Electric Picnic 2016 // **Discussion Only / NO Ticket Sales / Requests** //

Fatfrog

Forget Radiohead or Massive attack this is where it's at on Sunday night.......NOT!!

Amirani

Lotus Flower wrote: »

I'd sooner not go to a gig than line the pockets of a greedy tout!

I'd pay what I'd be willing to pay, makes no difference to me if someone's making money off it. Sitting at home instead as a point of principle means someone else will just get to go instead of you.

Fortunately already have my ticket...

scruff monkey

Fatfrog wrote: »

Forget Radiohead or Massive attack this is where it's at on Sunday night.......NOT!!

Oh **** that ****e

nocoverart

Fatfrog wrote: »

Forget Radiohead or Massive attack this is where it's at on Sunday night.......NOT!!

Give it a couple of years and this festival will be headlined by the likes of David Guetta, Avicii or any other manufactured sh1t "Artist"

scruff monkey

nocoverart wrote: »

Give it a couple of years and this festival will be headlined by the likes of David Guetta, Avicii or any other manufactured sh1t "Artist"

And on that day a monkey was given the death sentence for the mass murder of thousands of children atending a legal rave event. "it was for their own good", mr monkey was quoted as saying from the witness box, "best nip this sort of thing in the bud before it goes too far and becomes acceptable".

ghostdancer

nocoverart wrote: »

Give it a couple of years and this festival will be headlined by the likes of David Guetta, Avicii or any other manufactured sh1t "Artist"

Guetta is no more "manufactured" than past headliner Fatboy Slim tbf.

StickyMcGinty

PabloAndRoy wrote: »

There are currently 190 people looking for tickets on toutless.. no-one selling.

I got sorted this evening through toutless, narrowly missed a few others.

Set up a toutless thread alert, make sure you've push notifications on your phone and be ready to get in quick when you get a mail

Will work for you eventually

Fatfrog

Anyone see this story? "Test your illegal drugs" legal service provided at a UK festival.

http://www.newstalk.com/Could-Irish-festivalgoers-be-allowed-to-test-illegal-drugs-before-taking-them

nocoverart

ghostdancer wrote: »

Guetta is no more "manufactured" than past headliner Fatboy Slim tbf.

True that! Not sure who has the more punchable face out of the Two though.

PabloAndRoy

Mr.S wrote: »

You are always going to have people willing to pay over the odds for tickets just because its sold out.

Every year I know people that shell out 400+ for EP tickets and they don't bat an eyelid.

Imo, proper anti-tout measures which are fairly easy to enforce need to be introduced to reduce how many tickets are snapped up by touts. A little bit of effort will go a long way.

http://fanfairalliance.org/
Managers of artists including Arctic Monkeys, Mumford & Sons, One Direction, Little Mix, Jess Glynne, PJ Harvey, Biffy Clyro, Iron Maiden, Ed Sheeran, Chvrches and Noel Gallagher, as well as leading agents, promoters and music trade bodies sign Declaration against online ticket touting.

One Direction are gonna save us

bodhrandude

nocoverart wrote: »

True that! Not sure who has the more punchable face out of the Two though.

I would actually prefer Guetta to Calvin Harris, his set at the Euros kicked a bit of ass compared to the sh1te that Harris churns out.

snowbabe

Synode wrote: »

Was it €300 for both or 2 x €300 = €600? Because if it's the latter former I'd run a mile. No way anyone is selling them that cheap

Sorry,it was €600 for 2 tickets

nocoverart

bodhrandude wrote: »

I would actually prefer Guetta to Calvin Harris, his set at the Euros kicked a bit of ass compared to the sh1te that Harris churns out.

LOL! Very good, but you're a Richard D man at heart. What you think of the new Aphex Twin EP? Fookin loving it myself.

bodhrandude

nocoverart wrote: »

LOL! Very good, but you're a Richard D man at heart. What you think of the new Aphex Twin EP? Fookin loving it myself.

Heard bits of it, yeah very good stuff.

former total

GhostMutt30 wrote: »

new area announced?

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/electric-picnic-announces-new-hazel-wood-section-1.2733827

Some interesting stuff there, I'll definitely be going to Cathy Davey.

Chances of a "big" announcement are receding by the day.

The Nal

Sh1tload of tickets available last year the week before the event. Anyone paying silly over the odds money now is a fúcking idiot.

Synode

bodhrandude wrote: »

I would actually prefer Guetta to Calvin Harris, his set at the Euros kicked a bit of ass compared to the sh1te that Harris churns out.

I seen Guetta DJ in Ibiza last year and I swear to god I wanted to go up and punch him. He couldn't mix for shíte, kept talking absolute drivel, and the music was a big build up followed by a breakdown, rinse and repeat ad nauseam. Worst night of music I've ever been at.

At least Calvin Harris has some decent tunes. Most of Guetta's are pants

PabloAndRoy

bodhrandude wrote: »

I would actually prefer Guetta to Calvin Harris, his set at the Euros kicked a bit of ass compared to the sh1te that Harris churns out.

Personally I thought it was the most godawful piece on cringeworthy nonsense imaginable.

drunkmonkey

Synode wrote: »

I seen Guetta DJ in Ibiza last year and I swear to god I wanted to go up and punch him. He couldn't mix for shíte, kept talking absolute drivel, and the music was a big build up followed by a breakdown, rinse and repeat ad nauseam. Worst night of music I've ever been at.

At least Calvin Harris has some decent tunes. Most of Guetta's are pants

I was about to go see him in a few weeks in the rocks, wanted to see a big name while I was there, Example is around might just go see him instead.

Easy Rod

The Nal wrote: »

Sh1tload of tickets available last year the week before the event. Anyone paying silly over the odds money now is a fúcking idiot.

Not really. Value is a relative term, if someone thinks it's worth paying and can afford it, I don't think that makes them 'a fúcking idiot'. I'm all for the whole 'no touting' thing but people can do what they want with their money.

PabloAndRoy

Easy Rod wrote: »

Not really. Value is a relative term, if someone thinks it's worth paying and can afford it, I don't think that makes them 'a fúcking idiot'. I'm all for the whole 'no touting' thing but people can do what they want with their money.

Former Economics student?

roll

can we please stop talking about david guetta and calvin harris? please?!

PabloAndRoy

roll wrote: »

can we please stop talking about david guetta and calvin harris? please?!

This is how to invoke the Streisand effect.

PabloAndRoy

drunkmonkey

roll wrote: »

can we please stop talking about david guetta and calvin harris? please?!

Word is AfroJack or Hardwell might be making an appearance at picnic yet. Yup, Yup!!

Thundercats Ho

PabloAndRoy wrote: »

PabloAndRoy

in that gif, is Guetta DJ-ing ? or ... is he making love to you?

creepy .. yuk!

The Nal

Easy Rod wrote: »

Not really. Value is a relative term, if someone thinks it's worth paying and can afford it, I don't think that makes them 'a fúcking idiot'. I'm all for the whole 'no touting' thing but people can do what they want with their money.

Course they can but buying now for well over the odds feeds the touts. The knock on effect is that touts will continue to buy as many tickets as possible for events that they know will sell well/sell out (like The Picnic) and knock them out for silly money.

So genuine gig goers have less chance of getting a tickets first time out and end up paying more.

Maybe I should rephrase it so. "selfish fúcking idiots"

PabloAndRoy

The Nal wrote: »

Course they can but buying now for well over the odds feeds the touts. The knock on effect is that touts will continue to buy as many tickets as possible for events that they know will sell well/sell out (like The Picnic) and knock them out for silly money.

So genuine gig goers have less chance of getting a tickets first time out and end up paying more.

Maybe I should rephrase it so. "selfish fúcking idiots"

But you forget that only a minority of people actually care.. most people accept market economics as part of the world they live in. Supply & demand and all that.

I care.. you care .. most people don't.

It will never happen that people won't pay the market value of goods they desire in the hope that demand drops.

Forgive me if I am not using the correct economics nomenclature.

drunkmonkey

The Nal wrote: »

Course they can but buying now for well over the odds feeds the touts. The knock on effect is that touts will continue to buy as many tickets as possible for events that they know will sell well/sell out (like The Picnic) and knock them out for silly money.

So genuine gig goers have less chance of getting a tickets first time out and end up paying more.

Maybe I should rephrase it so. "selfish fúcking idiots"

I think you've touts but there's also a serious lack of tickets with no big gig like oxygen happening, even with 70,000 tickets it would have probably sold out.

There was plenty of time for people to get tickets and instalment plans as well, what's happening now is capatilism not necessarly touts driving up the prices. If anything people are idiots for not buying when they were on sale, now they got to pay what ever the market asks.

Even at 350 it's less than 1 night in the Europe hotel, not a major amount for 3 days&nights of fun.

I don't think adverts should be trying to exert control over the market rate, there a capitalists enterprise, all that happens is it goes to done deal and puts people in a more dodgy position, at least with adverts users have feedback and you've some sense of trust. It's not like they cap the prices on other products.