The 2004 line-up

[Poppington]

10 years have flown by but that was a great weekend, White Stripes were fantastic.

[Matt42]

I really hope that post wasn't in reply to mine Matt as you didn't counter a single one of my points

[dentalplan]

2012 was the year I freaked out like YF is doing. I thought that was dung, but it got slightly better with further announcements (as 2014 will) but still not as good as some people make it out to be.

[Matt42]

2012 was the year I freaked out like YF is doing. I thought that was dung, but it got slightly better with further announcements (as 2014 will) but still not as good as some people make it out to be.

[VCK]

Jesus VCK you like flogging a dead horse. How you look(ed) at those acts will be how the kids of today look at this year's line-up. If acts booked this year don't appear to have the stature or longevity of the acts booked 10 years ago it's because the music industry is different, not that the festival's booking policy has changed. Why can't people understand that?

I don't think that's a great line-up and I don't remember thinking it was at the time. Kasabian headlining the FR was great though

[Yellow_Fellow]

Don't worry, wasn't even worth replying. Festival bookers will book in positions that will please everyone. Because in your favour some bands should be above others is irrelevant as you're only considering yourself.

Macklemore and Imagine Dragons won grammys... so of course their position is going to be high. The only booking and placing I see shit is Jake Bugg, and I'l say that I agree with you on that, Jake Bugg is not a sub size act (but he is subbing, which is why this I brought this up)

[kaosmark2]

With regards to your point about opinions on a line-up being an age thing, I thought the 2007 line-up was shocking at the time, and I was 16 when it came out. It has aged well thanks to there being acts that became massive since they played that year, like Kings Of Leon and Arcade Fire, but at the time I found it to be a bit "meh" and, like this year, too full of flavour of the moment acts. A pretty weak undercard.

[Asdaprice]

For what it's worth the only years that they had mindblowing line-ups over the past decade, which completely justified the ticket prices, have been 2005, 2008 and 2010 IMO. Everything else has been merely decent, or just a bit poor.

With regards to your point about opinions on a line-up being an age thing, I thought the 2007 line-up was shocking at the time, and I was 16 when it came out. It has aged well thanks to there being acts that became massive since they played that year, like Kings Of Leon and Arcade Fire, but at the time I found it to be a bit "meh" and, like this year, too full of flavour of the moment acts. A pretty weak undercard.

Still a lot better than what has been served up the past three or so years though.

[Asdaprice]

Whoops double post

Edited March 11, 2014 by Asdaprice

[Tobieski]

What Yellow is saying makes a lot of sense. The placing of some acts/bands makes absolutely no sense, there's little to no fluidity in some places. Genuinely looks like festival republic picked random acts out of a hat

Edited March 11, 2014 by Tobieski

[mrtourette]

Why should there be fluidity? If we had Arctics-Foals-Jake Bugg-Courteeners we'd all be bitching and moaning about a day of mod fer it fanboys at the main stage.

Edited March 11, 2014 by mrtourette

[Asdaprice]

It makes sense for the most part in terms of flow I think. Macklemores gonna stick out like a sore thumb anywhere. Vampire weekend would of made a good sub to Arctics too but I guess where they are is the best place if Jake Bugg has to sub.

[jump]

What Yellow is saying makes a lot of sense. The placing of some acts/bands makes absolutely no sense, there's little to no fluidity in some places. Genuinely looks like festival republic picked random acts out of a hat

[Yellow_Fellow]

Macklemores gonna stick out like a sore thumb anywhere.

[Yellow_Fellow]

I swear I've seen yellowmore saying the line up should be a mish mash of acts and not samey.

[Dan R]

The main difference for me though is that the weekend ticket's then cost just over £100. When the cost of a ticket is so high now, it's tough to see the value for money when there's lot's of acts that could easily be playing much lower down. Also 04 had quite a few well-established acts throguhout the bill, something this year seems to be lacking.

[Tobieski]

Why should there be fluidity? If we had Arctics-Foals-Jake Bugg-Courteeners we'd all be bitching and moaning about a day of mod fer it fanboys at the main stage.

[dentalplan]

Well they booked The Cure, NIN and Pulp amongst acts that might not be of interest to their fanbases.

[Babyquack]

Well they booked The Cure, NIN and Pulp amongst acts that might not be of interest to their fanbases.

[dentalplan]

The Cure fans would have gone purely for The Cure. Same with NiN fans tbh. And everyone likes a little bit of Pulp regardless of your age, don't they?

[lightning1000]

Greenday released international superhits between subbing and headlining and it brought them a lot od new fans. I remember a lot of mates getting into green day off the back of it at the time.

Edited March 11, 2014 by lightning1000

[thetime]

Pretty pointless comparing lineups as 10 years ago there wasn't sonisphere, download had just started with the likes of feeder headlining.

[Gucci Piggy]

I go to a college full of 17/18 year olds and everyone I spoke to said Macklemore subbing is fucking retarded. And these people aren't huge music fans like us, just typical festival goers who like typical R&L music.

[The Placid Casual]

I go to a college full of 17/18 year olds and everyone I spoke to said Macklemore subbing is fucking retarded. And these people aren't huge music fans like us, just typical festival goers who like typical R&L music.

[Tobieski]

Yep same, genuinely have not seen a single positive reaction to Macklemore being announced, or Jake Bugg subbing