Your Perfect Festival

[1964white]

I know, so many omissions - no Deep Purple/Rainbow/Metallica to name just a few favourites.

The temptation is just to put down your 21 favourite artists/bands - in which case the likes of Clash, Bowie etc would definitely be in. But I tried to come up with a mix (albeit rock orientated - but as. I think Sara pointed out that’s what tends to work best at festivals) of bands that would be good live and not all the same.

A couple though may work better on a smaller secondary stage

I know from first hand 'London Calling' is your favourite album.

Never seen The Clash but going from two live bootlegs + a official live recording on my shelves I'd assume the Brixton boys would be one of the great live acts of all-time

[1964white]

Good idea this. I felt like i was involved in a game of top trumps when i was thinking this through. I have picked artists that i have never seen.

Day 1

Start the 3 days with the one and only...... Mr Elvis Pressley. What a singer would put everyone in the right mood.
UB40: The Labour of Love albums kept me entertained growing up.
Fleetwood Mac: Mainly for Rumours really. They would have to play the whole album.
The Who: Live in Hull. That's where the Leeds one was really filmed wasn't it?
Led Zep: I have seen a tribute that was really good. Would love to catch them in their pomp.
Jimi Hendrix: Would have to be in a small venue so i could really flavour Jimi's off the wall guitar playing.

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Pink Floyd: Push comes to shove possibly my favourite band of all time? Listening to Pink Floyd Albums in a altered state of mind is like a interdimensional outer body experience.

Day 2

Michael Jackson: Any songs from Bad backwards. Shame he was a alleged peado.
Smiths: They have some blinging songs the Smiths
The White Stripes: Punchy has hell.
Pink Martini: Love em. Hope to get to catch them live when this is all over.
Buddy Guy: Got to have a bit of blues in there.
The Cure: Another band i used to turn my nose up at, only to really appreciate them when i grew up a bit.

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The Beatles: It would have to be behind closed door away from all the screaming girls.

Day 3

ACDC: Say no more they would rip it up.
The Doors: Moody antidote to the fire of ACDC. Would Jim face the crowd, and no more of that mother stuff.
Tears for fears: Another band who's hit records really grabed me, and they still sound fresh to me.
Queen: Just seeing that Wembley performance. Who wouldn't want to be there.
Guns n Roses: Some great songs, not sure if Axl Rose voice would annoy me after a while.
Bowie: A real hard baster* for me Bowie. I remember watching a docu on him when he just come of stage somewhere in the states and he looked so alone, but stable in it. Coked up probably. He's been to that place.

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The Rolling Stones: I would pay the entrance fee for Gimme Shelter alone.

Three great headliners there Leeds1000

The Beatles was my first band, 'Love Me Do' or 'From Me To You' were the first singles I bought if memory serves me right. Because of the screaming girls the Fab4 are one band I don't regret seeing 'live'. I own all the Beatles studio albums.

I have every Bowie album apart from 4 or 5 obscure/soundtracks/etc releases, have around 30 including three live albums by the great man.

I think I am two short with the Floyd studio albums.

As for the Stones they are the greatest band in the world imo, many would disagree with me on here but I'm not having that Even during my childhood years I preferred the Stones to the Beatles, still do!

Live at Leeds was recorded at Leeds Uni ( I was one of the lucky ones there). Pretty sure I read an article that The Who management were planning to make the live recording in Hull however they had sound or personnel problems, I maybe wrong

[White Riot]

Love the black eye. They were a band of rag tags. I enjoyed the film with Val Kilmer. Dropping Acid in the dessert of all places. Great stuff. Jim certainly burned the candle in every orifice he could fit one.

Yep, I love their music mate, and find it very different to anything anyone else has done.
I played the Doors non-stop for my first two years at college.
Shame Jim went so early, but a lot of the great ones seem to
I mean who else is gonna come up with the line Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine - classic, or the Horse Latitudes

[Leeds1000]

Three great headliners there Leeds1000

The Beatles was my first band, 'Love Me Do' or 'From Me To You' were the first singles I bought if memory serves me right. Because of the screaming girls the Fab4 are one band I don't regret seeing 'live'. I own all the Beatles studio albums.

I have every Bowie album apart from 4 or 5 obscure/soundtracks/etc releases, have around 30 including three live albums by the great man.

I think I am two short with the Floyd studio albums.

As for the Stones they are the greatest band in the world imo, many would disagree with me on here but I'm not having that Even during my childhood years I preferred the Stones to the Beatles, still do!

Live at Leeds was recorded at Leeds Uni ( I was one of the lucky ones there). Pretty sure I read an article that The Who management were planning to make the live recording in Hull however they had sound or personnel problems, I maybe wrong

As long has the screaming girls weren't as loud as the Justin Bieber ones. I new i had read something about the Who in Leeds & Hull. A rolling stone gathers no moss.

[Leeds1000]

Yep, I love their music mate, and find it very different to anything anyone else has done.
I played the Doors non-stop for my first two years at college.
Shame Jim went so early, but a lot of the great ones seem to
I mean who else is gonna come up with the line Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine - classic, or the Horse Latitudes

Aye.... they certainly did have a authentic sound. Jim had a very interesting take on the world. Shame he liked the drink so much.

[White Riot]

Aye.... they certainly did have a authentic sound. Jim had a very interesting take on the world. Shame he liked the drink so much.

Yep,

I love the opening of Apocalypse Now with The End and the tunnel scene in Rambo Last Blood with 5 to 1 playing.

Classics mate

[Clacton White]

Easy for me......Rebellion festival at Blackpool . Days of punk bands , famous and not so famous .

[The Subhuman]

Isn't listening to one type of music a bit like eating the same food everyday

[1964white]

Isn't listening to one type of music a bit like eating the same food everyday

Yes

[hector]

I could eat beans on toast everyday..

[1964white]

I could eat beans on toast everyday..

I eat porridge with fruit & yogurt to start every day off even when I'm on holiday

Soup followed by fruit for lunch most days too

[Clacton White]

I know from first hand 'London Calling' is your favourite album.

Never seen The Clash but going from two live bootlegs + a official live recording on my shelves I'd assume the Brixton boys would be one of the great live acts of all-time

Saw then live in '79 , but by then they were going away from their early punk sound and I lost interest in them , sorry to say but London Calling did little for me . Some say it's the greatest punk album ever , but to me they had left punk behind by then ........having said that I was getting into the much harder punk stuff like Crass , Rejects , Exploited and many more . Over 40 years later I still listen to the same stuff but can sort of listen to LC and appreciate it a bit more , however I couldn't listen to the next album Sandanista .

[Clacton White]

I could eat beans on toast everyday..

So could Just I but my work colleagues don't appreciate it . If I then do so it would be deliberate .

[Smudge3920]

I could eat beans on toast everyday..

You and me both mate ... put an egg on top for a special treat to ... ...Breakfast of champions

[gessa]

I eat porridge with fruit & yogurt for breakfast everyday

Soup followed by fruit for lunch most days too

I see prison food isn't anymore imaginative than it ever was.
How do you get so much internet time

[gessa]

You and me both mate ... put an egg on top for a special treat to ... ...Breakfast of champions

Has to have a soft poached egg on top, that you break over the beans.

[Smudge3920]

I see prison food isn't anymore imaginative than it ever was.
How do you get so much internet time

[White Riot]

Isn't listening to one type of music a bit like eating the same food everyday

I used to work with a lad who had the same bait everyday
Cheddar cheese sandwiches on sliced white bread, a pot of strawberry yoghurt, a packet of McCoy's Ridge Cut Flame Grilled Steak crisps and 4 ginger nut biscuits.
They were all packed into his bait-box in exactly the same order.
I used to ask him every morning "What are you having for bait today Gary?"

Each to their own mate, he couldn't understand why you would need to eat anything different

[gessa]

Anyone got their 3 day marquee festival sorted yet.

[Muppet the Cat]

Anyone got their 3 day marquee festival sorted yet.

Have been giving it some thought, but still negotiating with some agents/managers so final line-up yet to be confirmed