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Electric Picnic 2017 **Discussion Only // No Ticket Sales**

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  • #2342
    Synode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Synode


    Soulwax. Thanks be to jaysus. It was looking very light on dance stuff


  • #2343
    davywalsh7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭davywalsh7


    Very poor headliners in fairness. Undercard solid already though


  • #2344
    roll
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 595 ✭✭✭roll


    quite happy with that!


  • #2345
    gazzer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭gazzer


    Duran Duran as headliners? WTF? That line up is p1ss poor.


  • #2346
    jobless
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭jobless


    solid undercard, run the jewels, father john misty, young fathers, michael kiwanuka stand out for me


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  • #2347
    showpony1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,636 ✭✭✭showpony1


    I'm usually a line-up critic but go anyway and have great time and discover new bands nearer time on spotify. but this is first time there literally isn't one act i want to see on the entire line-up!


  • #2348
    Bazzo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,047 ✭✭✭Bazzo


    sally cinnamon89 wrote: »
    Where is soulwax on that??

    In the undercards on the picture of the printed page rather than the leaked poster.

    https://twitter.com/JulietteGash/status/844876055563423744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boards.ie%2Fvbulletin%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D2057643670%26page%3D157


  • #2349
    Arne_Saknussem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,732 ✭✭✭Arne_Saknussem


    sally cinnamon89 wrote: »
    Where is soulwax on that??

    https://twitter.com/JulietteGash/status/844876055563423744


  • #2350
    PhuckHugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 683 ✭✭✭PhuckHugh


    Arne_Saknussem wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/JulietteGash/status/844876055563423744

    That's an awful line up.


  • #2351
    roll
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 595 ✭✭✭roll


    the phoenix/soulwax thing is a bit odd.....


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  • #2352
    davywalsh7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭davywalsh7


    Have to say I'm fairly underwhelmed at that lineup


  • #2353
    Arne_Saknussem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,732 ✭✭✭Arne_Saknussem


    showpony1 wrote: »
    I'm usually a line-up critic but go anyway and have great time and discover new bands nearer time on spotify. but this is first time there literally isn't one act i want to see on the entire line-up!

    I would have had you pegged as a Chaka Khan fan.


  • #2354
    BananaR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭BananaR


    So are Phoenix on or off?
    . . Future of festival rests on this!!!


  • #2355
    stead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭stead


    I'm fairly satisfied with that lineup. More hiphop than I expected, which is good. How many more acts are added after the initial announcement? Are they just tiny local bands to fill up stages?


  • #2356
    Poorside
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭Poorside


    First 3 lines under the headline acts are brilliant in my opinion, and there'll be plenty more added, happy out with that.


  • #2357
    MojoRisinnnn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 354 ✭✭MojoRisinnnn


    Not a great lineup at all, London Grammar and the XX would be cool but wouldn't get me down. When the festival sells out before even once act is announced there is very little incentive for MCD to try and push the boat out in terms of signing world renowned acts or anything too diverse. I'll be giving this a serious miss but if you're going enjoy!


  • #2358
    nc6000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,468 ✭✭✭nc6000


    This will be my first Electric Picnic. I only recognise about four names on that line-up.


  • #2359
    Paleblood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭Paleblood


    BananaR wrote: »
    Anyone who thinks last year's line-up was OK. I urge to look back through the previous line-ups right back along to the start. There is no comparison in terms of the quantity of quality well known acts....

    If the criteria is 'well known acts' then I think that's very fair. I think it's possible to leave aside the actual merits of the line-ups and just state quite objectively that more 'big names' have played their previously.

    I don't think that makes it better or worse, just different. But then again the festival is on the go since 2004. It's grown in size and it's being run by a different promoter. The only thing that's the same is the location and the name.

    And I say all of that without criticism. I've seen plenty of festivals change over the years, to the point where I had to stop going. EP keeps inviting me back each year, despite how much it's changed. For me that says a lot.


  • #2360
    MS291988
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭MS291988


    are they actually the headline acts????? THE XX yes but surely not the other two :-(


  • #2361
    PhuckHugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 683 ✭✭✭PhuckHugh


    Mr.S wrote: »
    One or two acts I'd see but nothing amazing.

    Looking at a handful of mainland European festivals you can see most of the lineup + better for cheaper.

    Very meh lineup. Still lots to come, but meh.

    For the cost of the whole weekend it's shockingly poor.


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  • #2362
    kellso81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭kellso81


    I was so excited when I seen phoenix, feel disappointed now even tho I think that's decent enough


  • #2363
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,195 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    glencurtis252 wrote: »
    Is the release on TV or radio anywhere??

    Actually TV on the Radio would be a nice one too.

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



  • #2364
    Poorside
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭Poorside


    stead wrote: »
    I'm fairly satisfied with that lineup. More hiphop than I expected, which is good. How many more acts are added after the initial announcement? Are they just tiny local bands to fill up stages?

    Loads more will be announced, and won't all be Johnny and his guitar.


  • #2365
    OhHiMark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭OhHiMark


    Arne_Saknussem wrote: »
    They've listed the XX, Tribe & Duran Duran as headliners so no more Radiohead talk!

    A couple of nuggets in there, we did get Soulwax

    I'm sure a certain somebody will be in to say that those three aren't big enough and there's room for one more super headliner: RADIOHEAD.


  • #2366
    Arne_Saknussem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,732 ✭✭✭Arne_Saknussem


    People trying to flog tickets for €400 on Seatwave disappointed with that announcement i bet.


  • #2367
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,395 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    OhHiMark wrote: »
    I'm sure a certain somebody will be in to say that those three aren't big enough and there's room for one more super headliner: RADIOHEAD.

    Radiohead - Friday
    Daft Punk - Saturday
    Aphex Twin - Sunday

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #2368
    Arne_Saknussem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,732 ✭✭✭Arne_Saknussem


    Poorside wrote: »
    Loads more will be announced, and won't all be Johnny and his guitar.

    Johnny Marr would be excellent.


  • #2369
    windowcleaner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭windowcleaner


    Looks like Jim Carroll was right after all


  • #2370
    OhHiMark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭OhHiMark


    Phantogram are good. I'd like to see them. I'm not going though so I won't.

    Although their new album isn't as good as the first two actually.


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  • #2371
    team_actimel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 785 ✭✭✭team_actimel


    Is that true that the xx are to fill the Friday night slot? I'd like to see them but am disappointed there's no dance act for the main stage.


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