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Electric Picnic 2023 **No Ticket Sales / Requests ** - It'll be grand

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    #3302
    Stillill42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120989825#Comment_120989825

    I'm presuming Simple Kid.



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    #3303
    Genghis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭Genghis



    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120989799#Comment_120989799

    Thats it exactly. I'd go out of my way (most times) for a beer I was going to enjoy, I wouldn't expect 'my beer' on tap everywhere.

    The vast majority will just take whats nearest, so Heineken gets 99% of the trade anyway. Maybe next time the contract is up it could be accommodated.



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    #3304
    Stillill42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    Yeah, that line up wouldn't blow you away. Maybe some diamonds in the rough that I don't know. Couple of good acts that were there last year, Sun Masheen, Scattered Ashes but yeah, a bit underwhelming.



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    #3305
    duckdiggler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭duckdiggler


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120989119#Comment_120989119

    A nice little piece of marketing there, yeah it would be nice to have other beers on site, (and also have the salty dog free area for beer while we are at it but with Terminus that now isnt possible either)



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    #3306
    duckdiggler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭duckdiggler


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120989799#Comment_120989799

    1 f**king hundred % this - charging bar prices for cans - i have a lot of barely suppressed rage about this ....



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    #3307
    Genghis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭Genghis


    Slim pickings in Fishtown, thats for sure. Mik Pyro, Pale Blue Eyes and maybe one or two more pending research. Such high hopes dashed.



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    #3308
    Brianjl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47 ✭Brianjl


    That's fairly underwhelming, I reckon Jerry's budget allowance gets lower every year. Having the pony girls and pole dancers as part of the lineup just looks like they're trying to fill out the lineup, when they're part of it every year anyway.



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    #3309
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 45,542 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    not too overwhelmed with jerry to be honest.

    Mik Pyro definitely, the Oozes probably, and simple kid to give me that mid noughties feelin'

    lots of repeats there as usual.



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    #3310
    duckdiggler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭duckdiggler


    Recommend Pixie Rythm Cut Orchestra - very good , and Mik Pyro as most will know is great too

    Simple Kid - havent seen before so that could be onto my list too



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    #3311
    Mucker46
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120989813#Comment_120989813

    Night and Day was better this year and I really enjoyed the first one



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    #3312
    Mucker46
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,335 ✭✭✭Mucker46


    Jerry not as good as previous years, subject to checking out some unknowns, but will add Simple Kid and Scattered Ashes (good last year). Pontious Pilate were good fun last year so if no clash will go see again. Saw JYellowL at night and day and while not generally my cup of tea was very good.



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    #3313
    sh89000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 422 ✭✭sh89000


    BASHT were decent at ATN, will probably catch them



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    #3314
    Mucker46
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    Missed Cat Dowling last album really good added to my list



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    #3315
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120989119#Comment_120989119

    I can see both sides of this. Heineken have always pumped a lot of cash into the festival, thus helping with the booking of major acts and with the festival’s survival in tougher year. It’s not surprising that they demand exclusivity, but some flexibility wouldn’t go amiss.

    Also very frustrating, particularly for a local brewer to be locked out, and it’d be good for FR to make some small accommodation for them. In the first 2/3 years there was a small craft beer stall and an independent cider outfit. Can’t see them ever returning though. I’ll be along to Super Valu to pick up a few of his cans. A smart post, they’ll do well from it. And deservedly so.



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    #3316
    fjon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭fjon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120989883#Comment_120989883

    I reckon so. My band was in negotiations to play there, and the budget wouldn't cover our fairly modest fee. We got what we were looking for on another stage without any questions.

    Still I'm sure there will be some interesting acts in there which will be worth seeing.



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    #3317
    rockterrain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭rockterrain


    Ah that lineup is disappointing.



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    #3318
    Penfailed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,040 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    As others have said, disappointing for Fishtown.

    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Pixies, Ride, Therapy?, Public Service Broadcasting, IDLES, And So I Watch You From Afar

    Gigs '25 - Spiritualized, Supergrass, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Queens of the Stone Age, Electric Picnic, Vantastival, Sprints, Getdown Services, And So I Watch You From Afar, The Scratch

    Gigs '26 - Deftones, Sleaford Mods, Stereolab, KNEECAP, Sugar, Clutch, Big Thief, Jon Spencer, The Cure, Forest Fest, IDLES, Electric Picnic, Public Service Broadcasting, Levellers, Suede/Manic Street Preachers, Korn, Fat Dog



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    #3319
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120989810#Comment_120989810

    Far weaker than last year but the return of Simple Kid will be one of my highlights of the weekend. Mik Pyro always worth a look. I’d welcome some recommendations.


    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Roi8tz9q31I




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    #3320
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120989889#Comment_120989889

    Simple Kid brilliant at Oxegen 2004, filled the main tent too though the drizzle undoubtedly helped.

    Seen him a couple of other times too, reliably good. That first album is amongst my faves of the early 2000s.



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    #3321
    Ricosruffneck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,364 ✭✭✭Ricosruffneck


    Nothing really there for me having gone through the Spotifys, may pop into cat Dowling if there's nothing else on.

    Meh



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    #3322
    Hank the DJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭Hank the DJ


    Not much to drag me up that way.



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    #3323
    princemuzzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 807 ✭✭✭princemuzzy


    Simple Kid is a massive plus for me, Mik Pyro never disappoints


    other than that MEH



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    #3324
    Limerick91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 576 ✭✭✭Limerick91


    No Frank & Walters!!!!



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    #3325
    Hank the DJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭Hank the DJ


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120990308#Comment_120990308

    Maybe they're the blurred out name.



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    #3326
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,335 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Yeah they're pissing about with this blurred name business, what do you think, will they reveal on the 18th or whenever.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #3327
    Hank the DJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭Hank the DJ


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120990341#Comment_120990341

    They'll realise someone just spilt some milk on it at the graphic design place and slowly remove it.



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    #3328
    Mucker46
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120990308#Comment_120990308

    Shocked



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    #3329
    duckdiggler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭duckdiggler


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120990123#Comment_120990123

    Are you allowed tell us your band and where you will be playing, have you made our list of bands to see already !!

    Give us a hint 😉



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    #3330
    fjon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭fjon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120990614#Comment_120990614

    Ah, we're very low on the tier of bands and it's a relatively new project so not too well known. We're playing one of the stages that hasn't been announced yet. I'm mainly here on this thread as a fan of EP, playing there and getting free entry is just a bonus



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    #3331
    Ricosruffneck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,364 ✭✭✭Ricosruffneck


    My plan this year is to buy tickets full price so I'm not waiting to resell them like the installments.

    Wait and see what all together and body and soul look like and may sell based off the initial EP lineup. I'm not thrilled about this year's lineup.

    It's the 20th anniversary so maybe they'll pull out the stops.

    Or I may be having a baby and then it's zero fests.



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