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  • #8672
    Arne_Saknussem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,732 ✭✭✭Arne_Saknussem


    Seathrun66 wrote: »
    But was it all that different from previous years? 3 main announcements, pretty much spread out as before though the last (and smallest) was a little later than usual.

    If you're measuring from when people usually paid for their tickets to when acts were announced then there's a big difference.


  • #8673
    charlietully
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭charlietully


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    I think this clip is quite comical, me shtaggering about the main arena bumbling towards New Order it looks like I'm walking in slow motion by the lighted cubes, I take forever to pass this with my camera. The reason of my inebriated state was due to Specialised Security trying to take my Guinness and Spanish absinthe from me so I ran away from them and gobbed the lot and came back through, so enjoy the drunk and befuddled mind of Bodhrandude.

    bodhrandude wrote: »
    I think this clip is quite comical, me shtaggering about the main arena bumbling towards New Order it looks like I'm walking in slow motion by the lighted cubes, I take forever to pass this with my camera. The reason of my inebriated state was due to Specialised Security trying to take my Guinness and Spanish absinthe from me so I ran away from them and gobbed the lot and came back through, so enjoy the drunk and befuddled mind of Bodhrandude.

    oh that bring backs memories, I met a lovely lass Sharon from Mullingar when tutti frutti was playing. oh how I wish it was last week again.


  • #8674
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Arne_Saknussem wrote: »
    Seathrun66 wrote: »
    But was it all that different from previous years? 3 main announcements, pretty much spread out as before though the last (and smallest) was a little later than usual.

    If you're measuring from when people usually paid for their tickets to when acts were announced then there's a big difference.
    Main announcement was 2 March this year, 4 March last year, both with two other spaced out later announcements.

    I don't think we can be too precious about it. Glasto sells out in October and doesn't announce acts until late March/early April, 3 months before the fest. We get the bulk of the main acts announced six months beforehand.

    I'm all for criticising EP when it's deserved (noisy corporate crap on-site, etc) but not for this.


  • #8675
    Arne_Saknussem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,732 ✭✭✭Arne_Saknussem


    If you've got people shelling out for tickets days after the festival ends and 11 months later you're announcing that you will soon be announcing the date that you will be announcing the sizable chunk of the remaining main schedule acts a few weeks out from the festival you're taking the piss.

    Imo anyway.


  • #8676
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Arne_Saknussem wrote: »
    If you've got people shelling out for tickets days after the festival ends and 11 months later you're announcing that you will soon be announcing the date that you will be announcing the sizable chunk of the remaining main schedule acts a few weeks out from the festival you're taking the piss.

    Imo anyway.
    Possibly contractual? Or they waiting to cheer people up just before the fest? I'm not sure, and it didn't bother me as I felt the first announcement & The Shins in the second had given me enough to see.

    Also there's nothing really for them to gain in delaying any announcement after selling out, particularly when no huge acts to add. Wasn't much in there anyway, as ever - ABC, Skepta, etc.


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  • #8677
    Arne_Saknussem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,732 ✭✭✭Arne_Saknussem


    Don't know about contractual. They announced some names at Christmas for 2015, Bestival announces names in January. Nobody's asking for the full schedule in April.

    This year felt like some wankerish PR strategy designed to piss me off!


  • #8678
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Arne_Saknussem wrote: »
    Don't know about contractual. They announced some names at Christmas for 2015, Bestival announces names in January. Nobody's asking for the full schedule in April.

    This year felt like some wankerish PR strategy designed to piss me off!
    It may be so. I'm just speculating. But as long as they sell out they'll probably continue to go down the three announcements route.


  • #8679
    MadYaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    Seathrun66 wrote: »
    Main announcement was 2 March this year, 4 March last year, both with two other spaced out later announcements.

    I don't think we can be too precious about it. Glasto sells out in October and doesn't announce acts until late March/early April, 3 months before the fest. We get the bulk of the main acts announced six months beforehand.

    I'm all for criticising EP when it's deserved (noisy corporate crap on-site, etc) but not for this.

    Glasto don't announce until March/April but if you do some investigating (or just read the Glasto forum on efestivals) you'll know who's going to be on the bill long before they announce it. There's already loads of speculating going on there, a few of the posters have inside info so it's amazing how accurate their predictions are year on year and not just for the headliners. It's not quite as easy with Picnic.

    I agree with others that they took the piss this year with the announcements. It'll be interesting to see if next year is the same, I hope it isn't.


  • #8680
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Seathrun66 wrote: »
    Main announcement was 2 March this year, 4 March last year, both with two other spaced out later announcements.

    I don't think we can be too precious about it. Glasto sells out in October and doesn't announce acts until late March/early April, 3 months before the fest. We get the bulk of the main acts announced six months beforehand.

    I'm all for criticising EP when it's deserved (noisy corporate crap on-site, etc) but not for this.

    Glasto don't announce until March/April but if you do some investigating (or just read the Glasto forum on efestivals) you'll know who's going to be on the bill long before they announce it. There's already loads of speculating going on there, a few of the posters have inside info so it's amazing how accurate their predictions are year on year and not just for the headliners. It's not quite as easy with Picnic.

    I agree with others that they took the piss this year with the announcements. It'll be interesting to see if next year is the same, I hope it isn't.
    Glasto speculation is all about the headliners (the press & posters often get those wrong) and everything else usually comes as a surprise.

    Efestivals thus far have six potential headliners for next year - Radiohead, Ed Sheeran, Foo Fighters, Daft Punk, Diana Ross & The Stone Roses. Expect that list to be added to by Fleetwood Mac, Rihanna, Guns n Roses & others before things are clearer by Feb/March.


  • #8681
    PerryGroves7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭PerryGroves7


    Seathrun66 wrote: »
    MadYaker wrote: »
    Seathrun66 wrote: »
    Main announcement was 2 March this year, 4 March last year, both with two other spaced out later announcements.

    I don't think we can be too precious about it. Glasto sells out in October and doesn't announce acts until late March/early April, 3 months before the fest. We get the bulk of the main acts announced six months beforehand.

    I'm all for criticising EP when it's deserved (noisy corporate crap on-site, etc) but not for this.

    Glasto don't announce until March/April but if you do some investigating (or just read the Glasto forum on efestivals) you'll know who's going to be on the bill long before they announce it. There's already loads of speculating going on there, a few of the posters have inside info so it's amazing how accurate their predictions are year on year and not just for the headliners. It's not quite as easy with Picnic.

    I agree with others that they took the piss this year with the announcements. It'll be interesting to see if next year is the same, I hope it isn't.
    Glasto speculation is all about the headliners (the press & posters often get those wrong) and everything else usually comes as a surprise.

    Efestivals thus far have six potential headliners for next year - Radiohead, Ed Sheeran, Foo Fighters, Daft Punk, Diana Ross & The Stone Roses. Expect that list to be added to by Fleetwood Mac, Rihanna, Guns n Roses & others before things are clearer by Feb/March.

    However when you look at what glasto get year on year, you'd happily shell out and wait and see.
    For a smaller festival, I'd say it's reasonable that the lineup is far more susceptible to good/bad years.
    This being said, i'm still of the camp that I'd go in blind and I know I'll have a cracking time regardless.


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  • #8682
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    PerryGroves7 wrote: »
    Seathrun66 wrote: »
    MadYaker wrote: »
    Seathrun66 wrote: »
    Main announcement was 2 March this year, 4 March last year, both with two other spaced out later announcements.

    I don't think we can be too precious about it. Glasto sells out in October and doesn't announce acts until late March/early April, 3 months before the fest. We get the bulk of the main acts announced six months beforehand.

    I'm all for criticising EP when it's deserved (noisy corporate crap on-site, etc) but not for this.

    Glasto don't announce until March/April but if you do some investigating (or just read the Glasto forum on efestivals) you'll know who's going to be on the bill long before they announce it. There's already loads of speculating going on there, a few of the posters have inside info so it's amazing how accurate their predictions are year on year and not just for the headliners. It's not quite as easy with Picnic.

    I agree with others that they took the piss this year with the announcements. It'll be interesting to see if next year is the same, I hope it isn't.
    Glasto speculation is all about the headliners (the press & posters often get those wrong) and everything else usually comes as a surprise.

    Efestivals thus far have six potential headliners for next year - Radiohead, Ed Sheeran, Foo Fighters, Daft Punk, Diana Ross & The Stone Roses. Expect that list to be added to by Fleetwood Mac, Rihanna, Guns n Roses & others before things are clearer by Feb/March.

    However when you look at what glasto get year on year, you'd happily shell out and wait and see.
    For a smaller festival, I'd say it's reasonable that the lineup is far more susceptible to good/bad years.
    This being said, i'm still of the camp that I'd go in blind and I know I'll have a cracking time regardless.
    Glasto was 233 Sterling this year (275 Euro) compared to 165 Euro for EP if you bought the early-bird. As most posters here seemed to for 2016 and are doing again judging by the 2017 thread.

    Glasto gets loads of dodgy acts every year (including this year having many of the acts criticised here in prominent slots on the Other Stage - The 1975, Years & Years, Bastille & Catfish). The main two stages are pretty avoidable for most of the weekend and much of the best stuff is to be found in John Peel, The Park & West Holts stages. EP is increasing its number of teen-magnet bands but like Glasto it still has more than enough acts to please people as this thread has shown.

    I've not always been enamoured by the Picnic headliners, but in 12 years of going the festival has never failed to provide enough decent acts for me. And again in 2017 it won't let me down.


  • #8683
    PerryGroves7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭PerryGroves7


    Seathrun66 wrote: »
    PerryGroves7 wrote: »
    Seathrun66 wrote: »
    MadYaker wrote: »
    Seathrun66 wrote: »
    Main announcement was 2 March this year, 4 March last year, both with two other spaced out later announcements.

    I don't think we can be too precious about it. Glasto sells out in October and doesn't announce acts until late March/early April, 3 months before the fest. We get the bulk of the main acts announced six months beforehand.

    I'm all for criticising EP when it's deserved (noisy corporate crap on-site, etc) but not for this.

    Glasto don't announce until March/April but if you do some investigating (or just read the Glasto forum on efestivals) you'll know who's going to be on the bill long before they announce it. There's already loads of speculating going on there, a few of the posters have inside info so it's amazing how accurate their predictions are year on year and not just for the headliners. It's not quite as easy with Picnic.

    I agree with others that they took the piss this year with the announcements. It'll be interesting to see if next year is the same, I hope it isn't.
    Glasto speculation is all about the headliners (the press & posters often get those wrong) and everything else usually comes as a surprise.

    Efestivals thus far have six potential headliners for next year - Radiohead, Ed Sheeran, Foo Fighters, Daft Punk, Diana Ross & The Stone Roses. Expect that list to be added to by Fleetwood Mac, Rihanna, Guns n Roses & others before things are clearer by Feb/March.

    However when you look at what glasto get year on year, you'd happily shell out and wait and see.
    For a smaller festival, I'd say it's reasonable that the lineup is far more susceptible to good/bad years.
    This being said, i'm still of the camp that I'd go in blind and I know I'll have a cracking time regardless.
    Glasto was 233 Sterling this year (275 Euro) compared to 165 Euro for EP if you bought the early-bird. As most posters here seemed to for 2016 and are doing again judging by the 2017 thread.

    Glasto gets loads of dodgy acts every year (including this year having many of the acts criticised here in prominent slots on the Other Stage - The 1975, Years & Years, Bastille & Catfish). The main two stages are pretty avoidable for most of the weekend and much of the best stuff is to be found in John Peel, The Park & West Holts stages. EP is increasing its number of teen-magnet bands but like Glasto it still has more than enough acts to please people as this thread has shown.

    I've not always been enamoured by the Picnic headliners, but in 12 years of going the festival has never failed to provide enough decent acts for me. And again in 2017 it won't let me down.

    I hear you


  • #8684
    Bazzo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,047 ✭✭✭Bazzo


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    I think this clip is quite comical, me shtaggering about the main arena bumbling towards New Order it looks like I'm walking in slow motion by the lighted cubes, I take forever to pass this with my camera. The reason of my inebriated state was due to Specialised Security trying to take my Guinness and Spanish absinthe from me so I ran away from them and gobbed the lot and came back through, so enjoy the drunk and befuddled mind of Bodhrandude.


    Bahahaha, brilliant. You looked like you were floating along on the worlds bounciest/slowest travelator. "Hello missus security lady, you're doing a good job!"

    That absinthe is some stuff.


  • #8685
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,082 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Working on the Friday review at the moment, there seems to be something missing from both the lanyard and book, Jenny Greene's set with the RTE Orchestra, did they not say in the RTE programme that, that was in the Rankin Woods Tent, they showed a clip, there is no mention of the RW tent gig on both the lanyard and book for Friday. Were we not supposed to know about this. :confused:

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #8686
    MadYaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    Song of the weekend was probably Someone Great by LCD. It's an amazing song and seeing it performed live is always special.


  • #8687
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Song of the weekend was probably Someone Great by LCD. It's an amazing song and seeing it performed live is always special.
    I think there's probably an argument to be made for any track in that set.

    How long before they headline again? 2018?


  • #8688
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,082 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    My full review, enjoy. :)
    https://niallmcquaid.wordpress.com/2016/09/08/electric-picnic-2016-festival-review/

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #8689
    Northernsoul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 191 ✭✭Northernsoul


    Won't load for me dude? Might just be me though?

    EDIT - it's fine now! :)


  • #8690
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,082 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Northernsoul wrote: »
    Won't load for me dude? Might just be me though?
    Odd, the link works for me. Hang on, I'll paste again here and see if it works then.

    https://niallmcquaid.wordpress.com/2016/09/08/electric-picnic-2016-festival-review/

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #8691
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,082 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Northernsoul wrote: »
    Won't load for me dude? Might just be me though?

    EDIT - it's fine now! :)

    Did the second link work?

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • #8692
    UsedToWait
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭UsedToWait


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Did the second link work?

    First one worked for me dude


  • #8693
    H8GHOTI
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭H8GHOTI


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Working on the Friday review at the moment, there seems to be something missing from both the lanyard and book, Jenny Greene's set with the RTE Orchestra, did they not say in the RTE programme that, that was in the Rankin Woods Tent, they showed a clip, there is no mention of the RW tent gig on both the lanyard and book for Friday. Were we not supposed to know about this. :confused:

    Apparently that was all arranged last minute. It was probably too late to change the lanyard and book.

    They mentioned on the tv coverage that the first rehearsal was only one week before the festival. Looks like it went very well considering.


  • #8694
    D.Q
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,054 ✭✭✭D.Q


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Odd, the link works for me. Hang on, I'll paste again here and see if it works then.

    https://niallmcquaid.wordpress.com/2016/09/08/electric-picnic-2016-festival-review/

    Enjoyed that as always mate.


  • #8695
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,082 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Not taken by me but there you go.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #8696
    former total
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭former total


    H8GHOTI wrote: »
    Apparently that was all arranged last minute. It was probably too late to change the lanyard and book.

    They mentioned on the tv coverage that the first rehearsal was only one week before the festival. Looks like it went very well considering.

    Nah, it was officially announced two weeks beforehand and must have been in the works for a few months prior to that.


  • #8697
    MadYaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNV9UrdEWSOU8gGDPQC5qWg/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=dd

    This dudes youtube channel has loads of good recordings from various acts over the weekend.


  • #8698
    H8GHOTI
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭H8GHOTI


    former total wrote: »
    Nah, it was officially announced two weeks beforehand and must have been in the works for a few months prior to that.

    They must have been lying so on RTE & the organisers just decided not to print it in the official programme for the laugh.


  • #8699
    former total
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭former total


    H8GHOTI wrote: »
    They must have been lying so on RTE & the organisers just decided not to print it in the official programme for the laugh.

    Yeah that must be it.

    I mean, it's an orchestra, they usually require a fair bit of notice, and Jenny Greene announced it live on air two weeks before EP, but I guess a lanyard trumps all that. Spur of the moment it must have been so.


  • #8700
    Furious-Red
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 16,260 Mod ✭✭✭✭Furious-Red


    Maybe they werent sure what stage to put them on? Rankins vs EA


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  • #8701
    Fatfrog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,718 ✭✭✭Fatfrog


    Seathrun66 wrote: »
    Glasto was 233 Sterling this year (275 Euro) compared to 165 Euro for EP if you bought the early-bird. As most posters here seemed to for 2016 and are doing again judging by the 2017 thread.

    Glasto gets loads of dodgy acts every year (including this year having many of the acts criticised here in prominent slots on the Other Stage - The 1975, Years & Years, Bastille & Catfish). The main two stages are pretty avoidable for most of the weekend and much of the best stuff is to be found in John Peel, The Park & West Holts stages. EP is increasing its number of teen-magnet bands but like Glasto it still has more than enough acts to please people as this thread has shown.

    I've not always been enamoured by the Picnic headliners, but in 12 years of going the festival has never failed to provide enough decent acts for me. And again in 2017 it won't let me down.

    Sure Glasto ticket is more expensive, but if you're a drinker, their free flow booze policy means you don't need to fork out at the bar!!
    I'd happily pay €275 for my EP ticket if they A: Completely removed the security barriers into the arena B: Had a free flow booze policy.


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