Electric Picnic 2014 ** NO TICKET DISCUSSION ALLOWED ** see new mod note

bodhrandude wrote: »

Would like to see:
Aphex Twin / Tuss
Jon Hopkins
John Butler Trio
Iggy & the Stooges
LKJ and the Dennis Bovell Dub Band
Yellowman (main stage or Trenchtown)
Animal Collective
Butthole Surfers (curious, like)
Reid
Forward Strategy Group
Blur
Skatalites
Bocs Social (a great ska band from Wexford)
Bombskare (a great ska band from Edinburgh and practically resident at the Wickerman festival in Scotland)
David Gilmour (In light of getting the amazing Robert Plant this year, how about some Floyd classics next year)
Liz Fraser (ex-Cocteau Twins and Massive Attack)
Portishead
Ceephax Acid Crew
Boards of Canada
Daevid Allen with Steve Hillage, Gilli Smyth, Dider Malherbe, Tim Blake and Mike Howlett as GONG!
Hawkwind with Brock, Lemmy and Tim Blake at least
Daft Punk (but they can sell out numerous double the EP capacity events, so not realistic and EP would sell out too fast)
Prince (pretty eclectic enough but definitely a major headliner)
Air.

A few gems there

oh dear....here we go again

Well I might as well post my review for 2013, so that EP goers for 2014 can have a rough idea what to expect next year, except hopefully with its expanded Friday back, shameful plug to help my journalism career. http://niallmcquaid.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/electric-picnic-festival-2013-review/ Any hospitality passes for bloggers, EP? for 2014

So when is the announcement for this, I want Jon Hopkins to play it, in fact I want Jon Hopkins to play every Irish festival next year.

Mr.S wrote: »

Oxegen '13 originally had a max of 50k but then was reduced to 25k due to poor sales!

It doesn't need to be smaller to appeal to the "indie" crowd (not sure what that is tbh ). A decent mix of mainstream and unsigned, hot bands - keeping Body & Soul and having decent ticket prices will see EP succeed.

Gone are the days of EP being a small boutique festival. FR are involved now after all!

Admittedly I haven't been keeping up with Oxegen this year, I knew the sales were poor but I was unaware the capacity was reduced.

By the "indie" crowd I was referring to the music fans who might be interested in lesser known acts, bands like Flaming Lips, Wilco, Camera Obscura. I agree a good mix of mainstream, unsigned and bands somewhere in between like the aforementioned "indie" acts.

I was thinking EP could remain the same size, but whatever. Good thing is now more music fans can have the experience.

lordgoat wrote: »

Lesser known acts that have headlined festivals in this country?

Also Flaming lips are on warner and while wilco are now on their own label they've had plenty backing from majors. In fact warner hated and liked them so much they paid them twice for a record.

True they headlined festivals in this country, but none bigger than EP. My point is EP often caters to fans of lesser known acts.

I understand you might say they're not that unknown, when I talk of lesser known acts I mean bands that are not as well known as RHCP, the Killers, Green Day, Lady GaGa etc. I know Killers and Arctic Monkeys headlined the last 2 years, but I'm speaking about the majority of acts in general.

I generally say "indie crowd" to categorize fans of those "lesser known bands". I use that phrase for lack of a better term, because generally indie refers to a minority interest. It becomes problematic to use that term for independently signed acts because as you say plenty of indie bands still have a lot of major label backing.

That said you might have your own perception of the term and that's perfectly fine.

SV wrote: »

I know that, I just can't see where they'd fit them, the entire site is used at the moment isn't it?

Oxegen used to have a capacity of 80,000 and yet the festival site was much smaller than EP's festival site, I was at Oxegen in 2010 on a day trip on Sunday, I didn't see the campsite though which may have been bigger.

EP 2014? Nah thanks, see yous at body and soul. Its gone very Mc Picnic.

JG009 wrote: »

EP 2014? Nah thanks, see yous at body and soul. Its gone very Mc Picnic.

the same Body & Soul that screwed people this year to make profit for themselves and their sponsors? best of luck with that.

Bit of a leap of faith this year re: early birds! In the past I pretty much knew what I was going to get! Not too sure this time?
Will it be a 50,000 capacity, scum bag (& shallow D4 types) infested 'body & soul'less' picnic, headlined by Calvin Harris and SHM decided by the biggest sponsor! Airport style metal detectors at every entrance, sure why not remove the camp names, just have colours, cut down the trees, charge for car parking, guarantee places for the biggest paying food vendors and re-name all the stages to stage 1,2,3 etc. remove any element of kid friendliness, culture and thought provocation because it costs money, funnel post leaving cert. barely legal 'green' teens into a niche market crank up the price €3 water, €8 pint €10burger, turn them upside down to ensure every last coin is extracted! Adults after all fair game! (Wait this model already existed and failed!!) Could get about 4-5 steadily downhill years out of it until it's ruined by that time someone else inspirational will have created the next "hip" event, the cash from the last EP years can be used to muscle in and "re-form" this!! Sustainability? nope!! Grab as much cash as possible? Yes!!
Ott and dramatic I know, but it would be a real shame even if only 1% of this was true.
With the risk of sounding like one of those "oxegen was great when it was witness" c**ts I think we all have to admit the picnic as we know it is gone, I wish they could rename it at least so that we can distinguish which festival is being referred to while pub s**te talking!