Bestival 2011

[Banana Co]

Better than Prince? Not sure that's possible, unless it's Bowie. Hope it's not RHCP, unless it's the early 90s model that turns up (and not the incredibly boring band they've become) if so. Another name that occurred to me (which will probably induce horror in many of you) - Tom Jones?

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

What about some type of Glam Rock band? ACTUALLY. Just as I'm typing this.

The Darkness?

[Banana Co]

What about some type of Glam Rock band? ACTUALLY. Just as I'm typing this.

The Darkness?

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Didn't Rob say the act was influential?

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

More to the point, he also personally said on the forums that there was no chance The Darkness would ever headline his festival.

As for Red Hot Chilli Peppers - I would absolutely f**king hate that. They're an awful band.

[farny12]

More to the point, he also personally said on the forums that there was no chance The Darkness would ever headline his festival.

As for Red Hot Chilli Peppers - I would absolutely f**king hate that. They're an awful band.

[farny12]

Rob in the bestival forum:

ha! sorry all i havent been on here for a few days and could have put ui all our of your misery ages ago...the clue of (UK festival exclusive) on the hop farms announce could have been a hint

prince is definitely not playing bestival this year

sorry

back to random speculation

[Dave The Hedgehog]

chili peppers are legendary, but an acquired taste i suppose. same could be said of prince.

[beau1]

Just a little bit of a change in topic but as a word of whats possibly to come: The Cure played a 44 song set last night in Sydney, playing their first 3 albums in order and then 3 sets of encores full of B-Sides. We won't be getting this but we may be getting some of those songs.

[edfirth]

My Morrisey prediction looks much better now

[farny12]

Prince and Red Hot Chilli Peppers can't really be compared to one another in terms of musical output because they both make different styles of music - the difference being that RHCP stay pretty much the same and never really evolve (except for the worst) whereas Prince has never ceased in his creatvity and diversity, of not just his own songs but in being able to write songs for other artists. In fact, Prince is probably the most relentlessly creative, brilliant and ambitious song writer to have lived in the last 30 years and has pushed more boundaries in pop music songcraft with his single-minded, independent vision of how his music should sound more than RHCP could only envision in their wildest dreams. People may not 'get' him but the facts speaks for themselves and he's one of the most widely respected men in modern music.

Chillis are just mediocre now, and self-indulgent. They may have been good back in the 90s for a couple of years but then so were The Spice Girls and we all know how shit they were.

[farny12]

oh yeah, and the spice girls were never good

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

chili peppers are legendary, but an acquired taste i suppose. same could be said of prince.

[edfirth]

The Chilis are legendary. Like it or not they're still up there on the Top 10 last.fm most plays every week

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

The Chilis are legendary. Like it or not they're still up there on the Top 10 last.fm most plays every week

[edfirth]

In pop circles, yes. Of course it does

[farny12]

Westlife sold the most records in the UK in the last decade, does that make them legendary?

[Dave The Hedgehog]

The Chilis are legendary. Like it or not they're still up there on the Top 10 last.fm most plays every week

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

People seem to have very varied definitions of what legendary is.

Anyway, fortunately, I can't see it happening, I don't think any UK festival will touch them with a bargepole for a long time.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Anyway, fortunately, I can't see it happening, I don't think any UK festival will touch them with a bargepole for a long time.

[farny12]

Which leads nicely to Hard Rock Calling.

I'm going to throw my hat in the ring again and reiterate a suggestion somebody else made on here before by saying Jamiroquai.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

I'm also going to throw Public Image Ltd into the ring - I'd be delighted if they played.

[farny12]

I'm also going to throw Public Image Ltd into the ring - I'd be delighted if they played.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

they might play, but would they headline?

[farny12]

Well, on the official forums a few people have been debating the budget of the festival. Now it's all fine and great us making suggestions (like Prince, Elton John, RHCP etc) but realistically, you look at the line-up as it stands and bearing in mind Bestival is still a growing festival both in reputation and prestige - doesn't even have an eFestivals page - the budget will be tight as a drum, so the chances are they won't go mental when they already have some huge bands booked.

If the ticket prices and audience size is roughly the same as last year's, take a look at last year's line-up and compare to some of the hopefuls we're suggesting - it's not realistic. With PiL, I'm pretty much running out of ideas and scraping the barrel for ideas on who it could be but if I were an organiser of a modestly successful festival, I'd use my modest budget to get a modestly successful band.

Is John Lydon a rock star, pop star and diva? I think so, yeah. Would they be considered a "different" band? Very much so. Fits the criteria for me.