Electric Picnic lineup...what do you think?

lordgoat

Saturday has Wilco. What more do you want?

honru

Underworld were for a time down for Friday and haven't updated their Myspace yet. Looks like they needed to beef up the Saturday lineup.

All the days look well-rounded acts-wise for me though I fear the most clashes on the Sunday... definetly has the highest amount of bands I most want to see.

Other than that, got to start checking out all the bands I don't know!

keith_d99

Saw some artist down on the lineup- that sets up his equipment in the middle of the crowd as opposed to the stage - ring a bell with anybody? Looked excellent live from a youtube vid I saw at the time - but can't remember who it was?

keith_d99

My "to see" list below for anybody who cares - feel free to add your "must sees"!

MikeHoncho wrote: »

Full line up as now visiible on the website:

FRIDAY 29th


Digitalism
New Young Pony Club
Sigur Ros (must be main stage - might be better in a tent, but can't see organisers going for it - since they are the main headliners for the whole weekend imho)

SATURDAY 30th

Crystal Castles
Cut Copy
Elbow
George Clinton
Grace Jones (for novelty alone plus excellent reviews from London show)
That Petrol Emotion
The Breeders
Underworld
Wilco


SUNDAY 31st
Candi Staton (novelty)
CSS
Hercules & Love Affair
My Bloody Valentine (hopefully good, but maybe a letdown)
Sex Pistols (same as above)
Stephen Malkmus
The Dodos

Would have thought that one more big name would be added but its not to be.

quarryman

keith_d99 wrote: »

Saw some artist down on the lineup- that sets up his equipment in the middle of the crowd as opposed to the stage - ring a bell with anybody? Looked excellent live from a youtube vid I saw at the time - but can't remember who it was?

dan deacon.

keith_d99

Looks great fun live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNomRDf6_KQ - one not to miss me thinks!

Or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnQrUlepb-k

quarryman wrote: »

dan deacon.

quarryman

keith_d99 wrote: »

Looks great fun live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNomRDf6_KQ - one not to miss me thinks!

nope. he played in vicar street a few weeks back. Its surreal watching the entire crowd running round in circles or forming a train all played to his techno dance weirdness.

silvine

Watched the clip - WTF!

Mushy

Just saw the Waterboys have pulled:(

JonThom

quarryman wrote: »

nope.

Yep, he's on the line-up. Should be good.

melekalikimaka

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw1i-K1kd04

single reason i'm going to electric picnic

quarryman

JonThom wrote: »

Yep, he's on the line-up. Should be good.

the 'nope' part was in reply to the previous poster who said he 'one not to miss'. I was agreeing.

JonThom

Fair nuff.

Booka Shade and Tiga on the Friday should be good.

Any maybe The Presets? Haven't heard much of them but they've been talked up by a couple of mates lately.

Toast

Theyve been steadily more and more quiet over the years. Back when the festival launched they were very interactive with information and the like. These days you generally dont find anything out till the week before.

joseph brand

On a side note from the line up, which is fine for me. Does anyone reccomend bringing walkie talkies to Picnic. As phones can be useless, but good range walkie talkie could be better?

Spider_Baby

Toast wrote: »

Theyve been steadily more and more quiet over the years. Back when the festival launched they were very interactive with information and the like. These days you generally dont find anything out till the week before.

Yeah I agree, not many emails at all this year.
Every other year there would be phonecalls and emails flying between myself and my friends everytime a new email was received

The comedy tent line-up is up on the website. I could be wrong, but they never sent out an email saying the comedy line-up was announced...did they?

What time is it?
It's DOD time!
Yep, David O'Doherty is back in the comedy tent this year

loloray

Spider_Baby wrote: »

Yeah I agree, not many emails at all this year.
Every other year there would be phonecalls and emails flying between myself and my friends everytime a new email was received

The comedy tent line-up is up on the website. I could be wrong, but they never sent out an email saying the comedy line-up was announced...did they?

No, I don't think they did sent out a comedy line-up mail. I agree that the EP crowd is DEFINITELY more quiet this year than ever before, not to mention the line-up is most definitely the lowest profile (not including the first year - I wasn't at that). I expected to be hearing of a few pretty impressive acts in the last couple of weeks (like other years), but nothing.

Have they forgotten us?

loloray

Mushy wrote: »

Just saw the Waterboys have pulled:(

Ah no. I thought they'd be good craic!

quarryman

loloray wrote: »

Have they forgotten us?

of course not, our money is sitting comfy in their account. Why pimp it now?

g5fd6ow0hseima

Franz Ferdinand on the line-up........

Is this the beginning of the end for EP as we know it?

KevIRL

Electric Picnic Sitemap



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keith_d99

Yeah a strange addition to the lineup I think!

Kase Plain Camera wrote: »

Franz Ferdinand on the line-up........

Is this the beginning of the end for EP as we know it?

Waxing the Gaza

Hey, wasnt Babba Maal on the original line up? I dont see his name on the day schedule on the website. Anyone know what the story is?

Lainabaina

A site map AND a comedy line up including the DOD?? I think we'd all be better off passing on info here than waiting for emails, they've been very quiet indeed.

Toast

Waxing the Gaza wrote: »

Hey, wasnt Babba Maal on the original line up? I dont see his name on the day schedule on the website. Anyone know what the story is?

Along with Blitzen Trapper, The Constantines, and The Waterboys whove all dropped off the lineup without any announcement from the promoters. The Waterboys announced on their website that it was due to the promoters "renegotiating" their contract at a lower rate that wasnt economically viable for them to perform at.

Irjudge1

KevIRL wrote: »

Electric Picnic Sitemap



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Am I misisng something here I don't see a silent disco.:mad:

Silver-Tiger

When the line up was being called out on the radio all them months ago the said Moby was to perform, Nothing ever came after that.

I see he's playing london on the 31st of august

Is there any chance of him being a last minute big announcement??

Waxing the Gaza

Irjudge1 wrote: »

Am I misisng something here I don't see a silent disco.:mad:

Number 7. The Dance village is in an odd spot...

s8n

Silver-Tiger wrote: »

I see he's playing london on the 31st of august

Is there any chance of him being a last minute big announcement??

He's too old...let go...nobody listens to techno !!!!

hannable80

Got tickets...but will it be a wash out? Cars getting stuck etc etc

quarryman

shhhh!

my theory is that it has to stop raining soon. clear blue skies for EP.

lordgoat

quarryman wrote: »

shhhh!

my theory is that it has to stop raining soon. clear blue skies for EP.

You better be right!

We're all heading down early on fri morning give one of us a text if ya want to tent it up together.

eth0_

I'm so glad i'm going to Bestival instead :-)

Bluetonic

Back on sale now on ticketmaster anyhow.

silvine

I'll be packing the rain gear!

quarryman

lordgoat wrote: »

You better be right!

We're all heading down early on fri morning give one of us a text if ya want to tent it up together.

will do.

Is anyone using that twitter thing that was added a few weeks back?

Back on sale now on ticketmaster anyhow.

can't see any now.

dave13

Was going 2use twitter as i thought it'd b handy but they disabled sms in europe this week so not much use now.

mfield

Bluetonic wrote: »

Back on sale now on ticketmaster anyhow.

Just got one! Many thanks for that Bluetonic! Managed to get a campervan yesterday as well - so we're all set bar the weather!

gazzer

Back on sale now on ticketmaster anyhow.

Just tried Ticketmaster and there are no tickets for sale

Toast

You're unfortunate.. they actually went off sale around 12.50 and then came back on sale around 2.20 to about 3. You must have missed them by a few minutes.

gazzer

You're unfortunate.. they actually went off sale around 12.50 and then came back on sale around 2.20 to about 3. You must have missed them by a few minutes.

Ah b**lix. Hopefully they will go on sale again later in the week.


@ Toast. Do you know if there is a way an alert can be sent from Ticketmaster to an email address (or by text message) if more tickets go on sale?

mfield

gazzer wrote: »

You're unfortunate.. they actually went off sale around 12.50 and then came back on sale around 2.20 to about 3. You must have missed them by a few minutes.

Ah b**lix. Hopefully they will go on sale again later in the week.


@ Toast. Do you know if there is a way an alert can be sent from Ticketmaster to an email address (or by text message) if more tickets go on sale?

I have alerts set up but never received one?!

Toast

As it happens.....Ive a watch thread setup over on toutless that people can subscribe to (you gotta sign up to toutless and then hit the subscribe topic link below the subject line in the thread.. dont post in it). Idea is as soon as they are back on sale people post in the thread and you get an email sent to you. It depends on someone spotting it on ticketmaster though Ive spotted the last two resales pretty quickly.

redeight

Hi. Anyone know where I can find info about the line-up times ?
I want to know what time bands are playing and what stage they are on.
Has this info been released yet ?
Also are there any more scans of the programme floating around other than the map on this thread ?

Mushy

redeight wrote: »

Hi. Anyone know where I can find info about the line-up times ?
I want to know what time bands are playing and what stage they are on.
Has this info been released yet ?
Also are there any more scans of the programme floating around other than the map on this thread ?

Stage times will come soon, early next week at latest. Southern Comfort website has some bands playing its tent. And what ya mean by programme? Map is all we need really, the rest will fall into place this year.

BTW, go that Hot Press EP issue today...is there really only 1 ATM in the whole place...and at the back of the Oscar Wilde campsite?

honru

Mushy wrote: »

BTW, go that Hot Press EP issue today...is there really only 1 ATM in the whole place...and at the back of the Oscar Wilde campsite?

Think so... I remember last year the queue for ATM being like an hour plus wait so I'd stock up on the moola before heading down.

keevita

+1 on the money thing... we were in the Oscar Wilde last year and the queues for the ATM were horrific!

Getting excited now, only 10 more sleeps... even though people have been complaining about the line up theres still about 25 bands I want to see and thats a lot for one weekend.

TestTransmission

Handy link for everyone

http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/event_forecast.asp?eventID=1073

Mushy

jackncoke wrote: »

Handy link for everyone

http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/event_forecast.asp?eventID=1073

Jaysus thats fairly different than last night. Still good, just not as good!

Lainabaina

redeight wrote: »

Hi. Anyone know where I can find info about the line-up times ?
I want to know what time bands are playing and what stage they are on.
Has this info been released yet ?
Also are there any more scans of the programme floating around other than the map on this thread ?

The map as well as an odd few times (with performers they were interviewing) are in the EP supplement in Hot Press this week.