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

Seathrun66

kg703 wrote: »

They only played two years ago? Normally EP doesnt have headliners back that quick?

Not headliners then but, for some incomprehensible reason, the warm-up act for the Prodigy.

maximoose

59,000....90,000... 400,000

Snowpatrol are still dross :pac:

sally cinnamon89

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Not a reliable site as you're aware. I posted the efestivals link. Here's another:

https://www.festicket.com/festivals/isle-of-wight-festival/

I see now. Not related to EP but how tf do they get 90,000 people to take a boat to see that lineup.

kg703

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Not headliners then but, for some incomprehensible reason, the warm-up act for the Prodigy.

Lucky St V was there as the most wonderful distraction. To be fair, as amazing as she is, the crowd mostly went out for picture this

BadTurtle

kg703 wrote: »

Lucky St V was there as the most wonderful distraction. To be fair, as amazing as she is, the crowd mostly went out for picture this

Death Grips were hoovering up the mental cases at the same time.

Seathrun66

sally cinnamon89 wrote: »

I see now. Not related to EP but how tf do they get 90,000 people to take a boat to see that lineup.

Ha ha. I've no idea.

DDOK

Delighted to see Chemical Brothers & Bicep on the list. EP is always a great source of new acts for me so I’m looking forward to digging into the rest of the list.

sydthebeat

must sees:
RATM
Ian Brown
Foals
Chemical bros
Just Mustard
JVMCM

will catch:
Saint sister (yum yum)
Rick Astley (of course!)
070shake (love her, gives me that lowfi buzz that jogi also does)
Black Country, New Road (fills the prog hole, akin to RSAG, ivea feeling ill be catching them solo )
Aoife Nessa Francis
arlo parks
100 gec (for the fun factor)

if no clashes:
RTJ
Declan MC Kenna
The magic gang


if you like chewing the face off yourself there is LOADS this year

fish_fingers

kg703 wrote: »

They only played two years ago? Normally EP doesnt have headliners back that quick?

What artist was it that said...you play EP twice, once on your way up, and once on the way down.
Did Picture This beg?

endainoz

sally cinnamon89 wrote: »

Likely but I think it's lazy booking. Lewis and Picture This are both playing Malahide shows this summer.

It's down to personal preference and all that. Lack of female headliner is disappointing too.

They are but sur the kids like them I suppose. We got through Sam Smith, we'll get through this.

Agreed on the female headliner point, really suprised with that.

everlast75

whilst I get the kneejerk reaction might be to complain about the line up, but I reckon if the whole thing is cancelled people will be a lot more pi$$ed off..

ghostdancer

not bad, a little weak overall though.

RATM
Chems
Bicep
Foals
Ian Brown
RTJ
Helena Hauff
Jeff Mills
I Hate Models
Paula Temple
Just Mustard

rubick

F**KING JEFF MILLS LADS I MISSED THAT*



* Name of my Sex Tape

Stillill42

Right, to work, trusted musos. Find me **** to listen to!

Stillill42

Declan McKenna was very decent in a catchy, poppy sort of way 3 years ago or whatever.

Rfrip

i need Ferris to come on and tell me everythings going to be ok

Ferris help a sister out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stillill42

Ghum! Thank God! Leaving out the couple I know, I'm down to Ghum before finding a fecking guitar!

showpony1

Snow Patrol - bizarre front and center headliner.

rubick

Stillill you're coming on Late Club adventures with me.
Where we're going we won't need guitars.

Stillill42

rubick wrote: »

Stillill you're coming on Late Club adventures with me.
Where we're going we won't need guitars.

Your seductive dance **** won't work on me, Rubick. I'll just keep whispering 'post-punk, post-punk, post-punk' until the throbbing and flashing stops.

fish_fingers

Stillill42 wrote: »

Declan McKenna was very decent in a catchy, poppy sort of way 3 years ago or whatever.

Hanging on by your fingertips to hope there Stillill42

Homesick Alien

Between that line up and the lack of a body and soul area this year I think my EP days may officially be behind me.

Mucker46

Finally out of meeting and time to assess. Reading posts from most recent back to announcement makes it an interesting read. Have given up hope of being overly excited by first announcement given last few years but enough on this to make me smile
RATM
ian brown
Chemical Brothers (possible)
Foals
JVMCM
Rick Astley
Saint Sister
Just Mustard
And loads to check out.
Lots more to come and if you are like me you will have lots of clashes come Sept so keep the faith.

Any recommendations for early listening for any not called out above.

BigMo1

Enough in that first announcement to keep me happy. Recent years have shown there are big names coming in the other announcements.

It'll still be great, it always is.

BullBlackNova

Rick Astley being so prominent is bizarre.

Also, very strange to see no female act among the headliners, with Annie Mac and Mabel in the second tier - I wouldn't have thought Mabel would have that level of popularity yet? I'm very out of touch!!

Main thoughts:

- Rage and Run the Jewels are great bookings. If that hadn't been announced early, that would totally change the perception of the bill for plenty of people, I think.
- The Chemical Brothers is fine. Good act, makes sense as a booking. Really shines the light on the Irish/UK festival scene to bump up some new dance acts because it's so repetitive, even if you're big into it all. I'm not sure who would be ready for the step up but I've seen some absolutely brilliant acts around the place the last few years and it'd just be a nice change to see some mid-tier fests (of which EP is not one...) chance Jon Hopkins, Kiasmos or Jamiexx, for example, as headline acts.
- A few acts already playing earlier in the year, too. Ian Brown is doing, what, six Irish gigs this year before this? Chemical Brothrers in Cork, Lewis Capaldi in Cork and Dublin, Picture This in Dublin, Cork & Belfast... Festivals used have a bit more variety, right? I feel like with most of these acts (most! not all) that I'll get another 2 chances to see them before the end of 2021, if I didn't see them at EP.
- It is very pop and rap heavy - of course it is! The festival has to shift 70,000 tickets a year now. They don't care if we grew up on Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem or whatever, they want to make sure people come back year after year and there's a lot more people buying tickets for the festival with Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Lewis Capaldi, Dermot Kennedy, etc than the one headlined by Roxy Music and Leftfield.

But there's some great stuff on there already, even if the headliners or some of the others aren't to people's tastes.

(from the bottom of the poster up...)

Just Mustard, Black Country New Road, Beabadoobee, Rejjie Snow, Little Simz, Denzel Curry, Run the Jewels and James Vincent McMorrow are all decent bookings and Rage, whether they are to my tastes or not, is a cracking top-line booking. They aren't playing that many gigs this year, so the fact that one is in Co Laois is pretty f*cking impressive.

sprucemoose

my hope is that they have some big names that are held back till the next announcement in case they may not be able to travel come september

Rfrip

sprucemoose wrote: »

my hope is that they have some big names that are held back till the next announcement in case they may not be able to travel come september

Dont do it to yourself

sprucemoose

Rfrip wrote: »

Dont do it to yourself

its my last EP for a while, I'm being optimistic that it'll come good, every other year has eventually in the end

Rfrip

sprucemoose wrote: »

its my last EP for a while, I'm being optimistic that it'll come good, every other year has eventually in the end

Aw it totally will and we will all be back here after it saying it was an amazing wkend etc
Its just the line up always brings the moral down for some of us i think doesnt it

we will rebuild:D

Lonesomerhodes

Picture this are a headliner?. Jaysus!.

Always thought they were utter pants.

That Winona Ryder song I thought was a parody like Weird Al Yankovic its so terrible and cheesy.



Run the Jewels/Foals decent additions.