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

Indeed…and so the dominoes begin to tumble as a result of marginalising the more mature / discerning punter. Every festival is surely its own delicate ecosystem. Invasive species (people who prefer sad boys with guitars to the exclusion of most else) begin to proliferate once introduced to it and then use up a disproportionate amount of resources. Other species are pushed further out / die (boardsies), leaving a wilderness (Oxegen) in their wake. FR can't say they haven't been warned (via every other post on this thread since announcement #1). 'Explaining' the evolution of present-day festivals through stream-chat, changing demographics holds no water when you see so many people (more likely to be on the mature side / have a bit of disposable income) desperate to flog campervan / fancy camping tickets (hitherto worth their weight in gold). This is where it begins (ends)

Additions are

• 
  The Saw Doctors
• The Mary Wallopers
• Berlioz (DJ Set) 
• Channel Tres 
• Del Water Gap
• 49th & Main 
• Jordan Adetunji 
• The Cliffords
• Hermitage Green
• Somebody’s Child
• Chasing Abbey
• DUG 
• Dylan Flynn & The Dead Poets
• Florence Road
• Soft Launch
• The Clockworks
• WineMom
• Odhran Murphy 
• The Psychs

So there are 4 relatively big acts that played last year - wallopers, saw doctors, wolfe tones and ethal cain?

jazzy played last year as well in electric arena and Hannah Laing/skin on skin played terminus so 7 big acts are repeats

I’m actually livid. Partially with myself for believing that something decent would be added, but mostly at FR and how they’ve set fire to what was one of the best festivals in Europe. They’ve done real damage to their brand. You shouldn’t be going to a festival feeling cheated.

Every single person in my festival group has said that they aren’t going next year. Thats the guts of 20 people. Age range 35 to 55. All have signed up for ATN presale, with some having already made the switch.

I’m glad I went to BTP earlier in the summer and got to experience decent, properly curated acts and bookings with some imagination.

This EP will 100% be my last. Not only am I no longer their target audience, but it’s actually embarrassing to admit you’re going.

I’ll be down there next week. I’ll enjoy it with friends, and eek out some acts to see from the piss-stained mattress of a lineup, but I’ll also be happy in the knowledge it’s my last EP.

Lol

I'm like this about Kodaline. They're trolling us.

I'd take either of them after seeing this latest announcement 😂 Given the ticket price, you'd expect to see more best in class acts, not acts that you could see in your local venue for 20 quid. In saying that, I'll have a good delve into the lesser known acts this weekend and pick out a few of them to see. In my experience, those acts at the smaller stages are often more enjoyable.

grim for sure

as usual a lot of angry grumbling here while over on the Banter page its all "yay Mary Wallopers" "yay Saw doctors" i think a lot of here are just bona fide moany aul ones at this stage! how did this happen, Did i listen to too much Smiths as a child? the only person moaning over there is one of our stalwarts!! lol

Probably a stupid question about Moonlight Meadows but the email said entrance times on the Friday is 2pm-2am. Does this mean you’re not allowed access to the campsite until 2pm to leave all your stuff off? Seems fairly late in the day with acts usually kicking off around then.