Electric Picnic 2017 **Discussion Only // No Ticket Sales**

Tago Mago

Poorside wrote: »

Had a Bowie thing there late on the Saturday night which was great.

Caught that myself on the way back to Pink Moon from the Woods.

bodhrandude

What was Electric Picnic 2017 on page two of gigs and events for, I have never seen the like, please don't let this happen again.

scruff monkey

Shush you.... disturbin the peace...

58 sleeps

siblers

Furious-Red wrote: »

Would be happy to see these lads get added (i know they are doing the Muse/Biffy gig)

They are the kind of band that should be added to EP and more bands of this genre should be added, but over the last few EPs it seems that Aiken Promotions are moving away from indie/rock bands

Rigor Mortis

bodhrandude wrote: »

What was Electric Picnic 2017 on page two of gigs and events for, I have never seen the like, please don't let this happen again.

I'll fix this.

So, that E-Lites Stage is the biz. We need more of that and less of this s@@te talk about leftfield and lcd soundsystem.

Poorside

Rigor Mortis wrote: »

I'll fix this.

So, that E-Lites Stage is the biz. We need more of that and less of this s@@te talk about leftfield and lcd soundsystem.

Nah, cocktail cocktail was the place to be seen.

Lzmunky

Poorside wrote: »

Nah, cocktail cocktail was the place to be seen.

The fun fair is the spot lads, stop kidding yourselves

scruff monkey

Poorside wrote: »

Nah, cocktail cocktail was the place to be seen.

through a sniper scope....

bennyineire

I wonder what the chances are of Imagine Dragons been added in the next announcement (yeah I know ZERO) but the are free around that date.
It would need an act of this stature to save face at this stage I think, otherwise tickets certainly will not sell out by spring next year I don't think

Lzmunky

bennyineire wrote: »

I wonder what the chances are of Imagine Dragons been added in the next announcement (yeah I know ZERO) but the are free around that date.
It would need an act of this stature to save face at this stage I think, otherwise tickets certainly will not sell out by spring next year I don't think

I'm enjoying the line up so far, hopefully it'll clear out a lot of the riff raff and 2FM heads.

team_actimel

bennyineire wrote: »

I wonder what the chances are of Imagine Dragons been added in the next announcement (yeah I know ZERO) but the are free around that date.
It would need an act of this stature to save face at this stage I think, otherwise tickets certainly will not sell out by spring next year I don't think

They have no European dates scheduled for after 23rd July so looks unlikely but you never know.

ghostdancer

bennyineire wrote: »

I wonder what the chances are of Imagine Dragons been added in the next announcement (yeah I know ZERO) but the are free around that date.
It would need an act of this stature to save face at this stage I think, otherwise tickets certainly will not sell out by spring next year I don't think

to save face with who? 14 year olds?
the more Imagine Dragons fans EP keeps away, the better.

scruff monkey

Lzmunky wrote: »

I'm enjoying the line up so far, hopefully it'll clear out a lot of the riff raff and 2FM heads.

riff raff and 2FM heads have just as much right to be there, they pay for tickets too.

MJohnston

scruff monkey wrote: »

riff raff and 2FM heads have just as much right to be there, they pay for tickets too.

Yeah, but what this post presupposes is - What if they didn't?

bennyineire

ghostdancer wrote: »

to save face with who? 14 year olds?
the more Imagine Dragons fans EP keeps away, the better.

Wow, so what your saying is Imagine Dragons are too POP for EP, Jayuz some peps are a bit to far up their own posterior here.

Next we'll be saying the the tour de picnic should only be permitted if you can only use a fixie bike

scruff monkey

MJohnston wrote: »

Yeah, but what this post presupposes is - What if they didn't?

I suppose some sort of captcha (or gotcha) on the ticketbastard purchase page might do the trick.

Q: Do you like Ed Sheeran [Yes / No]

If Q=Y
Then Do "Computer Says No... cough"
Otherwise "Fleece Customer"
Endif

MJohnston

bennyineire wrote: »

Wow, so what your saying is Imagine Dragons are too POP for EP, Jayuz some peps are a bit to far up their own posterior here.

Next we'll be saying the the tour de picnic should only be permitted if you can only use a fixie bike

Nah EP has always booked plenty of pop music, it just has to be good pop music!

Lzmunky

scruff monkey wrote: »

riff raff and 2FM heads have just as much right to be there, they pay for tickets too.

While that is true, youbcant deny it's gotten a lot messier the last few years.

Former Former

Lzmunky wrote: »

While that is true, youbcant deny it's gotten a lot messier the last few years.

It's got more crowded. I don't think the type of people coming has changed, there are just more of them.

The main thing that changes is you. When I went to my first EP, I was 25, went hard-core for three days solid and thought my mate bringing his guitar was a great call. Now I'm shoving on for 40 and think booking into a local b&b is the only way to do it. That's not EP's fault.

Stillill42

bennyineire wrote: »

I wonder what the chances are of Imagine Dragons been added in the next announcement (yeah I know ZERO) but the are free around that date.
It would need an act of this stature to save face at this stage I think, otherwise tickets certainly will not sell out by spring next year I don't think

While I understand where you're coming from with the heads up their arses comment, Benny, I think it's the idea that EP will only 'save face' with the announcement of an 'Imagine Dragons' type act that gets on some peoples tits. I think it's probably just as ignorant to write off the 20 odd acts that I like the sound of on the current line-up without giving them a listen as it is to dismiss Imagine Dragons as annoying fluff. Live and let live is my motto.

Arne_Saknussem

Former Former wrote: »

It's got more crowded. I don't think the type of people coming has changed, there are just more of them.

The main thing that changes is you. When I went to my first EP, I was 25, went hard-core for three days solid and thought my mate bringing his guitar was a great call. Now I'm shoving on for 40 and think booking into a local b&b is the only way to do it. That's not EP's fault.

I camped where Hendrix is now for the first 7-8 years of the festival, left money & other things in my tent that i wouldn't dream of leaving in it now and i'm in Eco every year. I wouldn't camp in Hendrix now.

There wasn't people ransacking tents & pissing and ****ting on peoples tents back then. That's only developed in the last 6-7 years from what i see, especially since Oxegen went tits up.

Most of the crowd are still dead on, but to say crowd is exactly the same as is was is plain wrong. Go back through all the threads on here for years 2005-2010 and you'll see all the comments about how the crowds at Oxegen & EP were night and day from people who'd just been to EP for the first time. A percentage of the old undesirable Oxegen crowd has spilled over to EP, there's definitely an difference.

bodhrandude

Does EP take a clubcard

roll

Former Former wrote: »

and thought my mate bringing his guitar was a great call..

Love it!

Former Former

Arne_Saknussem wrote: »

I camped where Hendrix is now for the first 7-8 years of the festival, left money & other things in my tent that i wouldn't dream of leaving in it now and i'm in Eco every year. I wouldn't camp in Hendrix now.

There wasn't people ransacking tents & pissing and ****ting on peoples tents back then. That's only developed in the last 6-7 years from what i see, especially since Oxegen went tits up.

Most of the crowd are still dead on, but to say crowd is exactly the same as is was is plain wrong. Go back through all the threads on here for years 2005-2010 and you'll see all the comments about how the crowds at Oxegen & EP were night and day from people who'd just been to EP for the first time. A percentage of the old undesirable Oxegen crowd has spilled over to EP, there's definitely an difference.

There's just more people. More undesirables. More hipsters. More bored kids collecting cups. More girls in 300 euro wellies. More of everyone.

You're comparing a festival with 20,000 people to one with 50,000, of course there is more shenanigans. And of course, what else has happened in the last 6-7 years? You got 6-7 years older.

To summarise:

TherapyBoy

We have camped in the same spot for years, pretty much on the line between Warhol & Hendrix and we've never had any problems, no thefts from tents or any random pukers/pissers/****ters. No doubt these things do happen occasionally but it's not the complete end-of-the-world scenario people talk about, most people get on fine in whatever campsite they choose. Having a chat & a beer with the neighbours first thing on the Friday normally sets the tone.

Having said all that we're in Pink Moon this year for the first time, the thought of camping somewhere new terrifies me but the girls talked us into it! :pac:

Arne_Saknussem

Former Former wrote: »

There's just more people. More undesirables. More hipsters. More bored kids collecting cups. More girls in 300 euro wellies. More of everyone.

You're comparing a festival with 20,000 people to one with 50,000, of course there is more shenanigans. And of course, what else has happened in the last 6-7 years? You got 6-7 years older.

To summarise:

I'm comparing a festival in 2008/9 to a festival of the same size more or less in 2011/12. There was a notable shift, and i wasn't 6/7 years older nor did i say it was a younger crowd causing the issues. Just a different crowd. And yes this was obviously multiplied when numbers swelled.

To say the crowd was exactly the same in 2012 as in 2005? Again you're wrong, Simpson's meme or no Simpson's meme.

kg703

Arne_Saknussem wrote: »

To say the crowd was exactly the same in 2012 as in 2005? Again you're wrong, Simpson's meme or no Simpson's meme.

I don't know, the Simpsons meme sold me

everlast75

kg703 wrote: »

I don't know, the Simpsons meme sold me

Lzmunky

Former Former wrote: »

It's got more crowded. I don't think the type of people coming has changed, there are just more of them.

The main thing that changes is you. When I went to my first EP, I was 25, went hard-core for three days solid and thought my mate bringing his guitar was a great call. Now I'm shoving on for 40 and think booking into a local b&b is the only way to do it. That's not EP's fault.

I appreciate that it's not as easy as it used to be.. more than most! But I found the campsite pretty rough the last few years, you'd hear of more tents being robbed etc.

homosapien91

Missed out on Pink Moon this year and was absolutely dreading the thoughts of staying in the 'normal' campsites, thankfully got spot in Eco camping which I've heard is grand