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[JohnsonWHU]

So which UK festival do you think has the strongest line up this year?

Oxegen & T in the Park looking strong again (and very similar).

Think most would agree that reading & V are probably the poorest.


Personally, I think it has to be Download for rock, and Global Gathering for dance.

[1007mileroundtrip]

Glastonbury.

T in the Park and Oxegen share 90% of each other's lineups due to the location and that fact they're over the same weekend.

Reading's still gonna kick ass though, like always.

Edited by 1007mileroundtrip, 19 April 2011 - 11:43 AM.

[JC-Mo'Fucka]

For me...
(uk)

1.Titp
2.Bestival
3.Glastonbury
4.Sonisphere
5.Big Chill

Wooden spoon - Vfest (I wouldve struggled to make a worse one myself)

[Banana Co]

For it's main Genre of music I'd say that End of The Road has done great. I like R+L's line up but thats opinion and taste, so let's not get into that argument. Global Gathering is great for dance. T and Oxegen are good, Foos, AM and Coldplay are great headliners. The undercard on both isn't amazing. I think Reading has done fairly well for its undercard.
Glasto is great IMO.

Oh and Coachella was good and Splendour in the Grass looks excellent.

Edited by Banana Co, 19 April 2011 - 11:46 AM.

[mrtourette]

I just don't get why T and Oxegen are strong. I guess it's down to my personal taste but apart from Foos their headliners suck and there just isn't enough dirty indie rock. They have Weezer but Weezer were never going to play R&L two years in a row so no use crying over that. They're a combination of R&L and V but with a little too much V for my liking.

[jonnyisRFC]

1. Download
2. Sonisphere
3. Glastonbury
4. Reading/Leeds
5. TITP
6. V Festival

[mallett]

sonisphere
t in the park
reading/leeds
glastonbury
download
V

for the big festivals.

[JWC126]

TitP
Oxegen
Reading
Glasonbury
Sonisphere

[Yellow_Fellow]

Sonisphere
Reading/Leeds
TITP
Glastonbury
Oxegen
IOW

[JohnsonWHU]

Completely forgot about Glasto.

Although that kind of goes without saying, there headliners aren't great this year, but the undercard there is always ridiculously good, no matter what your musical taste.

[Benj]

IOW is easilly the worst of the big ones.

T is probably the best for me, less so now Blink have pulled out though

[spwan-of-the-devil]

Sonisphere
Download
Slam Dunk Tour!

[lharris92]

of the ones i want/am going to

soni/download
download/soni - interchangable as there are bands on both that i want to see a lot
titp
reading

but yeah, reading doesnt have that many bands that i want to see, but am going anyway for the fun of the weekend

[hazzamid11]

dont know why people are including oxegen for best uk festival lineup, its a european festival. But i think that Bestival and TITP have the best festival line ups this year.

[Banana Co]

hazzamid11, on 19 April 2011 - 01:59 PM, said:

dont know why people are including oxegen for best uk festival lineup, its a european festival. But i think that Bestival and TITP have the best festival line ups this year.

I was thinking that, but I took advantage of it and mentioned Coachella and SITG.

[rexclark]

Glastonbury for me, not all to my personal taste but I do think it's a very strong line up, certainly the biggest headliners this year.

As for TITP having a strong line up, yes it does but they've just recycled alot of acts from various fests last year and I've seen most the acts playing so it doesn't really interest me.

Bestival and Lattitude deserve honorable mentions as well.

[Vieuphoria]

Bestival hs an incredible lineup this year. Reading has a good lineup. I'll Be Your Mirror is also excellent. Some great ones this year.

[mb23]

T in the Park/Oxegen- great headliners, decent undercard with bands that are headlining reading
Glasto- poor headliners in my opinion, but pretty good undercard
R+L- two great headliners(albeit one is subbing at T), another headliner who is sub standard but a decent undercard
Isle Of Wight- Great headliners, absolutely rubbish undercard
V- decent headliners, but awful undercard

Don't really have much knowledge of Download and Sonisphere unfortunately.

[Manno]

They're all strong in their own respective ways - the only reason I'm not going for a Leeds ticket was firstly due to the fact T had two of the headliners (MCR and Pulp), and then later The Strokes have been announced. It's still a fairly strong line-up.

T/Oxegen are looking good due to the fact there are 5-6 headlining bands (Foos, Pulp, MCR, Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay, Strokes), plus a decent undercard when you think of Primal Scream, and the Manic Street Preachers, and of course the more commercial element with Tinie Tempah, The Script and Plan B.

Like always, someone will f**k it up; at the moment it looks like The Strokes will sub for Coldplay, and out of the bands who have been announced, there's nobody jumping out at me that would headline the NME Stage (with Primal Scream headlining the King Tuts tent). Had that problem 2 years ago, when they put KoL up against Nick Cave (there were 300 people max there to see Nick Cave), and Blur up against Keane (no idea why Keane had a headlining slot). Last year Stereophonics subbed for Eminem and 30 Seconds to Mars for The Prodigy. The year Keane headlined the NME stage, Pendulum subbed for them :/ There might be a wealth of acts to choose from, but unlike R/L, we never seem to have similar bands on the same stage.

I like the look of Glasto, if only for the Beyonce/QOTSA clash, can't see any other festival that would have the guts to do something like that

[Poleski]

The Big Chill