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

Fago123 · 12-08-2022 05:45PM

Usually with a disappointing announcement like that you take a break, do some research and come back with “actually, it’s not THAT bad”. I’ve done that. It’s actually worse than my initial gut reaction!

Poorside · 12-08-2022 05:50PM

Jerry Fish announcing Pillow queen's and either SLF or Undertones would blow today's announcement away.

C'mon Jerry, you can do it.

Stillill42 · 12-08-2022 05:52PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119464882#Comment_119464882

I see that. We're like a slightly less insane Facebook page. Tonight, we mourn. Tomorrow, we speculate on the possibility of Jerry, the Salty Dog and Mind and Body pulling it out of the bag for us.

bodhrandude · 12-08-2022 05:52PM

Just checked out 100 GECS there, just nooooooooooo!!!!, they can feck right off, pure over the top auto tune, a load of sh1te.

12-08-2022 05:53PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119464860#Comment_119464860

Exactly they are Irish and play all the time. You will see them in an Academy sized venue for about € 30 before Christmas.

LowOdour · 12-08-2022 06:01PM

I just compared the 2019 poster and current 2022 poster, and its not pretty.

I worry what SaltyDog, Jerry Fish will offer if this is where things are with other acts.

Only free flow can save us now....or maybe not :-(

Fatfrog · 12-08-2022 06:04PM

The Twitter-slaying is unreal!!

I think EP are trying to bury the negativity by retweeting artists posts!!

endainoz · 12-08-2022 06:05PM

Only one thing for it:

Fatfrog · 12-08-2022 06:10PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119464784#Comment_119464784

Would love to see!! Only something like this could save face for EP!!

SoundOfSilence · 12-08-2022 06:14PM

Aside from the obvious, a lot of people seem to be scanning down the lineup and finding decent Irish artists on the lineup..... which is great. But I wonder between this and the ATN lineup are the organisers ripping the punters off a little?

When you see the quality of lineups they get on the continent.... Nos alive Mad cool etc... all international acts with a sprinkle of local acts, there's far more value for money.

ATN seems to have been a big success this year but I can't help but be a little cynical and think the organisers are screwing us over paying top dollar prices when 85% of the acts are bands we could see from one week to the next.

Not sure what kind of point I'm making here. I know I'm done with EP for sure and ATN the jury is out. I'll wait for the lineup.

Someone mentioned Oxegen lineups and even in the tail end of that festival they were getting massive acts. ****, the lineups were insane. What id give to go to a festival with one of those lineups now.

Mucker46 · 12-08-2022 06:17PM

Billie eilish, Christine and the queen's, dermot Kennedy four tet, gerry cinnamon, James Blake, jarvis coxker, jess Glynne, j hus, Johnny maher, Richard Ashcroft, Richie Hawtin, roisin Murphy, the streets, years and years

V

anne-Marie, Annie mac, becky Hill, fontaines dc, glass animals, London Grammar, pixies, the coronas, the kooks, wolf alice

While i don't like all of these 2019 tier 2 smashes 2022 tier 2 even though the crowd numbers have increased.

Cluner · 12-08-2022 06:23PM

I feel like Andy Dufresne having to wade through a river of **** to try and find something half decent in this horrific line-up.

adam240610 · 12-08-2022 06:59PM

I highly rate sprints for anyone looking at the poor additions

Mucker46 · 12-08-2022 07:05PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119465159#Comment_119465159

Second that

Mucker46 · 12-08-2022 07:06PM

Hermitage Green on main stage 3:15 on the Saturday you will find me elsewhere

sydthebeat · 12-08-2022 07:10PM

What i thought would happen had happened. They will milk this 70k for as as they can, keeping costs as low as possible

Jesus who though the coronas would be the biggest name added after that initial mediocre listing

Mucker46 · 12-08-2022 07:11PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119465159#Comment_119465159

Thumper also great live

jams100 · 12-08-2022 07:32PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119465217#Comment_119465217

In fairness, Becky Hill was the biggest one from the second announcement not the Coronas.

Overall, a little annoyed they built us up for this announcement but there are more than enough good acts over the weekend for me and at the end of the day it's as much about who your going with than just the line up.

Have to say I'm pretty excited that we're only 3 weeks away, hopefully this weather can hold up for the weekend

darzog · 12-08-2022 07:37PM

The five stages of grief in the space of one afternoon

Denial: Surely to God, no. THIS is the big announcement? It’s ok, I must have missed something. Tell you what, when I get home I’ll run these through Spotify. (Gets home) OOoooooookay, this isn’t great. However…I’m bound to hear a guitar soon.

Tick, tick

I will hear a guitar soon, won’t I?

Anger: Three years and this is what we get? OK. We were probably never going to get R*diohead or (The) James but this is an affront. What about the loyal folk who have attended every Picnic? The m’fkrz are blatantly catering to the pups now. We’re being taken for mugs. I’m done…

Bargaining: OK. Let’s think about this. We’ve still got Mind & Body, Salty Dog and Jerry Fish announcements to come. Plus we’ve got Trailer Park to fall back on. Ok Guys, I’ll strike a deal with you. I’ll grudgingly accept what you’ve chucked at us if you’ll please just give us These Charming Men and/or The Roadhouse Doors at Salty Dog. Please?

Depression: do you know what. Even if they do pull it out of the fire with the forest stages, the writing is on the wall. it’s over. They’ve won. The Daisy-chained teens rule now. The guitars have been taken out and ceremonially buried in the woods. It’s time for me to be taken out there with them Into the forest and left there Ubasute-style like an elderly relative that the family can no longer support

Acceptance: hold on…left in the forest…jaysus, that’s where all the good stuff is! Even Jerry Fish has been kicked out into the woods. That means I never have to leave there. Ok. We can do this. We can let the childer swarm in the places I accept I can no longer pass. I will hide under canopy. I will lurk behind twisted tree-trunks and quitletly hiss as they pass…”I once was you…and you shall be me some day. Enjoy it, it goes in the blink of an eye, ya wee ballix.”

I am now part of the forest. Here I will stay. Here I belong

cut to now: sits in the sun. Puts on Two Sevens Clash by Culture. Has a wistful look in his eye. “This time in three weeks I’ll be in Trenchtown happy as Porky in merde. And so it goes…

fafy · 12-08-2022 07:37PM

https://twitter.com/theo_barac/status/1558096466878648321?s=21&t=8cNMFnqPmmwbXXgnPH4cEA

sydthebeat · 12-08-2022 07:43PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119465299#Comment_119465299

"Big" for appearing on a British TV talent show isn't exactly my metric of the hierarchy of music

jams100 · 12-08-2022 07:50PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119465340#Comment_119465340

Alot of others I'd rather before her but she has 20+ million monthly listeners on Spotify, so, yea, she probably fits the definition of a big act even if you or I may not like her

12-08-2022 07:56PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119464922#Comment_119464922

It'll help for sure - We'll have These Charming Men, the Roadhouse Doors and a few other goodies but it's an extremely lightweight lineup irrespective of what gets added. And we weren't being greedy, all we wanted was something along the lines of Squeeze/James/Jon Hopkins. The first announcement gave me a dozen good acts, and that's enough, but look at the poster now and it's pretty grim stuff. Not even a Lorde, Billie Eilish or Sigrid amongst the kid's stuff. The pop music at Glasto is good pop. The pop music at EP is pre-teen pop.

Poorside · 12-08-2022 08:44PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119465193#Comment_119465193

Are they really on the main stage? In fairness they've been decent when Ive seen them,once was in a castle and they were brilliant in EA when they played, not a main stage act by any measure.

12-08-2022 08:57PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119465530#Comment_119465530

Is this some Limerick bias Poorside? I'm afraid we're going to have to ask you to hand in your Boardsies card and leave the building.

Stillill42 · 12-08-2022 09:03PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119465159#Comment_119465159

Yeah, lots of potential. Saw them in the Grand Social a while back, band were great, she was a force of nature for 2 thirds of it, then a sulky child for the last bit. They're young. When they're good, they're great.

Mucker46 · 12-08-2022 09:03PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119465530#Comment_119465530

Not my cup of tea. They had a Facebook post saying they are on the main stage

Mucker46 · 12-08-2022 09:05PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119465589#Comment_119465589

Heard that. They are one of a few bands also doing night and day festival so was thinking I wouldn't go see them at EP but given the EP lineup I may have to reconsider

endainoz · 12-08-2022 09:08PM

So Jerry fish was announced on the 15th august in 2019, so looks like we'll know on Monday. I fear we're putting way too much faith in him, though if it's called "fish town" that would suggest multiple stages, we'll have to wait and see.....

Stillill42 · 12-08-2022 09:12PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119465610#Comment_119465610

He's had a great line up the last 2 EPs in his little noise pollted tent. He's got his own area now so the least I'd expect is a great variety of interesting Irish acts past and present. It's Jerry's time to shine, I'd expect him to be looking to make a splash.

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