Which would you choose Slane? Oxegen? Electric Picnic?

RachaelVO

The entire life up for Slane 2011 has been announced

http://www.rte.ie/ten/2011/0405/slane.html

Joining the headliners will be Elbow, Thin Lizzy and White Lies.

Mona and The Whigs complete the bill.

Tickets for the event, marking the 30th anniversary of the first Slane show, sold out in under 40 minutes.

So seeing as money is tight for most of us right now, if all three were an option which would you choose. I'm personally thinking Electric Picnic, but I'm curious to see what everyone else would choose

Aisling(",)

None of them have a line up that interests me this year.

Sergeant

For once, the line-up at Electric Picnic is as good as the venue itself.

So Electric Picnic.

maximoose

Slane sounds muck

Going to both Oxegen and EP.

McTigs

Picnic all the way!

I've never seen the appeal of slane tbh and oxegen is is just a terrible terrible festival.

I've been to all but one of the picnics and had a ball each time

Pace2008

In before someone mentions a European festival that isn't in the listed options.

If I were to pick one it'd be EP. I'm too old for Oxegen and Slane's going to be a ****ing buzzerfest.

maximoose

McTigs wrote: »

Picnic all the way!

I've never seen the appeal of slane tbh and oxegen is is just a terrible terrible festival.

I've been to all but one of the picnics and had a ball each time

I wouldn't go as far as a terrible terrible festival, but it's definitely going downhill. The last few years the crowd has just been getting worse and worse, no doubt some part of that down to the increasing amount of pop and rap acts being added. Saying that though I've had a great weekend all 7 years.

But EP is just something else

RachaelVO

Pace2008 wrote: »

In before someone mentions a European festival that isn't in the listed options.

If I were to pick one it'd be EP. I'm too old for Oxegen and Slane's going to be a ****ing buzzerfest.

I deliberately didn't choose a European festival!!!

Saila

Picnic

kraggy

I think this year's line-up at the Picnic is the best yet.

Pity I can't go.

And Kings of Leon are crap. No way I'd go see them. So that's Slane dismissed.

As for Oxygen. Not a chance..

Pace2008

maximoose wrote: »

I wouldn't go as far as a terrible terrible festival, but it's definitely going downhill. The last few years the crowd has just been getting worse and worse I've been getting older, I'm afraid

I think it's been pretty much the same every year, man. It's just that as I move through my twenties my tolerance for kids and wreckheads is diminishing.

Life Festival's less than two months away, though

maximoose

Pace2008 wrote: »

I think it's been pretty much the same every year, man. It's just that as I move through my twenties my tolerance for kids and wreckheads is diminishing.

You could be right, this getting old and growing up business is a bollix eh?

Degag

None of them. Overpriced drink, Overpriced food. Drugged up fcukers setting fire to tents. Toilets that wouldn't be tolerated in India. No thanks.

TeddyTedson

Pace2008 wrote: »

In before someone mentions a European festival that isn't in the listed options.

If I were to pick one it'd be EP. I'm too old for Oxegen and Slane's going to be a ****ing buzzerfest.

What age is too old for oxegen?
Not trying to be a smart arse, I agree with you.
Just wondering what people think.

Da Shins Kelly

Electric Picnic looks really good this year. The others, not so much.

admiralofthefleet

none of them, i never had any interest in festivals

Sanjuro

The Script and The Black Eyed Peas?! BWA HAHAHAHAHAHA! Fuck Oxegen.

Aldebaran

People actually pay money to see Kings of Leon?

maximoose

Sanjuro wrote: »

The Script and The Black Eyed Peas?! BWA HAHAHAHAHAHA! Fuck Oxegen.

Sums up how crap Oxegen has become really, worst headline acts ever.

Captain Darling

Brilliant line up at the Picnic. Going to Slane, but not because i like any of the bands.

The Kilmainham Forbidden Fruits Festival actually is better then anything else that is going on this year.

Oh, and Whipping Boy play the Roisin Dubh on the 20th May.

Tubsandtiles

The lineup for Oxegen is amazing this year but too expensive for me..Strokes and Arctic Monkeys etc . Finishing the leaving cert in 2009 I headed to Oxegen with alot of friends, had a great weekend and went out of my way to be nice to people if they asked for a fag or directions . It's just a certain group of scumbags or idiots that make a bad experience for alot of people :mad:. Kings of Leon I'd say.

Pace2008

Captain Darling wrote: »

The Kilmainham Forbidden Fruits Festival actually is better then anything else that is going on this year.

Aye, the lineup's unreal and to me it seemed the whole thing just came out of nowhere.

Small festival's are where it's at.

Captain Darling

Pace2008 wrote: »

Aye, the lineup's unreal and to me it seemed the whole thing just came out of nowhere.

Small festival's are where it's at.

True, and i forgot to add that Oxegen sucks donkey cock.

Kiera

Only good thing about EP is I met my BF there. Didn’t like it down there at all. Reminded me of Oxegen with all the knackbags down there.

/he's not a knackbag :P

Layne

maximoose wrote: »

Sums up how crap Oxegen has become really, worst headline acts ever.

I have to agree, in fact the lineup in general is pretty crap. Been once and the oh the mud, the mud! Rock werchter in Belgium would be my fantasy fest this year, fantastic lineup and no drivel.

Slane is pretty cool but oh the traffic, the traffic! Don't get Kings of Leon either.

EL sounds great, decent lineup but oh the ticket price, the ticket price! Of the 3 though probably the most laid back and chilled.

Curve Music

Pace2008 wrote: »

Small festival's are where it's at.

You said it brotha

RachaelVO

Captain Darling wrote: »

The Kilmainham Forbidden Fruits Festival actually is better then anything else that is going on this year.

Is that the first year for this festival? I've never heard of it. When is it on?

Furious-Red

Prob the only person to say Oxegen. Never had a bad moment there since 2006 .
EP have their strongest Line Up although to expensive (i no Oxegen is expensive)

Slane not a hope even though i wouldnt mind seeing White Lies and Elbow again

karaokeman

What about Marlay Park?

Gillington

Lack of poll.

Picnic and Forbidden fruit for me although I just might sneak in a one day turn at oxegen to se The National again

Captain Darling

RachaelVO wrote: »

Is that the first year for this festival? I've never heard of it. When is it on?

Its the first year alright, but there has been gigs there before afaik.

BadTurtle

poxegen nicked screamadelica,fecking suits trying to make it cool by adding an event gig...ffs.might have to get a day ticket for that so....

Mick Electric

Grab the suncream and shades and head for Benicassim instead. The Strokes, Arcade Fire, Portishead, Primal Scream (playing Screamadelica at 2.30am on the main stage Saturday night !), Elbow, Friendly Fires, Beirut, The Streets, Mumford & Sons / Paolo Nutini (for the girls), Brandon Flowers, Noah & The Whale, The Stranglers, Tame Impala, The Go! Team, Big Audio Dynamite, Bombay Bicycle Club, Congotronics V Rockers, The Joy Formidable, Anna Calvi, The Morning Benders, And So I Watch You From Afar, O Emperor and the lovely Jerry Fish & his Mud Bug Club. Lazy afternoons on the beach followed by all night music.

Carlsberg don't do festivals, but if they did......

Curve Music

Gillington wrote: »

Lack of poll.

Picnic and Forbidden fruit for me although I just might sneak in a one day turn at oxegen to se The National again

You could make a weekend at Indiependence for the same price. I reckon you should.

Gillington

Curve Music wrote: »

You could make a weekend at Indiepdence for the same price. I reckon you should.

Hmmmm I'm intrigued as who this headliner's gonna be!

grenache

Never been to Slane but Oxegen is only for messers. Electric Picnic is the job. A proper music festival for real music lovers who dont go around acting like spoilt brats/dickheads like many of those at Oxegen.

lordgoat

Mick Electric wrote: »

Grab the suncream and shades and head for Benicassim instead. The Strokes, Arcade Fire, Portishead, Primal Scream (playing Screamadelica at 2.30am on the main stage Saturday night !), Elbow, Friendly Fires, Beirut, The Streets, Mumford & Sons / Paolo Nutini (for the girls), Brandon Flowers, Noah & The Whale, The Stranglers, Tame Impala, The Go! Team, Big Audio Dynamite, Bombay Bicycle Club, Congotronics V Rockers, The Joy Formidable, Anna Calvi, The Morning Benders, And So I Watch You From Afar, O Emperor and the lovely Jerry Fish & his Mud Bug Club. Lazy afternoons on the beach followed by all night music.

Carlsberg don't do festivals, but if they did......

It'd be Primavera or ATP.

Oxegen has more on it's line up than this does for me this year, i will concede that sunshine make everything alot better!!

Tubsandtiles

Sanjuro wrote: »

The Script and The Black Eyed Peas?! BWA HAHAHAHAHAHA! Fuck Oxegen.

You forgot headliners like Arctic monkeys, the Strokes and Coldplay, three amazing bands

Furious-Red

Tubsandtiles wrote: »

You forgot headliners like Arctic monkeys, the Strokes and Coldplay, three amazing bands

And the most important headliner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbpqZT_56Ns