Your own festival

[GodlikeYeezus]

Lets say we are all millionaires from Dubai and as festival lovers we decide it's a good idea to host a music festival over the course of 3 days.

You have given yourself a budget of £8,000,000 for the headliners and must book 3 of course, unless you fancy doing a co-headling (for the first time in history) .

Give the three acts or four you would go for and the price you would attempt to get for each. You want the festival to sell out to create a good atmosphere etc.

EDIT: Personally this year i would go for the following:

Queens of the Stone Age: 2,000,000

Libertines: 4,000,000

Prodigy: 2,000,000

Edited April 2, 2014 by GodlikeYeezus

[dentalplan]

Clor - £2m

Late of the Pier - £2m

Eastern Lane - £2m

The Drums - £2m

Edited April 2, 2014 by dentalplan

[Babyquack]

Arcade Fire - £2m

Bjork - £3m

Pearl Jam - £3m

[kaosmark2]

What the hell do the funds represent? It's not as if we have a strong clue as to pricings of different headliners (I know there are some reports around about specific costs)

Anyway:

Talking Heads: £7.9m

Tool: 95k

Meanwhile Back in Communist Russia: 5k

[dentalplan]

What the hell do the funds represent? It's not as if we have a strong clue as to pricings of different headliners (I know there are some reports around about specific costs)

[Yellow_Fellow]

You have given yourself a budget of £8,000,000 for the headliners and must book 3 of course, unless you fancy doing a co-headling (for the first time in history) .

Edited April 3, 2014 by Yellow_Fellow

[the wonderwhy]

QotSA

Jack White

Soundgarden

(Portishead after headliners because I can)

The Cure

Smashing Pumpkins

Nine Inch Nails

(Enter Shikari DJ set lolz)

Black Sabbath

Tool

Pixies

Also appearing across the weekend: Beck/Faith No More/The Cribs/The Joy Formidable/FIDLAR and more Beck.

Nailed it.

[atomised]

The cure. 3 million

Jesus and Mary chain 1 million

Jay z and kanye 2.5 million

Guns n roses 1.5 million

Edited April 3, 2014 by atomised

[mrtourette]

Canadian flannel shirt wearing (in a way that's so unaware of the connotations that it's not even ironic) Sub Pop 'rock' band £5000

Icelandic hipster flavour of the month £5000

Beck £3000

Would be a nice friendly atmosphere as the couple of hundred people who turned up to listen to the music would probably all already know each other from the internet, and the rest could all stand at the back comparing their fake glasses and boating pumps.

Maybe pay Lauren Laverne an appearance fee to mince around looking all twee and give the event same fake credibility.

Even with such a small crowd could probably recoup the above outlay on t-shirts that said something like 'this is the only time these three have headlined together and this t-shirt is only available to people who can prove that they've been to this event so if someone's wearing it they're very special and know lots about music', or something like that.

Probably throw a few knock-off post-rock bands on the undercard that the South Coast blogging clique can get their knickers in a twist over, bit of free advertising and all that.

Beer sales would obviously be poor but would heavily over-commercialise all other aspects of the festival, firstly to make as much profit as possible and secondly to make the experice as miserable as possible for everyone. THERE WON'T BE ONE NEXT YEAR SO YOUR SCATHING INTERNET REVIEWS WILL BE USELESS

[Andre91]

The Strokes- £800k

Metallica- £2m

Kanye West- £3m

Undoubtedly way off.

[Gucci Piggy]

Muse - 1.5m

Matt Bellamy solo - 7.4m

Dentalplan - 0.1m

Edit: Nah I shouldn't have dropped maths.

Edited April 3, 2014 by Will-2609

[kaosmark2]

the South Coast blogging clique

[dentalplan]

Probably throw a few knock-off post-rock bands on the undercard that the South Coast blogging clique can get their knickers in a twist over, bit of free advertising and all that.

[footix2]

How much would it cost to make Oasis reform?

[kaosmark2]

How much would it cost to make Oasis reform?

[jump]

Pub covers band £200 and the rest goes into my pocket.

[foolee]

Arcade Fire - 3m

Nine Inch Nails - 1m

Foo Fighters - 4m

[LondonTom]

£8m - Full S-Club 7 reunion, European Exclusive. 120 quid a ticket.

Edited April 3, 2014 by LondonTom

[VCK]

Canadian flannel shirt wearing (in a way that's so unaware of the connotations that it's not even ironic) Sub Pop 'rock' band £5000

Icelandic hipster flavour of the month £5000

Beck £3000

Would be a nice friendly atmosphere as the couple of hundred people who turned up to listen to the music would probably all already know each other from the internet, and the rest could all stand at the back comparing their fake glasses and boating pumps.

Maybe pay Lauren Laverne an appearance fee to mince around looking all twee and give the event same fake credibility.

Even with such a small crowd could probably recoup the above outlay on t-shirts that said something like 'this is the only time these three have headlined together and this t-shirt is only available to people who can prove that they've been to this event so if someone's wearing it they're very special and know lots about music', or something like that.

Probably throw a few knock-off post-rock bands on the undercard that the South Coast blogging clique can get their knickers in a twist over, bit of free advertising and all that.

Beer sales would obviously be poor but would heavily over-commercialise all other aspects of the festival, firstly to make as much profit as possible and secondly to make the experice as miserable as possible for everyone. THERE WON'T BE ONE NEXT YEAR SO YOUR SCATHING INTERNET REVIEWS WILL BE USELESS

[justanothername]

Biffy Clyro - 2m

Rage Against The Machine - 3m

Arcade Fire - 2m

The rest is put into the sub fund

[thelionsmouth]

To headline:

The Specials £1m subbed by K'naan £500k

Arcade fire £3.5m subbed by Boards of Canada £500k

The Cure £2m subbed by the stranglers £500k

[Gucci Piggy]

I still don't understand this.

In what alternate reality are arcade fire earning 3.5m to headline?

[giantwagon]

Biffy £8m

[dentalplan]

I still don't understand this.

In what alternate reality are arcade fire earning 3.5m to headline?

[dentalplan]

K'naan