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declanleo · 02-03-2016 10:21PM

I'm quite happy with that lineup for a start.I'm hoping there is another big act as i'm sure there will be. Just curious who will headline sunday night,i'm hoping LDR is there for the day trippers. Hoping LCD play friday as i'll have kids kids at some stage over the weekend and I want to enjoy my Friday:o

Effects · 02-03-2016 10:31PM

So Radiohead definitely aren't going to play the Picnic and Despacio isn't going to be there this year either.

ghostdancer · 02-03-2016 10:34PM

3hr set with guests please

scruff monkey · 02-03-2016 10:35PM

Not sure if anyone else noticed but Jim Carrolls column on the Times website has a very interesting bit of information

"Capacity: the cap for this year’s event is 55,000, per the event’s PR rep."
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/ontherecord/2016/03/02/electric-picnic-2016-here-we-go/

So allowing for best case scenario, that's a minimum of a good 1.25 million extra for them to play with, allowing for average of say €200 per ticket. Obviously extra bodies = extra facility/security/cleanup/insurance costs etc..

But it's still a serious wodge of dosh to spend on acts.

Wouldn't count the bleepybloopy paranoid androids out yet.

drunkmonkey · 02-03-2016 10:38PM

Well spotted, what was the capacity last year, wasn't there but one of the lads was grumbling about the amount of people compared to previous years.

Synode · 02-03-2016 10:39PM

Effects wrote: »

So Radiohead definitely aren't going to play the Picnic and Despacio isn't going to be there this year either.

Nobody knows that for sure at this stage. Can take or leave Radiohead but would really love it if Despacio made another appearance

scruff monkey · 02-03-2016 10:39PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Well spotted, what was the capacity last year, wasn't there but one of the lads was grumbling about the amount of people compared to previous years.

According to wikipedia, it was 47K, I think that's wrong and that it was 48K

Effects · 02-03-2016 10:43PM

Synode wrote: »

Nobody knows that for sure at this stage. Can take or leave Radiohead but would really love it if Despacio made another appearance

I'd place good money on it after having a chat with Melvin Benn about both Radiohead and Despacio earlier this evening.

Synode · 02-03-2016 10:44PM

Effects wrote: »

I'd place good money on it after having a chat with Melvin Benn about both Radiohead and Despacio earlier this evening.

Did he say straight out no to both?

ghostdancer · 02-03-2016 10:45PM

scruff monkey wrote: »

According to wikipedia, it was 47K, I think that's wrong and that it was 48K

48,499 tickets, plus 2,500 guests and children
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/ontherecord/2015/06/23/electric-picnic-lodge-event-licence-application/

scruff monkey · 02-03-2016 10:46PM

Synode wrote: »

Did he say straight out no to both?

I'd say he'd fib like there's no tomorrow to protect their (probably paid for) marketing campaigns and any relationships/contracts they have with artists of that size.

Effects · 02-03-2016 10:47PM

Synode wrote: »

Did he say straight out no to both?

Yeah. He gave pretty valid reasons for Radiohead not doing it, but said it was totally off the record.

Mentioned something about making a deal with James Murphy about putting on Despacio last year if LCD would play this year.

scruff monkey wrote: »

I'd say he'd fib like there's no tomorrow to protect their (probably paid for) marketing campaigns and any relationships/contracts they have with artists of that size.

Yeah, he totally would.

scruff monkey · 02-03-2016 10:48PM

ghostdancer wrote: »

48,499 tickets, plus 2,500 guests and children
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/ontherecord/2015/06/23/electric-picnic-lodge-event-licence-application/

Yeah, that's where my idea on the number came from I think, so assuming the same number of guests then it's still a ****ton of cash to spunk on another major act.

ghostdancer · 02-03-2016 10:50PM

Effects wrote: »

Mentioned something about making a deal with James Murphy about putting on Despacio last year if LCD would play this year.

well that's almost certainly a lie, for starters.

Effects · 02-03-2016 10:53PM

ghostdancer wrote: »

well that's almost certainly a lie, for starters.

Yeah, it didn't really seem to make sense.

Fatfrog · 02-03-2016 11:07PM

scruff monkey wrote: »

According to wikipedia, it was 47K, I think that's wrong and that it was 48K

48500 in 2015 according to Jim's Irish times article

http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/ontherecord/2015/06/23/electric-picnic-lodge-event-licence-application/

Mike Guide 69 · 02-03-2016 11:13PM

Effects wrote: »

So Radiohead definitely aren't going to play the Picnic and Despacio isn't going to be there this year either.

Theres no guarantee to rule them out either, i was hoping actually to see Suede added to the bill too. But after carefully taking in the lineup announcement so far, its not bad, but could be a lot better. I like a lot of LCDs stuff, but as main headliners on main stage , i dont think so.. (although FatBoy Slim did headline a Friday night some years back on main stage, so anything is possible, i guess).

Taking into account, especially last year, when certain acts were announced, likes of Manics and Interpol that graced the main stage but not main headliners, you never know, how acts are going to be allocated to stage times and venues. I dont see New Order as the main headliner for one of the nights (thats just my opinion).

I could see possibly the addition of 2 bigger acts announced as while the initial lineup is ok, im not exactly blown away by it.

So theres every possibility a Radiohead or a similar act been mentioned down the line, Rammstein are playing a few festivals around any chance of them blowing the pyrotechnics off the stage at Stradbally???.....ermmmmmmm, probably not!!!!!:o

Fatfrog · 02-03-2016 11:17PM

scruff monkey wrote: »

Not sure if anyone else noticed but Jim Carrolls column on the Times website has a very interesting bit of information

"Capacity: the cap for this year’s event is 55,000, per the event’s PR rep."
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/ontherecord/2016/03/02/electric-picnic-2016-here-we-go/

So allowing for best case scenario, that's a minimum of a good 1.25 million extra for them to play with, allowing for average of say €200 per ticket. Obviously extra bodies = extra facility/security/cleanup/insurance costs etc..

But it's still a serious wodge of dosh to spend on acts.

Wouldn't count the bleepybloopy paranoid androids out yet.

That article also quotes Dermot Desmond "half the tickets were already sold in early Oct"
Is this half of the allocated early bird tickets or half of the actual 55k capacity?

We need a boardsie ticket master employee that can get us figures!!

Rough Sleeper · 02-03-2016 11:18PM

AdamD wrote: »

Would have liked to see Chilis, Foals, Imagine Dragons, Catfish and the Bottlemen. EP has its fair share of endlessly repeated acts too..

Just sit at home and read NME instead or something.

AdMMM · 02-03-2016 11:28PM

Haha, we're assuming that the extra €1.25m they have coming their way is going back into the festival. I think we'd be naive to think it is!

Rough Sleeper · 02-03-2016 11:32PM

AdMMM wrote: »

Haha, we're assuming that the extra €1.25m they have coming their way is going back into the festival. I think we'd be naive to think it is!

It certainly didn't go on the graphic design for the initial lineup poster anyway. It looks like something you'd see on a Facebook page advertising a ramshackle psytrance festival in Eastern Europe.

scruff monkey · 02-03-2016 11:39PM

AdMMM wrote: »

Haha, we're assuming that the extra €1.25m they have coming their way is going back into the festival. I think we'd be naive to think it is!

Very true, would need some one well versed in festival economics to give an idea as to how the finances of these things actually break down and what the average expected cream from the top is.

Outside of the ticket sales, there's probably a serious amount of dosh from the booze sales and the vendors on site who have to cough up for their pitch for the weekend.

Irish_rat · 02-03-2016 11:45PM

Good headliner in LCD Soundsystem.

Wolf Alice, HAIM, Broken Social Scene and Glass Animals are decent.

Wild Beasts played 2 years ago and I enjoyed them. I saw Phosphorescent at the Marquee last summer and they would be a good band to chill to during the day.

There is a lot more acts to be announced so no point judging the lineup too early.

srm23 · 03-03-2016 12:23AM

alastair wrote: »

The Chems don't strike me as a 'headliner' headliner these days. They sit better in the 'after the 'headliner' dance slot that's emerged over the past few years. I wouldn't be surprised if we're only looking at two actual 'headliners' on that lineup.

Did anyone play after blur on main stage last year on the sat?

alastair · 03-03-2016 12:47AM

srm23 wrote: »

Did anyone play after blur on main stage last year on the sat?

Nope, but that's been the singular exception to the usual arrangement at EP for many years now - including the last time the Chems played - after Arcade Fire (the actual Saturday 'headliner').

I've no reason to believe that Radiohead won't be still announced as a headliner. There's clearly at least one act missing from the headline slots, and the nailed down acts I was told of were LCD and Radiohead.

Oasis_Dublin · 03-03-2016 12:56AM

I'm hoping The Coral get added. They played Oxegen in 2010, the one year I wasn't in the country. Other than that, they haven't played Ireland in years.

New album also due out presently.

bodhrandude · 03-03-2016 02:51AM

Well, lets get the ball rolling. Woooooo Hooooo!

everlast75 · 03-03-2016 06:47AM

Rough Sleeper wrote: »

Just sit at home and read NME instead or something.

Absolutely nothing wrong with those bands mare. Foals played last year and were class. Don't know what you're talking about tbh

nervous_twitch · 03-03-2016 07:33AM

Wicked lineup. M83 would be the icing on the cake.

Art Fonzarelli · 03-03-2016 07:46AM

I'd go just for LCD and Broken Social Scene. Anything else is a bonus. So many bands around these days that are practically indistinguishable from each other, MOR, good-but-not-great tedium. Even their names merge into one when I see them on a page. Watched the Bowie tribute at the Brits: the difference between that one song and the entire output of the collective dross in attendance couldn't have been more stark.

So there.

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