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

Stillill42

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121974837#Comment_121974837

Good to hear from you again optogirl. Delighted to hear you're venturing back onto the festival circuit. I'm sure it'll be a mix of emotions for you but that's the beauty of music, isn't it? There's a song for every occasion, happy, sad, everything in between. Hope you have a good one, all the best.

TenPicnics

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121974837#Comment_121974837

I really hope you enjoy ATN after everything you've been through. I've been to ATN since it began and have found it's very friendly and mainly festival-sound people who attend, along with relatively good line-ups (this year's offering not as attractive, in my opinion, compared to previous years). The festival is located in a lovely spot and has pretty good food and drink options. Ideally we'll get a good bit of sunshine with the inevitable rain showers, in contrast to the stormy downpours of last year, but hopefully this year the organisers will have prepared for the worst, unlike 2023.

Mucker46

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121974241#Comment_121974241

8radio.com is great for pushing new non mainstream irish music but only on Fm a few times a year bit available through tune in. Their Spotify playlists great for finding new music

Mucker46

Get this type of message most years and then have a great weekend of music with most years dry, last year cracking weather.

Mucker46

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121974837#Comment_121974837

Hope you have a great ATN optogirl and hopefully see you at EP in the future. Reckon plenty on here happy to meet up with you at festivals if you want toat some stage

Mucker46

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121974680#Comment_121974680

Get this type of message most years and then have a great weekend of music with most years dry, last year cracking weather.

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@optogirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121974837#Comment_121974837

Have a great time at ATN @optogirl , there are 8/9 acts already listed at ATN that I’d love to see, mainly Irish, and the vibe there is supposedly great. We’d love you back at EP sometime and will keep the bookers on their toes in your absence. Take care.

endainoz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121975135#Comment_121975135

Usually done by trolls who have never set foot at a festival in their lives.

Penfailed

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121974556#Comment_121974556

Enjoyed them in Belfast last week.

scruff monkey

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121975135#Comment_121975135

What do you do to attract those sorts of absolute melts?

Mucker46

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121975509#Comment_121975509

Enjoy myself and say so

TenPicnics

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121975296#Comment_121975296

Yes, that particular poster doesn't seem to have commented on any EP thread before, or indeed on any music/gigs threads on boards, until his contribution today. At a rough estimate 99% of his posts on boards appear to be rugby-related, from schools-level to international level. I'd say he's gone back now to his natural boards home, energised by his contribution to the discussion here today. He totes burned us, what a legend.

Musicrules

Everyone looking forward to the announcement tomorrow? I think we'll all have a few acts to keep us happy. 😏

If the announcement doesn't happen tomorrow then remember that things change all the time in the music business. One minute they're announcing it in April, then a few days later they're announcing it in March and then back to April again.

It's a tough life being in the know.

HarryTheSpider

Hi folks.

I've been laying low for a while as I've nothing to add on the who will play? speculation. I suppose it will be like every year and they will unlikely please everyone, but once you dig in a bit (almost) everyone will be mostly happy.

It will be August soon enough and we can all be giving out about queues, toilets and the lack of a recycling machine to get all those 15c back 😄.

I doubt very much there will be an announcement tomorrow. For the 20th year, the media machine (bad as it is) would be in full swing by now.

H.

Mucker46

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121976432#Comment_121976432

Good to see you back Harry

Penfailed

Irish bands that I'd like to see on the list, in no particular order - And So I Watch You From Afar, The Bonnevilles, Chalk, Melts, Rhinos, Fontaines DC, The Murder Capital, Sprints, Thumper, Gurriers, Therapy?, SLF, Amy Montgomery...and I'm sure there's more that I've forgotten.

glennponder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121976432#Comment_121976432

Didn't last year's first announcement in December come out of the blue? Was there media coverage leading up to that? I honestly can't remember..

bodhrandude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121976842#Comment_121976842

Don't forget these chaps BROR who I saw at Stendhal 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64EVben7ySk

BadTurtle

Back on that Massive Attack point, I can see why people would say they're not headline material anymore. The festival has moved in a different direction, and was already doing so in 2018 when they last played. A huge chunk of the crowd left after NERD (ie Pharrell) had finished, and those of us left wouldnt have filled one of the medium sized tents. Equally, As much as I loved seeing them open with I Against I (only the second time they ever played it, and only time without Mos Def apparently) it completely passed much of the crowd by, and by the time they got around to the genuine hits/festival ready tracks, even casual fans were getting a bit put off.

You could put an act like that as a headliner in the early days of the Picnic. Its not great PR, or likely to help the festival sell out, if they keep booking them these days. Even if Tame Impala had fewer recognisable hits, they are just more ready to get a crowd going than MA. If they do get booked again, I would imagine it would have to be in a different capacity than headliner.

HarryTheSpider

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121976892#Comment_121976892

To be honest, I'm dizzy with all the dates and facts.

I will be pleasantly surprised if an announcement arrives tomorrow/today.

But until i hear is from Melvin himself, It's all trolling and guesswork really.

scruff monkey

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121977668#Comment_121977668

Word! Announcement has traditionally been midweek, we’re in for another weekends dreaming.

rubick

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121974837#Comment_121974837

Great to hear from you @optogirl - hope you're are doing well as possible. As you can see we're still debating this festival daily with a new-found level of maturity and in-depth analysis that puts other messageboards to shame. We're for ATN this year again too, think you'll enjoy it. Plenty to see for a first-timer and a great setting!

davywalsh7

so what time is the announcement today 😂

Mucker46

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121978285#Comment_121978285

61 minutes past 25 o clock

scruff monkey

Right, off out today, keep the home fires burning, am heading for a very dark place, not mentally, just a spot outside wrexham.

bodhrandude

Anything happening in Electric Picnic Ticnic land today? 😀

Stillill42

Enjoying these boys at the moment. In Dublin in May but they're doing Reading and Leeds, would be a lovely addition.

https://youtu.be/xSSmuA2Cjys?si=1YOpluDtaFIaIUeE

rubick

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121978918#Comment_121978918

Yes, we're all very excited.

bodhrandude

There hasn't been a post for over two hours, what the hell is going on? 😁

Mucker46

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121979875#Comment_121979875

We are busy scouring pubs trying to find the announcement venue