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

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  • #4052
    siblers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,956 ✭✭✭✭siblers


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122067508#Comment_122067508

    Jaysus. No idea he was so popular



  • #4053
    CuriousCucumber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭CuriousCucumber


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122067708#Comment_122067708

    You're right though.

    How many festivals is Kylie headlining this summer?

    I've no doubt she'd sell out standalone gigs in Ireland with ease, but festival headliners should be different.



  • #4054
    CuriousCucumber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭CuriousCucumber


    Anyway, it was a throwaway comment I made about none of the 6 main acts being good enough to headline.

    Let's leave it here.

    Personally, of those 6, I'll go see Kylie for the craic, but doubt I'll give any time of day to the others. Luckily, there are plenty of stages to find something else I like



  • #4055
    MadYaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,340 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122067739#Comment_122067739

    She was great, and I wouldn't count myself as a fan at all but everybody knows those songs.



  • #4056
    mgkelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 828 ✭✭✭mgkelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122067810#Comment_122067810

    everybody knows those songs

    …even if we don't want to?! Get a bit burned into the ole brain.

    🙄😧



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  • #4057
    Fanirish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,085 ✭✭✭Fanirish


    EP headliners broadly following same practice

    big Dance act - 2023 Fred Again 2024 Calvin Harris

    Hype Pop act of the moment with limited back catalogue - 2023 Billie Eillish 2024 Noah kahan

    act with sing along hits that everyone knows: 2023: The Killers 2024: Kylie



  • #4058
    scruff monkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,938 ✭✭✭scruff monkey
    Snarky Snark Snark


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122067821#Comment_122067821

    We all do, even though 50% of them are absolute tripe, the other 50% are ones that other singers would have killed for to have recorded.

    Likely my last picnic, if Kylie is the last act i see then I'll be happy. Have Patti, Elbow, Suede and Manics, Arab Strap and Crash Test Dummies lined up over coming months anyway so I've plenty to look forward to and my Beth Gibbons cd is on its way.

    Now, i've cleaned the cats poo palace and it's time to go get beers and let the weekend commence.



  • #4059
    MadYaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,340 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122067821#Comment_122067821

    After 7 beers and whatever else you'll be having a whale of a time



  • #4060
    Jaffa3000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,737 ✭✭✭Jaffa3000


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122067827#Comment_122067827

    More than a bit of a reach to equate Kahan with Eilish and The Killers with Kylie. There was nothing of the moment about Eilish in 2023, she'd been around for 5 years or so by that point.



  • #4061
    MacPint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 49 ✭MacPint


    Me and the lads have sold or are selling the tickets. Absolute **** muck. Last year was underwhelming but you could have a decent weekend with good enough acts, idles, amyl, viagra boys, royel Otis, killers, Scustin, Confidence Man off the top of my head amongst others.

    There’s literally no one on that list for me. Maybe Kasabian and Gerry Cinnamon at a push.

    Makes All Together Now look half decent now (we were somewhat unhappy then too). Thankfully most of us have tickets for that.



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  • #4062
    Fanirish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,085 ✭✭✭Fanirish


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122067930#Comment_122067930

    Noah kahan been around since 2017 with three albums out versus eillish two albums to date ( 3rd out soon)



  • #4063
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,649 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122067967#Comment_122067967

    Kasabian, Nas, Peggy Gou, arguably even Faithless or Wolfe Tones should all be above Kahan, Cinnamon and Kodaline for the 6 headliners.

    I've no idea how to juggle those acts into anything decent for Friday, go all Irish with Damien Dempsey leading into the Wolfe Tones?

    And I don't get Kodaline feeding into Calvin Harris on Saturday, that seems very weird. Surely Peggy Gou would lead into Harris much better?

    But tbf Raye on before Kylie is a good match so see why she was put with her on Sunday instead.



  • #4064
    dav09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 982 ✭✭✭dav09


    Its a bad state of affairs when the 'best' headliner at it (maybe apart from Kylie) are off You're A Star, one of the worst talent contests the country produced, and to make matters worse they couldn't even win the thing.

    Raye talented if you look at some of her of her music, but it's wasted on poor music with trash lyrics (especially 'Escapism').



  • #4065
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,649 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122068002#Comment_122068002

    Raye is quite strong as a warm up to the main headliner, she'll be a great build to Kylie and could have even done the same for Harris on the Saturday.



  • #4066
    haitens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 230 ✭✭haitens


    I just wanted a few more decent bands, will most likely sell my ticket unless the 2nd announcement has a few. No problem with the headliners it's the 2nd tier that's my problem



  • #4067
    dav09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 982 ✭✭✭dav09


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122068045#Comment_122068045

    I don't even want to see the stage Friday/Saturday for the headliners, they are all shocking beyond belief. Not sure who is worse between Calvin Harris, Gerry Cinnamon and Noah Kahan, and Kodaline too really.



  • #4068
    Hank the DJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭Hank the DJ


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122067930#Comment_122067930

    Fanirish really is the comical Ali of this thread, Kylie = The Killers is an absolute cracker, one of the biggest rock bands in the world vs a pop Princess who hasn't written 1 of her hits herself.



  • #4069
    rockterrain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭rockterrain


    Forest Fest organisers must be rubbing their hands. Completely trumps EP for Indie / rock acts.



  • #4070
    Hank the DJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭Hank the DJ


    But Eilish had massive hits (plural) from those albums and was already really well known.

    90% of the EP crowd will know 1 Kahan song.



  • #4071
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,649 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122068077#Comment_122068077

    I'd go so far as to have Harris warm up for Gou but Harris has the bigger name so I can kinda give it a pass hes had a few remarkably good songs and actual talent....except for fùcking Kodaline on before him which will be a weird transition and atmosphere, dont know how much crossover fans Kodaline/Harris have, How the fùck were they put together one after the other?

    Friday is just ghastly dirge.

    They didn't put the best 6 as headliners and with the exception of Raye on before Kylie, the other 4 were just randomly chucked together. The quality is lacking but the structure is shocking.



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  • #4072
    dav09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 982 ✭✭✭dav09


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122068114#Comment_122068114

    I went to Calvin Harris in 2022 in Spain and he was absolutely dire. As I've I said earlier in the thread he's very talented but his new shows are just awful, I've DJ'd a good bit and didn't even look like he was DJ'ing just bouncing around the stage, have been to probably 1000s of acts over the years and is one of the worst I've ever seen, left halfway through, it's a shame as he was quite good live back in the day.

    I think maybe they might change stage format/timings to usual years potentially as I feel having Nas on late makes more sense and the likes of Kodaline during the day. As with Peggy Gou later. As with Faithless unless they play EA.



  • #4073
    Jaffa3000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,737 ✭✭✭Jaffa3000


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122068000#Comment_122068000

    Noah Khan blew up in the second half of last year and is known for one song, with Homesick also getting some airplay. At best you could say he's where Eilish was in 2019 but if you genuinely think Noah Kahn has been famous for 4 or 5 years already you're having a laugh



  • #4074
    slingerz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,308 ✭✭✭slingerz


    is there going to be a second announcement of acts?

    underwhelmed is the theme of the day with that announcement



  • #4075
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 23,065 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122068304#Comment_122068304

    there’ll be at least 2 more I reckon. You can’t fill a weekend with that many bands.

    they/them/theirs


    The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

    Noam Chomsky



  • #4076
    Hank the DJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭Hank the DJ


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122068304#Comment_122068304

    There's a load more to come, this announcement is basically main stages probably/ hopefully a few decentish acts to announce that will play EA, all the smaller stages have to announce and that's where you'll find some gems.



  • #4077
    Musicrules
    Site Banned Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Musicrules


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121985207#Comment_121985207

    😂🤣😅



  • #4078
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    The more I look at that line up bar Kylie, Faithless, Kasabian, Damo, Waterboys, I find the rest accurately fits this Bill Hicks argument about Rock Stars Vs New Kids in the Block, 'When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children.'

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLeQ7oxUAKc

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



  • #4079
    Hank the DJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭Hank the DJ


    Who was it on this thread said there was some good guitar bands lined up?

    Because I'd like to hang them up by Noah Kahans banjo string for giving me hope.



  • #4080
    dav09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 982 ✭✭✭dav09


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122068431#Comment_122068431

    I'm fairly sure that info came to @Musicrules in a dream.



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  • #4081
    Musicrules
    Site Banned Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Musicrules


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122068431#Comment_122068431

    That was me. I was trying to manifest a good line up. I failed and I do apologise. I think I can pick 2 acts I want to see. Can you leave it till the week of the festival to see what the weather forecast is like and be pretty sure of selling your ticket?



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