Electric Picnic 2012

stephen.87

Had the best weekend of my life there this year and definitely going back next year. What bands/artists do you want to see playing 2012? This thread can also be where official announcements are posted.

Wishlist for me in no particular order
Florence and the Machine
Daft Punk
Muse
Mumford and Sons
Justice
Elbow
Sigur Ros
Antony and the Johnsons

The list goes on im sure

bodhrandude

Aphex Twin (long overdue a visit to the Picnic) - Electric Arena
The Knife or Fever Ray (Since Lykke Li performed Silent Shout this year and why not, I ask)
Hawkwind - Any stage
Gong (for Body & Soul main stage)
Ozric Tentacles - B & S
John Foxx (for retro 80s synth act) - Any stage
Dick Gaughan - B & S
Iggy Pop & the Stooges (a welcome return would be nice) Main Stage
Boards of Canada - Little Big tent
Sacred Spirit - Electric Arena
Bat for Lashes - Main Stage or Electric Arena
Bjork - Main Stage
Venetian Snares - Little Big Tent
Squarepusher - Little Big Tent
Autechre - Little Big Tent

stephen.87

Aphex Twin
The Knife
Bjork

Totally agree that would be awesome, although did Aphex Twin not play Forbidden Fruit festival at the start of this summer?

Also would like to add The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

bodhrandude

stephen.87 wrote: »

Aphex Twin
The Knife
Bjork

Totally agree that would be awesome, although did Aphex Twin not play Forbidden Fruit festival at the start of this summer?

Also would like to add The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

He did but Forbidden Fruit aint the Electric Picnic, I cant think of a better festival to suit him down to the ground.

hmmm...

I can't wait for next year!


Beck (Main stage)
Beastie Boys (Main stage)
Hawkwind (any stage)
Aphex Twin
Fever Ray or the Knife
White Hills - great space rock - Little big tent
TwinKranes - Any stage
Sonic Youth - Electric Arena
Henry Rollins - Spoken Word
Fat Freddy's Drop - Body and Soul
Asobi Seksu - Any stage
The Prodigy - Main Stage
Magnetic Fields - body and soul
Stevie Wonder - Main stage

Can I buy my ticket already???

MadsL

Had the best weekend of my life there this year

You need to get out more...:p

+1 on Hawkwind, Sonic Youth, Aphex Twin & Squarepusher

WindmillWarrior

Super Furry Animals.

old gregg

it's a long shot but I'd love to see a stage/tent specically for Metal

stephen.87

Me too but I seriously doubt it...

Captain Darling

The Smiths, the Stone Roses, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix.

danniemcq

Captain Darling wrote: »

The Smiths, the Stone Roses, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix.

and a pink floyd reunion

although with a line up like that we'd need Carlsberg to sponsor it not Heineken

MeetReality

For next year I would love to see any of the following on the lineup

Aphex Twin
Amon Tobin
The Knife
Nicolas Jaar
The Field
Mounth Kimbie
Portishead
Massive Attack
Soap & Skin
M83
Bon Iver

and perhaps a return from Paul Kalkbrenner!

H8GHOTI

Only 356 more sleeps

H8GHOTI

stephen.87 wrote: »

Daft Punk

Would be great. I won't get my hopes up though.

On the EP Facebook & Twitter pages, earlier today they've actually asked who would we like to see next year. Although I doubt the promoters will actually take much notice of the answers.
Over 1000 comments on the Facebook page already. Had a quick look through the top few and loads of people mentioning Daft Punk. Probably more than any other band.

This year was my 3rd time going & I bought early bird tickets the last two years.
I got sick of hoping for certain bands to be announced & now just enjoy finding out about artists that I hadn't heard of before. It always ends up being good come September.

If the line-up next year is as good as the last three I'll be happy.

P-Funk All stars would be pretty cool too.

Rud

My dream headliners at EP would be Prince and Daft Punk.I was lucky enough to see Daft Punk in Marley Park and at Oxegen and they would be more than suitable for Stradbally.Pure legends!

also i agree with the above statement about having a tent just for metal music and have Slayer and RATM headline it.That would be sweet

scudzilla

old gregg wrote: »

it's a long shot but I'd love to see a stage/tent specically for Metal

I'd be there like a shot if they had a Metal stage, and with ticket sales this year being pretty poor it'd make so much sense to have a metal stage, would sell a **** load of tickets (possibly 10,000) to fans who wouldn't normally go

melekalikimaka

aphex twin
die antwoord
mc lars
michael franti
richard cheese
chris cunningham
the horrorpops
lords of acid
nenah cherry
juliette lewis and the licks

melekalikimaka

scudzilla wrote: »

I'd be there like a shot if they had a Metal stage, and with ticket sales this year being pretty poor it'd make so much sense to have a metal stage, would sell a **** load of tickets (possibly 10,000) to fans who wouldn't normally go

it would dilute the festival too much, jack of all trade fests are prone to failure... stick to boutique

karaokeman

Noel Gallagher
Muse
Snow Patrol
The Strokes
Damien Rice
Mumford & Sons
Ryan Sheridan
The Kooks

Thundercats Ho

karaokeman wrote: »

Noel Gallagher
Muse
Snow Patrol
The Strokes
Damien Rice
Mumford & Sons
Ryan Sheridan
The Kooks

All Oxegen acts imo (even if M+S played there in 2010)

old gregg

melekalikimaka wrote: »

it would dilute the festival too much, jack of all trade fests are prone to failure... stick to boutique

I'd not agree with this. It's a jack of all trades fest in that you can already hear pretty much most genres of music perhaps with the exception of metal though I'm sure if you look hard enough you'll hear some around the place.

I'd accept that metal is one of those genres that folks who don't like it can be quite outspoken in their opposition the the very presence of metal at a festival. I'm reminded of asking one of the folks at artist checkin at Knockanstockan 2 years ago about whether there would be any metal and was promptly told "No because metal is ****". But, there's a large enough metal audience in Ireland who are not being looked after during festival season and who perhaps are not large enough to warrant a metal specific festival of their own. A metal tent at EP might be a means to keep the metal folks happy and add a little more to what's on offer at EP without attempting to turn it into anything more than what it musically already is.


As an aside .... I work specifically in the area of ambient/space/orchestral electronic music and have met countless numbers of similar artists at festivals around Europe and when we're not working on peaceful, beatless music we all listen to metal. Curious one that. Anyway, us spacey types would like some metal at EP, please

Dubhthamlacht

Would love to see at next's years EP:

Low
Yo La Tengo
Portishead
M83
Fleet Foxes
Grizzly Bear
Cloud Control
The Black Keys
Mother Mother
Sloan
Sonic Youth
Edan
Director
The Radioactive Grandma
Enemies
Bon Iver
Late of the Pier
Anna Calvi
Wild Beasts

Korvanica

Infected Mushroom - A live set - I would actually weep with joy if this happened.
Blackmill
Feed Me
Mount Eden
Flux Pavillion

Don't think so too ? listen to each song ^^^

Also...

Daft Punk
Justice
Deadmau5
Benga
Skream

melekalikimaka

old gregg wrote: »

I'd not agree with this. It's a jack of all trades fest in that you can already hear pretty much most genres of music perhaps with the exception of metal though I'm sure if you look hard enough you'll hear some around the place.

I'd accept that metal is one of those genres that folks who don't like it can be quite outspoken in their opposition the the very presence of metal at a festival. I'm reminded of asking one of the folks at artist checkin at Knockanstockan 2 years ago about whether there would be any metal and was promptly told "No because metal is ****". But, there's a large enough metal audience in Ireland who are not being looked after during festival season and who perhaps are not large enough to warrant a metal specific festival of their own. A metal tent at EP might be a means to keep the metal folks happy and add a little more to what's on offer at EP without attempting to turn it into anything more than what it musically already is.

whilst the festival does play most types of music, it all works, metal would mess the dynamic up. I've been to download in Donnington last few years, whopper gig, metal and serious fun, I cant see the crowds gelling tbh tbh

I'd agree with that.

karaokeman

Thundercats Ho wrote: »

karaokeman wrote: »

Noel Gallagher
Muse
Snow Patrol
The Strokes
Damien Rice
Mumford & Sons
Ryan Sheridan
The Kooks

All Oxegen acts imo (even if M+S played there in 2010)

Suppose, I was never really into EP. Don't really know many of the bands who play every year, barr a few like Arcade Fire.

But if Noel Gallagher doesn't play the o2 by next spring and if he's at EP I will defo be there. Note how I had him up first. Was raging when I couldn't get a ticket for his Olympia gig.

Muse will probably not be playing at Oxegen again as they said their new album will be more suited to smaller venues. So I would say perhaps if not EP, it would be two dates at the o2.

All the rest I wouldn't mind missing but at the same time would preferably see them live than never at all.

old gregg

melekalikimaka wrote: »

whilst the festival does play most types of music, it all works, metal would mess the dynamic up. I've been to download in Donnington last few years, whopper gig, metal and serious fun, I cant see the crowds gelling tbh tbh

how would metal mess the dynamic up?

melekalikimaka

the atmosphere for metal festivals is hughly different to any other, i work a festivals, all over uk nd download is the only metal one, did bloodstock but its quite small, the crowd, the atmopshere is all vastly different from any of the others, not in a bad way, but i think metal fans take the music more seriously and can see electric picnics crowd clashing with that greatly

old gregg

I'm sure there are enough people who attend the EP and just happen to also like metal to make it worthwhile having a space for metal. I've performed at techno, psytrance, ambient, festivals around Europe and those genre specific festivals would have a distinct crowd too and I'd not drop a metal stage into any of them. A mixed genre festival that's minus a major genre is missing out a little I think. Maybe some folks might enjoy a half hour head bang before moving on to the main stage. Maybe a tent full of metal fans is not going to interfere with the tent full of techno fans or elsewhere.

Actually...

I've changed my mind. If they modeled the stage like this I'd be all for it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsfA-7ot2k4

budgemook

Fever Ray played last year and wasn't great tbh. The Knife would be amazing though however heir live shows are very few and far between. They don't really like that sort of thing :rolleyes:

They have a new album coming out though so maybe.

Personally I would love to see a return from Israeli rockers Monotonix. Preferably in the inflatable church.

Ain't it a bit early for this thread?

karaokeman

Another band I would love to see at EP is Coldplay.

Too big for the festival so no doubt there is no chance of this happening.

karaokeman

karaokeman wrote: »

Another band I would love to see at EP is Coldplay.

Too big for the festival so no doubt there is no chance of this happening.

As middle class as EP is....


ewwwwwww.....

bodhrandude

I know I asked for Bjork for next year but the reports coming back from Bestival dont look too good. I thought her show at EP 2007 was brilliant, just the perfect amount of new and old tracks. The Bestival complaints centre on the fact that she played mostly new material and that she didnt allow the use of screens for close ups and so pissed off the audience at the back. Cant see it affecting EP though as they never use screens anyway. Have to admit that the Underworld show this year benefited from having their show projected onto the sides and probably got the best reaction of the weekend simply because people from the back could see more of the action.

http://www.sundaybest.net/site/forums/viewforum.php?forumId=8&name=Bestival%20Banter&threadStart=15&showthread=11863

lordgoat

Bowie. I hear he's playing Primavera next year.


Hello pointless list thread.

Toast

The reason metal is rarely at these sort of festivals isn't just that it lacks much in the way of crossover appeal from other genres but that within metal's own sub-genres there isn't a huge amount of crossover appeal. You can have a line up with a black metal band and a gothic metal band and find only about 20% of the people would like both bands and the rest of the world would ask "aren't they the same thing?". It really needs its own festival to be done properly.

H8GHOTI

budgemook wrote: »

Fever Ray played last year and wasn't great tbh.

One of my favourite EP performances ever. Thought it was amazing.
Next year would probably be too soon but I would welcome them back with open arms.

readyletsgo

As someone already said on page one, Boards of Canada would be AMAZING!

But they will never play, last gig they did was in 2001/2 or something, but they would be perfect for EP.

Beekay

Plenty of festivals across Europe mange to mix metal/Hard Rock with all other genres
Pukkelpop
Pinkpop
Rock Am Ring etc.

melekalikimaka

pukkelpop...metal??? maybe a dash of hard rock, but very mainstream... like 2010... the heaviest was probably danko jones.... which i'd border on pop imo.

rock am is not a mixed festival, its focused on rock acts... its not a boutique festival

Beekay

melekalikimaka wrote: »

pukkelpop...metal??? maybe a dash of hard rock, but very mainstream... like 2010... the heaviest was probably danko jones.... which i'd border on pop imo.

rock am is not a mixed festival, its focused on rock acts... its not a boutique festival

Just had a quick glance over Pukkelpop 2010 and seen Iron Maiden and Gojira in the line up

Yes Rock Am Ring is Rock focused but has a very decent mixture of other genres in there over the years, take a look at the line up since it has began...Robbie Williams has played it

I'm not even sure if EP should have much metal but a sprinkle couldn't be bad...wouldn't mind some Deftones

honru

Pukkelpop has booked Iron Maiden, Meshuggah, Nightwish, Fear Factory, Ministry and Tool to name a handful so they do do their bit to incorporate some metal. Roskilde and Sziget are another two examples.

Metal at EP? As much as I would be down with it I don't know how much of a popular move that would be. I don't think a designated stage is a good idea but perhaps booking one or two acts on the heavier side of things? I can see it now: Opeth headlining the Electric Arena.

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lordgoat wrote: »

Hello pointless list thread.

Quoted for emphasis.

Will this thread be bumped every day for a year with peoples wild fantasies? We've this, Oxegen and Slane all for 2012 already.
Its a year away like, no one involved even has any idea.

ghostdancer

Beekay wrote: »

I'm not even sure if EP should have much metal but a sprinkle couldn't be bad...wouldn't mind some Deftones

i agree, i'm pretty much a pure indie/'electronica' head, but a couple of harder rock/metal acts wouldn't be unwelcome.
i'd love to see Deftones over here too, they were playing around Europe when EP was on, and i think they would have got a good crowd in a tent in the late evening/early night at EP.
there were actually a lot of acts playing Reading/Leeds and Bestival (each on the weekends either side of EP), which would gone down well IMO, but weren't booked for whatever reason...

stephen.87

nm wrote: »

Quoted for emphasis.

Will this thread be bumped every day for a year with peoples wild fantasies? We've this, Oxegen and Slane all for 2012 already.
Its a year away like, no one involved even has any idea.

No one involved has any idea? Pffft of course they do its just early days for them to announce it i'd imagine? The reason I put this up as I am used to attending metal festivals and normally they get the fans psyched up with an announcement 8, 9, 10, 11 months before hand depends on the festival.

Not sure would a whole m,etal tent work, Id love it but not sure would it work. Anyway there are so many irish metal bands that would be class in the line up through out the day to headbang along too. And also a lot of stuff which isn't as heavy and would tick boxes in other genres.

bodhrandude

Would not mind getting this guy for the Little Big Tent again, I was probably watching Madness and then 2ManyDJs on the main stage when this guy was frying minds at the 2009 Electric Picnic. Duke Dumont, serious head wrecking electro, which I looooooove.

http://soundcloud.com/dukedumont/sets/duke-dumont-live-electric-picnic-ireland-sept-09/

bodhrandude

Would love to see them at the Picnic again, Iggy Pop and the Stooges. Listen to their mad set from 2007 EP, my favourite highlight of all the Picnics.
http://soundcloud.com/korrrrrr/iggy-pop-the-stooges-electric

Jeden

Anyone ever check out the comedy at EP? Always meant to tip on down, but kind of get caught up with the music (and the fun fair if I'm honest!).

Wonder if this is an area that will grow in the future.....would love to see Dylan Moran down at EP 2012.

ItsAWindUp

Predictions anyone?

Furious-Red

Anyone think EP might nab Stone Roses? Kinda like Pulp this year