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

After the disappointment of the announcement, I started the research.

The Teskey Brothers are excellent IMO - very Otis like. Hopefully get a nice sunny chill slot

Sure but usually theres 2-3 weeks between the fests, no? For the two fests to be on same weekend and not have a single overlapping performer seems odd to me at least.

different booking policies and from quick look majority of artists playing green man either work with other promoters here not FR or have other Irish summer shows.

This year hinges upon whether there are decent undercard acts still to be announced, and the strength and depth of Salty Dog/Trenchtown/Jerry Fish. And frankly, if it's got to that situation, it's grim.

Melvin Benn spunking the whole budget so he can meet Kylie and blame Calvin f*cking Harris for the date swap.

Aye, dead on.

If the likes of Kodaline, Gerry Cinnamon and Calvin Harris are in the 250-500k category, imagine the acts they could have booked with that sort of money. Replace Harris with Chemical Bros/Prodigy. The other two with someone in the category of Liam Gallagher and one of The Cure, Depeche Mode, New Order, Pet Shop Boys etc. or even Fontaines. Would have completely changed the whole festival. I've seen all bar the Cure and all of them appeal to people young and old. You'd still have Kylie, Raye and Noah to keep the young tik tok trendy kids happy along with Tom Grennan, Teddy Swimms, etc. Two out of 5 of the worst acts I've ever seen out of probably thousands of acts are in the top two tiers (J hus and Calvin Harris, I've been more entertained by a fella playing the hoover haha, although seemed more of a joke), and I could imagine Noah, Gerry, Kodaline and Raye giving them a run for their money over who is worse.

I had tickets last year but I sold them, but I been to EP 14 times with the first time being in 2007 and the best. Look at the quality of acts above. The organizers have sold their soul.

Agree but that is the folk who basically run ATN now and not present owners of EP. 2007 was a great year.

While much of this is true, the reason I went straight for the ticket for next year for so many years was trust in the organisers. If you've been 3, 4, 5 times and they've pulled out a great, eclectic line up each time, that breeds trust and loyalty. I know there are some on here that will scoff at the importance of that in the face of the current army of feckless prepubescent party animals who will snap up tickets just for the vibes but that gives a festival long term foundations. You take away that, you're vulnerable.

Have always bought the ticket for nrmext year because I have enjoyed the previous year(s). For me it is all about the music, since 2012 have seen 2 comedians and nothing else non-musical. While I appreciate the vibe it would not be enough without the music and thought pre covid my time at EP was coming to an end but last year had great music across the different tiers and stages but so far this year that has not happened, may do but need decent mid tier to support the always great Jerry and Salty lineups, and that is not there for me so far. Will not be buying an early ticket for next year which saddens me as some great memories from EP

sure they have been for last decade since they over fully, doubling the capacity and not increasing main arena stages was always going to lead to them chasing generic popular mainstream artists.
Was surprised that they didn’t get Lana as she is one who very popular, devoted young fan base and is a credible artist.

quality of the line up has not been a major consideration since the POD era ended. Melvin on the radio last week was praising himself for best line up ever.
Incoherent booking has been a thing in the last decade, some more noticeable to others when great artists play to empty tents.
The online reaction can be overstating the dislike though, judging by how quickly the tickets are being snapped up on resale market. I think it’s finally detached from line up driven sales, it’s all about the experience and music is very very secondary

"music is very very secondary" - if this is indeed the case (and I doubt it, vast maj of people are going for the music) then the sooner the festival folds the better.

every country has local acts that are extremely popular and have no cultural impact outside their home country. Ireland has the likes of kodaline, picture this and uk acts can be popular here like gerry cinnamon who could be a mid card if even at rockwerchter. Similarly I’ve been at rockwerchter where a Belgium artist was sub headliner to RHCP and had absolutely insane audience but he probably couldn’t sell out whelans upstairs here.
EP is the only festival Noah is headlining in europe and as per Melvin that was a “get”. I’m sure Noah kahan will be headlining a bunch of festivals in 2025 throughout Europe.
MCD has in my opinion wrongly decided this summer to do more big headline shows for big acts, personally don’t think Liam Gallagher should have done Limerick and instead would have worked at EP.

Music for the masses and causal listener is what EP, it’s not for devoted music fans.
it’s not trying to be or ever could be the Irish primavera.
primavera is a destination music festivals for music fans around europe to flock to and even that model is falling in last year or two.

There is truth to Fanirish's comment. In the chats that I have had with people attending this year, I was on about the crap line-up, and in every conversation it has been mentioned it's not about the music. That's its a great occasion. And these are adults. I think that is even more the case with tiktokkers, Instagramers - who are more into being at the occasion than actually enjoying the occasion. With Spotify, many of the younger generation don't get into albums as much as was done previously. The main songs will be picked out, and the remaining tunes can be just forgotten about. They will happily go along to EP in great anticipation to Noah Kahans performance, but yet knowing only one song. That is enough for them to enjoy his set, as they are getting their one song, and they are in the EP environment. For the rest of, say his set for example, they will be chatting with friends, on phones, getting drink etc. They will sing along to Sticks, and afterwards will say how brilliant he was. Same with Kodaline and All I Want.

I havent a ticket yet. I'll wait until the few days beforehand. If the weather is decent, there is probably enough on the lineup for me to see me through each day. I'll need to see the proper line up and set times first to see what clashes.

honestly Galway races comparison is kinda spot on to a large point. People who care about horse racing/betting as % of attendees is probably in the minority whereas the majority are there for buzz, drinking, Craic and sure if they win some money every day even better

I'm afraid I need the music.

Just about scraped a weekend out of 2022, and there was much more on the initial poster than this years.

I thought last year was excellent tbh which makes this abomination all the more painful.