Longitude Line-Up

Lord Nikon

Just spotted the line-up for this years Longitude, and didn't recognize any of the acts. Is it aimed squarely at under 18 year olds? Like last year Mumford & Sons and Hozier were playing, this year seems like a kiddyfest. Boo-urns

Ken.

We have a radio in work and an ad came on for Longitude and I (nearly 40) had never heard of any of the bands/groups/whatever announced. The 23 year old that works with me had also never heard of any of them. I thought they were young people acts and he thought they were old people acts.

Knex*

I'm 27. Myself and the vast majority of my friends are very happy with that initial announcement. There's a lot of quality rap artists there, for one thing, and a few more solid acts like Sampha and Anderson Paak. Even Jacobs Banks is pretty good.

I'd have about 10 acts there already that I'd go see on their own.

RobertKK

I'm 41 and I know some of the acts...

Solange is Beyonce's sister.
Travis Scott did that song with Camila Cabello.
Saw Mabel on the music channels, same with Cardi B.

donegaLroad

I just checked the website, I don't know one act.

20Cent

Tyler the creator would be good.
Big Shaq is a comedian taking the piss.

Never heard of the rest of them.

Who calls their band "the internet" ffs.

bee06

I’ve heard of all the headline acts and a lot of the other ones (I’m in my thirties). It’s generally more of a hip hop. / R&B “themed” festival. Last year two out of the three days were the same with Stormzy and the Weeknd headlining.

Herb Powell

20Cent wrote: »

Tyler the creator would be good.
Big Shaq is a comedian taking the piss.

Never heard of the rest of them.

Who calls their band "the internet" ffs.

An extremely talented young musician by the name of Syd. She was part of Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All when they were active.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fuf3_eW85s

This whole thing is the biggest load of online nonsense I've ever seen. It's a festival, no one has to go, but for fucck sake, don't proudly claim to be so out of touch like it's some kind of badge of honour.

greenflash

Then you've obviously not seen much online nonsense before.

RobertKK

Personally I think Khalid will be one of the main highlights and will impress people who might not know his music.

Herb Powell

I've seen loads, but most "controversies" seem to have at least some kind of point to them, however stupid they may otherwise be. This has literally none.

Arghus

Herb Powell wrote: »

An extremely talented young musician by the name of Syd. She was part of Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All when they were active.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fuf3_eW85s

This whole thing is the biggest load of online nonsense I've ever seen. It's a festival, no one has to go, but for fucck sake, don't proudly claim to be so out of touch like it's some kind of badge of honour.

It's After Hours: It's largely populated by a bunch of no-craic carmudgeons who hate people in any way different to themselves, especially the young.

stead

I'm 20 and know all the acts bar a few of the smaller ones towards the end of the bill. It's probably not your age group and/or genre.

Randle P. McMurphy

Herb Powell wrote: »

An extremely talented young musician by the name of Syd. She was part of Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All when they were active.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fuf3_eW85s

This whole thing is the biggest load of online nonsense I've ever seen. It's a festival, no one has to go, but for fucck sake, don't proudly claim to be so out of touch like it's some kind of badge of honour.

Surely nobody takes this garbage seriously? Are they some kind of parody act? They seem to be taking the piss out of somebody or some genre, but I can't figure out who or what.

Ken.

Arghus wrote: »

It's After Hours: It's largely populated by a bunch of no-craic carmudgeons who hate people in any way different to themselves, especially the young.

And your point is?

sabat

Randle P. McMurphy wrote: »

Surely nobody takes this garbage seriously? Are they some kind of parody act? They seem to be taking the piss out of somebody or some genre, but I can't figure out who or what.

You've never heard jazz influenced soul music before? It's only been around for about 60 years...

user2011

Post Malone.. worth the ticket money alone

ChunkyLover54

It looks promising...but its no Feile '93.

riffmongous

Take my twix by force

longshanks

Vodafone ad song band are pretty good

Ficheall

Wtf is Longitude?

Richard Hillman

They did the same with Oxegen. It started off as a band festival for indie/light rock and then over the years they professed to dance and rap music, thus lowering the tone and age of the clientele. Then people stopped going because of the tone of the clientele leading the failure of the festival.

Now wash, rinse, repeat. Some whizz at MCD is literally doing the exact same thing.

chosen1

Wonder if there's any token white acts on the line-up?

biko

http://www.longitude.ie/line-up

Heard a few but nothing worth going for imo

bee06

chosen1 wrote: »

Wonder if there's any token white acts on the line-up?

Not a Post Malone or Diplo fan so I’m guessing. I doubt they were booked as “tokens” though.

GhostyMcGhost

Herb Powell wrote: »

An extremely talented young musician by the name of Syd. She was part of Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All when they were active.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fuf3_eW85s

Elevator Music would have been a better name


Might go see giggs. Always wondered what he's been up to since he left united

20Cent

That's millenials for you.
Easy listening R&B jazz sh1te.
Won't even get locked at it.

Roger Hassenforder

Herb Powell wrote: »

An extremely talented young musician by the name of Syd. She was part of Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All when they were active.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fuf3_eW85s

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jhegarty

Relikk

Herb Powell wrote: »

She was part of Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All when they were active.

Ohhhhhhh, them...

Herb Powell

Relikk wrote: »

Ohhhhhhh, them...

:D:D

Right, this thread does it, I'm officially too young for this place.

ToddyDoody

Conspectus wrote: »

We have a radio in work

Nice.

Ferris_Bueller

I have heard of most of the acts playing it but have absolutely no interest in any of them. It will be very popular with younger people or fans of that kind of music though and will probably still sell out. I suppose it's unfair to say the lineup is rubbish as if you do like that genre of music it's probably a great lineup, but what bothers me about it is that most people who have gone to Longitude over the past few years have kind of been forgotten about. There is no variety in the lineup at all, in previous years you would get a nice mix of all types of music over the three days but they have completely ditched that approach now and seem to be solely catering for one group of people. I can definitely see why a lot of people are unhappy with it as if you've gone every year since it began you would probably have been expecting something that would interest you.

Hector Bellend

I'll be **** and crying that weekend.

The fact that I don't know who is playing the Longitude festival this year upsets me greatly. I have to ease the pain somehow.

Atoms for Peace

Solange sounds like a brand name of orange juice sold in a discount supermarket.

retro:electro

Line ups from back in my day. #neverforget

s7ryf3925pivug

Belly supported REM in Slane in 1995 so they probably aren’t aimed at today’s teenagers. I quite like Solange; she would be great outside on a summery day. Most of the other names I don’t know, but I don’t know too many current musicians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy9W_mrY_Vk

wakka12

im 22..only knew a few of them..Just cardi B and post malone as they had a few recent hits that I heard..My brother who's 18 is very excited about the lineup, he's big into hip hop and that stuff, so artists like tyler the creator I recognise the name of because of him always banging on about it, never heard any of his songs though

So yeh I think its mostly very young audience its aimed at!

wakka12

anna080 wrote: »

Line ups from back in my day. #neverforget

Wow thats an unreal line up!
Lady Gaga..Clavin Harris..Katy Perry..Florence and the Machine..M83 all in tiny writing..sure had good choice that year

bee06

wakka12 wrote: »

So yeh I think its mostly very young audience its aimed at!

I think it’s a line up for people who like a specific genre rather than young people. Unless I’m still young! (I’m definitely not!)

DavidLyons_

Jaylee Powerful Postage wrote: »

Belly supported REM in Slane in 1995 so they probably aren’t aimed at today’s teenagers. I quite like Solange; she would be great outside on a summery day. Most of the other names I don’t know, but I don’t know too many current musicians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy9W_mrY_Vk

Not the same Belly.

Deary me, that Solange song is sh1te. As is the one above by The Internet. Contrived, unoriginal crap.

Very poor, one dimensional lineup.

Thankfully, it will hopefully mean none of this drek and its skanger fans will be at EP.

Roger Hassenforder

anna080 wrote: »

Line ups from back in my day. #neverforget

that's some line up.
Didn't realise Blizards and The Coronascript were around that long.


Eagles of Death Metal as well. Well before what they became famous for unfortunately.

Autosport

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

that's some line up.
Didn't realise Blizards and The Coronascript were around that long.


Eagles of Death Metal as well. Well before what they became famous for unfortunately.

I was at that Oxegen . it was one hell of a weekend .

Badly Drunk Boy

I'll be 45 in 2 days but I've heard of some of these acts, even if I'm not into them, although the last gig I went to in Dublin (last November) was hip-hop/rap stuff, just not like this. The good thing about going to a festival is for the variety of music styles, discovering a great band by accident, maybe something that you never would have heard, but the promoters for Longitude have messed up by narrowing the musical style this year.

DavidLyons_ wrote: »

Not the same Belly.

Deary me, that Solange song is sh1te. As is the one above by The Internet. Contrived, unoriginal crap.

Very poor, one dimensional lineup.

Thankfully, it will hopefully mean none of this drek and its skanger fans will be at EP.

I was just about to say that it was a different Belly. The Belly that supported REM in Slane also played at the Sunstroke festival in 1993. They'd be very out of place at this year's Longitude.

Playing Longitude:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZycR8EkQsIs

Not playing Longitude:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTtdtURXKqc

Roger Hassenforder

ah... the memories, my first festival...




the carnage




no quinoa and hummus salad in those days!

suicide_circus

Never heard of any of them. But then I'm not the target audience. The last hippity hop I enjoyed was cypress hill.

GhostyMcGhost

Lord Nikon

Have any of the line-up had any chart songs/hits even. Clearly is focused on a niche market, which my brother spouted on about them have maybe one decent track each. But surely, a festival would have some mainliners that would be at least recognizable, that would interest all age groups of Hip-Hop.

Like I don't like Rap/HipHop, Rock/Metal music, but I would recognize artists and bands that were decent enough over the last 20 years, to be at least headlining or supporting at a festival.

As a previous poster said, Oxygen was brilliant 10 years ago, and last few years before it ended the festival went all EDM, and that why it ended, as it didn't provide for everyone.

Boom_Bap

I know most of them :cool:

Solange is Beyonce's sister!
I'm considering going to this to see J.Cole, Tyler, Anderson .Paak Post Malone, Joey Badass, Migos and Travis.

I haven't heard but bits and bobs from 6lack, but he is supposed to be extremely talented.

RocketRaccoon

I was definitely into music up until about 5 years ago, from oxegen to witnness I only missed 1 which was towards the end when it went ****e. But at least I knew who the acts were every year.

Now, I feel like my parents must have felt back in those halcyon days of the early 00s when I explained what gig I was going to.

Enjoy it kids, it won't last forever.

wakka12

Lord Nikon wrote: »

Have any of the line-up had any chart songs/hits even. Clearly is focused on a niche market, which my brother spouted on about them have maybe one decent track each. But surely, a festival would have some mainliners that would be at least recognizable, that would interest all age groups of Hip-Hop.

Like I don't like Rap/HipHop, Rock/Metal music, but I would recognize artists and bands that were decent enough over the last 20 years, to be at least headlining or supporting at a festival.

As a previous poster said, Oxygen was brilliant 10 years ago, and last few years before it ended the festival went all EDM, and that why it ended, as it didn't provide for everyone.

Bodak Yellow by cardi B and Fall apart by Post malone were big chart hits