Electric Picnic 2013 *Discussion only. NO ticket sales/requests*

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Oh man that rain was immense it just didn't stop.... I lost my rainjacket the day before and my hat at Fever Ray... Super soaked...

I do believe I got some fried chicken on my soaking walk back to the tent though

A Brad Maddox Guy

As I said earlier in the thread, a woman came up and handed me a poncho during Massive Attack. I was very grateful!

threein99

kc66 wrote: »

I was drowned, only had a T-shirt. Made for great visuals with the horizontal rain. Horrible night in the tent after too.

Was the worse weather I have seen at a gig, it added to the atmosphere though, wasn't a massive attack fan before that but I love them now.

Somehow my tent survived that nice despite 3 of the four corner brackets being broken with wind.

nocoverart

A really baffling decision that CC and EITS were on the Main Stage and not in tents last year. Didn't check out either so can't comment on how good they were?

Toast

Explosions in the Sky were fantastic on the main stage. It really is a dice roll if the sound is going to be a horrible mess or not in the tents at EP and loud guitary bands usually get a particularly bad deal. The mess that was Dinosaur Jr still rings in my ears (Id seen them the same year in Primavera and they were amazing so it wasn't their fault).

A Brad Maddox Guy

Toast wrote: »

It really is a dice roll if the sound is going to be a horrible mess or not in the tents at EP and loud guitary bands usually get a particularly bad deal.

I've always thought the opposite and that the sound at main stage is hit and miss (for anyone other than dance acts that is). Each to their own I guess

endainoz

Anyone here listening to much chvrches lately? Really catchy synth pop stuff! Looking forward to the album when it comes out!

ghostdancer

nocoverart wrote: »

A really baffling decision that CC and EITS were on the Main Stage and not in tents last year. Didn't check out either so can't comment on how good they were?

only caught the last 2 songs of CC, and we were on the very edge of the crowd, so didn't really get into it.
friends were towards the front for the whole thing and said it was fine, but weren't particularly amazed overall (and they'd be big fans).
i'd imagine the same performance in a tent and at night, and they would have enjoyed it more...

peteeeed

nocoverart wrote: »

A really baffling decision that CC and EITS were on the Main Stage and not in tents last year. Didn't check out either so can't comment on how good they were?

well crystal castles had asked to play on main stages on that festival tour . they also played the main stage at the reading festival

budgemook

endainoz wrote: »

Anyone here listening to much chvrches lately? Really catchy synth pop stuff! Looking forward to the album when it comes out!

Ah yeah, I don't mind them. Good festival band hopefully and more than likely long forgotten by next year.

Sure aren't the majority of festival bands like that I suppose.

maximoose

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budgemook

I'm just saying a lot of new bands start to get a bit famous around festival season. They then put in decent festival performances but the following year they've often been replaced by the next breed of similar level bands.

Only the exceptional survive!

freddiemoore

Just notice on the official poster it doesn't have that typical "& many more" tag at the bottom.

I'm probably reading too much into it, but would it be safe to assume no more big name bands will be added!? With Festival Republic also in charge of the Berlin Festival the following week I was hoping to see the likes of Pet Shop Boys or even Justice who are playing Zurich same weekend, but surely they are too big an act?

Any of ye seasoned EP & festival goers know with good degree of accuracy whether the rest of the bands added be much smaller/Irish acts or Body and Soul DJ's?

Folzy

freddiemoore wrote: »

Just notice on the official poster it doesn't have that typical "& many more" tag at the bottom.

I'm probably reading too much into it, but would it be safe to assume no more big name bands will be added!? With Festival Republic also in charge of the Berlin Festival the following week I was hoping to see the likes of Pet Shop Boys or even Justice who are playing Zurich same weekend, but surely they are too big an act?

Any of ye seasoned EP & festival goers know with good degree of accuracy whether the rest of the bands added be much smaller/Irish acts or Body and Soul DJ's?

I have zero festival experience but whats on the lineup so far is barely a day of music and they will certainly need more big(ish) bands to sell the remaining tickets after they are done selling the early birds

Folzy

Can you buy more than one ticket with your code?

Sorry I know ive seen this on the thread before i just cant find it in the last few pages...

ciaranf92

Folzy wrote: »

Can you buy more than one ticket with your code?

Sorry I know ive seen this on the thread before i just cant find it in the last few pages...

Yes you can buy two per code.

mgkelly

Folzy wrote: »

I have zero festival experience but whats on the lineup so far is barely a day of music and they will certainly need more big(ish) bands to sell the remaining tickets after they are done selling the early birds

Yes, would tend to agree with this. not enough names on here. Though, in saying that, I very much doubt there'll be any very major acts. Maybe some good, middle rank ones. Happy to be proven wrong, however!
The Orb would be very nice.....!

Martin

ghostdancer

here's the announcements last year after the initial launch at the start of March:

April 19th

Patti Smith
Richard Hawley
Crystal Castles
SBTRKT
Grandaddy
Squarepusher
The Maccabees
Gavin Friday
Van Dyke Parks
Michael Kiwanuka
The Jezabels
Dublin Gospel Choir
Eagle and the Worm
In Tua Nua.

June 27th:

Wild Beasts
Grimes
Villagers
Explosions In The Sky
The Antlers
Dexys
Ben Howard
The Staves
Bombay Bicycle Club
Andy Irvine
Donal Lunny
Liam O’ Flynn
Paddy Glackin
Wallis Bird
Nell Bryden
Bellowhead
The Vaccines

July 25th - Little Big Tent:

James Murphy,
The Juan Maclean,
Pat Mahoney,
Caribou Vs. Four Tet,
Rustie,
Hudson Mohawke,
Junior Boys,
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs,
Bassnectar,
John Talabot,
Catz N Dogz,
Amine Edge,
Dj W!Ld,
Mmoths,
Le Galaxie,
Not Squares,
Ships,
White Collar Boy,
Subaltern,
Orquesta,
Lil Dave;
T3,
Hidden Agenda DJs.

August 8th:

Kimbra
Cold Specks
Of Monsters & Men
Lianne La Havas
Perfume Genius
Richie Hawtin
Mark Lanegan

Lee “Scratch Perry” & Max Romeo
God Is An Astronaut
Jeffrey Lewis
David Kitt Plays ‘The Big Romance’
Tieranniesaur
Cloud Castle Lake
Cathy Davey
Squarehead
Bats
Turn
Delorentos
The Fat Lady Sings
Kormac’s Big Band
Matador
Cranes
Katie Kim
Ham Sandwich
Cashier No 9
Dry The River
Trinity Orchestra Plays Dark Side Of The Moon
The Kanyu Tree
The Riptide Movement
The Wonder Villains
Ryan Sheridan
A Plastic Rose
Gareth Dunlop
Kid Karate
Rainy Boy Sleep

August 16th - Body and Soul:

Paul Buchanan
Andy Irvine, Donal Lunny, Liam O Flynn & Paddy Glackin aka LAPD
Junior Boys
Breton
When Saints Go Machine
Nightwave (DJ set)
Jesse Boykins lll
RocketNumberNine
Dark Dark Dark
SertOne
D E N A
The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock
Mmoths
Donal Dineen
ViperFlo
Lewis Floyd Henry
Seamus Fogarty
Orchestra of Spheres
Sunken Foal
TR One
John Hoban
Cian Finn
Mother DJs
Dirty Dubsters
REID
New Jackson

peteeeed

ghostdancer wrote: »

here's the announcements last year after the initial launch at the start of March:

April 19th


June 27th:


July 25th - Little Big Tent:


August 8th:


August 16th - Body and Soul:

good work

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It'll be grand... There's already stuff I wanna see and I was going to go regardless to be quite Ann Frank

bodhrandude

Some reviews of the Knifes shows in Germany last week, some digged it and some didn't it seems, it will be interesting to see how it transmits to the festival stage.

Rfrip

I'd be pretty heart broken to think there wasn't anyone bigger than fat boy slim on the Friday night
Saying that i always miss some good djs in electric arena cos I'm at the main stage for the last act

sdgbt

bodhrandude wrote: »

Some reviews of the Knifes shows in Germany last week, some digged it and some didn't it seems, it will be interesting to see how it transmits to the festival stage.

I love the knife and have done so for years, but I'm starting to get a tad worried now!

From the above link:

Songs seem to be intentionally ‘destroyed’, by the group leaving the stage or not moving at all (or moving very cheesy). They seem to perfectly omit every accentuation, every chance to create atmosphere. It was as if they tried to underline that everything was playback. Just real sloppy dancing. And with Karin’s & Olof’s occasionally smiles and grins it felt like a big, virtuous delivered “**** you!”.

ETA:

A few tracks later and the playful/absurd dancing started, making the playback nature of the show obvious. I did not mind at all at first, noticing the rotation of the performers as singers/drummers etc - the message was clear: there are no stars in this show - but a community of equals with one voice fighting for the same thing.

This would have been ok as one point among many - as one tool in the band's repertoire to get a message across. But as the dominant format for the majority of the concert it just left me, the people I was with and those surrounding me at the concert, rather flat. We were brought back to our circumstance at a critical remove: bodies stacked in a big hall listening to playback music while a couple of people bounced around on stage in carefully designed costumes.

dncl

Cyril Hahn confirmed today changed his cover to that on facebook delighted to see. Anyone also have any idea if Grimes will be playing this year or what the possibilitys of her being added to the lineup are was gutted i missed her last year. And I know this sounds kinda desperate does anyone have a spare code there not using or any photos i could use to get a code trying to save a bitta cash here any help would be greatly appreciated.

Rfrip

dncl wrote: »

Cyril Hahn confirmed today changed his cover to that on facebook delighted to see. Anyone also have any idea if Grimes will be playing this year or what the possibilitys of her being added to the lineup are was gutted i missed her last year. And I know this sounds kinda desperate does anyone have a spare code there not using or any photos i could use to get a code trying to save a bitta cash here any help would be greatly appreciated.

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I didn't think much of grimes last year to be honest, think I rem hearing she'd some of her stuff stolen n maybe that affected it.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

endainoz wrote: »

Anyone here listening to much chvrches lately? Really catchy synth pop stuff! Looking forward to the album when it comes out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hECvAGhMPxM

:pac:

mutley18

I have just popped out from beneath my rock today to get supplies, when were the The Knife added?!?

mgkelly

mutley18 wrote: »

I have just popped out from beneath my rock today to get supplies, when were the The Knife added?!?

Later the evening of initial announcement - when listings posted on EP website.

MrVoracious

Rfrip wrote: »

I'd be pretty heart broken to think there wasn't anyone bigger than fat boy slim on the Friday night
Saying that i always miss some good djs in electric arena cos I'm at the main stage for the last act

Emm are my bloody valentine considered big? Theyre playing on friday I think. I'd consider the festival a success if I just saw them and went straight home after!

freddiemoore

ghostdancer wrote: »

here's the announcements last year after the initial launch at the start of March:

April 19th


June 27th:


July 25th - Little Big Tent:


August 8th:


August 16th - Body and Soul:

Wow thanks for that - very incisive! So plenty of great acts added after. I know this year was already late but still optimistic that some more great acts be added.

Seeing that list also makes me lament how much I missed last year ha! First year at it and I think I focused too much on the boozing side, which I'll try to amend this year! Did get to see The Cure though which I never thought I would