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drunkmonkey · 23-06-2017 01:23PM

bennyineire wrote: »

If you need some perspective on how crap the lineup is for the money you pay have a look at the lineup for Glastonbury and have yourself a little cry

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/line-up/line-up-2017/?stage

And before anybody says you can't compare the festivals, have a look at the lineups for both 5 or 6 years ago

In fairness we don't have to suffer Ed singing about hurting his knee when he was 12.

BurtMacklin · 23-06-2017 01:23PM

Give Car Seat Headrest a go lads. Great band IMO.

nmg_ire · 23-06-2017 01:25PM

Pretty happy with that main line up, making off a very good weekend.

Ricey92 · 23-06-2017 01:25PM

bennyineire wrote: »

If you need some perspective on how crap the lineup is for the money you pay have a look at the lineup for Glastonbury and have yourself a little cry

And before anybody says you can't compare the festivals, have a look at the lineups for both 5 or 6 years ago

I'm more excited to watch that on TV than go to EP this year. That shouldn't be happening. Awful line up

Peter File · 23-06-2017 01:33PM

Weepsie wrote: »

Given their respective catalogues, The XX headlining over Elbow is daft.

Elbows best days are long gone, they are a heritage act now and very bland live. The xx are headlining festivals across the world and will attract the younger fans to their set.

jobless · 23-06-2017 01:34PM

plenty of good acts there to see over the weekend.... yes headliners a bit meh but there's more to the festival than that....

Former Former · 23-06-2017 01:35PM

Not a fabulous announcement, but exactly in line with what any reasonable person would have expected.

Rejjie Snow was amazing last year, he's definitely on my list this year.

BlaaEater · 23-06-2017 01:35PM

F:(cking dreadful line-up. They really are taking the p*ss...

jobless · 23-06-2017 01:35PM

Peter File wrote: »

Elbows best days are long gone, they are a heritage act now. The xx are headlining festivals across the world.

elbows new album is quite good i think.... xx arent a patch on them imo

GidCudi · 23-06-2017 01:37PM

This year is crying out for a stupid, no nonsense rock/indie act for night time. Looks like it's going to be jam packed daytime and chilled nights at the moment lol

Slobberdawn · 23-06-2017 01:43PM

When's the next announcement. I want to order some pills in advance. The ones that give you the biggest come down.

showpony1 · 23-06-2017 01:46PM

usually you'd expect to see a few chart acts like 1975, years & years mixed in, doesn't appear to be anything easily accessible to me there.

kellso81 · 23-06-2017 01:46PM

Peter File wrote: »

Elbows best days are long gone, they are a heritage act now and very bland live. The xx are headlining festivals across the world and will attract the younger fans to their set.

I agree with that, seen elbow in the O2 a few years back and never been more bored at a gig in my life.

Far too much hip-hop/grime whatever the fck it's called these days for my liking, really disappointed and can't see myself ever buying tickets blind again

heebusjeebus · 23-06-2017 01:49PM

"OVER 20 NEWS ACTS JOIN OUR LINE UP!"

https://www.electricpicnic.ie/news/over-20-news-acts-join-our-line

Hope Sharon will sing a song or two

GidCudi · 23-06-2017 01:50PM

Lyra...this Scandinavian sounding Irish Florence and the Machine? Bit mad...but I like it

showpony1 · 23-06-2017 01:59PM

what is the friday dance act? lol
i think the friday will be underwhelming compared to last years!

Slobberdawn · 23-06-2017 02:04PM

If one was to listen to Annie Mac in order to assess whether she'd be worth seeing, what would you recommend to listen to exactly?

Easy Rod · 23-06-2017 02:06PM

CurryFlavoured wrote: »

They added Blur and Sam Smith late a couple years ago, went straight to headliners obviously. Last year Noel Gallagher and 1975. Whether they're your cup of tea or not, they're pretty big acts compared to this addition.

Blur and Sam Smith were a completely different situation as headliners had not been announced that year. EP very specifically told everyone that the three biggest names in this years line-up would be A tribe called quest, the XX and Duran Duran. If you thought bigger bands would be added late that's on you.

I would say Elbow are bigger than NG and the 1975 but that's a moot point as they're not headliners.

red face dave · 23-06-2017 02:09PM

Its funny looking back at the predictions people had just a couple of days ago everything from Gallagher to Major Lazer. Good old EP does it again.

I cant say if I'm unhappy or happy with the additions I paid €150 minus 25% (Ulster bank thing) for 3 days so for me its okay. However if I paid €250 I probably would be pissed.

Facebook today is comedy gold.

Blackie_IRL · 23-06-2017 02:19PM

No matter what a festival line-up is like there is always a % of people who are unhappy because the line-up is missing specific acts they want to see. The line-up to me is very decent, it may be weaker at headline level than previous years but is much stronger at the mid to lower level. One of my biggest gripes last year was the fact there was little of interest for me on during the day. I found myself killing time until late evening, I don't foresee the same problem this year. Each to their own but there is plenty on that line-up to keep me busy for 3 days and that's before the final announcement is even made. Add in all the other area's and it'll pad out t be a very decent weekend of music IMO.

Slobberdawn · 23-06-2017 02:23PM

red face dave wrote: »

Its funny looking back at the predictions people had just a couple of days ago everything from Gallagher to Major Lazer. Good old EP does it again.

I cant say if I'm unhappy or happy with the additions I paid €150 minus 25% (Ulster bank thing) for 3 days so for me its okay. However if I paid €250 I probably would be pissed.

Facebook today is comedy gold.

I got the same deal which softens the inevitable blow.

I'm lucky in that I'm going for over ten years now and my really low expectations are always met, i.e. I like virtually none of the bands listed until I explore and find a couple that are ok.

I'll probably pack it in this year.

BullBlackNova · 23-06-2017 02:26PM

My absolute favourite thing about this year's festival is the meltdowns.

"THE HEADLINERS YOU SAID WERE HEADLINING ARE STILL HEADLINING. WAAAAAAH."

Look I'm not gonna tell people for a second what they should or shouldn't like, but EP and Festival Republic bluntly stated that these were the headline acts. Expecting anything different was just setting yourself up for a fall.

Fwiw, Duran Duran is a poor one for me and I caught the xx at Primavera and was not remotely impressed. They do nothing for me. ATCQ should be excellent, but not to everyone's taste but I have years of previous Picnics of not seeing a headline act cos the Electric Arena headliner (or somewhere else) were more to my taste.

The transition from a pop-centric bill back to a more alt/indie/tradition EP one was always gonna cause some disappointment so I can certainly empathise with people, but that's how I felt watching Sam Smith so...

Undercard this year is absolutely perfect for my own taste, though. Phoenix, Interpol, Car Seat Headrest, Father John Misty, Run the Jewels, Band of Horses, Kiasmos, Vince Staples, Young Fathers, Perfume Genius, Everything Everything, Jagwar Ma... That's already more bands than I could even hope to see all weekend!

red face dave · 23-06-2017 02:26PM

Slobberdawn wrote: »

I got the same deal which softens the inevitable blow.

I'm lucky in that I'm going for over ten years now and my really low expectations are always met, i.e. I like virtually none of the bands listed until I explore and find a couple that are ok.

I'll probably pack it in this year.

Very same. I have been to 100% of picnics but age is catching up.
Know a few bands and will give spotify a listen but at this stage I've seen most of the bands I would like to see.

Synode · 23-06-2017 02:39PM

So good quality dance acts are:-

Pete Tong
Annie Mac
Soulwax
Kiasmos
Floating Points
Bicep
Mano Le Tough
Kelly Lee Owens

Am I missing anyone I should be listening to?

Blackie_IRL · 23-06-2017 02:42PM

BullBlackNova wrote: »

My absolute favourite thing about this year's festival is the meltdowns.

"THE HEADLINERS YOU SAID WERE HEADLINING ARE STILL HEADLINING. WAAAAAAH."

Look I'm not gonna tell people for a second what they should or shouldn't like, but EP and Festival Republic bluntly stated that these were the headline acts. Expecting anything different was just setting yourself up for a fall.

Fwiw, Duran Duran is a poor one for me and I caught the xx at Primavera and was not remotely impressed. They do nothing for me. ATCQ should be excellent, but not to everyone's taste but I have years of previous Picnics of not seeing a headline act cos the Electric Arena headliner (or somewhere else) were more to my taste.

The transition from a pop-centric bill back to a more alt/indie/tradition EP one was always gonna cause some disappointment so I can certainly empathise with people, but that's how I felt watching Sam Smith so...

Undercard this year is absolutely perfect for my own taste, though. Phoenix, Interpol, Car Seat Headrest, Father John Misty, Run the Jewels, Band of Horses, Kiasmos, Vince Staples, Young Fathers, Perfume Genius, Everything Everything, Jagwar Ma... That's already more bands than I could even hope to see all weekend!

There's been a noticeable shift in the profile of acts playing when compared to previous couple of years, it's an intentional shift too IMO. Maybe the age profile wasn't to their liking, I have no problem with a young crowd at a festival FWIW, but there is a balance to be struck.

dmcmahon123 · 23-06-2017 02:45PM

Slobberdawn wrote: »

If one was to listen to Annie Mac in order to assess whether she'd be worth seeing, what would you recommend to listen to exactly?

Her sets are good. She curates a music festival in malta every year called Lost & Found which has some big names in dance music including Armand Van Helden Jamie Jones Jackmaster etc. at it so her track selection should at least be alright.

hoodini89 · 23-06-2017 02:48PM

Synode wrote: »

So good quality dance acts are:-

Pete Tong
Annie Mac
Soulwax
Kiasmos
Floating Points
Bicep
Mano Le Tough
Kelly Lee Owens

Am I missing anyone I should be listening to?

Hannah Wants.

BullBlackNova · 23-06-2017 02:48PM

Blackie_IRL wrote: »

There's been a noticeable shift in the profile of acts playing when compared to previous couple of years, it's an intentional shift too IMO. Maybe the age profile wasn't to their liking, I have no problem with a young crowd at a festival FWIW, but there is a balance to be struck.

Totally agree.

Not sure if it is a case of not liking the age profile but, I'd imagine, safeguarding the product overall.

What you now have is one pop-focused festival in Longitude and one more-alternative one in Electric Picnic.

A huge demographic (which does overlap in some cases) is now catered for instead of the previous mish-mash approach in the last few years which caused a lot of punters to be unhappy with the products.

Festival Republic spoke earlier this year about establishing at least one more weekend camping fest in Ireland - said both Cork and Dublin could handle it - so I wouldn't be surprised to see that launch next year.

Camping fest with a pop focus held shortly after the end of the Leaving Cert, Longitude remaining a non-camping fest in July and EP with its EP-ish focus in late August, September.

Nothing to base that on other than conjecture but it all adds up.

dmcmahon123 · 23-06-2017 02:50PM

hoodini89 wrote: »

Hannah Wants.

Hannah Wants is absolutely horrendous, don't bother listening to her. Shes like a Dj you would hear on a Saturday night in a nightclub in Sligo.

hoodini89 · 23-06-2017 02:54PM

Ok I've gotten over my initial disappointment with the latest additions.
I was expecting some big names to be added but I agree with previous posters in that EP is definitely taking a new direction.

There are a decent amount of acts I can't wait to see (mainly in the undercard) and being a mainly electronic music fan I am spoiled for choice.

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