[Cancelled] Electric Picnic 2020 **Discussion Only // No Ticket Sales / Requests **

blaa85 wrote: »

Anyone any experience with buying from Ticketmaster resale? I've bought two tickets, just looking for reassurance its gone smoothly for someone!

If it's though Ticketmaster they should be guaranteed, did you have to pay much over the odds for them?

endainoz wrote: »

If it's though Ticketmaster they should be guaranteed, did you have to pay much over the odds for them?

Yeah, I'm hoping they would be. It shows as face value when available, but you are charged 30 or 40 more for admin fees. Took a week of checking the site hourly to get both.

blaa85 wrote: »

Yeah, I'm hoping they would be. It shows as face value when available, but you are charged 30 or 40 more for admin fees. Took a week of checking the site hourly to get both.

30 or 40?! Mine were less than a tenner. Maybe it's just a % on top, and much pricier so for festival tickets

Potential for The Weeknd to headline? Just announced tour dates, finishes American leg Sep 3rd and starts European leg Oct 11th with no Dublin date.

Would like to see it, new music is pretty good stuff.

InTheWoods123 wrote: »

Thought the same thing when I saw the tour announcement. I’d be a bit doubtful given the gap between the US tour and the European but I’d be delighted to be proven wrong. Saw him once before live and would be a fantastic announcement!

That’s true that month gap is quite big. He would be great if he was announced, he puts on a good show from what I’ve seen with videos, haven’t caught him live yet.

Muse?

Moby can get stomped by Obie

BadTurtle wrote: »

Mobys music I generally find inoffensive and occasionally decent (Porcelain, Flower, some stuff off 18) but having checked out some of his back catalogue (Animal Rights, Hotel, Destroyed) he has made some colossal amount of unlistenable dreck as well. Any time the guitar comes out alarms should go off.

Some of the early rave stuff is very good (Go, James Bond Theme, etc).


He's an astonishing live performer and has played the odd gig over the past couple of years, seemingly getting back into live performance now, albeit only in the US.

In terms of guitars his cover of New Dawn Fades (used in Heat) is excellent and the music used at the end of the same movie is, for me, astonishing, much-copied and little-referenced:

BadTurtle wrote: »

Judging only from the footage online, his sets look very haphazard. An awful lot of him strutting his stuff as the front man with the guitar. The live singers admittedly look impressive, but theres something very underwhelming about the mix of pre recorded samples and live instrumentation on stuff like Natural Blues, Body Rock etc. And again, Moby + guitar is a big no from me.

I've seen him several times, including when he headlined Glasto in 2003 and held his own alongside REM & Radiohead. He didn't use the guitar much that night bar for great versions of Creep & I Wanna Be Your Dog. Usually has it for Extreme Ways (Bourne theme) but little else. Sets aren't haphazard at all, intricately thought out which kinda matches the nature of his music.

The live singers are as impressive as you'd expect and he moves around the stage a lot. That could annoy some people but what's he to do if not playing an instrument and a female singer has taken the limelight (something he definitely doesn't hog). If booked he'd be an excellent coup for EP and you may actually enjoy it.

Moby would be quality.

It's prob Chemical Brothers though for the dance slot, which I'm sound with too. Enjoyed their last album.

gandalfio wrote: »

As are Move and this one

https://youtu.be/M56cJQzjTTU

The flip is a hardcore era classic too. Thousand, the tune that has the same BPM as the rotation of the Earth. *

* sure it does, Moby

MichaelM93l wrote: »

Potential for The Weeknd to headline? Just announced tour dates, finishes American leg Sep 3rd and starts European leg Oct 11th with no Dublin date.

Would like to see it, new music is pretty good stuff.

he'll probably tour with Daft Punk :cool: