Comparison with other UK festivals

[NiallP10]

Dowload/ sonisphere aren't my cup of te so im bias, but i think R and L has got a pretty good line up, my favourite so far. The Friday (leeds) seems to be the best day of any UK festival and then bombay, maccabees, kasabian, vaccines, hopefully tenacious D and angels and airwaves, for some guilty nostalgia, are all worth the watch. Cant wait now.

[RichieParf]

Even though this year's line-up is fucking shit, at least it's not V or TITP which is chock full of chart shite (plus the Roses, Mondays, New Order and Noel, which we could have got this year). I will rue the day we book the likes of David Guetta or Dappy or Olly Murs.

[BTK1609]

I agree with you to an extent, but I would stop short of equating 'chart' with 'shite' - foos last album was a chart topper. Popular doesn't equal bad.

[VCK]

I agree with you to an extent, but I would stop short of equating 'chart' with 'shite' - foos last album was a chart topper. Popular doesn't equal bad.

Edited March 13, 2012 by VCK

[dan666]

The Cure and Foos are the only decent band on this years lineup for me.

All the others ive rarely heard of.

Soni - a lot of people are slagging it off but they do have Faith No More and Queen?

[dan666]

The Cure and Foos are the only decent band on this years lineup for me.

All the others ive rarely heard of.

Soni - a lot of people are slagging it off but they do have Faith No More and Queen?

[jump]

The Cure and Foos are the only decent band on this years lineup for me.

All the others ive rarely heard of.

Soni - a lot of people are slagging it off but they do have Faith No More and Queen?

[eFestivals]

Soni - a lot of people are slagging it off but they do have Faith No More and Queen?

I've heard that they've got a backup plan if Adam Lambert can't do it .... instead they'll appear with a freddie mercury impersonator called Luis Suarez.

[Budweiser]

Download win this year by a country mile. Beautiful days has a decent line up. Reading's is shocking compared.

[kaosmark2]

Haha I'm sure you know what I meant! Bestival's looking good but think Reading's stronger, which it should seeing as it's a better festival. I do think that it had the potential to be a lot stronger though.

[Prufrock]

1. Download

2. Latitude

3. Leeds

However, I spend most of my time on the Lock Up, so it may very well change on announcement. Also we've got ATD-I!

[WhatAboutMe]

Bestival is the best uk festival in terms of line-up this year, even if one of the coming headliners is going to be florence...

However, Leeds/Reading is better than T and V this year, although the order of bands on both the main stage and nme stage look really odd this year. Its all over the place!! only reason to do this i think will be to get people to buy weekends and not day tickets.

Because of the randomness of line-up positions, im not going to be buying a day ticket for The Cure or Kasabian which i would have done if the line-up positions made sense and put in day orders!

[ArcticDan]

I think in general its a poor year for UK festivals, in Europe Spain/Portugal/Belgium/Germany/Sweden etc all seem to have better line-ups, and thats just Europe, dont even being to look at the America festivals which are on another level.

But yeah, out of the UK festivals I think R/L and Bestival are/will be the best two this year.

[pete76]

best headliners - easy one, when u have best group in the world and best male artist - Isle Of wight

best line-up - Download

....

the rest - V always been, is and probably will be shite.. so is T this year

R&L has better headliners than Soni, but line-up is slightly better at Soni.

Bestival not really for me

Would be perfect if i can have a line-up of 3 sundays:

- Download - Sabbath, Soundgarden, Megadeth, Ugly Kid Joe,

- Soni - Faith No More, Offspring, Cypress Hill, Mastodon

- Reading - Foo Fighters, Black Keys, Gaslight Anthem