Foo Fighters Triumph In Festival Poll


NME’s annual Festival poll has culled the opinions of 10,000 of its readers about who were the best bands during this year’s festival season, with Foo Fighers topping the list and Babyshambles failing in remarkable style…


The new poll featured in this week’s edition of the NME collated the votes of over 10,000 readers to find out how this year’s festival season fared against previous summers and
which bands were the most, and least impressive.

Pleasingly enough nearly half of the readers polled (45%) named 2005 the best summer ever for live music, but despondingly only 25% of people admitted to having sex at Glastonbury (also voted the best music event of 2005) this year. Last year nearly half the punters asked said they found time to romp – then again, the weather was hardly conducive to that kind of thing.

As for the best bands, there’s a predictably strong showing for Pixies and Oasis in fourth and fifth position, while Kasabian and Arcade Fire were judged equal second but Foo Fighters romped home with 16% of the vote as the best band of the festival year.
Sadly for Pete Doherty, with 13% of the vote Babyshambles were voted the worse festival attraction of the year, that said, Oasis were voted the second most useless festival act, just ahead of Razorlight and Iron Maiden.

Interestingly, equal seventh were the uber-popular Kaiser Chiefs and the universally loathed Maroon 5, which goes to proved how enormously confusing these polls can be and how fickle the gig-going (i.e. you) public is.

Check out the NME for the full poll results.

The Best Bands Of The Summer

1. Foo Fighters (16%)
2 = Kasabian and Arcade Fire (13%)
4. Pixies (12%)
5. Oasis (10%)
6. The Killers (8%)
7. Kaiser Chiefs (8%)
8. Coldplay (7%)
9. Green Day (7%)
10. Artic Monkeys (6%)

The Worst Band Of The Summer

1. Babyshambles (13%)
2. The Killers (5%)
3. Oasis (4%)
4. Razorlight (3%)
5. Iron Maiden (3%)
6. The Bravery (2%)
7. Keane (2%)
8= Kaiser Chiefs and Maroon 5 (1.5%)
9. Greenday (1%)