Electric Picnic 2015

Toast

Fatfrog wrote: »

Look at this pleb! X7 years later. If it's too mucky don't walk into it ya fool! Reward fools Ireland's policy!

http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-claims-he-broke-ankle-when-he-got-stuck-in-the-mud-at-oxegen-music-festival-30654410.html

I dunno I was at Oxegen 2007 and it was a disaster mud wise. Mucky doesn't cover it. There was ankle high water across the entire main field.

breakfasttime

Toast wrote: »

I dunno I was at Oxegen 2007 and it was a disaster mud wise. Mucky doesn't cover it. There was ankle high water across the entire main field.

I saw guys peeing straight into rivers of mud all over the main arena. My god it was a filth village that year.

Furious-Red

breakfasttime wrote: »

I saw guys peeing straight into rivers of mud all over the main arena. My god it was a filth village that year.

Pretty sure it was either 06 or 07 i seen some scummer just piss in between 2 people at the main stage.

Fatfrog

Jeez dark evenings short days, festival season seems so far away!

What's happening with EP, no court case this year i wonder if we'll see 1-2 acts confirmed in the next few weeks, flog a few tickets as presents over Christmas?

hugeglobe

The Mac announcement for the 3 arena in June makes me slightly sad, probably out of the question for a headline spot now. Sunday night slot would have been epic.

lbj666

hugeglobe wrote: »

The Mac announcement for the 3 arena in June makes me slightly sad, probably out of the question for a headline spot now. Sunday night slot would have been epic.

They were always going to have a stand alone gig since mcvie is back. Promotor's can make a lot more money out of it.

Furious-Red

Plus id say Fleetwood Mac would command a massive fee that would be out of EP's budget

Fatfrog

hugeglobe wrote: »

The Mac announcement for the 3 arena in June makes me slightly sad, probably out of the question for a headline spot now. Sunday night slot would have been epic.

Would be nice alright! Apart from cost (as others have pointed out) they've been on the go from the early 70's, a large portion of their fans would be mid fifties (generalising here!!) and I feel would prefer the comfort and infrastructure of the three arena vs a field?

I don't believe anybody is 'too old' for a x3 day festival but there certainly is a cut off age where it looses appeal for the majority (still trying to figure out what age I can keep it going until!!)

Fatfrog

There ya's go Mince pie! Foo's for Slane,

Someone predicted they'd do a big Irish show a couple of pages back I salute you!!

http://www.newstalk.com/Dave-Grohl-announces-that-the-Foo-Fighters-will-headline-Slane-2015

X1 name off the list (Not that there ever likely to do the EP!)

Duff

Haven't been following early bird ticket sales for next year at all, lads. Thinking of getting the girlfriend one for a Christmas present though, so is there still some available/what price are they at the minute?

breakfasttime

Duff wrote: »

Haven't been following early bird ticket sales for next year at all, lads. Thinking of getting the girlfriend one for a Christmas present though, so is there still some available/what price are they at the minute?

Loyalty tickets were on sale for the month of September. There hasn't been an announcement on general release tickets yet. Most people are guessing that they'll be released for christmas time but nothing official yet.

sadie06

EP have a "Who would you like to see playing at EP2015" post up on Twitter and FB. Could this be the start of a build up to the first announcement?

AdMMM

Probably just a post to make sure they don't slide into obscurity just before Christmas

MadYaker

Radiohead please!

breakfasttime

EP Twitter "We will have news soon about tickets! Stay tuned." that was said in a reply to someone so maybe they will be on sale for christmas, Who knows! I hope that there are a few names announced when they go on sale.

A.Gorilla

Ride are maybe reforming http://www.clashmusic.com/news/ride-set-to-reform
What would the odds be of them playing EP?

-=al=-

Don't forget installation no.2 happens this Friday the 28th

JackMcA

A.Gorilla wrote: »

Ride are maybe reforming http://www.clashmusic.com/news/ride-set-to-reform
What would the odds be of them playing EP?

they are reforming.
already announced for Primavera

GaryByrne

Am I mad suggesting Metallica could play one of the nights?
With the increase in size and the connections to Reading/Leeds each year...just saying...

lbj666

GaryByrne wrote: »

Am I mad suggesting Metallica could play one of the nights?
With the increase in size and the connections to Reading/Leeds each year...just saying...

Yes you are.

sadie06

Oh God….not Metallica! I love rock music, but they feel like a parody act to me. Give me Alice in Chains (obviously not in a headline slot) or QOTSA.

ghostdancer

leaving aside Metallica playing EP, there's almost no connections between R&L and EP each year....
a few mid/low-level acts might play both, but the vast majority at R&L don't appear at EP.

threein99

GaryByrne wrote: »

Am I mad suggesting Metallica could play one of the nights?
With the increase in size and the connections to Reading/Leeds each year...just saying...

100%

run_Forrest_run

sadie06 wrote: »

Oh God….not Metallica! I love rock music, but they feel like a parody act to me.

sadly I have to agree with you, things are gone so silly that it actually wouldn't surprise me if they did a deal with McDonald's to incorporate brand 'Metallica' as a Happy Meal.

run_Forrest_run

run_Forrest_run wrote: »

sadly I have to agree with you, things are gone so silly that it actually wouldn't surprise me if they did a deal with McDonald's to incorporate brand 'Metallica' as a Happy Meal.

Heh.

"Mctallica"

GaryByrne

Haha hey it was late I wasn't thinking coherently!

moving on...

hugeglobe

Any realistic predictions for a headliner to make me excited for a while?

bodhrandude

hugeglobe wrote: »

Any realistic predictions for a headliner to make me excited for a while?

Would like if Aphex Twin got that idea off the ground with his visuals man Weirdcore about a live tour with installations. He spoke about this in Oor Magazine a Dutch music magazine I think, he wants to do something online with Weirdcore a kinda video idea, but he also wants to play live rather than DJing.

APHEX TALKS ABOUT... SHOWS
Will there be a new visual campaign for Syro?

"We are working on a new campaign. I want to work again with my friend Weirdcore(http://www.weirdcore.tv/), who also handles the visuals at my shows.
We are going to do some mixes together. I'm going to craft some mixtapes at home, because I haven't done that in years. I think I am going to put something on the 'net with him.
I wanted to do that years ago. At concerts I can't really see all the things he does, it's all happening on the screens behind me. He can hear me, but I can't see how he anticipates on that.
We have put a screen on the podium some time, but they forgot to connect it... I still wasn't able to see it! Very frustrating. I really want to stand were he stands, between the people in the first rows.
I dont want to stand on the podium, but just in front. When you perform live, it's no problem. But when you deejay, what really is less difficult than performing live, it's practically impossible because of the delay in the speakers.
It just doesnt work. You need to have your turntables behind the speakers, with stage monitors. When the speakers are just as far as the chair over there[points at an empty chair about a metre away] then you already have 5 miliseconds delay.
I did try it once in front of the speakers, but it still wasnt enough. The only alternative if you want to stand between the people on the front row, is to play live instead of deejaying, so I think I might do that again."

How concrete are these plans?

"I did a few sneaky mini-performances whilst I was deejaying. I had a computer next to me. But that doesn't really count. It will require an immense amount of planning and thus time if I really want to do that, and the time I spent on that
I rather be in my studio, making music. The chance of me doing more instalation-like performances is probably bigger. "

leakyboots

Lads, the card I used to buy the instalment plan for EP 2015 has had to be cancelled due to fraudulent activity - so tomorrow's payment will not go through. Has something similar happened anyone else last year? Anyone know who do I contact? Ticketmaster?

lbj666

leakyboots wrote: »

Lads, the card I used to buy the instalment plan for EP 2015 has had to be cancelled due to fraudulent activity - so tomorrow's payment will not go through. Has something similar happened anyone else last year? Anyone know who do I contact? Ticketmaster?

Contact your credit/debit card phone number for your bank, you made have entered your number wrong or security password wrong somewhere and they may have put a temporary block on it.