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Electric Picnic 2016 // **Discussion Only / NO Ticket Sales / Requests** //

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭PabloAndRoy


    mimimcmc wrote: »
    Are you making the app again this year Pablo? :)

    It would be a sin not to :) ... and I am no sinner ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,420 ✭✭✭electrobanana


    srm23 wrote: »
    a few here seem to think it has legs, maybe the late saturday slot.

    Man that would be a horrible prospect if it happened.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭srm23


    Man that would be a horrible prospect if it happened.

    I would enjoy it myself - i wouldn't know anything by LCD and not a fan of radiohead so most likely would be off in a tent somewhere anyway on the sat night. Seems most likely it will be Chemical Bros. though so would go to that!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 315 ✭✭beansybeansy


    Man that would be a horrible prospect if it happened.
    Plenty of other places to hide out if he does play. Wont impact my weekend


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,939 ✭✭✭scruff monkey
    Snarky Snark Snark


    MJohnston wrote: »
    Calvin Harris would be in the grand Picnic tradition of the likes of Florence, Sam Smith, Lily Allen, Paolo Nutini, Fatboy, The Killers, Elbow, Boys Noize, etc: mediocre music that sells tickets. It wouldn't surprise me, and it wouldn't bother me either as I can easily avoid his 'set' like I did with all of the aforementioned.

    Red Hot Chili Peppers would be a whole other kettle of pish though, as they're both ****e and expensive, which would probably detract from the lineup elsewhere. Calvin Harris probably isn't cheap, he seems like a moneygrabber type, but doubt he's on that level at all.


    oooooh, you take that back about Elbow. Dem's fightin words!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,326 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Can wait for the €6.70 pints! [SIZE="1"

    Don't forget that delivery charge, €5 for 4 beers if you buy in advance in €25 lumps or €6.25 on the day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭BadTurtle


    Would Boys Noize really be considered a ticket shifter? He's never had a hit single, let alone a hit album.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,917 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    oooooh, you take that back about Elbow. Dem's fightin words!

    Sorry, but I can't. They might have had a decent indie repertoire at one point, but they lost all credibility points thanks to you know what song.

    Guy certainly threw his curtains wide, all around the throbbing member of commercialism.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭mahoganygas


    MJohnston wrote: »
    Calvin Harris would be in the grand Picnic tradition of the likes of Florence, Sam Smith, Lily Allen, Paolo Nutini, Fatboy, The Killers, Elbow, Boys Noize, etc: mediocre music that sells tickets. It wouldn't surprise me, and it wouldn't bother me either as I can easily avoid his 'set' like I did with all of the aforementioned.

    If Calvin Harris is added I will sell my ticket.

    And it has absolutely nothing to do with his music.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,539 ✭✭✭ghostdancer


    has anyone who has been listening to TXFM today heard that actually say they'll have the lineup at 2pm?
    the fb post says from 2pm, tuned in a few minutes before 2 but can't be arsed listening any longer if it's just going to be 3pm like all the rest that have it embargoed.

    first 2 songs after 2pm; PJ Harvey, Kings of Leon.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,917 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    BadTurtle wrote: »
    Would Boys Noize really be considered a ticket shifter? He's never had a hit single, let alone a hit album.

    You're probably right, 2011 was actually relatively free of these kinds of acts, iirc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,939 ✭✭✭scruff monkey
    Snarky Snark Snark


    T minus 3000


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,917 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    If Calvin Harris is added I will sell my ticket.

    And it has absolutely nothing to do with his music.

    ****e crowd you mean?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭PadraigOK


    PJ Harvey followed by Kings of Leon on TXFM, not sure what to make of that (if that means anything at all). Will certainly mean the left hand side of the site will be easy got round during a potential performance.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭Thundercats Ho


    has anyone who has been listening to TXFM today heard that actually say they'll have the lineup at 2pm?
    the fb post says from 2pm, tuned in a few minutes before 2 but can't be arsed listening any longer if it's just going to be 3pm like all the rest that have it embargoed.

    first 2 songs after 2pm; PJ Harvey, Kings of Leon.

    2:45 they said


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 315 ✭✭beansybeansy


    has anyone who has been listening to TXFM today heard that actually say they'll have the lineup at 2pm?
    the fb post says from 2pm, tuned in a few minutes before 2 but can't be arsed listening any longer if it's just going to be 3pm like all the rest that have it embargoed.

    first 2 songs after 2pm; PJ Harvey, Kings of Leon.

    Its definitely 245pm, they've said that a few times today


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭Libadour


    I'm not going to be disgusted about any act announced because it is virtually guaranteed that at the time an act I don't want to see is playing, there will be someone I've never heard of playing on another stage and I'll fall in love with them. Happens every year.

    That being said, Radiohead bore the ar$e off me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,939 ✭✭✭scruff monkey
    Snarky Snark Snark


    Libadour wrote: »
    That being said, Radiohead bore the ar$e off me.

    Have you seen them in the flesh? Said it before, not a fan of Kid A onwards, but live they are a mighty proposition well worth not missing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭mahoganygas


    MJohnston wrote: »
    ****e crowd you mean?

    Don't get me wrong. I'm a fan of hot pants as much as the next guy.

    But if EP heads in that direction then I'll start going abroad for festivals.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 315 ✭✭beansybeansy


    Libadour wrote: »
    I'm not going to be disgusted about any act announced because it is virtually guaranteed that at the time an act I don't want to see is playing, there will be someone I've never heard of playing on another stage and I'll fall in love with them. Happens every year.

    That being said, Radiohead bore the ar$e off me.

    Will be hugely surprised if they get Radiohead. Apparently they are asking for a fortune from festivals - Primavera allegedly paying over €2million to get their first European gig.

    I cannot see EP paying that for any act


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,917 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    Don't get me wrong. I'm a fan of hot pants as much as the next guy.

    But if EP heads in that direction then I'll start going abroad for festivals.

    Like I said before, I think they've had an act like that every year, and they usually put them on the Sundays for the day-trippers, and I haven't really noticed the crowd getting much worse tbh.

    I actually hope all the headliners are rubbish, so I don't spend the weekend running around like a mentalist trying to catch them all like last year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭barry181091


    Don't forget that delivery charge, €5 for 4 beers if you buy in advance in €25 lumps or €6.25 on the day.

    I just bought a ticket. Never been to EP before. Can I not bring a load of my own drink? :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,186 ✭✭✭lc180


    I just requested TXFM to play a Calvin Harris song just to troll the lot of you :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭PabloAndRoy


    lc180 wrote: »
    I just requested TXFM to play a Calvin Harris song just to troll the lot of you :)

    cnut


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭Libadour


    Have you seen them in the flesh? Said it before, not a fan of Kid A onwards, but live they are a mighty proposition well worth not missing.

    Nope but people keep telling me I'm wrong and that they're brilliant. If there is a gang heading to see them I'll probably tag along to see what I've been missing :P

    Assuming they are announced of course..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,917 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    I just bought a ticket. Never been to EP before. Can I not bring a load of my own drink? :eek:

    Depends what you mean by 'a load'. 48 cans (or the vague equivalent in spirits) into the campsite, none into the arena before the bars close.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭Iang87


    MJohnston wrote: »
    Depends what you mean by 'a load'. 48 cans (or the vague equivalent in spirits) into the campsite, none into the arena before the bars close.

    what time do the bars close in the arena. Never been either but the woman wanted to go so planning this far out for drink is vital


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 236 ✭✭freddiemoore


    Would be beautiful if they brought in Body & Soul's free flow drink policy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Synode


    Iang87 wrote: »
    what time do the bars close in the arena. Never been either but the woman wanted to go so planning this far out for drink is vital

    They were open until 12 on the Friday and Sunday I think. And 2am on Saturday


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭barry181091


    MJohnston wrote: »
    Depends what you mean by 'a load'. 48 cans (or the vague equivalent in spirits) into the campsite, none into the arena before the bars close.

    I thought the campsite/arena were all the one. Its just fields in the end :o So there is no sneaking in drink around the place?


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