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

Ye I was surprised she wasn't in the first announcement as she's supporting our mate Noah in Belfast that weekend unless purposely holding her back for the next announcement as a big-ish name.

Moi aussi! Latecomer to the festival scene - was in my 40s - I'm now 54.

WTF?!

That's mad lads. My first festival was Feile '93! I was 17.

Raising kids I guess for many people. There’s also never been a festival in Ireland like EP that offers such varied stuff to many people. Many older EP-heads wouldn’t have been tempted by the messiness at Oxegen and the entire vacuum preceding that. I went to lots of festivals in my twenties and thirties but living in England at the time, and the choice available, made that a damn sight easier.

Peggy Gou had released another single (Lobster Telephone) from her upcoming debut album on June 7th if anyone is checking for her.

Yeah, I was firmly ensconced in the clubs from I was 17 until my early 30s (Circus Circus, Kelly's, Shine etc.) and only went to EP because Lyn had a belter in 2009. Huge regrets not going to Irish festivals sooner but the one that hurts is not going to all those Glastonburys when you could still get tickets within a couple of days and not 25 mins until it sells out.

They went way to quick, very strange. Off to regular campsite. 20 of us tried at 1000, none of us got an open link.

James just announced their own gig for Collins Barracks in August so that's them out. The gouging for Irish audiences continues. They're playing festivals all summer but because the good ole Irish are happy to sell out festivals with second rate headliners bands like James do their own summer shows here. Depressing stuff!

They posted it on the socials a few hours ago.

It's probably because they need volunteers who they need to give tickets to and generally the tents are spaced out a bit more so likely they would need to hire more fields. I can see them doing away with it slowly, unless they decide to grow the festival. Surprised it made a comeback this year. The guy running it has an eco bin company and when he gets too busy, I imagine it would be hard to find someone to run the service for free.

I'm off to find the old man's campsite again, was in Janis 2 years ago and it was fine apart from a few friends nearby who got robbed. 2 friends got loyalty in Eco and now will likely have to walk out to us to our campsite. I'd be surprised if there were more than 200 tickets up this morning, I'm sure the loyalty gang would have filled it to the brim.

there is a half a dozen reasons why a band chooses a headline show over a festival. Especially when they headlined a festival here last summer.
hate to break to ya but likelihood of James or equivalent artists playing electric picnic in 2024 or in the future is extremely limited

Why would you say that regarding future likelihood? Not borne out by recent bookings.
James are in the same category as Pixies, Waterboys, Johnny Marr, Bright Eyes, Lightning Seeds and others. Acts of that ilk will continue to be booked.

There is nothing stopping a band of James' ilk playing festivals on two consecutive years. In fact, they no doubt do it already across Europe. There is a trend here, it's not just James. Our tier one festivals are poor by international standards and promotors are taking cream on top by capitalising on the fact our main festival with tepid headliners is sold out, booking these acts separately. It's one reason, not half a dozen.