Thanks to inventions such as photoshop and even to a larger extent, the internet, fake lineups for summer festivals exist, and often result in unnecessary excitement and baseless rumors. As more and more make the rounds of the web, we’d like to offer a bit of warning…

These lineups are generally made by either shameless bloggers and/or message board users, who generally create them for nothing more but the unnecessary hoopla and corresponding readership that results from their existence.

Coachella is easily the festival that generates the most of these fake lineups. Since almost last fall, we’ve had to deal with numerous fake Coachella posters for this year’s lineup. There was even one that prompted a response by David Bowie’s official website.

While lacking creative and colorful posters, Bonnaroo-goers still created experienced rumored, fake lineups as well. Though perhaps the most memorable of these was so top heavy that few if anyone actually believed it. In other words, Bonnaroo fans neither create unneeded excitement, nor are that gullible.

But then again, these lineups can also serve another purpose…

For example, lets look at Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits. With lineups still TBA, the fake lineups and posters for these festivals are starting to make their rounds around the internet, which is particularly funny for one reason. These posters are advertised as fake to begin with.

As noted some months ago, I ran a prediction game on the Lollapalooza message boards. The main purpose of the game was to come up with a realistic and ideal lineup for this summer’s Lollapalooza. The game ran smoothly, and in the end, we came up with a pretty neat lineup. Yet despite the words of warning and the clear markings of a fake lineup, some on the internet are still believing it’s the real deal.

ACL has a similar message board chosen lineup.

So the point of the this post?

While certainly entertaining and interesting to look at, these fake lineups and resulting posters lead to nothing, but trouble. Watch yourself and don’t got caught up in the baseless hoopla.

This has been a public service announcement from Consequence of Sound.

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