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TheGoldenAges wrote: »

The Strokes are a really expensive act now (Money's the only thing that'll get them to do gigs nowadays unfortunately) i.e. why they've only been over to BST and Primavera in the last few years. Arcade Fire could have been an option but I dunno if there's enough in the kitty for them. As for the Libs, they're an option, though I think Pete's doing some festivals with a solo album coming out this summer so Pete on his own might be a good shout.

Grand. So much is left in the kitty now?

So Red Hot Chilli Peppers are playing Tennants Vital in Belfast the week before EP...hmmmm... :rolleyes:

everlast75 wrote: »

Don't understand the hate for the RHCP at all.

Far far worse have played the Picnic. I know musical snobbery exists, but usually there is some basis in fact.

Anyhoo, I'm hoping for maybe Royal Blood, Suede, Wonderstuff, James. Would be happy with that

ya i think i could see RHCP playing there before Radiohead to be honest (in terms of cost not "suitable fit headliner")

everlast75 wrote: »

Don't understand the hate for the RHCP at all.

Far far worse have played the Picnic. I know musical snobbery exists, but usually there is some basis in fact.

Anyhoo, I'm hoping for maybe Royal Blood, Suede, Wonderstuff, James. Would be happy with that

Whatever about the hate (it's like how some say smoking too many cigarettes can help you quit smoking; the late 90s made me despise RHCP and everything they stand for), but objectively I really don't see them as the right kind of act to fit on an Electric Picnic billing, especially one that looks like the one we have so far. EP has booked some guff in the past, you're right, but never someone both that huge, and that bad.

Californication is what repelled me in the end. The endless, endless cycling of the music video to the title track on MTV, Q, Kerrang, and whatever other music channels were on Sky at the time. It's the same for me with Oasis.

feck it, they turn up, they turn up, not been a fan in a very long time and the one time I did see them live, i was really really unimpressed.

As with mr. calvin harris (is his music bad or is it just who it would pull in?), I think they'd attract a bit of a drunken skanger element.

There will be plenty on in the tents anyway.

scruff monkey wrote: »

feck it, they turn up, they turn up, not been a fan in a very long time and the one time I did see them live, i was really really unimpressed.

As with mr. calvin harris (is his music bad or is it just who it would pull in?), I think they'd attract a bit of a drunken skanger element.

There will be plenty on in the tents anyway.

The problem is really that you can't say any music is specifically "bad", just that you don't like it. There is no 'bad' art in any form, by it's own definition. If you're into over-produced, under-imaginative, samey EDM (or more realistically, if you're into getting wrecked and moshing around to anything), then Calvin Harris is undoubtedly at the top of that pile for you.

That said, yeah, he would definitely attract a load of the "EP 2015 Cocktail Bar" crowd.

scruff monkey wrote: »

M'lud, the prosecution would like to enter into evidence that music can be "bad" the following items.

1 - Jason & Kylie - especially for you
2 - Daniel O'Donnell, his entire life works
3 - The entire catalog of the Black Eyed Peas, calling specific attention to their "lady Lump/Hump fandango"

1. "In 2015 the song was voted by the British public as the nation's 20th favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV." so, some poor sods liked it (no surprise it's ITV viewers)
2. "In 2012, he became the first artist to have a different album in the British charts every year for 25 consecutive years." again that's no slouch. Plus I've liked him more ever since his comments during the Marriage Referendum
3. I actually don't have to stretch too much for that one, their pre-Fergie material was actually good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnGIMrQWQN0

MJohnston wrote: »

The problem is really that you can't say any music is specifically "bad", just that you don't like it. There is no 'bad' art in any form, by it's own definition. If you're into over-produced, under-imaginative, samey EDM (or more realistically, if you're into getting wrecked and moshing around to anything), then Calvin Harris is undoubtedly at the top of that pile for you.

That said, yeah, he would definitely attract a load of the "EP 2015 Cocktail Bar" crowd.

I was staying in Pink Moon so only really saw the cocktail bar empty one morning on my daily run to collect cans in Jimmy Hendrix! certainly stood out a mile from rest of the festival - was it blasting chart tunes in the evenings?

I would prefer RHCP to Radiohead - no interest in seeing RH, but the chillis will play a few tunes and have a decent atmosphere for sat night.

i find it funny that people single out the cocktail bar, when the whole arena is full of tatty sh1te like that these days. the so-called "oxegen knacks" are in abundance at EP the last few years too.

MJohnston wrote: »

Ugh that cocktail bar was just horrendous. It wasn't as bad as the e-Cigarette place though. Perhaps it was because I had to pass both of them on the way to the Body and Soul area, and they couldn't have been more diametrically opposed vibe wise. Not to mention the ****ing GAA, but that's another story.

The worst thing about the Cocktail Bar for me was that I was already annoyed that the Peacocktails van didn't return from '14 with its amazing Bourbon Brittle cocktails.

I was wandering around for ages on the Friday looking for that thinking they had moved it or something!

MJohnston wrote: »

The worst thing about the Cocktail Bar for me was that I was already annoyed that the Peacocktails van didn't return from '14 with its amazing Bourbon Brittle cocktails.

I didn't see them at all, they look pretty bloody cool from their website.

Skepta & Freddie Gibbs are two great additions, was hoping to see Skepta added to Longitude though!

Edit: Whoops, wrong festival

MJohnston wrote: »

The worst thing about the Cocktail Bar for me was that I was already annoyed that the Peacocktails van didn't return from '14 with its amazing Bourbon Brittle cocktails.

The peacocktails were there! I can't remember what was either side of them, but roughly if you stood at the back centre of the b&s main stage, facing the stage, they were in the row of bars/vendors to the left.

Any word about red bull? They've now removed all mention of the stage from the website.

lurleen lumpkin wrote: »

The peacocktails were there! I can't remember what was either side of them, but roughly if you stood at the back centre of the b&s main stage, facing the stage, they were in the row of bars/vendors to the left.

AH ****ITY ****, really?? Although, this might mean they're back again this year? Oh, I hope so.