
Radiohead
Rage Against The Machine

Lolla 08 was pretty solid.

I've been to several Bonnaroos (04-05, 07-10) and Lollas (05-08) and I'd probably say Bonnaroo 08 was my favorite. Bands I grew up with (PJ, Metallica) and bands I'm into now (Sigur Ros, My Morning Jacket) and just a solid lineup all around. Pearl Jam's show was epic- wish you all could have been there. Even though Kanye was a douche, there's something to be said about watching one of the most popular current artists playing at 4:30am as the sun comes up. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss brought me to tears during Battle of Evermore. If I could relive any weekend it would be that one.

dimitrispearljam

Rock Werchter 2010


Pearl Jam
Arcade Fire
Alice in Chains
The Black Keys

Horos

Haven't been to many festivals but Lolla '93 was pretty good:
Main Stage: Primus, Alice in Chains, Dinosaur Jr., Fishbone, Arrested Development, Front 242, Babes in Toyland, Rage Against the Machine

Side Stage: Tool, Sebadoh, Cell, Unrest, Mercury Rev, Mosquito, Free Kitten, Royal Trux, Tsunami, Mutabaruka, Coctails, Scrawl, Luscious Jackson, Genitorturers, Truly, Eggs, Girls Against Boys, Thurston Moore, A Lighter Shade of Brown, Glue, The Karl Hendricks Trio, Hurl, The Goats, The Runties

Gardenparty

Tibetan Freedom Concert 1998
Pearl Jam, Radohead, Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dave Matthews Band, REM,, Live, Blues Traveler, Herbie Hancock, Sonic Youth, Pulp, Tribe Called Quest, KRS-1, Luscious Jackson, Wyclef Jean, Wallflowers, Buffalo Daughter

Beck and Kraftwerk were cut due to thunderstorms :(

facepollution

I read the title and instantly said Reading 1995, before I even read your post! The lineup was amazing, my parents were incredibly cool letting me go at the tender age of 13!!

Gary Carter

goldrush wrote:

SUNDAY
Neil Young w/ Pearl Jam (Mirrorball tour)
Soundgarden
Pavement
Mudhoney
Buffalo Tom
Babes In Toyland
White Zombie
Blind Melon
No FX
Pennywise
Carter USM
Paw

omfg thats a sick lineup for the last day of a festival and almost all of the bands in their prime

mfc2006

red mos wrote:

I thought ACL 2009 was bad ass. Had like 6 stages, but the Headliner stage had:

PJ (Headlining)
Dead Weather
Toadies
Clutch
dodos

Saw a few other acts breifly in between set changes: Michael Franti and spearhead, Ben Harper,

Awesome awesome show.

2009's ACL was awesome...you left off some amazing bands, though! them crooked vultures, avett brothers, bon iver, the decemberists, heartless bastards & dan auerbach to name a few...

the 2007 ACL lineup was my 2nd favorite:
Bjork, Bob Dylan, Wilco, Arcade Fire, My Morning Jacket, QOTSA, Damien RIce, Joss Stone, Spoon, The Decemberists, Crowded House, Kaiser Chiefs, MIA, Pete Yorn, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Rev Horton Heat, Heartless Bastards....yup. that was a good year.

this year's 10th anniversary lineup is a huge letdown. we've bought 3 day passes every year since 2007...not this year, though. we're just going on Saturday.

uninnocent-

i don't have terribly much festival experience, but this is easily the best lineup i've seen (one day festival, btw):

Rolling Stones
AC/DC
Rush
Guess Who
Blue Rodeo
The Tea Party
Flaming Lips
Justin Timberlake
Sam Roberts
Isley Brothers

capthowdy1027

The only festival I've been to was Lollapalooza '97 and the only good band there was TOOL. So that was my favorite

eeriepadave

Live:
Ozzfest '99
Black Sabbath, Slayer, Primus, Rob Zombie, System Of A Down, Godsmack, Slipknot, Static-X and a few others

Virgin Mobile Festival '06
Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Who, Gnarls Barkley, The Raconteurs, Flaming Lips, Kasabian, Wolfmother, The Killers, New Pornographers, Scissor Sisters and a few others

others that looked good:
just about any of the Reading or Leeds Festivals

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_an ... e-ups#2010

Glastonbury Festival:
1997: The Prodigy, Radiohead, Beck, Ash, Chemical Brothers.

2002: White Stripes, QOTSA, BRMC, The Vines, Coldplay, Elbow, The Coral, Garbage

2007: Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, Bloc Party, The Fratellis, Amy Winehouse, Kaiser Chiefs, The Who, Lily Allen, The Kooks, Arcade Fire, Klaxons, Babyshambles, Cold War Kids, The Enemy, The Holloways, Hot Chip, The Horrors, The Go! Team, Mark Ronson, Dirty Pretty Things, The Killers, Editors, Iggy & The Stooges, and tons more.

2007 Glastonbury wins for me.

red mos

yeah, I know I did. :oops: I only went Sunday, so please forgive me. Would have loved to have seen TCV, and kings of leon (seen them since), and DMB (still have not seen them live, even after all these years). I did see Heartless Batards and they were great, but from the mainstage, but could hear them fine. Wish sonic youth had gotten to play, would like to have seen them. Too Bad Lee broke his arm. I like their music, alot actually, but have to be in a certain mood to listen to it. The "eternal" was a great album, and they were playing mostly stuff off of it, but they have some really cool stuff.

mfc2006 wrote:

red mos wrote:

I thought ACL 2009 was bad ass. Had like 6 stages, but the Headliner stage had:

PJ (Headlining)
Dead Weather
Toadies
Clutch
dodos

Saw a few other acts breifly in between set changes: Michael Franti and spearhead, Ben Harper,

Awesome awesome show.

2009's ACL was awesome...you left off some amazing bands, though! them crooked vultures, avett brothers, bon iver, the decemberists, heartless bastards & dan auerbach to name a few...

the 2007 ACL lineup was my 2nd favorite:
Bjork, Bob Dylan, Wilco, Arcade Fire, My Morning Jacket, QOTSA, Damien RIce, Joss Stone, Spoon, The Decemberists, Crowded House, Kaiser Chiefs, MIA, Pete Yorn, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Rev Horton Heat, Heartless Bastards....yup. that was a good year.

this year's 10th anniversary lineup is a huge letdown. we've bought 3 day passes every year since 2007...not this year, though. we're just going on Saturday.

kasedoug

Vegoose 2007
Sat
Daft Punk
Queens of the Stone Age
The Shins
Iggy & the Stooges
Public Enemy
Cypress Hill

Sunday
Rage Against the Machine
Muse

dcfaithful

I've only ever attended one music festival; Lollapalooza 2003.

The Main Stage

in this order..

Rooney
The Distillers
The Donnas
Jurassic 5
A Perfect Circle
Incubus
Audioslave
Jane's Addiction

Second Stage

Kings Of Leon... early in their career
30 Seconds To Mars... again, early in their career

and that's about all I remember seeing on the second stage.

scottstappsucks

KROQ LA Invasion 2007

Smashing Pumpkins
Foo Fighters
Velvet Revolver
Chris Cornell
Perry Farrell

There was also Kid Rock and some others, but seeing those five was pretty cool. I kept shouting at Scott to reunite STP, it turns out he was listening I guess lol.

Got a hard hard head

Donington Monsters of Rock Festival in....1991 (had to look that one up, memory's a little fuzzy )

The Black Crowes
Queensryche
Motley Crue (meh)
Metallica
AC/DC

The only pity is that I wasn't really into AC/DC at the time so didn't take much notice of their headline act. Doh!!