Electric Picnic 2018 **Discussion Only // No Ticket Sales** [Part 1]

One would have to wonder would they try to make this an exceptionally better year than others in order to stop people thinking of going with Alltogethernow next year.

That being said we know acts are booked well in advance with bookers having headliners almost 1yr + locked down.

I have a ticket to ATN and depending on how it goes (so far so good) this may be my last EP for a while to just concentrate on one fest.

Saving for a house and will have to limit spendings. If I could I'd be at a fest every 2nd weekend.

Oh man... ATN is looking so good. Kinda feeling a bit of FOMO. I’m just so perplexed by N.E.R.D. Like, is this the most obscure EP headliner ever? Really keen to see a heritage act added and something else to make us all smile

Curtis Harding plays his last gig in Europe the week before EP and has nothing in the states until October, he owes me a visit after pulling out 2 days before his spot 2 years ago.

Furious-Red wrote: »

ATCQ , Lana Del Ray?

Was thinking the same

Agree with most of the posts tonight, for me NERD are the most obscure headliner of the years I've been going, however I don't think Arcade Fire are realistic as much as I would love them.. Looks like the headliners have been announced and the best we can hope for is sub headliners which means somewhere between the level of NERD/Massive Attack and Dua Lipa/Ben Howard/St. Vincent.

No idea who I'm hoping for right now but I'm not entirely optimistic about the bigger acts, will probably get a few gems somewhere down the lineup as usual. Can't help but feel EP missed the boat on a hell of a lot of big acts this year, The War on Drugs and Justice are definitely two playing this weekend at FF who would have been perfect. Personally Slowdive are one that could be a game changer for me with no Irish dates and seem to be around Europe for the summer but we will see. Wouldn't be expecting another name stage announcement for another 2-3 weeks!

scruff monkey wrote: »

Holdin' out for a-ha.

They wrap up their tour in Gemany on August 27th, so it's certainly possible, date-wise. If they weren't already doing the Marquee, I think it would have been more likely, but they did occur to me too.

EP need to step it up this year, or else just completely commit to being a more pop orientated festival, the trying to do both thing isn't really working for them, and it's annoying all the punters new and old, ATN are just really just destroying them, I have Beatyard and Picnic tickets and really regret it as I'd have much preferred to go to ATN, lineup is much better etc

Now, still plenty of time for EP to whip it out of the bag, and I hope they do, but alas, I fear this may also by my last

I don't think thats quite everything for ATN, I feel there will be similar announcements to the likes of Casa Bacardi, The Forest and Salty etc etc

Granted EP still have all of that to go as well, but for me now, EP's smaller stages is where all of the action is as there just isn't much on main lineup for me, and it was similar last year, ATN have some main bill names i'd be very interested in

The timing of ATN is really superior as well. So much envy for a festival that hasn’t happened yet :-) Await reviews eagerly

ATN hardly destroying EP now tbf

scruff monkey wrote: »

We've had just 1 EP announcement, ATN have blown their wad and we know everything they have. Kinda hard to say they're destroying them till all the bands are in.

ATN are destroying the EP in terms of treating the customers right by announcing the ****ing bands when they should.

EP are destroying ATN in the blue balls competition, that's for sure.

I suspect what ATN will do, is to stop a lot of people buying early bird on the basis of no line up. The longer it takes for EP to sell out next year, the more they will have to up their game in 2020

everlast75 wrote: »

I ain't clicking on that link! :eek:

I clicked that link and now my dog's balls are blue...