Electric Picnic 2024 **No Ticket Sales / Requests** - Waiting in line, terrible time, over familiar

Fanirish gets a lot of predicted bookings right and has interesting industry info but really hoping these aren't super accurate like back in the 2023 thread I remember he said these were playing EP 2023: "Billie Eillish, Imagine Dragons, Ellie Goulding, Years and Years" and only one showed up but predicted correctly the early announcement date shortly after. But it's likely wishful thinking from us as a lot of them he mentioned do make sense booking policy wise even if mostly rubbish.

I presume it's probably a rough prediction based on contacts with knowledge of Live Nation package deals, exclusive bookings or something similar, similar factors, with EP being one of the last to announce it probably makes it easier to predict this time of year (apart from some due further top tier announcements).

I presume practically no one/ single digits at FR knows any sort of lineup with any accuracy apart from maybe bookers and then PR team a few days before as marketing is huge for the company and is a disaster if they leak.

Belvin Menn.

This is true, a lot of the European festivals are much more two dimensional with 5 or 6 stages Vs EP with probably 30+? A lot have really went downhill lineup wise. The Oxegen and Longitude comparison seems accurate as they are mostly all music and not much else to a lot of the sites.

I think the foundations set by Body and Soul's Avril and POD's John Reynolds really moulded something special at EP, even though it's lost some of what made it so special i.e. some of the main bookings, the site and some other aspects are incredible still.

I went to Primavera Barcelona in 2022 and 2023 and the lineups were absolutely immense. 2023 alone had Kendrick, Skrillex, Four Tet, Fred Again, Depeche Mode, Mala, New Order, The War On Drugs, Pet Shop Boys, Blur, Anderson Paak, Death Grips, Nia Archives and I could mention another 20 too. I would love for even just 3 of these at EP. BUT there were a lot of downsides.

BUT, these are things that happened over the two years festivals when I attended:

Main Stage caught fire during late night dance act, huge panic and wasn't put out for a good while as seemed no one knew what to do.

They had FOUR working water taps in the whole festival initially in 2022 with what seemed 30+ degrees temperature and I think over 100k people per day, tiny cans of water could be purchased at the bar I think for like 4 euro, I think beer was actually better value. Bar Ques were like 20 mins + long serving like one person every 2/3 mins, people were passing out from the heath. Like an hour qué for water and what trickled out and was warm, like luke warm tea. Slightly improved as it went on but still only had like 8 taps for a finish (and that's literally 8, not 8 water stations with 10 taps each).

The boiler room stage during Kenny Beats partially collapsed and people fell through the ground when I was there, had to shut one of few stages down for the rest of the weekend.

That's not to mention mental long walks between some stages (one in particular), public transport ques getting back, some crowd very rough it seemed, huge ques outside again no one brought water as bottles weren't allowed in. Also had some really big acts in a small auditorium on site and was nearly impossible to get in unless you waited really early for it so missed Kim Gordon and Autechre. There were online comparisons to Fyre fest after day 1 but things did improve in 2022 as it went on and less issues in 2023.

And we won't even start on Primavera Madrid, I didn't go but read the reviews as was on the same time, literally day 1 got cancelled as they didn't have the site ready, and other organisational issues as bad too by the sounds of it.

Tonnes of positives too, if you booked everything early and made a week or so holiday out of it it was actually very cheap overall, cheap food, cheap pints, some parts were actually well organised. You could do it flights, 1 week city center hotel and ticket for maybe 700 quid each which is like EP + Glamping for those into that.

But it's easy to try and compare looking through rose tinted glasses, you're comparing apples and oranges. As much as we moan about lineups it's not everything. A lot of that mentioned about was absolutely crazy to someone like me who's mostly attended festivals in the Ireland and the UK. Every festival has it's pluses and minuses and you won't really see them until you attend.

^ Spoofer. 🤣

Nah they'll wait until everyone is hungover to the bag on Monday.

(I have no idea)

Glastonbury apparently announcing first poster tomorrow.

Pretty sure that's last years poster with the colors inverted/ filtered and the names all blurred and date edited lol, same shape text and design.

Ah yeah it is.

Clearly moving towards an Extreme Metal lineup this year.

That’s shockingly bad. As ever there’s loads of great stuff to see but the main stage sets the tone and that’s incredibly bland. Great though to see lots of Irish acts on the poster.

That's the first year I've looked at the Glasto line up and not wished I was going.

Headliners poor but quite a few on the poster I would welcome to EP