Electric Picnic 2012

sporina

davywalsh7 wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0301/1224312583699.html


the cure, sigur ros, elbow, the xx, ed sheeran, bell x1 and orbital according to jim carroll

READ IT PROPERLY - "RUMORED" !!!!!!!!!!!!!

mutley18

Bon Iver, The XX and Sigur Ros would do nicely! And maybe chuck in Warpaint, Laura Marling, Ben Howard, The Knife, Bombay Bicycle Club and The Horrors. I reckon Mumford and Sons could be announced if they are touring again.

Thundercats Ho

elbow, ed sheeran, bell x1, Mumford....
WTF is this, Oxegen?
I hope all of this is idle speculation and none of them get announced.

maximoose

Ohhhhhh I'm giddy today, announce something damnit!

Toast

Jim Carroll wouldn't play his cards this close to the announcement unless he was sure so I'd bet that will be 90 to 100% accurate. Fits pretty much all the rumours that have been floating around so far too.

edit: except that article isn't by Jim Carroll..wth.

sporina

Toast wrote: »

Jim Carroll wouldn't play his cards this close to the announcement unless he was sure so I'd bet that will be 90 to 100% accurate. Fits pretty much all the rumours that have been floating around so far too.

edit: except that article isn't by Jim Carroll..wth.

ha ha

Furious-Red

Thundercats Ho wrote: »

elbow, ed sheeran, bell x1, Mumford....
WTF is this, Oxegen?
I hope all of this is idle speculation and none of them get announced.

All those acts have played EP before??? (bar Ed Sheeran)

thebostoncrab

Furious-Red wrote: »

Thundercats Ho wrote: »

elbow, ed sheeran, bell x1, Mumford....
WTF is this, Oxegen?
I hope all of this is idle speculation and none of them get announced.

All those acts have played EP before??? (bar Ed Sheeran)

Exactly, but I think people will use any excuse to try use the lack of Oxegen this year to complain about this years line up. Even before it's actually released.

Sure The Cure played Oxegen, as have Sigur Rós, if people are going to play that card.

Furious-Red

thebostoncrab wrote: »

Exactly, but I think people will use any excuse to try use the lack of Oxegen this year to complain about this years line up. Even before it's actually released.

Sure The Cure played Oxegen, as have Sigur Rós, if people are going to play that card.

Yup there will always be a crossover in acts that can/have played at both festivals like The Cure , Sigur Ros , Elbow , Chemical Brothers , Arcade Fire , Brian Wilson etc

ghostdancer

i think it's more that people think Ed Sheeran, Elbow, Mumford and Sons, etc. will attract the oxegen crowd who spend most the weekend in the campsite and have no idea about 95% of the EP lineup, including most of the headliners. they'd rather see Beyonce instead of those weird rocker Cure people...

can understand POD going for these type of acts to get some of the oxegen crowd and ensure a sell-out this year. might not be the best plan in the long-term though, but who knows...

hubiedubie

ghostdancer wrote: »

will attract the oxegen crowd who spend most the weekend in the campsite and have no idea about 95% of the EP lineup, including most of the headliners. they'd rather see Beyonce instead of those weird rocker Cure people...

I love a bit of festival snobbery I do...

Furious-Red

hubiedubie wrote: »

I love a bit of festival snobbery I do...

HA yea most of the Oxegen crowd will be going to the Pheonix Park gigs which are a substitute for Oxegen so MCD have them covered . You would swear since Oxegen is gone there wont be anything else for them to go to

Thundercats Ho

Furious-Red wrote: »

All those acts have played EP before??? (bar Ed Sheeran)

Personally i cant stand elbow but i guess i could undetstand them at ep.
I was surprised when Mumford were announced a few years ago tbh.
Ed sheeran, come on..
EP has some mainstream acts we all know that, to me it doesn't matter if they played before or not. Ed sheeran and his ilk can stay away afaic.


thebostoncrab:
Sure The Cure played Oxegen, as have Sigur Rós, if people are going to play that card.

Don't give me that. the cure and sigur were always more of an ep act than an oxegen act. The point is about poor (imo) middle of the road acts which the cure or sigur are most definately not.

That_Guy

Ray D'arcy just announced a few acts there. Glen Hansard, Bell X1, Ed Sheeran. Elbow, The Cure, The Roots.

That_Guy

Thundercats Ho wrote: »

EP has some mainstream acts we all know that, to me it doesn't matter if they played before or not. Ed sheeran and his ilk can stay away afaic.

You know it's a festival and you don't have to see him yeah?

ghostdancer

The Cure; Sigur Rós; Elbow; Grizzly Bear; Orbital; Christy Moore; The Roots; Hot Chip; Glen Hansard; The xx; Metronomy; The Horrors; Azealia Banks; Roots Manuva; Bell X1; Staff Benda Bilili; Milagers; Ed Sheeran; Alabama Shakes; Cranes; Little Roy; Land Lovers; Baxter Dury; Jonathan Wilson; Solar Bears; Fatoumata Diawara; Willis Earl Beal; Lanterns on the Lake plus many many more to be announced.

Furious-Red

Electric Picnic 2012 will look a little something like this : The Cure; Sigur Rós; Elbow; Grizzly Bear; Orbital; Christy Moore; The Roots; Hot Chip; Glen Hansard; The xx; Metronomy; The Horrors; Azealia Banks; Roots Manuva; Bell X1; Staff Benda Bilili; Milagers; Ed Sheeran; Alabama Shakes; Cranes; Little Roy; Land Lovers; Baxter Dury; Jonathan Wilson; Solar Bears; Fatoumata Diawara; Willis Earl Beal; Lanterns on the Lake plus many many more to be announced. Ticket on sale this Friday at 9am from Ticketmaster and usual outlets.

ghostdancer

some good stuff there, but some complete dross too, and fairly underwhelming overall tbh.

Thundercats Ho

That_Guy wrote: »

You know it's a festival and you don't have to see him yeah?

I wasn't aware of that, thanks for the tip.
Sarcasim aside, I won't be going to see him as you correctly said, and i'm sure there'll be sh1tloads of other stuff to keep me entertained

gazzer

Not a great line up at all, very underwhelmed.

Technocentral

The Cure; Sigur Rós; Grizzly Bear; Orbital;Hot Chip; The xx; Metronomy great for starters, there are always other great acts announced nearer to the time.

ghostdancer

Technocentral wrote: »

The Cure; Sigur Rós; Grizzly Bear; Orbital;Hot Chip; The xx; Metronomy great for starters, there are always other great acts announced nearer to the time.

yep, i was looking at the announcements for acts last year, and it was always the ones after the initial announcement that had most of the acts i wanted to see.
June/July/August is when things get properly interesting....

flyswatter

I'd say I'll go for The Roots alone!

Shifty11

oh no Ed Sheeran get lots of radioplay, he shouldnt be playing at EP...?
Why does the majority of people focus on the negative? There are plenty of other great acts. really looking forward to Azealia Banks.

H8GHOTI

John Digweed playing as well.

ghostdancer

Electric Picnic
You can add John Digweed to that list!

jesus, why not get guetta and tiesto too...

Ash.J.Williams

Shifty11 wrote: »

oh no Ed Sheeran get lots of radioplay, he shouldnt be playing at EP...?
Why does the majority of people focus on the negative? There are plenty of other great acts. really looking forward to Azealia Banks.

ah i'd understand regarding Ed Sheeran

Technocentral

ghostdancer wrote: »

yep, i was looking at the announcements for acts last year, and it was always the ones after the initial announcement that had most of the acts i wanted to see.
June/July/August is when things get properly interesting....

Yeah, people complain every year at this time but it always turns out great. I'm still reckoning on M83, Santigold and a few others.

hubiedubie

Shifty11 wrote: »

oh no Ed Sheeran get lots of radioplay, he shouldnt be playing at EP...?

Yes, I just don't get the - commercially successful=crap thing. He and is 'ilk' are as entitled to play at EP as any of the others. I've never heard him why should the Electric Picnic be cleansed of him?

electrobanana

Furious-Red wrote: »

Electric Picnic 2012 will look a little something like this : The Cure; Sigur Rós; Elbow; Grizzly Bear; Orbital; Christy Moore; The Roots; Hot Chip; Glen Hansard; The xx; Metronomy; The Horrors; Azealia Banks; Roots Manuva; Bell X1; Staff Benda Bilili; Milagers; Ed Sheeran; Alabama Shakes; Cranes; Little Roy; Land Lovers; Baxter Dury; Jonathan Wilson; Solar Bears; Fatoumata Diawara; Willis Earl Beal; Lanterns on the Lake plus many many more to be announced. Ticket on sale this Friday at 9am from Ticketmaster and usual outlets.

That's not a bad start..always wanted to see The Roots live so im pretty happy already not sure about Orbital again i didn't think they were that good the last time but il just give them a miss...thumbs up for The Cure,Elbow,Hot Chip and Roots Manuva

broanna_newsom

good line up, but i was really hoping to see bon iver. I wonder if they'll announce him later?

O'Doodle

No Two Door Cinema Club? Obviously playing the Phoenix Park then...

Jimmy Iovine

Brilliant to see the Roots up there. If another one or two acts came along that I like then I'd definitely consider going.

icarus86

Was really hoping for At the Drive in to be announced for this, still a decent enough lineup though considering there will be loads more announced.

Denalihighway

Ed Sheeran...dodgy in fairness. very dodgy. some good stuff though.

Don't I remember they put on James Blunt a few years back? So there is precedence for this behaviour your honour.

sporina

Sigur Ros…… aHHHHHH……. but it could be better - I really hope Bon Iver will be present also. Fingers crossed!!!

mcwhirter

Scum alert.

Won't be going this year due to oxygen not being on.

Jimmy Iovine

mcwhirter wrote: »

Scum alert.

Won't be going this year due to oxygen not being on.

Good.

ghostdancer

mcwhirter wrote: »

Scum alert.

Won't be going this year due to oxygen not being on.

can't see any scum spending €230 to see Sigur Ros or The Cure.

they'll be spending their money on Swedish House Mafia/Snoop Dogg and Snow Patrol/Florence in the Phoenix Park probably, maybe some going to Life Festival at the end of May too depending on the lineup...

H8GHOTI

EP doing their best to calm fears of a bad crowd turning up:

That type of audience will not be into a line up like ours. There will be plenty of events to keep them busy over the summer months.

Why would you spend your hard earned money to attend a festival if you have no interest in seeing any of the acts.

Do "that type of audience" care about the line-up?

Maybe they will go to other events over the summer but there's bound to be some that will want to spend a weekend camping in a field in Ireland just drinking & causing trouble.
There's already a small element of that at EP anyway. I think it could be a small bit worse this year.
But I don't think it will be totally overrun with scum. If the same crowd that has gone the last few years go again then the majority of people will be sound.
Problem is that even if only a couple of hundred extra scumbags turn up it could have an effect.
But overall I think it'll be ok.

Truth is nobody knows for sure & no matter what they say, people will probably be thinking about & talking about this issue until September.

Irish Aris

it looks like a good start to me.
1.I already have three must-see names (Cure, Sigur Ros, Orbital). . .
2. . . and a few more that I haven't seen and would like to (Hot Chip, the Roots, the XX + Glen Hansard, Bell X1, yeah, I know, it's just that I ahve recently moved to Ireland. . .)
3.and if there will be more to be announced, it will probably worth the money.

electrobanana

Scum this scum that its getting annoying the only scum i saw last year were the ones that jumped the fences and stayed in the campsites the whole time.

so if EP sort that out there's not much else you can do if someone pays for their tickets no matter who the are.

just get on with it and enjoy yourselves and if your camped beside any dodgy characters just move your tent its not that hard.

dee.

The Cure are the only band id really love to see on this years lineup. Would like to see Azealia Banks too but overall I couldn't justify paying €200+ to see two acts. Was hoping At The Drive In/Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes/Radiohead/Death From Above 1979 would be playing it.

bodhrandude

dee. wrote: »

The Cure are the only band id really love to see on this years lineup. Would like to see Azealia Banks too but overall I couldn't justify paying €200+ to see two acts. Was hoping At The Drive In/Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes/Radiohead/Death From Above 1979 would be playing it.

There is loads, loads more to be announced as yet, its not one big splurge like the Bestival announcement, the second and third announcements will be more interesting again. Im fairly happy about the Cure and Sigur Ros who I havent seen before. I missed Sigur Ros at the 2008 one as I was on dodgy pills Friday night and was sitting hiding under my sleeping bag in the tent.

sissorhands

Seriously, the majority of the people who reckon all the "scum bags" will go to it more than likely have not been to Electric Picnic before.. :L

sissorhands

dee. wrote: »

The Cure are the only band id really love to see on this years lineup. Would like to see Azealia Banks too but overall I couldn't justify paying €200+ to see two acts. Was hoping At The Drive In/Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes/Radiohead/Death From Above 1979 would be playing it.

Radiohead haven't announced the rest of their euro tour. Ed Sharpe aren't on tour/Played 2 seperate gigs at the festival last year/Aren't Death from Above playing forbidden fruit?

broanna_newsom

sissorhands wrote: »

Radiohead haven't announced the rest of their euro tour. Ed Sharpe aren't on tour/Played 2 seperate gigs at the festival last year/Aren't Death from Above playing forbidden fruit?

to be fair id say if radiohead were gonna play ep they'd have been announced today

sissorhands

broanna_newsom wrote: »

to be fair id say if radiohead were gonna play ep they'd have been announced today

The same could be said about every single UK festival that has already been announced, but nothing yet.

broanna_newsom

sissorhands wrote: »

The same could be said about every single UK festival that has already been announced, but nothing yet.

I hope you're right, they'd be amazing to see

maximoose

I'm hopeful if they aren't at EP we'll get a Malahide Castle or Marlay Park gig from them anyway.