Electric Picnic 2024 **No Ticket Sales / Requests** - Waiting in line, terrible time, over familiar

rubick

Fred Again in for the EP hat-trick inside 3 years? F*ck me dead. At this rate I'll have dodged him more than any given Gallagher brother by the end of the year. Fairly gets the step count up, all that guff dodging. It's as well I'm a man that enjoys a good dander.

I'm never been to R&L - do they just have a couple of stages then? That line-up looks f*cking terrible.

scruff monkey

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122029743#Comment_122029743

Should give him a listen BD, might be right up your street.

(i kid, I'll only learn about this fucker against my will)

bodhrandude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122029837#Comment_122029837

Just tried there… And its a NOPE!!!!!

dav09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122029667#Comment_122029667

No we're not expecting a 'life changing' booking, but maybe a couple of interesting ones with a decent amount of talent and interesting music. Along with a good mix, of which practically none of the ones you suggested most likely recently are anything apart from awful generic pop/ indie.

paulieeye

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122029883#Comment_122029883

give him a banjo and throw him on a bluegrass stage and the grumpy fcuks will lap him up

Seathrun66

A grand suggestion. And place the stage in the woods. Of Portumna Forest.

LowOdour

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122030112#Comment_122030112

Whoa whoa - why bring Galway into this. What did it do wrong? Mayo forests are plentiful

Fanirish

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122029741#Comment_122029741

Noah kahan sold 30,000 plus tickets for Belfast in an hour, by any definition he is a massive act for a festival here. I personally don’t enjoy what I heard from him but I can recognise that he is extremely popular in ireland right now and I’m sure at EP he will have an absolutely enormous audience.
I’m not a shill but recognise EP has doubled its capacity in last decade and therefore has to aim for commercially successful artists and the days of Bjork/LCD headlining are well and truly over

rubick

So book them anyway and don't put them on the Main Stage. The days of Electric Picnic having one or two stages are well and truly over.

CuriousCucumber

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122029743#Comment_122029743

But his numbers on Spotify

:yawn:

Wooderson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122030288#Comment_122030288

Of his European dates 2 of 9 shows are sold out. He's hardly Taylor Swift, bub.

C14N

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122030528#Comment_122030528

He's definitely not close to Taylor Swift but then nobody right now is. More to the point, he's not as big as the acts who are a rung or two below Taylor Swift in terms of tour sales (which is why I'd kind of take issue with calling him "massive", but that's really just a semantics argument). It probably does matter though that the shows he did sell out are in Ireland, which is an indication he's more popular here than he is on the continent, in the same way that other acts you might see at the top of the EP poster like Dermot Kennedy, The Script, or even Hozier would be.

Seathrun66

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122030288#Comment_122030288

Bjork/LCD aren’t poles apart genre-wise from the Arctics/Tame Impala/Killers.

Also all three headliners do not require equal popularity. Fred Again can’t match the ticket sales of Billie or the Killers. Nor can LCD or Blur but nobody would bat an eyelid if either headlined.

endainoz

Does anyone else have the feeling on constantly banging your head against the wall with this thread?

Stillill42

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122031073#Comment_122031073

I do sometimes have visions of repeatedly banging Fanirish's head against a wall if that counts?

Jaffa3000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122031044#Comment_122031044

Plenty of people in the 18-30 category would be very underwhelmed with LCD Soundsystem as a headliner in 2024.

Seathrun66

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122031216#Comment_122031216

Maybe so, maybe not. That was said about Duran Duran as headliners in 2017 (55k attendance, 80% that of last year so lower but not enormously so) and yet the audience spanned all ages. LCD in 2016 pulled a huge crowd (same attends as 2017) and there are two major factors to take into account:

1. The last major research on festival attendees in the UK (Statista, 2016, see graph below) showed that 44.5% of the festival-going public were between the ages of 18-30. Thus 55.5% of the attendees are outside that age range.
2. People in that 18-30 age range get regularly patronised here as all being fans of Dua Lipa, Dermot Kennedy, etc. They’re not and those I know in that age range have varied tastes. Those attending EP singing along to These Charming Men, the Pixies, Strokes, Sprints and Kendrick Lamar ain’t going to be pleased with the announcement of Noah Kahan, Picture This and Gerry Cinnamon.

Most of us weren’t listening to shite in our youth. A huge number of today’s youth aren’t either. Don’t lump ‘em all in together.

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Dreamweapon

Did you ever sh*t in a field?

bodhrandude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122031331#Comment_122031331

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antfin

The Instagram event junkie types are a big target audience. It has been a growing demographic for Electric Picnic for a good few years now and the organisers know that they don't neccessarily need to make a massive effort with imaginative bookings at this stage. On the contrary, they may find it harder to sell out over 12 months in advance if they moved away from the dross that they filled the main stage with more and more each year because, like it or not, there has always been a larger group that want the Ed Sheeran clones and consider Wild Youth to be a rock ban. They don't fully care who is performing because many just want to have social media material to post and comment on to tell each other "looking great hun" as they form chains to push through their way through the crowd leaving glitter on anyone that dares to not step aside. The periphery is where those who want some something more interesting must increasingly dwell... or perhapsa different venue.

Seathrun66

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122031397#Comment_122031397

That would be true were half of the headliners of the two recent festivals not acts that have some credibility with rock/indie fans - Killers, Arctic Monkeys and Tame Impala.

I also think you overstate the significance of the influencer/Instagram presence. That’s just my personal observation and many will disagree. I believe most people are there to see the music and/or socialise and have a great weekend. Taking nice pictures an added bonus if so inclined.

antfin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122031430#Comment_122031430

I spoke to a group of 25ish year olds today at work who all went as a group last year and bought tickets again for this year. They had no idea who they liked last year except two of them said Niall Horan and one said Paolo Nutini. Some didn't stay for The Killers because they said it was a long weekend and they didn't like camping. I know from regular conversations with that age group that they're not an isolated group.

dav09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122031305#Comment_122031305

Did anyone notice since Electric Picnic shifted more to younger targeted acts over the past two years Longitude has went from a 3 day to a 2 day and pretty sure lost money at least one year if not both, what is the actual point in having Longitude for FR if EP is now very much targeting the same audience with both shifting booking policies, to contrast I actually went to Longitude in 2019 on cheap resale tickets and there was crushing it was so packed and pretty sure sold out. Since then I don't think Longitude sells out.

Im right in the middle of the 18-30 age group and I can tell you there's therea good percentage of people who are into Gerry/Noah/Dermot Kennedy/Horan acts. I don't know the percentage but I would guess 30% give or take, there's still probably half to 2/3rds who don't give a about these acts. I know in fairness a lot more like Dua Lipa, Drake, Lana, Billie Eillish, Fred Again, Stormzy sort of acts they are much more universal too, a much bigger percentage into those type of acts I would guess from people I know, even myself not being a huge fan of any would maybe give them a watch vs generic boring male singer songwriters. We don't really know maybe they've a great lineup in store but some of the info coming out obviously has a lot of attendees rightfully worried. Would much rather Arctic Monkeys, Kendrick, The Prodigy, Tame Impala personally, a huge demographic of us also into them, as FR knows since it's sold out with ease for the past 5 or 6 years.

Noseygit

Noah kahan sold out 30000 tickets in an hour? WOW. That doesn't make him massive. Dermot Kennedy has done similar,he's still boring. There has been plenty of massive acts at ep in the last 20 years,NK doesn't come close to them.....

endainoz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122031180#Comment_122031180

Oh yeah that too

Bunk Moreland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122027963#Comment_122027963

Yeah I remember that. I know I'll get replies telling me I'm wrong but I think its pretty obvious they changed the dates for the sole reason of not clashing with Coldplay. There are plenty of people who'd pick going to it over going to EP, plus you'd wonder if the Gardai maybe requested a change to help them with staffing numbers as both being on the same weekend would fairly stretch them.

I find the idea that it was moved for Lana Del Rey a bit laughable to be honest. I understand she's a well known artist but moving the festival to accommodate her? She played in Ireland last year and even played EP before so its hardly groundbreaking to announce that she's playing again this year.

The whole craic from Melvin last year about moving to accommodate an artist was just a bit of shrewd marketing in my opinion and to be fair it did get everyone talking.

Jaffa3000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122031430#Comment_122031430

But all of them bands/acts are all very popular among 18-30 year olds which is a criteria which every headliner has had post covid (or so it looks to me).

I'd agree obviously that EP has all sorts of people going, music fans and gig goers along with people who couldn't care less who's playing. QOTSA were previously mentioned as a potential headliner on here and I thought that was simply never going to happen in 2024. LCD Soundsystem being similar although QOTSA have a lot more hype behind them with their tour last year getting rave reviews. I do think it's astonishing how fast it seems to have changed. Just 4 years ago Rage were booked to play. Couldn't imagine that today (ignoring the fact they're done).

Stillill42

It seems only 5 minutes ago that they were announcing Rage Against the Machine as a headliner. We've come a long way in short time.

Stillill42

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122031509#Comment_122031509

Ha! Great minds and all that.

GentleHumour

Noah Kahan is a bag of shite. Tried. No thanks. Dull as dishwater and a headliner that I’d actively avoid.
He is in the middle of a ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ period of relevancy with the same people who gleefully wait for ‘Don’t stop believing’ and ‘Galway Girl’ to come on in Coppers.