A Festivus For The Rest Of Us

[Nerf]

I don't know why, but this just popped in to my head. If you could hold a music festival for a day this year, what bands would you sign if you had pick of the litter? Keep in mind about clashes, and genres. Also make sure the bands are still together as of today. Mine would be as follows:

Aerosmith | Mötley Crüe

Papa Roach | Velvet Revolver

Avenged Sevenfold | Buckcherry | Towers of London

Hardcore Superstar | Eighteen Visions | Bullets & Octane

[Steeb]

Smashing Pumpkins | Nine Inch Nails

Jimmy Eat World | Silverchair

Mindless Self Indulgence | Matthew Good | Fightstar

Help She Can't Swim | 65daysofstatic | Brazil

Or a little more 'Indie':

The White Stripes | Arcade Fire

Maximo Park | John Frusciante

Broken Social Scene | The Postal Service | Guillemots

!!! | TV On The Radio | Frou Frou

[Cactus Drags]

Haven't we done this like twelve times before?

[Bushmeister]

Marduk | Emperor

Vital Remains | Meshuggah

Wormed | Lykathé | Pig Destroyer

Anal Cunt | Cause For Effect | Nox

Just an all-out, balls-to-the-wall extreme metal romp for a full day.

[Fitzy]

Stone Sour | Killswitch Engage

Ra | Ill Nino

Flaw | Sillent Civilian | Black Market Hero

August Burns Red | Seemless | Prospect Hill

And Nerf you broke your own rule as Eighteen Visions broke up.

[Summers]

Fitzy's festival would be hot, I'd give Killswitch a miss though.

[YI]

Yes, we've done this a lot, but tastes fluctuate, and it's still cool to do, especially because I borderline orgasm at the thought of the punk-rock tent every time I do it.

Because I'm a sad bastard ¬_¬ I've tried to put them in a realistic order, with stuff that would gel being put together. The 'rock' stage looks somewhat like a clusterfuck though.

MAIN - ROCK STAGE

AEROSMITH

JAMIROQUAI

MUSE

Dream Theater

Placebo

Bad Religion

Jimmy Eat World

Brand New

Modest Mouse

Freak Kitchen

MAIN - INDIE STAGE

...THE LIBERTINES

ARCTIC MONKEYS

BLOC PARTY

The Arcade Fire

Maximo Park

Death Cab For Cutie

The Decemberists

Rooney

The Weakerthans

Of Montreal

Beirut

PUNK ROCK STAGE

PENNYWISE

RISE AGAINST

Strung Out

Against Me!

Propagandhi

Death By Stereo

A Wilhelm Scream

Strike Anywhere

Ignite

The Falcon

The Draft

Authority Zero

'ACOUSTIC' TENT

JOSE GONZALEZ

GET CAPE WEAR CAPE FLY

SUFJAN STEVENS

Ben Gibbard (DOUBLE DUTY~!)

Chuck Ragan

Jeremy Enigk

Erik Mongrain

Afterburner/Joey Cape

The New Amsterdams/Matt Pryor

Chris McCaughan (aka. Sundowner)

'ELECTRO' KIND OF SHIT

THOM YORKE

ZERO 7

Lemon Jelly

!!!

LCD Soundsystem

Peeping Tom

DnTel

Styrofoam

Aqueduct

Electric President

If I thought about it properly I could probably do better.

Going off the original format though (And stick with the 'realistic order'), I'd love something like this;

The Arctic Monkeys | Muse

Dream Theater | Jamiroquai

Rise Against | Zero 7 | Death Cab For Cutie

Rooney | Freak Kitchen | Strung Out

Edited June 18, 2007 by YI

[Nerf]

And Nerf you broke your own rule as Eighteen Visions broke up.

[RPS]

Justin Timberlake | Madonna

My Chemical Romance | Smashing Pumpkins

The Go! Team | Peaches| Basement Jaxx

+44 | Protest the Hero | Billy Talent

Obviously one stage for the rock acts and one stage for the dance acts.

[Damian WayLNKe]

Ben Folds | The White Stripes

AFI | Relient K

Brendan Benson| Built to Spill | Hot Hot Heat

Billy Talent | Sugarcult | The Matches

[Animal]

Arctic Monkeys | Placebo

Bloc Party | Queens of the Stoneage

Simian Mobile Disco | Shitdisco | Klaxons

Kubichek | The Pigeon Detectives | Annuals | Cold War Kids

Alamo Race Track | Green Lizard | C-mon & Kypsi | Kraak & Smaak | (all dutch bands)

Yeah i would go and see that

[lari]

Iron Maiden | Judas Priest

Dio | Testament

Blind Guardian | Savatage | Iced Earth

Skyclad | Axxis | Pink Cream 69

Not in order of preference, but an order I could realistically see these bands billed. Angel Dust would have definitely been on the list, but I suppose they are not really that active anymore. At least not with Dirk Thurisch. Savatage is probably the same, but replace them with Chris Caffery if you want to nitpick.

[ROC]

Muse | The Arcade Fire

LCD Soundsystem | Lupe Fiasco

!!! | Menomena | Saul Williams

Of Montreal | White Rabbits | Charlotte Gainsbourg

And that, kids, would be the least attended festival in world history. >_>

[Turbo Yannis]

Mae | Reuben

Jimmy Eat World | theAuditon

Fall Out Boy| Idlewild | Biffy Clyro

Atreyu | Tokyo Rose | CKY | Cold War Kids

The Cribs | Paramore | Gojira | Rise Against |

That'd do me. CKY purely for nostalgia

[Chris the Human]

Rammstein | My Chemical Romance

Coheed & Cambria | Fall Out Boy

Panic! at the Disco|City & Colour|Apocalyptica

Jimmy Eat World | A Perfect Circle | Ben Folds| The Killers

Missy Higgins|Sneaky Sound System|The Used|Thirsty Merc|The Postal Service

[ACCBiggz]

Metallica | Disturbed

Breaking Benjamin | Mudvayne

SOiL | Sevendust | Alter Bridge

Atreyu | Fozzy | Ditchwater

Justin Timberlake | Usher

Carrie Underwood | Kelly Clarkson

Daughtry | Hoobastank | Evanescence

Coheed & Cambria | Brad Paisley | Lifehouse

[Toe]

This is tough, as what I would really want to see together would be CKY and Three Six Mafia.

[Benji]

(+44) | Queens of the Stone Age

Billy Talent | Bowling For Soup

Jimmy Eat World | Breaking Benjamin| Hazen St.

Saosin | The Exies | MC Lars

A kind of rough sounding vs pop-punk kind of fest.

Edited June 19, 2007 by Birthday Benji

[Liam]

I can't be arsed to format it like everyone.

If I was doing a more heavy metal festival, it would look something like this:

Opeth

Emperor (meh, they still do festivals and the occasional gig)

Neurosis

In Flames

My Dying Bride

Isis

Cult Of Luna

Paradise Lost

Cephalic Carnage

If I was doing something which was more rock/alternative, it'd be:

Tool

Jesu

Deftones

Porcupine Tree

Billy Talent

Reuben

Amplifier

The Bronx

Carnival In Coal

[Psicosis]

Queens Of The Stone Age | Gnarls Barkley

Arctic Monkeys | Black Star

Armin van Buuren | DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist | Gogol Bordello

The Long Blondes | Something For Kate | Rilo Kiley | Sway DeSafo

Keeping it to such a short list is hard, especially when you want to keep it realistic.

Edited June 19, 2007 by Psicosis