Electric Picnic 2011

seanyleary

Lollyp26 wrote: »

hey guys

i see from the website that access to the campervan site will be allowed from the thursday night but that no cars will be allowed... does anyone know what this means in terms of a caravan - we'll need to tow it down with a car but just wondering whether what's on the site means that only motorhomes will be allowed in on the thursday or what... does anyone have any other info or know what the story was last year? think they opened the caravan site on the thursday last year too...

thanks

dont think you can bring a caravan it has to be a camper, as far as i know.

kwat

From http://www.electricpicnic.ie/faq/

Q: Can I bring a caravan?
A: Yes, you can park caravan in the campervan park. However once positioned you will need to unhitch and park your car in one of the car parks. Note: a campervan ticket will need to be purchased for caravan.

seanyleary wrote: »

dont think you can bring a caravan it has to be a camper, as far as i know.

kwat

Going to EP for the first time this year and really looking forward to it.

Does anyone have any info on the standard campsites - are there different types / themed ones?
Have heard about the hendrix campsite - is this the most popular one? Are they pretty noisy during the night or do security come around? All up for a good time but would like some sleep too!

maximoose

kwat wrote: »

Going to EP for the first time this year and really looking forward to it.

Does anyone have any info on the standard campsites - are there different types / themed ones?
Have heard about the hendrix campsite - is this the most popular one? Are they pretty noisy during the night or do security come around? All up for a good time but would like some sleep too!

TBH, there's not much difference between the campsites. Can be noisy enough at night but sure that's to be expected!

LostinKildare

The Chaplin campsite (or part of it) is designated for "Quiet Camping." I camped there last year and yes it was pretty quiet, except for the thumping bass from the forest rave. But there weren't people noisily partying around the tents there at night. Peaceful compared to the Wilde site.

H8GHOTI

tonc76 wrote: »

Chemical Brothers playing the 22:00 - 23:30 slot on the Saturday night

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=157487070975053

Is that some kind of default time or something? Almost every gig on their events page is 22:00 - 23:30.
http://www.facebook.com/ChemicalBros?sk=events

I would think they're a cert for the 00:30 slot that is usually a dance act after another headliner.
What I've read is that Interpol are closing Friday, Chemical Brothers Saturday & Pulp Sunday. Arcade Fire will probably be on before the Chemical Brothers.

ghostdancer

H8GHOTI wrote: »

Is that some kind of default time or something? Almost every gig on their events page is 22:00 - 23:30.
http://www.facebook.com/ChemicalBros?sk=events

I would think they're a cert for the 00:30 slot that is usually a dance act after another headliner.
What I've read is that Interpol are closing Friday, Chemical Brothers Saturday & Pulp Sunday. Arcade Fire will probably be on before the Chemical Brothers.

yeah, the PR company confirmed those to be closing those days..

i can't see AF playing before before Interpol or Pulp, but could imagine them at 10pm or something on Saturday, with Chemical Brothers after them, like The Frames/Leftfield last year.

tonc76

H8GHOTI wrote: »

Is that some kind of default time or something? Almost every gig on their events page is 22:00 - 23:30.
http://www.facebook.com/ChemicalBros?sk=events

I would think they're a cert for the 00:30 slot that is usually a dance act after another headliner.
What I've read is that Interpol are closing Friday, Chemical Brothers Saturday & Pulp Sunday. Arcade Fire will probably be on before the Chemical Brothers.

Not sure really but more interested in what day they're playing and couldn't give a flyin fck what time!

damomaher

Arcade fire will play Sunday , its why there are day tickets to pay for them , wont play last as people will have to leave for work / tiredness

dinneenp

damomaher wrote: »

Arcade fire will play Sunday , its why there are day tickets to pay for them , wont play last as people will have to leave for work / tiredness

Is that a total guess?

igsigs

damomaher wrote: »

Arcade fire will play Sunday , its why there are day tickets to pay for them , wont play last as people will have to leave for work / tiredness

According to EP's twitter, Pulp are playing Sunday.

http://twitter.com/#!/electricpicnic/status/47289110150393856

lordgoat

dinneenp wrote: »

Is that a total guess?

Yes it is a total guess

nizo888

I wish Marina and the Diamonds was playing at Electric Picnic. I have only discovered her lately and I think she is great!

Emelio

nizo888 wrote: »

I wish Marina and the Diamonds was playing at Electric Picnic. I have only discovered her lately and I think she is great!

Yes I agree - she is greek artist like no other.
Amazing song about robot I feel.
She and her band would fit in well at picnic and would bring artistic merit to festival.

leakyboots

Emelio wrote: »

Yes I agree - she is greek artist like no other.
Amazing song about robot I feel.
She and her band would fit in well at picnic and would bring artistic merit to festival.

Artistic merit? Huh?

damomaher

Arcade Fire will play the Sunday to help flog the day tickets

got root?

hey everyone!

Looking forward to ep11?

I am an unemployed developer & I've been putting together a site called 'Festival Explorer' for a while, its nearly done & i'd like some feedback,

this is the EP page : Electric Picnic @ Festival Explorer

You can check out the lineup, watch youtube videos for the bands (just click the band name), and play about with the 2010 map.

It is very much a work in progress, but bearing that in mind, please leave some feedback!

ghostdancer

got root? wrote: »

hey everyone!

Looking forward to ep11?

I am an unemployed developer & I've been putting together a site called 'Festival Explorer' for a while, its nearly done & i'd like some feedback,

this is the EP page : Electric Picnic @ Festival Explorer

You can check out the lineup, watch youtube videos for the bands (just click the band name), and play about with the 2010 map.

It is very much a work in progress, but bearing that in mind, please leave some feedback!

fair play, looks really good.
very handy for checking out the lesser-known bands too.

the videos could do with being displayed slightly differently though, it's hard to tell what song some of them are before being clicked on, as the artist/title uses too many chars.
or else just have the video title show up when the cursor hovers over. think that's just an alt="" field?

other than that though, it looks pretty good!

electrobanana

can anyone tell me when the next artist's are announced i think its april but can't remember..cheers

got root?

ghostdancer wrote: »

fair play, looks really good.
very handy for checking out the lesser-known bands too.

the videos could do with being displayed slightly differently though, it's hard to tell what song some of them are before being clicked on, as the artist/title uses too many chars.
or else just have the video title show up when the cursor hovers over. think that's just an alt="" field?

other than that though, it looks pretty good!

Thanks gd, made that change... it was the title attribute that I needed... looking much better now!

jill_valentine

damomaher wrote: »

Arcade Fire will play the Sunday to help flog the day tickets

damomaher wrote: »

Arcade fire will play Sunday , its why there are day tickets to pay for them , wont play last as people will have to leave for work / tiredness

All indications are that Arcade Fire are playing Saturday, with Pulp headlining Sunday. Unless you know something we don't, it's kind of wangy to just keep insisting on this as if it's a certainty.

lordgoat wrote: »

Yes it is a total guess

Dicksboro_man

jill_valentine wrote: »

All indications are that Arcade Fire are playing Saturday, with Pulp headlining Sunday. Unless you know something we don't, it's kind of wangy to just keep insisting on this as if it's a certainty.

the chemical brothers created an event on FB indicating they are the ones playing on saturday

H8GHOTI

Dicksboro_man wrote: »

the chemical brothers created an event on FB indicating they are the ones playing on saturday

It was talked about few days ago

H8GHOTI wrote: »

I would think they're a cert for the 00:30 slot that is usually a dance act after another headliner.
What I've read is that Interpol are closing Friday, Chemical Brothers Saturday & Pulp Sunday. Arcade Fire will probably be on before the Chemical Brothers.

ghostdancer wrote: »

yeah, the PR company confirmed those to be closing those days..

i can't see AF playing before before Interpol or Pulp, but could imagine them at 10pm or something on Saturday, with Chemical Brothers after them, like The Frames/Leftfield last year.

the_doctor199

nizo888 wrote: »

I wish Marina and the Diamonds was playing at Electric Picnic. I have only discovered her lately and I think she is great!

She got a good crowd in 2009 before she was even known so I'd imagine she would do well now

Gillington

electrobanana wrote: »

can anyone tell me when the next artist's are announced i think its april but can't remember..cheers

Yeah I'm looking for this info aswell pretty please!

H8GHOTI

Last year more acts were added at the start of May. But last year the launch wasn't until 24th March.
So maybe more acts will be added in April this year. Who knows?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Picnic_2010#Post-launch_announcements
http://www.efestivals.co.uk/news/10/100505f.shtml

Gillington

Chances of Editors at EP!?

They're playing a handful of festivals so far

http://www.last.fm/music/Editors/+events

BadTurtle

i reckon editors are more likely for oxegen,having played it a few times.wouldnt rule them out though.

hopefully the next announcement should be in the next 14 days.

hoping for:
2 many djs (highly unlikely,but would be a good alternative to interpol for friday)
ratatat
the black keys
death from above 1979
primal scream:screamadelica (pleeeeeeeeease! such a waste having them at poxegen)
wavves
klaxons (yeah,right)
tv on the radio
groove armada
sufjan stevens
sleigh bells
mf doom
justice

but ide be happy with 3 of them (DFA,PS and 2MDJs plz)

kthxbye.

Brussels Sprout

I love the dance tent and the techno acts in particular so I'm very excited about some of the acts playing this year particularly:

Dave Clarke (always seems to be in Oxegen instead)
Trentemoller
Adam Beyer
Boyz Noise
DJ SHadow

I was fortunate enough to see the Arcade Fire at this in 2005 and I can honestly say that is was the best gig I was ever at in my life so I'm well looking forward to seeing them again.

AddictedToYou

Best Coast announced via their blog/Twitter that they're playing on the 4th..

Anseo: http://bestycoasty.blogspot.com/2011/04/summer-europe-festivals.html