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

neddynono

With the next Glastonbury announcement confirmed for mid March and EP announcement week beginning 20th March, my guess is whoever is announced for Glastonbury will also be doing EP.
This puts Ed Sheeran as a major possibility imo
Maybe whoever it is will announce Glastonbury on the Friday and the following week will say they're also doing these other festivals

I love overthinking these things 😋

scruff monkey

Depeche Mode announced the US leg of their tour, come EP time they'll be very very far away so scratch them off the wish list.

Surprised they've skipped here and they've only one proper large date in the UK on the tour.

Franz Ferdinand will be doing the rounds in yurp though so could be a likely contender.

ghostdancer

neddynono wrote: »

With the next Glastonbury announcement confirmed for mid March and EP announcement week beginning 20th March, my guess is whoever is announced for Glastonbury will also be doing EP.
This puts Ed Sheeran as a major possibility imo
Maybe whoever it is will announce Glastonbury on the Friday and the following week will say they're also doing these other festivals

I love overthinking these things 😋

pretty sure the Glastonbury announcement is only to be "in March", and the general thinking is that it will be sometime in the last week of March, with the re-sale a few days later in the first week of April.

Ed Sheeran sold out 2 nights in Croker so is much too big for EP anyway IMO.

Ferris_Bueller

scruff monkey wrote: »

Depeche Mode announced the US leg of their tour, come EP time they'll be very very far away so scratch them off the wish list.

Surprised they've skipped here and they've only one proper large date in the UK on the tour.

Franz Ferdinand will be doing the rounds in yurp though so could be a likely contender.

Damn that is a disappointment about Depeche Mode.

Al70

MS291988 wrote: »

Bloc Party anyone?

One of the Bloc Party boys told me the Trinity Ball is their only Irish gig this year

Al70

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Damn that is a disappointment about Depeche Mode.

Expect a December 3 Arena date for DM

bergipau

I see sigur ros are starting a European tour in September and no Irish dates have been listed. They headlined in ep in 2008 & 2012, I'll bet they will be playing. Possibly headlining Friday night.

BullBlackNova

bergipau wrote: »

I see sigur ros are starting a European tour in September and no Irish dates have been listed. They headlined in ep in 2008 & 2012, I'll bet they will be playing. Possibly headlining Friday night.

Below is what I said when they announced their tour. I might be wrong, but that type of show doesn't sound like it'd suit a festival.

BullBlackNova wrote: »

Sigur Ros just announced a month-long European tour for mid-September to mid-October.

No Irish date and it seems to kick off a few weeks too late for Picnic.

On their site, it says they will tour with no support for the first time ever, playing two sets broken up by an intermission. Doesn't sound suited to festivals anyway so might count them out for EP.

Disappointing if there's no Irish show at all, though.

deeks

Mumford and Sons appear to have been confirmed for Longitude. Phew!!

scruff monkey

deeks wrote: »

Mumford and Sons appear to have been confirmed for Longitude. Phew!!

Source?

maximoose

scruff monkey wrote: »

Source?

bergipau

BullBlackNova wrote: »

bergipau wrote: »

I see sigur ros are starting a European tour in September and no Irish dates have been listed. They headlined in ep in 2008 & 2012, I'll bet they will be playing. Possibly headlining Friday night.

Below is what I said when they announced their tour. I might be wrong, but that type of show doesn't sound like it'd suit a festival.

BullBlackNova wrote: »

Sigur Ros just announced a month-long European tour for mid-September to mid-October.

No Irish date and it seems to kick off a few weeks too late for Picnic.

On their site, it says they will tour with no support for the first time ever, playing two sets broken up by an intermission. Doesn't sound suited to festivals anyway so might count them out for EP.

Disappointing if there's no Irish show at all, though.

Pity I'd love to see them again. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

davywalsh7

Thank god we avoided mumfarts

Rfrip

Ive never been so delighted to see a headliner announced for a festival I'm not attending

team_actimel

davywalsh7 wrote: »

Thank god we avoided mumfarts

Ha, I like that name! I've been calling them Bumfords (in my head)

scruff monkey

Rfrip wrote: »

Ive never been so delighted to see a headliner announced for a festival I'm not attending

I'd be wary of schadenfreude on this, might mean that we get something less pleasant* than M&S



*descriptive term used as they're inoffensive, bland and a bit dull,not exactly awful, just meh

scruff monkey

184 sleeps btw Ladies and Germs.

Ferris_Bueller

One down. Now we just have to avoid Major Lazer and Kasabian!

Lotus Flower

Seathrun66 wrote: »

And they're wrong too Sadie. Many Euro fests on concrete (often on disused airfield runways), little on offer bar the music so no comedy/literature/art, often no choice of beer (eg Heineken only in Primavera & Open'er), poor food options and few get better acts than EP. It's also a hell of a lot more expensive when you factor in flights, accommodation (for some) and the Picnic is great value if you buy early. Non-Irish pals have been hugely impressed with EP and it gets regularly unfairly knocked. Time for us to defend it a little. Unless they announce the Mumfords.

It depends what you're looking for, really. Personally I care not a jot for comedy, poetry and art installations at a music festival.

bodhrandude

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

One down. Now we just have to avoid Major Lazer and Kasabian!

And the Cranberries.

scruff monkey

bodhrandude wrote: »

And the Cranberries.

oh dear jesus, i hadn't considered them


zoooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooombaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaa

fcuk

bodhrandude

I see Max Cooper is added to the Latitude line up, I hope he might make it onto the EP line up anyway seeing that he is based in Belfast.

showpony1

So looks like we will get The Weeknd? didn't expect that.
Pretty shocked by the Longitude line-up thought would have something along lines of Major Laser/Stormzy etc etc
considering the crowd that were at it were messy 16-18 year olds for the most part.

Furious-Red

showpony1 wrote: »

So looks like we will get The Weeknd? didn't expect that.
Pretty shocked by the Longitude line-up thought would have something along lines of Major Laser/Stormzy etc etc
considering the crowd that were at it were messy 16-18 year olds for the most part.

Not really when you had The National last year

ghostdancer

showpony1 wrote: »

So looks like we will get The Weeknd? didn't expect that.
Pretty shocked by the Longitude line-up thought would have something along lines of Major Laser/Stormzy etc etc
considering the crowd that were at it were messy 16-18 year olds for the most part.

???

showpony1

Furious-Red wrote: »

Not really when you had The National last year

Look at the rest of the names from longitude this year compared to the others last year - Kendrick Lamar, Major Laser etc

showpony1

ghostdancer wrote: »

???

The Weeknd must be playing some irish gig this summer, and i expected it to be longitude.

Arne_Saknussem

showpony1 wrote: »

The Weeknd must be playing some irish gig this summer, and i expected it to be longitude.

Longitude still have to make their announcement no? Are they not still in the running to be named on that?

team_actimel

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

One down. Now we just have to avoid Major Lazer and Kasabian!

I'm by no means a Kasabian fan but how come so many dislike them? Is it cos their music isn't great or the type of crowd they'd attract or both? Just curious!

davywalsh7

showpony1 wrote: »

The Weeknd must be playing some irish gig this summer, and i expected it to be longitude.

Still a strong possibility for the fri or sat at longitude I'd imagine no?