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

Stillill42 wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/culture/2020/0629/1150272-other-voices-courage-watch-lankum-in-concert/

rubick wrote: »

Watched a few of the Glastonbury sets across the week that wasn't - have to say my greatest (multiple) missed act is definitely REM. I never got to see them anywhere, one of those that you always assume that there will be other chances to see.

Proper filled up watching the LCD Soundsystem set from 2016. Was terrible conditions underfoot at the time, Sunday evening, not much left in the tank after 5 days slog but man did they lift us! 'All My Friends' surely up there with one of my greatest festival experiences ever.

Getting close to #NoPicnic Time, will be getting it tight that weekend, first time in a decade we haven't made the trip down to Stradbally.

Stillill42 wrote: »

I just got an Aldi firepit. I'm out the back with a beer in my paw and last year's EP playlist on. I'm going for that Body and Soul vibe. We'll just have to be creative, lads.

scruff monkey wrote: »

I admire your optimism but I will merrily lay down a crisp disinfected €20 if they reform (proper reform, not some two bit late night once off tv show appearance). Honestly think they meant it when they called it a day (and disgusted with myself that I only got to see them the once (and of course they were magnificent)).


**** it, I’ll add a bottle of black bush to that €20.

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Picture This feature prominently?

Juelz Chubby Lapel wrote: »

We’ve booked an air bnb in Galway for that weekend. I’d give anything to be in a field for the entire wkend lost in music and I think we all need it more than ever this year.

endainoz wrote: »

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-are-holding-a-music-concert-to-see-how-covid-19-spreads-at-mass-gatherings/

A lot of promoters should keep an eye on this study.

rubick wrote: »

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rubick wrote: »

Right, here's my Influential Albums list in case yizzer still doing that - bodhrandude I only saw your message the other day! This is mostly cut and pasted from that Facebook challenge that was doing the round in the early days of the plague which is have just done on my phone and emailed to myself so forgive any typos!

In no particular order:

Future Sound of London - Accelerator (1991)
Quite apart from being a defining album of the era, with tracks that demonstrate an experimental range of styles and form the foundations of what FSOL would become; never mind that this LP happens to contain one of the greatest anthems of all time in Papua New Guinea, not to mention a disc of PNG remixes including a cut from Andrew Weatherall - on a personal note this album has become the soundtrack to making our annual trip to Laois for Lyn and I. "Welcome to Central Industrial. We are the future."

The Prodigy - Experience (1992)
First concert I went to, early 1994 at the Ulster Hall, Belfast. They had just released 'One Love' at this point. There's some cracking moments on 'Music For The Jilted Generation' but this is their best work in my view. Maybe it's because my introduction to dance music was via largely breakbeat driven hardcore which I will forever associate with that time period and this album. Also I sent off for a cracking white long sleeve t-shirt from the inlay card. Wish I still had it today. Stand out tracks 'Jericho', 'Charly (Trip Into Drum and Bass Version)' and 'Out of Space', the latter still has the capacity to make an entire forest of ravers go Buck She Daft at half-three in the morning. My favourite track from The Prodigy is 'Everybody In The Place' but left it out here as the 12" version (Fairground Remix) is better than the album version.

Tru Playaz - Real Vibes (1998)
Cheating a bit with a compilation but this is a collection of wall-to-wall DnB rollers from the late 90s. Essential soundtrack to the post-club nights/mornings of the era. Some of you have never been touched by breakbeats and it shows so frankly some re-evaluation is needed etc.

New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies (1983)
Released on 02/05/83, a blueprint for the New Order sound for the coming decades. Famously not on the album but released around the same time, a song called 'Blue Monday' of which some of you may have heard. Standout tracks: all of them. But if I have to pick one, it's 'Ecstacy' or 'Ultraviolence', which sounds like a great night out.

The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld (1991)
a voyage which starts off with Rickie Lee Jones wistfully describing cloud formations she saw in her youth across the skies of Arizona, takes us rocketing through Earth and Lunar orbits, sending probes into the titular Ultraworld dimension before we gain access and meet Minnie Riperton and Grace Jones or maybe that’s how the ultraterrestrials communicate with us, or at least how we perceive it. Encompassing ambient house, dub reggae, early European electronica, BBC Radio Four announcers, NASA radio broadcasts and field recordings of the audio and bioelectric signals of fishes from Soviet-era Russia, it’s a scene, man. Essential kit.

Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1991)
One of the most important albums of the last three decades, everything about this outing from Primal Scream reeks of dry ice and the imprint of a dodgy strobe light burned into your retinas. This album is at once dancing all night with your mates in a dingy club and also watching the sun come up, it's Bobby Gillespie bedecked in full leathers on TOTP not quite believing the welt off those pills, it's acid house and rock music colliding and nothing would ever be the same again. The album's success is in no small part due to the production skills of one Mr. Andrew Weatherall, with no standout tracks because they're all just that good; but in the year where we've lost Andy Weatherall (and doesn't that seem like years ago) and with hope that one day we'll see our family and friends again, let's go with 'Come Together'.

LCD Soundsystem (2005)
The eponymous debut from a rake of heads from New York and England has absolutely no right to be this good, the **** did they think they were chatting about tunes, until you listen to it severally and lord, lorda mighty it's spectacular. Blessed to have caught them live three times so far and hopefully given James Murphy's love for Stradbally it's always a possibility in any common or garden non-plague year that they turn up at the Picnic. Essential kit.

Bjork - Debut (1993)
Encompassing traditional Icelandic folk balladry, acid house, hip-hop, dub reggae and techno, and an indication of the monumental body of work to come, Björk’s first solo album release spawned five singles, six if you count ‘Play Dead’ which was added in a later version of the album. She actually wrote ‘Human Behaviour’ when she was a teenager but it didn’t really fit the Sugarcubes’ aesthetic. I honestly find it difficult to pick a ‘favourite’ Björk album, ‘Post’, ‘Homogenic’ and ‘Biophilia’ are right up there for this punter as some of her greatest work, but if you’re going to embark on a deep dive into the back catalogue of one the greatest artists of our times you may as well start at the beginning.

De la Soul – 3 Feet High and Rising (1989)
For my money one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time, the debut LP from Long Island’s finest has aged incredibly well. The incorporation of humorous skits, fusion of jazzy samples and clinical wordplay combined with a positive message of peace and love makes ‘3 Feet High and Rising’ an album for the ages. Plus you can dance like **** to it. With 24 tracks on the discs it has a high running time but it’s not noticeable. The album spawned 4 singles including their best known track ‘The Magic Number’; as a long-term fan I didn’t get to see them perform it live until the early 2010s but I’ve seen them a few times since and they always put on a fantastic show, whether in a club or at a festival. Definitely a record I keep coming back to, especially when the sun’s out.

The Band - Rock of Ages (1972)
Irish trad and folk songs aside, much of the material on this classic album was pretty much the soundtrack to my youth at family gatherings or wherever a few relatives with guitars were gathered of an evening. My uncle taught himself to play guitar by heading up the Mourne Mountains and yelling into the wind until he got it right, which sounds made up but is 100% true. You can keep your Beatles and Rolling Stones, The Band are the finest act of the 1960s and beyond in my view. See also the recent re-release of the brown album, which features a second disc featuring their set at Woodstock, released for the first time. It's amazing to hear those songs performed not long after they were released.

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bodhrandude wrote: »

An excellent list I must say, an important fact about the Orb's debut was their love for the group Gong, Steve Hillage was involved with their first few albums and you can hear his guitar playing on Adventures... and in the Blue Room on U.F.Orb you can hear his glissando effect.

rubick wrote: »

Right, here's my Influential Albums list in case yizzer still doing that - bodhrandude I only saw your message the other day! This is mostly cut and pasted from that Facebook challenge that was doing the round in the early days of the plague which is have just done on my phone and emailed to myself so forgive any typos!

In no particular order:

Future Sound of London - Accelerator (1991)
Quite apart from being a defining album of the era, with tracks that demonstrate an experimental range of styles and form the foundations of what FSOL would become; never mind that this LP happens to contain one of the greatest anthems of all time in Papua New Guinea, not to mention a disc of PNG remixes including a cut from Andrew Weatherall - on a personal note this album has become the soundtrack to making our annual trip to Laois for Lyn and I. "Welcome to Central Industrial. We are the future."

The Prodigy - Experience (1992)
First concert I went to, early 1994 at the Ulster Hall, Belfast. They had just released 'One Love' at this point. There's some cracking moments on 'Music For The Jilted Generation' but this is their best work in my view. Maybe it's because my introduction to dance music was via largely breakbeat driven hardcore which I will forever associate with that time period and this album. Also I sent off for a cracking white long sleeve t-shirt from the inlay card. Wish I still had it today. Stand out tracks 'Jericho', 'Charly (Trip Into Drum and Bass Version)' and 'Out of Space', the latter still has the capacity to make an entire forest of ravers go Buck She Daft at half-three in the morning. My favourite track from The Prodigy is 'Everybody In The Place' but left it out here as the 12" version (Fairground Remix) is better than the album version.

Tru Playaz - Real Vibes (1998)
Cheating a bit with a compilation but this is a collection of wall-to-wall DnB rollers from the late 90s. Essential soundtrack to the post-club nights/mornings of the era. Some of you have never been touched by breakbeats and it shows so frankly some re-evaluation is needed etc.

New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies (1983)
Released on 02/05/83, a blueprint for the New Order sound for the coming decades. Famously not on the album but released around the same time, a song called 'Blue Monday' of which some of you may have heard. Standout tracks: all of them. But if I have to pick one, it's 'Ecstacy' or 'Ultraviolence', which sounds like a great night out.

The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld (1991)
a voyage which starts off with Rickie Lee Jones wistfully describing cloud formations she saw in her youth across the skies of Arizona, takes us rocketing through Earth and Lunar orbits, sending probes into the titular Ultraworld dimension before we gain access and meet Minnie Riperton and Grace Jones or maybe that’s how the ultraterrestrials communicate with us, or at least how we perceive it. Encompassing ambient house, dub reggae, early European electronica, BBC Radio Four announcers, NASA radio broadcasts and field recordings of the audio and bioelectric signals of fishes from Soviet-era Russia, it’s a scene, man. Essential kit.

Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1991)
One of the most important albums of the last three decades, everything about this outing from Primal Scream reeks of dry ice and the imprint of a dodgy strobe light burned into your retinas. This album is at once dancing all night with your mates in a dingy club and also watching the sun come up, it's Bobby Gillespie bedecked in full leathers on TOTP not quite believing the welt off those pills, it's acid house and rock music colliding and nothing would ever be the same again. The album's success is in no small part due to the production skills of one Mr. Andrew Weatherall, with no standout tracks because they're all just that good; but in the year where we've lost Andy Weatherall (and doesn't that seem like years ago) and with hope that one day we'll see our family and friends again, let's go with 'Come Together'.

LCD Soundsystem (2005)
The eponymous debut from a rake of heads from New York and England has absolutely no right to be this good, the **** did they think they were chatting about tunes, until you listen to it severally and lord, lorda mighty it's spectacular. Blessed to have caught them live three times so far and hopefully given James Murphy's love for Stradbally it's always a possibility in any common or garden non-plague year that they turn up at the Picnic. Essential kit.

Bjork - Debut (1993)
Encompassing traditional Icelandic folk balladry, acid house, hip-hop, dub reggae and techno, and an indication of the monumental body of work to come, Björk’s first solo album release spawned five singles, six if you count ‘Play Dead’ which was added in a later version of the album. She actually wrote ‘Human Behaviour’ when she was a teenager but it didn’t really fit the Sugarcubes’ aesthetic. I honestly find it difficult to pick a ‘favourite’ Björk album, ‘Post’, ‘Homogenic’ and ‘Biophilia’ are right up there for this punter as some of her greatest work, but if you’re going to embark on a deep dive into the back catalogue of one the greatest artists of our times you may as well start at the beginning.

De la Soul – 3 Feet High and Rising (1989)
For my money one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time, the debut LP from Long Island’s finest has aged incredibly well. The incorporation of humorous skits, fusion of jazzy samples and clinical wordplay combined with a positive message of peace and love makes ‘3 Feet High and Rising’ an album for the ages. Plus you can dance like **** to it. With 24 tracks on the discs it has a high running time but it’s not noticeable. The album spawned 4 singles including their best known track ‘The Magic Number’; as a long-term fan I didn’t get to see them perform it live until the early 2010s but I’ve seen them a few times since and they always put on a fantastic show, whether in a club or at a festival. Definitely a record I keep coming back to, especially when the sun’s out.

The Band - Rock of Ages (1972)
Irish trad and folk songs aside, much of the material on this classic album was pretty much the soundtrack to my youth at family gatherings or wherever a few relatives with guitars were gathered of an evening. My uncle taught himself to play guitar by heading up the Mourne Mountains and yelling into the wind until he got it right, which sounds made up but is 100% true. You can keep your Beatles and Rolling Stones, The Band are the finest act of the 1960s and beyond in my view. See also the recent re-release of the brown album, which features a second disc featuring their set at Woodstock, released for the first time. It's amazing to hear those songs performed not long after they were released.

TL,DR: Tunes

Fatfrog wrote: »

*** I mean how ****ing future were the FSOL!! Like Accelerator was 1991 waaay ahead of it's time.

dasdog wrote: »

I love the way all they are all intertwined - Steve Hillage, The Orb, System 7, Ozric Tentacles, Eat Static. They were so influential to an almost subculture.

I only saw the Ozrics once - a much underrated collective.

ghostdancer wrote: »

Musically it's quite good. Lyrically it's poor again, the repetition is even more grating on this album. Surely BIMM is churning out some lyricists too?