[Cancelled] Electric Picnic 2020 **Discussion Only // No Ticket Sales / Requests **

scruff monkey

rubick wrote: »

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ewarwoowar - never forget!

johnnyskeleton

rubick wrote: »

Every word of this sentence made me level up - I'm now a 11th Level Picnic Wizard. Thanks for this, I will only use my powers as a force for good.

Ever since I was a young boy, I played that Stradbally Ball;
From Punchestown to Slane, I must've played them all;
But I ain't seen nothing like him, in any festival bands;
That LCD Soundsystem kid, sure drank some warm dutch cans.

[chorus]He's a Picnic Wizard / there has to be a twist / a Picnic Wizard / S'got good and mauldy pissed[/chorus]

Stillill42

Nobody took me up on my generous offer of a free David Keenan ticket. Your loss, losers. Great gig in the Olympia tonight, triumphant in fact. Album out yesterday and it's a fine record. He's still ridiculously dramatic but I think he's the best songwriter in the country at the moment. Seemed quite emotional to be standing in front of a sold out Olympia. Well deserved, he's been battering away for a few years now, nice to see him reaping rewards. An EP regular. Always good to see the kids prosper.

blackwhite

King Kong Company appears to have self-announced for EP on their Facebook page

Not in Kansas

Talk about making an absolute balls of the ticketing! A friend of mine had already sold hers on as she can't go. What a pain to try to sort that out.

sydthebeat

Did absolutely everyone get that letter from ticketmaster to return tickets?

patch

blackwhite wrote: »

King Kong Company appears to have self-announced for EP on their Facebook page

I thought they had sworn off it due to body and soul pulling out...

patch

sydthebeat wrote: »

Did absolutely everyone get that letter from ticketmaster to return tickets?

I didn't, but I purchased mine at a ticketmaster outlet paid in full on the day.

sweetie

sydthebeat wrote: »

Did absolutely everyone get that letter from ticketmaster to return tickets?

not us

rubick

blackwhite wrote: »

King Kong Company appears to have self-announced for EP on their Facebook page

Is it not just a picture from last year's Picnic?

Thundercats Ho

Stillill42 wrote: »

Nobody took me up on my generous offer of a free David Keenan ticket. Your loss, losers. Great gig in the Olympia tonight, triumphant in fact. Album out yesterday and it's a fine record. He's still ridiculously dramatic but I think he's the best songwriter in the country at the moment. Seemed quite emotional to be standing in front of a sold out Olympia. Well deserved, he's been battering away for a few years now, nice to see him reaping rewards. An EP regular. Always good to see the kids prosper.

1st saw him on the Oxjam stage (and another stage that weekend) at EP 3 years ago, and have really liked his stuff since.

sweetie

Stillill42 wrote: »

Nobody took me up on my generous offer of a free David Keenan ticket. Your loss, losers. Great gig in the Olympia tonight, triumphant in fact. Album out yesterday and it's a fine record. He's still ridiculously dramatic but I think he's the best songwriter in the country at the moment. Seemed quite emotional to be standing in front of a sold out Olympia. Well deserved, he's been battering away for a few years now, nice to see him reaping rewards. An EP regular. Always good to see the kids prosper.

Aw sheet, I never saw it. Would probably have gone, find him a bit OTT with the get-up and all but there's undeniable talent there and he played a fine gig in OV a couple years ago.

Can't get enough of the Squarehead album at the moment, surely a cert for made by music this year?

blackwhite

patch wrote: »

I thought they had sworn off it due to body and soul pulling out...

They added an "event" to their facebook page this morning - EP2020 hosted by KKC and Electric Picnic. Seems to have been removed again now


EDITED to add screenshot from this morning

Kepler21

sydthebeat wrote: »

Did absolutely everyone get that letter from ticketmaster to return tickets?

I didn't get a letter

Seathrun66

Stillill42 wrote: »

Nobody took me up on my generous offer of a free David Keenan ticket. Your loss, losers. Great gig in the Olympia tonight, triumphant in fact. Album out yesterday and it's a fine record. He's still ridiculously dramatic but I think he's the best songwriter in the country at the moment. Seemed quite emotional to be standing in front of a sold out Olympia. Well deserved, he's been battering away for a few years now, nice to see him reaping rewards. An EP regular. Always good to see the kids prosper.

Chatted to him today in Galway. He did an in-store gig for the new album and was raving about the Olympia gig. I asked how he managed to do 2.5 hours without covers, he said he has two more albums of material ready.

He is indeed a bit overwrought but he's a sweet kid and was very friendly to my three-year-old. Here's hoping this is the start of a major recording career for him.

Seathrun66

scruff monkey wrote: »

That big arty moving statue thing from two years ago would make a fine techno wickerman in which to incinerate the pair of them.

Or bring back that Pagoda from Burning Man. 2009?

JamieHP

The Libertines just announced a show the weekend of EP, they'd be a good shout for Electric Arena headliner, I think.

blackwhite

Kepler21 wrote: »

I didn't get a letter

Didn't get any duplicates, and no letter either

Seathrun66

Anyone spot that Billie Eilish is doing the Bond theme? Makes it an even bigger coup for EP 2019.

Tago Mago

Fatfrog wrote: »

Normally Coachella is the indicator of who's touring and gives a refreshed seeding etc, but other than RATM theres not a whole pile I'd like to see at EP.

I'd be very happy with RATM, Run the Jewels (too soon?), slowthai, Flume, Thom Yorke, Caribou, IDLES, FKA Twigs, and either one of our own Fontaines or Murder Capital.

dav09

Tago Mago wrote: »

I'd be very happy with RATM, Run the Jewels (too soon?), slowthai, Flume, Thom Yorke, Caribou, IDLES, FKA Twigs, and either one of our own Fontaines or Murder Capital.

Agreed, all of these would be fantastic for EP2020.

rubick

ARCADE FIRE WATCH
Not to put 2+2 together to make 2020 but Arcade Fire are playing in New Orleans on 14th February.
New Orleans famously twinned with Stradbally of course.
I've had Funeral on for the commute this past week and a half - here is your periodical reminder that the Wake Up/Haiti/Rebellion (Lies) passage on that album remains World Class tuneage.

optogirl

rubick wrote: »

ARCADE FIRE WATCH
Not to put 2+2 together to make 2020 but Arcade Fire are playing in New Orleans on 14th February.
New Orleans famously twinned with Stradbally of course.
I've had Funeral on for the commute this past week and a half - here is your periodical reminder that the Wake Up/Haiti/Rebellion (Lies) passage on that album remains World Class tuneage.

Arcade Fire are a band that never get skipped on 'shuffle'

sprucemoose

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Anyone spot that Billie Eilish is doing the Bond theme? Makes it an even bigger coup for EP 2019.

playing pretty much everywhere in europe bar ireland next summer, very very slim chance in all truth but also wouldn't be completely surprised if she was a headliner again this year

Seathrun66

rubick wrote: »

ARCADE FIRE WATCH
Not to put 2+2 together to make 2020 but Arcade Fire are playing in New Orleans on 14th February.
New Orleans famously twinned with Stradbally of course.
I've had Funeral on for the commute this past week and a half - here is your periodical reminder that the Wake Up/Haiti/Rebellion (Lies) passage on that album remains World Class tuneage.

The whole album. And the whole second album too. Rare to see a band decline so steadily album by album.

Probably still superb live though.

BullBlackNova

Seathrun66 wrote: »

The whole album. And the whole second album too. Rare to see a band decline so steadily album by album.

Probably still superb live though.

They were excellent at Primavera Sound about 2/3 years ago, when they premiered 'Everything Now'. Also caught them at the 3Arena 'in the round' later that year and was very good again.

But, yeah, it really is a case of diminishing returns. Each album less interesting than the last.

That said, I would still go out of my way to see them at a festival: there's enough good stuff in the set that you'd get over the odd dud from 'Everything Now' or 'Reflektor'.

nc6000

I got the letter from Ticketmaster and also received three sets of tickets.

Weepsie

Seathrun66 wrote: »

The whole album. And the whole second album too. Rare to see a band decline so steadily album by album.

Probably still superb live though.

Suburbs is better than Neon Bible though. An awful lot of people think it's their very best.

Everything Now is a bloody fantastic song, but yeah, the album is down on their best, and when they were touring Reflector they just seemed to be a bit grumpy.

The excitement around them when they first emerged though has never quite existed since

BullBlackNova

Weepsie wrote: »

Suburbs is better than Neon Bible though. An awful lot of people think it's their very best.

Everything Now is a bloody fantastic song, but yeah, the album is down on their best, and when they were touring Reflector they just seemed to be a bit grumpy.

The excitement around them when they first emerged though has never quite existed since

I'd have Neon Bible over Suburbs, myself.

Suburbs has some of their very best tracks - Suburbs, Ready to Start, Modern Man, Rococo, Sprawl II - but some absolute dirge too - Month of May has to be their worst track IMO.

It's too long, too. Cut out 5 or 6 songs on the Suburbs and it could be a tight, 10-12 track bit of brilliance. As it is, it drags in the middle before a late recovery.

I would drop any track off Neon Bible.

But that's the joys of a band like Arcade Fire. They have such a diverse range of music that everyone has different favourites, highlights, etc.

Seathrun66

Weepsie wrote: »

Suburbs is better than Neon Bible though. An awful lot of people think it's their very best.

Everything Now is a bloody fantastic song, but yeah, the album is down on their best, and when they were touring Reflector they just seemed to be a bit grumpy.

The excitement around them when they first emerged though has never quite existed since

The Suburbs is too rambling for me though I rate it as an album. I think it's when they first started to lose quality control. Both that and Reflektor would be masterpieces if whittled down to 10/11 tracks. Just personal taste, for me the first two are head and shoulders above the other three.