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Electric Picnic 2026 **No Ticket Sales / Requests** A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies

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  • #302
    Stillill42
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    Anyway, loving the reinvention of the EP thread as somewhere we discuss other, better festivals.

    Joking of course. We should probably take that stuff elsewhere.



  • #303
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123847992#Comment_123847992

    The best venues are very close together and what I usually do with something like this is choose one venue for the afternoon and another for the evening so I'm not wandering around from place to place facing the odd queue. Sounds like Liverpool did it better but Manchester's pubs & venues are superior.



  • #304
    scruff monkey
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    Snarky Snark Snark


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123848030#Comment_123848030

    danger danger is in trying to find one that's not run by a nazi fkhead.



  • #305
    rubick
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    Sorry I'm late but I don't have a ticket.



  • #306
    scruff monkey
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123849287#Comment_123849287

    neither do I but it doesn’t matter as this world is going to end soon.



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  • #307
    Penfailed
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    Primavera line up looks great!

    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Pixies, Ride, Therapy?, Public Service Broadcasting, IDLES, And So I Watch You From Afar

    Gigs '25 - Spiritualized, Supergrass, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Queens of the Stone Age, Electric Picnic, Vantastival, Sprints, Getdown Services, And So I Watch You From Afar, The Scratch

    Gigs '26 - Deftones, Sleaford Mods, Stereolab, Sugar, Clutch, Big Thief, The Cure, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, IDLES, Electric Picnic, Public Service Broadcasting, Korn



  • #308
    rubick
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    Yeah this is the year EP wises up and book The Cure again. I can feel it.



  • #309
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123849446#Comment_123849446

    Cure, Fontaines and Richard David James.

    You read it here first.



  • #310
    LowOdour
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    Glad to see Tame Impala announce a show here next year.

    Hopefully that keeps them away from EP or ATN. Decent band, cool stage show and some good songs, but found then a snoozefest at EP a couple of years back



  • #311
    scruff monkey
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123851604#Comment_123851604

    The main stage show was just meh on overload, their EA close out in 2015 was for the ages,



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  • #312
    Penfailed
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    1000042667.jpg

    Bearded Theory looking good!

    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Pixies, Ride, Therapy?, Public Service Broadcasting, IDLES, And So I Watch You From Afar

    Gigs '25 - Spiritualized, Supergrass, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Queens of the Stone Age, Electric Picnic, Vantastival, Sprints, Getdown Services, And So I Watch You From Afar, The Scratch

    Gigs '26 - Deftones, Sleaford Mods, Stereolab, Sugar, Clutch, Big Thief, The Cure, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, IDLES, Electric Picnic, Public Service Broadcasting, Korn



  • #313
    scruff monkey
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123851697#Comment_123851697

    Will Utah Saints be reviving their unplugged set?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x4It_uE9ME


  • #314
    Fanirish
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123851604#Comment_123851604

    only touring an indoor arena tour next year. No festivals. Last arena tour production with the ring was phenomenal



  • #315
    LowOdour
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123851670#Comment_123851670

    I can imagine their music been more suited to that EA headliner



  • #316
    Penfailed
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123851604#Comment_123851604

    I really enjoyed that set!

    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Pixies, Ride, Therapy?, Public Service Broadcasting, IDLES, And So I Watch You From Afar

    Gigs '25 - Spiritualized, Supergrass, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Queens of the Stone Age, Electric Picnic, Vantastival, Sprints, Getdown Services, And So I Watch You From Afar, The Scratch

    Gigs '26 - Deftones, Sleaford Mods, Stereolab, Sugar, Clutch, Big Thief, The Cure, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, IDLES, Electric Picnic, Public Service Broadcasting, Korn



  • #317
    Penfailed
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123851715#Comment_123851715

    The Mary Whitehouse Experience was excellent TV. Actually saw Utah Saints at Feile '93 or '94. One of the highlights of my weekend.

    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Pixies, Ride, Therapy?, Public Service Broadcasting, IDLES, And So I Watch You From Afar

    Gigs '25 - Spiritualized, Supergrass, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Queens of the Stone Age, Electric Picnic, Vantastival, Sprints, Getdown Services, And So I Watch You From Afar, The Scratch

    Gigs '26 - Deftones, Sleaford Mods, Stereolab, Sugar, Clutch, Big Thief, The Cure, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, IDLES, Electric Picnic, Public Service Broadcasting, Korn



  • #318
    Dreamweapon
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    Edit as i'm in a good mood!

    …^……<…./?::;;:::@"! ((((((*))))))#=)))))~



  • #319
    Fanirish
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    tame impala best album was producing the melody echo chamber album



  • #320
    Fatfrog
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123851745#Comment_123851745

    Agree, I think the ring and their intensity was lost on the EP main stage.



  • #321
    [Deleted User]
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    The Cure announced for IOW on 18-21 June and other dates coming through. Playing Rock en Seine the same weekend as EP so what are the chances?



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  • #322
    Wooderson
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    That IoW announcement is depressing.



  • #323
    scruff monkey
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123860557#Comment_123860557

    Very much one to watch bits of on tele.



  • #324
    Fanirish
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123860528#Comment_123860528

    slim. Wrong audience for the cure.



  • #325
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123860579#Comment_123860579

    As is IOW apparently if they're alongside Calvin Harris, Barry Swims & Lewis Capaldi.

    I think there's a fair chance but doing IOW almost certainly means no Reading/Leeds. Given that FR have announced that they've two headliners ready for those festivals and also two for EP the chances of the acts being the same are high.

    Also, would it be the wrong audience for the Fontaines (an act greatly inspired by The Cure) cos they're headlining soon.



  • #326
    scruff monkey
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    Snarky Snark Snark


    Btw, anyone interested in a free pair of tickets for John Grant in National Stadium on Saturday coming, unable to make it as in Engerland.



  • #327
    Penfailed
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123860598#Comment_123860598

    It's Teddy Swims, 'cause Barry can't.

    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Pixies, Ride, Therapy?, Public Service Broadcasting, IDLES, And So I Watch You From Afar

    Gigs '25 - Spiritualized, Supergrass, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Queens of the Stone Age, Electric Picnic, Vantastival, Sprints, Getdown Services, And So I Watch You From Afar, The Scratch

    Gigs '26 - Deftones, Sleaford Mods, Stereolab, Sugar, Clutch, Big Thief, The Cure, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, IDLES, Electric Picnic, Public Service Broadcasting, Korn



  • #328
    scruff monkey
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    Snarky Snark Snark


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123860754#Comment_123860754

    I just do not understand the Teddy Swims popularity, it's all surface, no depth, like an album of lost Gillette razor advert sound tracks.

    It's not that it's actively bad (though it is kind of), it's that there's nothing there, music designed by algorithm.



  • #329
    Fanirish
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123860598#Comment_123860598
    IMG_1535.jpeg

    IOW has always been geared towards older clientele. Look at the initial 2026 lineup, it’s overwhelming booked for those in late 30’s-50’s.

    I was at the last two shows here by the cure in Ireland. The crossover of that audience and the EP is very slim. Different story between EP and Fontaines.

    And the roundabout that EP caters primarily to people in 20’s and 30’s and books accordingly. Other festivals book to different demographics



  • #330
    Penfailed
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123860850#Comment_123860850

    I'd never heard of him until today. He's just been announced as a headliner for one of the Belsonic shows next year.

    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Pixies, Ride, Therapy?, Public Service Broadcasting, IDLES, And So I Watch You From Afar

    Gigs '25 - Spiritualized, Supergrass, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Queens of the Stone Age, Electric Picnic, Vantastival, Sprints, Getdown Services, And So I Watch You From Afar, The Scratch

    Gigs '26 - Deftones, Sleaford Mods, Stereolab, Sugar, Clutch, Big Thief, The Cure, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, IDLES, Electric Picnic, Public Service Broadcasting, Korn



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  • #331
    scruff monkey
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    Snarky Snark Snark


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123861123#Comment_123861123

    very big crowd in the EA in 2024

    think he's sold out the point since too, very big with the hunz crowd.



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