Your dream festival 2012 edition

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

We've done this a number of times in the past but put together your dream music festival. No bringing back dead musicians to life or bringing back retired bands though (unless they've got previous with regards to one-off returns). Also, keep it realistic. 1/2/3 days of music is fine. A fortnight festival with 17 stages might be epic but probably a bit too "unrealistic".

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Hamster-Fest

The Funk-a-tronic Stage

Blur / David Bowie

Queens of the Stone Age / Aphex Twin

Polysics / Melt Banana /

Ladytron / Stereo Total

The Dazzling Stage of Many Colours

Mew / Sigur Ros

Mogwai / Air

Royksopp / Mum / Boards of Canada

Amiina / Efterklang

iamamiwhoami /

The Sweaty Tent of Five Thousand Stinky Hippies

PJ Harvey / Ray Davies

Fever Ray / Brian Eno

Special Others /

Editing will continue.

[RPS]

Night 1

Daft Punk / Basement Jaxx / Deee-Lite / The Prodigy

Rustie / Mylo / Burial / Gui Boratto

Metro Area / Azari & III / Ratatat / Shit Robot

Night 2

Pet Shop Boys / Chemical Brothers / Aphex Twin / Massive Attack

James Blake / Hot Chip / Flying Lotus / The Knife

Junior Boys / Starslinger / Caribou / Africa Hitech

Night 3

LCD Soundsystem / Kraftwerk / Gorillaz / Portishead

Cut Copy / Soulwax / SBTRKT / Simian Mobile Disco

Egyptrixx / John Talabot / Daniel Wang / Hercules & Love Affair

[Cymbols]

Enjoy my shitty music taste-

Night 1-

Headline- Panic! at the Disco

Muse - Patrick Stump - Paramore

Colplay - Goldfinger - Boys like Girls - Kevin Rudolf - the Used

Night 2-

Headline- Green Day

Jason Derulo- the All American Rejects - Fall Out Boy (1 night only)

Katy Perry - Calvin Harris - Downstait - Macszanadrag - 3OH!3

Edited February 21, 2012 by cymru96

[Liam]

Wannabe-fest

Night 1

The Flaming Lips/Depeche Mode

Frank Turner/ The Gaslight Anthem

Manic Street Preachers/ Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip

Sage Francis/Kunt and The Gang

Night 2

Faith No More/Tool

In Flames/ Clutch/ Corrosion of Conformity

At The Drive-in/ Porcupine Tree

Night 3

Sunn 0)))/ My Dying Bride

Opeth/ Neurosis/ Earth

Mastodon/The Dillinger Escape Plan

Orange Goblin

Shamelessly nicked Hammy's set-up. Plus mine try and fit a loose concept, but fall down in some areas.

Edited February 21, 2012 by Liam

[mikevandam]

Night One: Punk-o-rama and their amazing fun friends

Bad Religion

Less Than Jake - Rancid - NOFX

- King Prawn (ONO) - Alkaline Trio - Reel Big Fish

Night Two: "The race starts at high noon,

thats our naptime. Good, then we wont miss anything"

Rush

- Whale (The swedish band)- Asian Dub Foundation (featuring Deeder Zaman) - Fu Manchu

- Twilight Singers/Gutter Twins double header -

Night Three "Feel good night of the summer"

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (Those that are still around)

Phil Collins and Genesis "Turn it on again"

- Toto - REO Speedwagon - Journey

[db07]

Night One and only Night:

Them Crooked Vultures

Queens of the Stone Age

Foo Fighters

Headliners:

Led Zeppelin

That would be it for me.

Oh and you could throw in Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen in there for the unlucky Aussies who want to see these two.

[Pettengill_Mark]

The Todd Pettengill Festival of Love and Backstage Interviews:

Night One:

Dropkick Murphys

Floging Molly

Frank Turner

Mumford & Sons

The Dreadnoughts

Smokey Bastard

Night Two:

Sex Pistols

The Buzzcocks

Big Audio Dynamite

Rancid

NOFX

New York Dolls

Night Three:

System of a Down

Korn

Linkin Park

Fear Factory

Soulfly

Nashville Pussy

[Steeb]

Wow Cymru actually has a worse taste in music than I ever could've imagined from that disclaimer.

[thuganomic]

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Friday:

Coldplay / The Black Keys

The Strokes / The Shins / Phoenix

The Maccabees / Two Door Cinema Club / Young the Giant

Jeff Mangum / Sharon van Etten

Saturday:

Kanye West & Jay-Z

The Killers / Foster the People / Vampire Weekend

The Vaccines / Bombay Bicycle Club / Noah and the Whale

Lana Del Rey / Childish Gambino

Sunday:

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band

Wilco / Bon Iver / Mumford & Sons

Fleet Foxes / Andrew Bird / The Civil Wars

The Tallest Man on Earth / The Weepies / Damien Rice

[Matt]

Highly uneralistic as most of these bands would want to be much higher, but let's assume I won £100bn and could pay them all stupid money

Day Zero (special performance on the night before the first day)

Eminem

Dr Dre

Ziggy/Damian/Stephen/Julian Marley

Day One

Metallica

Ozzy Osbourne

Slipknot

Slayer

Faith No More

System of a Down

Slash

Machine Head

Black Label Society

Day Two

Foo Fighters

Pearl Jam

Green Day

The Pixies

Soundgarden

Biffy Clyro

Smashing Pumpkins

Mudhoney

The Melvins

Day Three

Led Zeppelin

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Oasis (I know you said no bringing back bands without previous but come on, it'll happen)

Bruce Springsteen

Arctic Monkeys (banned from playing anything after second album)

Stereophonics

Coldplay

Feeder

Frank Turner

[METALMAN]

DEAD FEST

THE DEAD GOOD STAGE

Jimi Hendrix / The Beatles (minus Ringo Starr) / The Rolling Stones (creatively dead for nearly 40 years)

Frank Sinatra / James Brown / Johnny Cash

Elliott Smith / Miles Davis quintet featuring John Coltrane / Frank Zappa

Gram Parsons / Nick Drake / Serge Gainsbourg / Townes van Zandt

Not attending: The Grateful Dead

[Pettengill_Mark]

[tristy]

"Not attending: the Grateful Dead"

Tremendous.

[DavidMarrio]

FESTIVAL FEST: THE MUSIC FESTIVAL WITH EXTRA FEST

Night One:

Eminem

David Bowie

Kanye West

Foo Fighters

Arctic Monkeys

The Cribs

Night Two

Paul McCartney

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Coldplay

Kasabian

The Killers

Example

Night Three:

Led Zeppelin

Bob Dylan

The Prodigy

The Strokes

The Libertines

Wolfmother

Night Four:

Bruce Springsteen

Muse

Chase and Status

Stereophonics

Arcade Fire

The Vaccines

[OctoberRaven]

Metal Life Festival- With 20% of the gate going to Red Cross because why the fuck not.

All one stage, headliners top openers bottom.

Day One:

Slayer

King Diamond

Megadeth

Blind Guardian

Iced Earth

Testament

Sex Machineguns

Cage

Day Two:

Six Feet Under

Vader

Nile

Hail of Bullets

Amon Amarth

Bloodbath

Adorior

The Chasm

Day Three:

Motorhead

Judas Priest

Mercyful Fate w/ King Diamond

Demons and Wizards

Rammstein

Maximum The Hormone

[tomroe]

Tommy's Unnamed Festival

Night 1 - Kickoff Party

Foo Fighters

Red Hot Chili Peppers/Nickelback (don't like them, but it'd sell tickets)/The Black Keys/Bush

Special Comedy Performance from Joe Rogan

Night 2 - Rap Night

Jay-Z and Kanye West/Eminem

J. Cole/Big Sean/Yelawolf/B.o.B

Shwayze/Slaughterhouse/Chiddy Bang/Mac Miller

Night 3

blink-182

Green Day/Incubus/My Chemical Romance/Angels and Airwaves

Tenacious D/New Found Glory/The Wonder Years/Set Your Goals

Edited February 22, 2012 by TheTomster2011

[Jimmy]

Gorillaz

Foals/Vampire Weekend

SBTKRT/Crystal Fighters

Egyptian Hip Hop/Childish Gambino

Eminem

Maccabees/Los Campesinos

Scroobius Pip/Tokyo Police Club

Laura Marling/ Veronica Falls

Arctic Monkeys

Gaslight Anthem/The Cribs

Sum 41/The Vaccines

Frightened Rabbit/Maximo Park

The second night is definitely a bit of mash-up. I wanted to get Eminem in there without going for a whole 'rap' day. So yeah, the first night is more upbeat/dancy indie stuff, the second night is a weird mix of rap and other stuff - and the last night gets a bit more rock-y. I'd go to this festival anyway If I was organising it, I'd tweak it a lot for sure, but as it's a dream fest, this works well enough for me without being too unrealistic. Like, I'd have a Smith reunion in there, but that seems a bit too far fetched for me.

[SRN]

ALL SORTS OF WEIRD SHIT FESTIVAL

NIGHT 1 - Jazz Night Extraordinaire

Keith Jarrett

Charlie Haden / John McLaughlin / Ornette Coleman

Matana Roberts / BADBADNOTGOOD / Charts and Maps

NIGHT 2 - Mental Metal Madness

Meshuggah

Atheist / Gorguts (performing Obscura in its entirety) / Devin Townsend

Taake / Fleshgod Apocalypse / Oranssi Pazuzu

NIGHT 3 - Mofackin' Rap Up In Dis Shit

Wu-Tang Clan

Nas / Lil B / DJ Shadow

Das Racist / Shabazz Palaces / Kendrick Lamar

NIGHT 4 - (No official title, since that would be way too mainstream)

Guided By Voices

Battles / Sleigh Bells / Don Caballero

The Middle East / Snake Oil / WU LYF

NIGHT 5 - Sparkling Electronic Party

Justice

Boards of Canada / Spleen United / SBTRKT

Nicolas Jaar / Tim Hecker / conelrad

So, it got a bit silly, sue me. I could've included a post-rock day (well, good post-rock, not just predictable crescendo-core) but six nights is probably going a bit overboard.

[DFF]

Night One - Progfest

Rush

Dream Theater / Opeth

Devin Townsend Project / Mostly Autumn / Between The Buried and Me

Alcest / Graveyard / While Heaven Wept / Heljareyga

Night Two - Metalfest

Iron Maiden

Judas Priest / Within Temptation

Accept / Gojira / Sabaton

Turisas / Alestorm / Wolf / Hell

Night Three - Classicfest

Deep Purple

Status Quo / Saxon

Lynyrd Skynyrd / Thin Lizzy / Thunder

Heart / Kansas / Dio Disciples