Electric Picnic 2022 - Here we go again! - **No Ticket Sales / Requests **

Hopefully Aphex Twin too, when was the last time he played an indoor gig in Dublin, must've been 2003 I think.

Edit: Phuck!! 2001, It was 20 years since he's done an indoor gig in Ireland.

Just got this email...

Indiependence

After two years off due to obvious reasons, Indiependence returns to Mitchelstown with INDIE22!

INDIE has played host to huge international headliners over the years including Biffy Clyro, Lewis Capaldi, Bastille, Public Enemy, Manic Street Preachers and Editors along with brilliant Irish talent including Hozier, Lyra, Kodaline, The Coronas and Bell X1. 

Early Bird tickets go on sale on Saturday 16 October at 10am but we are delighted to offer an Early Bird Pre Sale option from Thursday October 14th at 10am. 

Just use the promo code INDIE22 to access your Weekend Camping ticket for the Early Bird price of €139 including booking fee using the below "Find tickets" link. 

Instalment Plans are also available in the Presale using the same code and link – full price tickets only available on this option @ €159 plus booking fee paid in 3 instalments.

Never buying a pint in the main arena again 😋😋😋

Have the fear a little bit about the 22nd now. Hopefully sense will prevail and they'll sanction full capacity events contingent on production of a vaccine cert. It would be unforgivable to make the events sector carry the can again for the latest spike.

Mick flannery and susan o neill at NCH with orchestra on 18 Nov now available. Selling in pods so should be ok

Cautious and smart, hedging bets I assume. Easier to release more tickets later than go through the rigmarole of cancelling or refunding 40% of the tickets (many of whom may not want refunds). I've not seen other venues do that. Yet!

Far more than a headache, Endainoz. I'd say that's a disaster for venues. Not to mention utterly unfair and illogical. They're wall to wall gigs till Christmas, all sold as full capacity events. I'm a patient man but I'll be furious if this is true.

It doesn't make sense to push it back now, sure its student season, if the nightclubs are not going to open I can imagine a thousand house parties be happening which will guarantee more cases anyway, it seems pointless at this stage.

I really regret The Chieftains not playing the Picnic at all, worth seeing in concert if you can get the band themselves without special guests, but alas Paddy Maloney is gone and he was effectively the leader.

The last Irish festival I think they played was the Westport festival about 5 years ago, I was lucky enough to catch them at the Fleadh Mor festival in Waterford in 1993 and it was some fcuking gig, they absolutely rocked.

My brother back in the early eighties was the first in the house to buy, at the time, a new fangled video recorder, predating VHS and Betamax, Philips V2000 which recorded on both sides of the tape or cartridge. Anyway he recorded a concert of The Chieftains live at Glastonbury 1982, I don't know if it was the West Holts stage at the time but I suspect it was the main stage and the gig was early evening so still in daylight. I was absolutely enthralled and so it seemed was all the festival punters at Glastonbury too. They would've been perfect at the Picnic in the late afternoon, either on the main stage or the Body&Soul main stage.

Its actually up on Youtube, the uploader thinks its 1987 but its the one from 1982, preceded by a Late Late Show clip, 1982 is confirmed in the comments by someone who was at that gig.

25 years since we as the dregs of society mingled with the craziest of Dutch people for a day. Every single person present was out of their heads on drugs - mostly MDMA. Ended up in Amsterdam about 6am and by a lake at lunchtime looking at my feet.

The criminal Justice Bill of 1994 is why rave culture migrated from the UK to mainland Europe. The weed and pills were better suited to be fair.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/33/contents

Might be of interest to some here.

I see all outdoor restrictions are being lifted. I wonder will any crazy promoter try to do any outdoor winter show.

I've the weddo on Saturday. I thought I read that the seating will only apply to gigs going forward?

Not sure what you mean? Sorry man.

That seems to be the case yeah

Mad cool announcement