Off Topic 'V' Festival line up announced today

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I'm a big music fan and am off to Download and Rambling Man but this is just dog - absolute cack line up. Here's hoping the Latitude line-up is as good as last year's.
 
Wow that truly is dreadful! And they aren't the sort of acts that usually go down well at a festival either. Are they trying to appeal to 13-16 year olds or something?
 
DHCanary said:
Wow that truly is dreadful! And they aren't the sort of acts that usually go down well at a festival either. Are they trying to appeal to 13-16 year olds or something?
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Go back just four years to 2012.
Headline acts Stone Roses and Killers. <ok>
Or 2010. Kings of Leon, Kasabian (neither are my faves, but hell's teeth, a bit more "like it"!), Faithless, Stereophonics <ok> and Prodigy <ok> <ok>
 
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I have never been a huge festival goer but I went to Sziget in Budapest last year. It was so much better value for money than a UK festival (£1ish beer!) and tickets, upgraded camping, flights and all spending money cost me about £800 for a week which I think represents much better value for money than UK festivals. I know its still more than some would want to pay but it was essentially my summer holiday and we have music for 7 days, 35 degree heat, swimming pool ect.

I just couldn't justify go to an English festival and pay £200 or more for a 2-3 day ticket and then pay £4-5 a drink! Thats before saying that the people in Budapest and the feel of the festival was so much friendlier than any event I have experienced in the UK.
 
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V Festival has always been the music festival for people who don't actually like music, I'm a massive live music fan myself but you would have to pay me an awful lot of money to attend any of the Chelmsford/Leeds things. I'm a Glastonbury man myself, only missed a couple between 1997 and 2009 though 2009 was the last one I attended, and with the spiralling entry fees/drink and food costs coupled with the sheer number of people allowed on the site these days I don't think I'll be going again for a while.

Waiting for the kids to get a bit older and then I reckon it'll be Latitude for us, that generally has a pretty decent line-up though I've yet to attend one yet myself.
 
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Tony_Munky_Canary said:
Waiting for the kids to get a bit older and then I reckon it'll be Latitude for us, that generally has a pretty decent line-up though I've yet to attend one yet myself.
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I've got a couple of friends who have been every year since in started in 2006.
It seems to replicate what Glastonbury used to be like before it got too big, expensive and up-it's-own-arse a bit. <ok>
 
I've been to monsters of rock in the past and Pearl Jam quite recently at the MK bowl. I prefer a decent band in a more intimate venue though, I was on the west coast of Ireland and we were staying in doolin popped into a pub and saw a fantastic soul singer who had toured with Joe Cocker at one point. It's the unexpected brilliance you can sometimes find when least expected. At the other end you have some of the performers in Koh samui who are just comedy gold. Either way lots of fun to be had without paying ridiculous prices. It's like with the big venue comedy shows these days. I went and saw Peter Kay in the NEC, we were about halfway back and already it was better to watch the big screen, at that point you wonder what the point is? £8 parking £4+ beer, you have to drive! Crap and expensive food if you're fool enough to buy it! I'm buying the DVD next time!
I love the live experience, but definitely prefer small and intimate.

Bah!
 
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Tony_Munky_Canary said:
V Festival has always been the music festival for people who don't actually like music, I'm a massive live music fan myself but you would have to pay me an awful lot of money to attend any of the Chelmsford/Leeds things. I'm a Glastonbury man myself, only missed a couple between 1997 and 2009 though 2009 was the last one I attended, and with the spiralling entry fees/drink and food costs coupled with the sheer number of people allowed on the site these days I don't think I'll be going again for a while.

Waiting for the kids to get a bit older and then I reckon it'll be Latitude for us, that generally has a pretty decent line-up though I've yet to attend one yet myself.
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Latitude is good Tony. Went on the Sunday last year to see Noel Gallagher and The Manics and it was a great event. They have their first line-up announcement on the 3rd March and if it is any good I will be going again.
 
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