Electric Picnic 2025 **No Ticket Sales / Requests** - Hot metal and methedrine, I hear empire down

Absolutely, they're good but they're no Kodaline.

Noah Kahan headlined EP…

I’d have assumed that ‘heading towards’ headlining Glastonbury was pretty unambiguous. Apparently not. It ain’t happening in 2025 but possibly 2027/28.

Tis all about trajectory. These guys have made it in Europe and are getting bigger here. They break the US in the next 2/3 years and they’ll top the bill at Glasto.

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Not really. Maybe if EP had the same customer demographic as a Fontaines DC gig, but it doesn't.
Lest we forget in 2022 you were telling us that there's no chance that they'd be in the EA and would have to be in on the Main Stage due to crowd control issues as they were far too big to be anywhere else. Turns out there isn't actually anywhere near as many Fontaines DC fans at EP as you think.

An Irish indie band (don’t underestimate the local support) who’ve had two number 1 albums (with a third to be announced next week) and who can do two or three nights at the 3Arena can headline EP. Their monthly listening figures are 9 times those of the Saw Doctors and 12 times those of the Mary Wallopers, both of whom had significant slots on the main stage this year. The kids are listening to the Fonts so don’t patronise ‘em.

In terms of the Park Stage, at 20k it’s close to double the capacity of Woodsies and the fourth largest stage at EP. It goes quite a way back if you’ve been there. You omitted two of the sub-headliners over the past two years, Leftfield and Orbital who’ve both headlined EP. Fatboy Slim has headlined EP twice and could easily take the slot that Calvin Harris had this year. Most here wouldn’t like it but it’d be no great shock.

The stage is also one where big acts do surprise slots, examples being Radiohead, Jack White, Pulp, Elbow and others. You’d be foolish to assume it’s a little stage brushed away in the corner. And as before watch the Fonts continue to move up the bill there. They don’t and you can admonish me back here in 3/4 years.

The Strokes who are one of the biggest headliners and legacy bands in the world. Those guys?

My point on The Strokes was more that indie/guitars might not be not dead on the main stage just yet... albeit its probably a poor trajectory of tbe last two years. But in terms of size, if Cinnamon and Kodeline can sub-headline the main stage, there's no reason that Fontaines couldn't pull a similar size crowd!

idles won’t be going near an AIken festival this century.
honestly the strokes at EP in 2019 was odd one. I don’t we will see the likes of those acts in headline slots.

I’d pay good money to see the look on @bodhrandude ’s face as he stands front and centre 😀

It was a full EA, I was standing in front of the sound desk it it was rammed the whole way back.

I totally agree with Seath re: Fontaines! The reasons are ridiculous to overlook!

They’re unbelievably good live

They’re very popular at the minute, everyone was talking about them after Glastonbury (and not just because of Grian’s dress) They have peaked everyone’s interest!

Added to that, you have “the big band are one of our own” context, which at EP would draw even more numbers to a stage!

Whilst not packing EA a couple of years back, it was defo full!! I would see them & hope for them as a headliner for EP next year no probs!

If Kodaline (irrelevant since 2011/2012), that Scottish pub singer & sticks dude are headliners & fontaines aren’t, well then Irish society & music as a whole is in big, big trouble!

Kylie Minogue doesn’t sell out 3 nights at 3 Arena in 2024, don’t think she’d even do 2 tbh. Same goes for Harris. Matter of fact if you’re booking EP for youngish people I’d argue Fontaines are a far better booking than Kylie Minogue was.

It would be a very poor showing if EP failed to get Irelands biggest band for a long long time. You flip flopped on them attending 2024 about 20 times.

They were being tipped to sub headline 2024 before Romance was even announced, obviously a massive album campaign will only push them up further. Given that they are Irish I would assume even if they are a bit smaller than the other acts that won’t matter.

In case this helps anyone who has a loyalty code that didn't work we contacted Ticketmaster on the ask a question on the order page about being unable to use the code and they are refunding the extra paid between loyalty and full price so worth contacting them if you haven't already.

The capacity of EP has been minimum 30k since 2006. Clearly not a Maths major if you’re saying that the current 75k capacity is three or four times more than when those acts headlined.

And you’re also stating there’s no way Fatboy Slim could do the Calvin Harris headlining slot?

You’d previously, and consistently, stated that ticket sales were the crux for a booking. But not now with the Fontaines. You’d said that Spotify figures were significant but not now for a comparison between the aforementioned Irish acts.

Thus please define ‘broadly popular’ in factual terms as you’ve ruled out ticket sales, online streams and bestselling albums. This I gotta hear.

It wasn't. We were 3 quarters back and there was loads of room around us... It was very quiet at the back. The likes of the waterboy's and faithless were fuller there last week. I was surprised as thought it would be jammed