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

EP took the sold out money with promises of a massive name SO big the festival dates were being moved to accommodate.

So which one of the second rate acts is it?

as per Melvin interview the other week he moved the festival for Calvin Harris availability.
In slight defence of Calvin he is massively popular artist with massive pop hits

Believing a word from Belvin Menn is foolhardy.

but he sold out his longitude day. He is worth money at end of day. Main thing in eyes of FR/Melvin.
melvin said it on a news talk interview the day of the announcement that Calvin had very limited availability so that’s why they moved it to suit.

I meant in sense of he is extremely popular artist who is a big draw and headlines other major festivals through the world

Trying to pick which is the better line-up between R&L and EP is like trying to decide which would make the better sh*te sandwich, the 'Vindaloo Error' or the 'Weekend on the Guinness'.

To repeated point that seathrun makes about “diversity” on the EP lineup I said festival republic do a far better job on a diverse line up with EP than they do with reading/Leeds. Between having devoted reggae, acoustic, various electronic music genres, trad music stages electric picnic covers a wide array of genres, far more than Reading/Leeds.

3 out of the 4 acts you mentioned are doing their own headline shows in ireland this summer/autumn. thus not playing EP. Liam G doing multiple 3 arenas, Belfast and Limerick. Fontaines doing 2 nights at 3 arena and blink 182 are doing rescheduled 3 arena show in Kilmainham to make up for cancelled show last year.
that’s why they aren’t on the EP line up. Band agents decide what’s the best option for their artist, sometimes it playing EP and sometimes it’s doing own summer headline shows. As I’ve said here before EP cannot force a band agent to accept an offer.

maybe he has personal engagements or a wedding to go to EP weekend. It also ties into Noah kahan European schedule so them moving it to capture both Calvin and the biggest hype act makes perfect sense to me.

Could be. Or Melvin could be, yet again, full of sh1t. But keep reaching for those straws…..

Noah Kahan wasn't on anybodies radar last year so that' certainly wasn't a consideration.

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Alot of it is agent driven. and in other European countries there is big outdoor headline show venues as well which has similar effect on festival line ups in those countries why x, y, z isn’t playing certain festivals.
A key reason why certain “festival” bands don’t play festivals in ireland is simply the timing of their EU tours, then promoters only options is outdoor shows such as malahide, marlay, trinity, iveagh, st Anne’s, fairview. Early September is historically a bad time for festivals as it’s the last gasp. Many international bands concentrate on late May/June or July/august for their 5 or 6 week summer run.

Over the last decade, between EP, ATN and Forbidden they have captured an Enormous amount of festival calibre acts.

Your staunch defence of the calibre of acts of EP, Forbidden Fruit and ATN is baffling. Anyone with a cent of wherewithal can see they don't stack up by international standards. The main acts as you rightly pointed out do their own standalone shows where in other countries they'd be part of a festival bill - multiple cases in point but a few recent examples discussed in this thread for this summer include James, Liam Gallagher and Fontaines DC.

James headlined a festival here last year, Fontaines have played EP and ATN in the last 3 years of festivals here (ATN 19, EP 22) so those acts do regularly play festivals and aren’t skipping them per se.
the likes of EP, ATN and Forbidden do stack up very respectfully for 70k, 35k and 10k capacity festivals in europe in the months they are one for the genres they attempt to cover.
go check their accounts, none of them are licences to print millions upon millions of euro and offering cheapo acts.