Electric Picnic 2019 **Discussion Only // No Ticket Sales / Requests **

Bootleg beach boys sound interesting, if they are half as good as the bootleg Beatles, we will be in for a treat.

Interskalactic (actually missed them for the first festival in years last time) and Montauk Hotel both decent shouts.
Montauk Hotel were on the Thursday night Salty Dog last year too, was impressed by them.

Spreece wrote: »

Not happy to see Roadhouse Doors moving from the Friday afternoon Salty Dog slot. They go well with cold cans. I don’t like change like this.

I fear it's the beginning of the Salty Dog revolution. Who knows where it will take us.

Let's make teenagers walk the plank inbetween Smiths songs during the These Charming Men. The crowd would go crazy for it.

charlietully wrote: »

Electric picnic. The festival were the line up is so commercial the punters go mad for cover bands.

Jaysus. Not this again.

MadYaker wrote: »

I think if were going to have this discussion we need the poster to define what he means by "commercial" in this context :pac:

He means whatever he doesn't like. Or anything others may derive pleasure from.

BBC6 have been playing Black Midi pretty consistently this week. Very impressive & they're at End of the Road so hopefully could hop over to Stradbally that weekend:

Seathrun66 wrote: »

BBC6 have been playing Black Midi pretty consistently this week. Very impressive & they're at End of the Road so hopefully could hop over to Stradbally that weekend:

Yeah, they're at Alltogethernow, I've been trying to get into them. Limited stuff available, all weird but interesting. It's math rock, apparently. Whatever that is.

Speaking of Black Midi, their debut album just went live online if anyone wants to check them out further. They certainly experiment a lot between tracks. It's hard to pin them down to a genre, I think people just throw the math rock tag at them because they're so technical.

Hard to know if they'll hit EP as well as ATN. It's not unbelievable as they're pretty much constantly touring this year.

MadYaker wrote: »

I think if were going to have this discussion we need the poster to define what he means by "commercial" in this context :pac:

All the Top, Top Festival Edgelords lambasting festivals for being 'too commercial these days, maan' when the simple fact of the matter is - every festival that has tickets for sale is literally a commercial venture. Any suggestion to the contrary is just Marketing.

You want a non-commercial festival you'll be heading into a forest somewhere with a ****e rig and twenty of your mates, all great craic until the first casualty and not a First Aid Tent in site because you're too ****ing real, maan.

I also thought Glastonbury was on this weekend and was looking forward to staying in and checking out loads of acts but of course it's not on till next weekend. A live stream of some area of body and soul would be great!

endainoz wrote: »

I also thought Glastonbury was on this weekend and was looking forward to staying in and checking out loads of acts but of course it's not on till next weekend. A live stream of some area of body and soul would be great!

This time next week I'll be at the West Holts stage with a cider waiting for Acid Mother's Temple to come on.

Seathrun66 wrote:

Post-punk again, innit? They've been listening to The Pop Group, Wire and others. We've no shortage of bands of that ilk these days. And no harm in that.

I know my post-punk and there's definitely some in the mix but there's also bits of noise-rock, beefheart-y avant-garde type stuff and a bit of kraut-rock too.

Reggie noble wrote: »

And some old school Hip Hop, Nas was great a few years ago. Maybe Cypress Hill, I see they are touring Europe in the coming months , no Irish date yet

Yes please. Though we've a very mixed history with hip-hop at EP. Nas, Kendrick & Public Enemy were all excellent. All the others I caught seemed pretty flat. Wu Tang being the worst culprits.

PabloAndRoy wrote: »

Jurassic 5 were also excellent, and hilarious.

Personally I have never enjoyed PE live having seen them maybe 4 times now. Early albums outstanding though.

Missed them, though saw them at Glasto earlier that year and pretty good. Missed ATCQ too and likely to have enjoyed that. The Beastie Boys even more.

PE amongst my fave live bands so we're unlikely to reach any agreement on them. Chuck D also as good a frontman as there is and Prophets of Rage would have gone done very well at EP. Still an outside chance they'll play but leaving Europe to play Indonesia on Sun 1.

KRS-One another I'd welcome to Stradbally.

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Wu Tang being the worst culprits.

They were utterly chronic

endainoz wrote: »

Why were they so bad? I remember seeing them years ago at Oxegen and thought they did well, crowd was into it too. Did they just get lazy in their later years?

I hassled my partner to come and see them. Promised her a great show. She described them as 'overweight, bored shouty guys in bright elasticated pants'. I couldn't disagree. I bought her lunch and didn't recommend anything else for the rest of the weekend.

They just resembled a bunch of guys grabbed from a reality show rehearsal, given mikes and told to wander the stage aimlessly. Bring The Ruckus & Gravel Pit were half-decent. The rest was just noise.

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Missed them, though saw them at Glasto earlier that year and pretty good. Missed ATCQ too and likely to have enjoyed that. The Beastie Boys even more.

PE amongst my fave live bands so we're unlikely to reach any agreement on them. Chuck D also as good a frontman as there is and Prophets of Rage would have gone done very well at EP. Still an outside chance they'll play but leaving Europe to play Indonesia on Sun 1.

KRS-One another I'd welcome to Stradbally.

How did I forget the epic Beastie Boys sets.

I am pretty sure we have had the PE conversation before and we have agreed to disagree on that one.

KRS-One would be excellent.