Electric Picnic 2021 - Cancelled :( No Ticket Sales / Requests

Fatfrog · 05-10-2020 9:52pm

Ah Lads...................................

endainoz · 05-10-2020 11:25pm

I had two more gigs to go to over the next two weekends. Not a hope they'll be on now.....Ah well I got to see a few over the summer I suppose.

johnnyskeleton · 06-10-2020 9:15pm

Was listening to newstalk on the radio earlier, and they said that coming up in the next hour was blah blah blah nphet, blah blah blah leaving cert, and "should musicians give up their careers and get other jobs because of covid".

However bad a year without gigs is for us festival goers, and it is pretty bad, this year must've been awful for bands - whether they are the big multi million euro touring groups who employ 100 people each, the mid sized bad that was just about to break the UK or the small band who had gotten their first, albeit unpaid, slot on a wet Saturday afternoon in a side stage of EP.

That's on top of it already being fairly miserable for bands at the moment anyway due to the drop in record sales.

So hopefully we are back to normal again next year!

bodhrandude · 06-10-2020 10:06pm

Well this was my only music tee shirt this year and celebrates the life of Toots Hibbert, a victim of this fecking pandemic, but I couldn't resist it seems to be a lovingly done screen print.

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endainoz · 06-10-2020 11:02pm

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

Was listening to newstalk on the radio earlier, and they said that coming up in the next hour was blah blah blah nphet, blah blah blah leaving cert, and "should musicians give up their careers and get other jobs because of covid".

However bad a year without gigs is for us festival goers, and it is pretty bad, this year must've been awful for bands - whether they are the big multi million euro touring groups who employ 100 people each, the mid sized bad that was just about to break the UK or the small band who had gotten their first, albeit unpaid, slot on a wet Saturday afternoon in a side stage of EP.

That's on top of it already being fairly miserable for bands at the moment anyway due to the drop in record sales.

So hopefully we are back to normal again next year!

Yeah let's hope so, did many here take refunds offered for the gigs/festivals that they had tickets for? I didn't bother taking any, but I'm lucky enough to be in the position to not need it yet.

johnnyskeleton · 06-10-2020 11:14pm

endainoz wrote: »

Yeah let's hope so, did many here take refunds offered for the gigs/festivals that they had tickets for? I didn't bother taking any, but I'm lucky enough to be in the position to not need it yet.

None, and I live in constant dread that they will be reassigned to evenings that don't suit! That's the only thing in the world that I am worried about, at the moment!

Thundercats Ho · 07-10-2020 8:45am

endainoz wrote: »

Yeah let's hope so, did many here take refunds offered for the gigs/festivals that they had tickets for? I didn't bother taking any, but I'm lucky enough to be in the position to not need it yet.

I got a refund for maybe a dozen gigs. The only one I didn't get a refund for is the Picnic.

Things should be back operating this time next year, but back to the way they were pre-covid? i'm not so sure.

It'll be interesting to see how ticket sales go once we're back up and running.
A few of my mates are the same as me, in that we now magically have money left, come the end of the month, and the credit card bills are cleared, or almost cleared.
I'm sure the session moths will be thinking the same, and it'll be interesting to see if it'll be business as usual, or if people will just pick and choose the gigs they really want to go to.

07-10-2020 8:53am

Thundercats Ho wrote: »

I got a refund for maybe a dozen gigs. The only one I didn't get a refund for is the Picnic.

Things should be back operating this time next year, but back to the way they were pre-covid? i'm not so sure.

It'll be interesting to see how ticket sales go once we're back up and running.
A few of my mates are the same as me, in that we now magically have money left, come the end of the month, and the credit card bills are cleared, or almost cleared.
I'm sure the session moths will be thinking the same, and it'll be interesting to see if it'll be business as usual, or if people will just pick and choose the gigs they really want to go to.

i feel the opposite, i want to go to everything now...this pandemic has just made me realise how much going to gigs and festivals is really part of me and what i just adore. And il never moan about EP line up ever ever again

rubick · 07-10-2020 9:31am

Likely would have been on our last few shows of the year. The LCD gig from the Olympia three night run popped up on my Facebook memories a few weeks back. We'd have been in the capital at least three or for times throughout the year for gigs, never mind regular outings to Belfast or Derry. Has been a tradition for the past few years that Andy Weatherall did a night in Dublin around Nov/Dec. It's really quite staggering how much the world has changed in 12 months.

Seathrun66 · 07-10-2020 6:09pm

endainoz wrote: »

Yeah let's hope so, did many here take refunds offered for the gigs/festivals that they had tickets for? I didn't bother taking any, but I'm lucky enough to be in the position to not need it yet.

I took a refund for the Bad Seeds but nothing else. At present able to afford it and the Galway Arts Festival/Roisin Dubh/Leisureland/Monroe's promoters had asked people to leave the money there if possible. The cash we leave resting with them could save an awful lot of businesses, not easily done for most people but when possible it's essential to ensure a non-corporate gigging future in this country.

Seathrun66 · 07-10-2020 6:11pm

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

None, and I live in constant dread that they will be reassigned to evenings that don't suit! That's the only thing in the world that I am worried about, at the moment!

Oh to have the dilemma of clashing events next year.

johnnyskeleton · 07-10-2020 10:29pm

Juelz Chubby Lapel wrote: »

i feel the opposite, i want to go to everything now...this pandemic has just made me realise how much going to gigs and festivals is really part of me and what i just adore. And il never moan about EP line up ever ever again

Its not just the going to the gigs, its the anticipation, the mulling it over afterwards, the chatting to people about it and yes, the discussion of it on boards.

As for moaning about the EP line up on this thread, thats the best part of all

Furious-Red · 07-10-2020 11:47pm

If/When EP does get rescheduled again this time ill be asking for my money back along with Pink Moon.

seandotcomm · 08-10-2020 7:41pm

bodhrandude wrote: »

Well this was my only music tee shirt this year and celebrates the life of Toots Hibbert, a victim of this fecking pandemic, but I couldn't resist it seems to be a lovingly done screen print.

Nothing says loving like rushing to throw together some bootleg merch to profit from someone's death. all major credit cards accepted

rubick · 09-10-2020 9:11am

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

As for moaning about the EP line up on this thread, thats the best part of all

Suddenly Booting Teenagers up The Hole is relegated to mere second place.

Sad times.

bodhrandude · 10-10-2020 3:59pm

Was sad to hear about the passing of Eddie Van Halen, this brings me back to when I was 19 and I had their third album Women & Children First, yeah I know they were from California and there was a bit of hair metal in there, but I always considered them a notch above all the other American competition at the time. Anyway this was my first rock festival when Castle Donington was a one day event in 1984 and I'm glad to say I was one of the very few who managed to witness the original Van Halen lineup at this festival touring the 1984 record. Yup I was a bit of a metaller back then I have to say and on the coach trip down I had a two litre bottle of Black Russian. If you look at this clip you'll see it was like a war zone out there trying to avoid getting hit by a Linden Village bottle of piss.

Fatfrog · 10-10-2020 5:06pm

Furious-Red wrote: »

If/When EP does get rescheduled again this time ill be asking for my money back along with Pink Moon.

^^^^^^ I'm not ready to have any form of acknowledgement of what you're saying.

10-10-2020 5:10pm

Furious-Red wrote: »

If/When EP does get rescheduled again this time ill be asking for my money back along with Pink Moon.

Wow this hurts

johnnyskeleton · 10-10-2020 6:57pm

bodhrandude wrote: »

Anyway this was my first rock festival when Castle Donington was a one day event in 1984 and I'm glad to say I was one of the very few who managed to witness the original Van Halen lineup at this festival touring the 1984 record.

Would you say that you took a chance, and you were old enough to dance the night away?

RIP Eddie

johnnyskeleton · 10-10-2020 6:58pm

rubick wrote: »

Suddenly Booting Teenagers up The Hole is relegated to mere second place.

Sad times.

Forgot about that. It must've been one of those pre-apocalypse activities that people keep talking about!

bodhrandude · 14-10-2020 3:42am

seandotcomm wrote: »

Nothing says loving like rushing to throw together some bootleg merch to profit from someone's death. all major credit cards accepted

That's a bit of a smart remark considering its Toot's sister who runs his t-shirt business. When I bought my Toots t-shirt at Liss Ard Festival in Cork in 2012, it was his sister that sold it to me, I think she is also one of the backing vocalists to the Maytal's band. For me personally I think its a nice gesture to release such a t-shirt as sadly there was no Maytal's tour this year and its nice to remember of Toots Hibbert fondly and thank him for the memories.

Seathrun66 · 14-10-2020 2:32pm

bodhrandude wrote: »

That's a bit of a smart remark considering its Toot's sister who runs his t-shirt business. When I bought my Toots t-shirt at Liss Ard Festival in Cork in 2012, it was his sister that sold it to me, I think she is also one of the backing vocalists to the Maytal's band. For me personally I think its a nice gesture to release such a t-shirt as sadly there was no Maytal's tour this year and its nice to remember of Toots Hibbert fondly and thank him for the memories.

Fully agree BD. Mid-pandemic we can do without yet more negativity and snideness. Stay well man. About to put Toots on the stereo.

rubick · 15-10-2020 9:37am

Right, this new Roisin Murphy album is wall-to-wall bangers lads, and even though she played EP 2019 she should be booked again for next years' hooley and she should be headlining the Main Stage on Friday evening.

So I'll leave that with you, I'm sure we can get our best people on it.

15-10-2020 9:49am

rubick wrote: »

Right, this new Roisin Murphy album is wall-to-wall bangers lads, and even though she played EP 2019 she should be booked again for next years' hooley and she should be headlining the Main Stage on Friday evening.

So I'll leave that with you, I'm sure we can get our best people on it.

The new album is brilliant! She was actually due to play body and soul this year! She’s doing a live stream of the album with her full band on 14th Nov on Mixcloud! It’s about as close as we are gonna get for a long time

Hope everyone is doing ok

Fatfrog · 17-10-2020 11:39pm

Michael Kiwanuka absolutely flawless on Graeme Norton tonight!!

Seathrun66 · 18-10-2020 11:03am

Fatfrog wrote: »

Michael Kiwanuka absolutely flawless on Graeme Norton tonight!!

Always is. For me he's amongst the very best artists at work right now, in the top four or five acts on this planet. And he'll be back to EP sooner or later.

Mucker46 · 18-10-2020 7:51pm

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Always is. For me he's amongst the very best artists at work right now, in the top four or five acts on this planet. And he'll be back to EP sooner or later.

Love his voice and enjoyed his set at EP last year. Have ticket for trinity show hopefully get to use it. Missing gigs and live streams dont really do i for me. Listening to lots of old music and trying to support bands by buying new albums. Any suggestions of recent releases welcomed.

Seathrun66 · 18-10-2020 9:16pm

Mucker46 wrote: »

Love his voice and enjoyed his set at EP last year. Have ticket for trinity show hopefully get to use it. Missing gigs and live streams dont really do i for me. Listening to lots of old music and trying to support bands by buying new albums. Any suggestions of recent releases welcomed.

Loved the Autre Monde album - Dublin band with Paddy Hanna on lead vocals (he also has an album out this week). Bits of Human League, Arcade Fire & LCD, pretty 80s sounding.

Mucker46 · 19-10-2020 12:04am

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Loved the Autre Monde album - Dublin band with Paddy Hanna on lead vocals (he also has an album out this week). Bits of Human League, Arcade Fire & LCD, pretty 80s sounding.

Have heard a few of their tunes and thought they were pretty decent. Was surprised when i realised it was Paddy Hanna.

Seathrun66 · 19-10-2020 2:46pm

Mucker46 wrote: »

Have heard a few of their tunes and thought they were pretty decent. Was surprised when i realised it was Paddy Hanna.

He's good too, but I much prefer the band stuff. Both down here regularly as they're on a Galway record label.

David Keenan album good but you already know it, Fontaines DC of course and Pillow Queens sounds good but not heard it all. They were album of the day last Wed or Thur on BBC6 and they're being played a lot there. The Fontaines effect means a lot of Irish acts are going to get dragged along in their slipstream.

Aoife Nessa Frances & Sorcha Richardson are decent artists but you'd need other posters here to give feedback on their albums as I've barely listened.

Mucker46 · 19-10-2020 11:12pm

Seathrun66 wrote: »

He's good too, but I much prefer the band stuff. Both down here regularly as they're on a Galway record label.

David Keenan album good but you already know it, Fontaines DC of course and Pillow Queens sounds good but not heard it all. They were album of the day last Wed or Thur on BBC6 and they're being played a lot there. The Fontaines effect means a lot of Irish acts are going to get dragged along in their slipstream.

Aoife Nessa Frances & Sorcha Richardson are decent artists but you'd need other posters here to give feedback on their albums as I've barely listened.

Wasnt happy when i realised pillow queens album was not available on cd. Have seen them live a few times and enjoyed them. I am in the minority in not being a fontaines fan. Aoife and sorcha i am like you heard a few tunes but maybe i will give them more of a chance. On a separate note have you heard awful miley cyrus cover of boys dont cry. Pure sacrilege, animals have been put down for less.

Seathrun66 · 20-10-2020 10:39am

Mucker46 wrote: »

Wasnt happy when i realised pillow queens album was not available on cd. Have seen them live a few times and enjoyed them. I am in the minority in not being a fontaines fan. Aoife and sorcha i am like you heard a few tunes but maybe i will give them more of a chance. On a separate note have you heard awful miley cyrus cover of boys dont cry. Pure sacrilege, animals have been put down for less.

Thanks for directing me to that Mucker. Feeling slightly soiled now.

sweetie · 20-10-2020 10:43am

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Loved the Autre Monde album - Dublin band with Paddy Hanna on lead vocals (he also has an album out this week). Bits of Human League, Arcade Fire & LCD, pretty 80s sounding.

Ordered it on vinyl this week after listening to it a lot over the last few months, it's brilliant.
Maija Sofia will probably be my next Irish artist to buy.

Seathrun66 · 20-10-2020 11:04am

sweetie wrote: »

Ordered it on vinyl this week after listening to it a lot over the last few months, it's brilliant.
Maija Sofia will probably be my next Irish artist to buy.

She's really come on. Sixteen months ago she was third on the bill at a tiny venue in Galway (Black Gate, 60 capacity). Impressive that night and the live videos I've seen of her at Vantastival and elsewhere look she's improving all the time. Feedback on the album please, must get to also.

20-10-2020 6:51pm

The pillow queens album is so good.

Mucker46 · 20-10-2020 7:29pm

sweetie wrote: »

Ordered it on vinyl this week after listening to it a lot over the last few months, it's brilliant.
Maija Sofia will probably be my next Irish artist to buy.

Love her album

Thundercats Ho · 21-10-2020 8:28am

Whipping Boy are releasing a special vinyl (and CD too), to mark the 25th anniversary of Heartworm.

sweetie · 21-10-2020 10:29am

Thundercats Ho wrote: »

Whipping Boy are releasing a special vinyl (and CD too), to mark the 25th anniversary of Heartworm.

brilliant, also great to see the Revelino album doing well.

endainoz · 24-10-2020 6:30pm

See the fleadh for 2021 is already cancelled. Seems very early to make a call like that, but not a good sign either way.

bodhrandude · 24-10-2020 7:03pm

A great up and coming Wexford band my housemate got me into is the Cursed Murphy Versus The Resistance, he heard them on the John Creedon Show and the Fergal Scahill Late Date show. Basically the singer or talker recites stories and poems over an atmospheric, raucous and at times lush indie rock. When the Picnic comes back I can see these lads breaking out from the Jerry Fish or peripheral stages eventually onto one of the bigger marquees, check out some of their videos.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/music-reviews/2020/0727/1155894-review-cursed-murphy-versus-the-resistance/

rubick · 28-10-2020 3:44pm

Glastonbury's "Entertainment Lawyer" Speaks:
https://www.nme.com/news/music/glastonbury-lawyer-says-2021-festival-is-going-ahead-as-planned-2799543

I really don't see it going ahead in 2021, obviously hope I'm wrong. If it does, and there's some kind of mass-testing of punters, that would bode well for a visit to Stradbally next year assuming it could be implemented here. Eyes down for a full house in 2023, ticket bingo fans.

Interesting to note that there were only a handful of refund requests, which puts to bed once and for all the chances of Miss desk_tidy and I going to the next one.

endainoz · 28-10-2020 4:36pm

Some sort of rapid testing tech will be needed upon entry I suppose. Would probably be the case for entering any event or gatherings in the future. The technology might not be quite there yet but it's a worldwide issue, I'm sure it's just a matter of time.

fafy · 28-10-2020 4:37pm

Thundercats Ho wrote: »

Whipping Boy are releasing a special vinyl (and CD too), to mark the 25th anniversary of Heartworm.

Great news, one of my alltime favourite Irish albums, and largely overlooked.

HarryTheSpider · 28-10-2020 6:55pm

endainoz wrote: »

Some sort of rapid testing tech will be needed upon entry I suppose. Would probably be the case for entering any event or gatherings in the future. The technology might not be quite there yet but it's a worldwide issue, I'm sure it's just a matter of time.

I hope when they have that technology, it will be acurate.

Imagine getting all the way to a festival, parking and queueing only to be denied entry based on the opinion of someone with no training and a handheld device with a low battery and no wifi....

HarryTheSpider · 28-10-2020 6:57pm

Also, can we add "No festival in 2021" to the Radiohead list.

I suppose we can cross that bridge when we come to it, but facing that reality at the moment will be a hard pill to swallow.

patch · 28-10-2020 7:09pm

Glastonbury carrying over the lineup makes sense too.
I was a little surprised when EP wiped the slate clean...

Seathrun66 · 28-10-2020 8:30pm

patch wrote: »

Glastonbury carrying over the lineup makes sense too.
I was a little surprised when EP wiped the slate clean...

I'd assume there'll be many of the same acts but if I'm right Rage Against the Machine may not be doing a European tour and sticking to North America? May be the same situation with other overseas bands.

Seathrun66 · 28-10-2020 8:49pm

rubick wrote: »

Glastonbury's "Entertainment Lawyer" Speaks:
https://www.nme.com/news/music/glastonbury-lawyer-says-2021-festival-is-going-ahead-as-planned-2799543

I really don't see it going ahead in 2021, obviously hope I'm wrong. If it does, and there's some kind of mass-testing of punters, that would bode well for a visit to Stradbally next year assuming it could be implemented here. Eyes down for a full house in 2023, ticket bingo fans.

Interesting to note that there were only a handful of refund requests, which puts to bed once and for all the chances of Miss desk_tidy and I going to the next one.

If the situation is similar to now in March when it comes to paying the balance I think you'll see a lot of withdrawals. If mass testing has loopholes then anybody who's elderly (quite a few at the festival over 65), diabetic, asthmatic or has underlying health issues will probably pull out. That'll be a fair few thousand and hard to tell how big the uptake will be. I personally would be wary of paying the balance in five months time.

Furious-Red · 29-10-2020 12:17am

Seathrun66 wrote: »

I'd assume there'll be many of the same acts but if I'm right Rage Against the Machine may not be doing a European tour and sticking to North America? May be the same situation with other overseas bands.

Yea the fact RATM werent announced for R&L 2021 means their European tour has been changed/cancelled

endainoz · 29-10-2020 11:36am

Indiependence 21 cancelled aswell. They put out a message to say that all refunds will be issued to people before Christmas. This night be a case of a company cutting their losses as the summer is still very uncertain. Still sad to hear though.

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