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

"It’s key that we maintain Electric Picnic as one of the world’s most
prestigious festivals so that artists continue to want to come back…

Tell yewha Phyllis I can't wait for Gerry Cinnamon."

Oh I believe you @Fanirish it's just really bad.

Maisie peters, Teddy swims, Flo, Catfish, Gerry cinnamon, Noah kahan, Renee Rapp, Beabadoobee, The Japanese House is a brutal list, all generic singer song writers or very mediocre 'indie' category. There's two here I hadn't seen until the Coachella livestream this weekend but sounded incredibly poor and boring. A good bulk of them sound like something straight of The Disney Channel, I'm sure very popular for the 5 seconds of their music that can be heard on Tik Tok.

Kneecap and Hannah Laing, both just really poor when I've seen them live.

Raye makes some of the most generic boring music I've ever heard, talented artist, I suppose it's catchy and not a bad booking as a lot would be very happy. I only know her music off the radio.

Kenya Grace might be worth a look at maybe, but not sure the likleyhood due to the Longitude booking. Dua Lipa/ LDR probably worth going to, LDR very hit and miss live, have been to both previously.

I hate the negativity in this thread as much as anyone but if this is the bulk of the first few tiers then it's a disaster. I'm honestly very easy going and open to trying new acts all the time at festivals but this ain't it. The good news is it's usually very mixed at EP, so if these are just the generic acts that's fine, I'm sure FR have a nice few exciting ones in store.

Best not saying stuff like this, good decent indie bands disappearing of the hopeful list. Just let it pan out and see what we see. 😀

Is this down to more to the music or the type of crowd he draws in? I'm not familiar with either but I've gotten the impression over the course of the thread that people expect the audience to turn up for him to be a bit loutish.

it’s usually one of the other, headline summer shows around the country or EP for artists.

A different experience for me. I’ve seen Blur 6/7 times and they’ve never let me down. Always full of energy and they reliably play setlists full of old favourites even when promoting a new album. Coachella this weekend had 10 out of 13 tracks from their past catalogue. And I also think that The Magic Whip is a great comeback album. The material worked really well at EP.

I agree re the Good, the Bad and the Queen, excellent live despite the low-key stuff. I’ve also see Albarn with Africa Expess, Bobby Womack and elsewhere, always impressive. Gorillaz I’ve not caught but would like to though their live sets seem to start well and then go flat after 45/50 mins. But that’s going by TV footage so it could be way off.

and then walked over to see the National. Good night that

Missed them at EP due to clashes. Just checked and it was Bjork and Modest Mouse they were up against plus the very start of LCD Soundsystem. Heady days.

Would love to think he was referring to the LCD Sound System, for the second announcement if they sell out Malahide of course. Going by the bands record of appearances with the festival they last played in 2016 and there is a sizable gap between July and August, who knows, but it would be a nice surprise.

Ah c'mon. You can't have a go at BD in one post for asking you directly if such-and-such is likely to be playing, and then post this.

As I've said, I've no dog in this fight, won't be going to EP either way, but Fanirish is fairly insufferable even as a neutral. Just fishing for attention at this point, whether or not he knows anything.