Electric Picnic 2019 **Discussion Only // No Ticket Sales / Requests **

red face dave

Still no King Kong Company and Le Galaxie. What's happening to the electric picnic? Saying that it is somewhat saved after today's announcement.

BullBlackNova

mimimcmc wrote: »

Was it not always 50 tickets that 3 had every year? I swear I read that somewhere a few years back...

Also, very nice Salty Dog line up will probably spend more time there this year (provided it's still outside the arena)

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it was that low. Its why it's not in Three's interest to release the info on how many - even if they have a few hundred, there's thousands of people trying to jump in here to get tickets (including the touts who see this is another chance to screw people). If Three have 50 or 500 tickets, an awful lot of people just wouldn't bother switching to their network to get their code to try get in the sale and, presumably, that's the entire point of them being involved.

Also, cracking Salty Dog line up. RSAG, Meltybrains, Pillow Queens and Nealo. All good stuff there!

Korvanica

red face dave wrote: »

Still no King Kong Company and Le Galaxie. What's happening to the electric picnic? Saying that it is somewhat saved after today's announcement.

Be very surprised if KKC didn't play. They're usually announced in august for it anyway so there's time yet. I mean who else is going to close the Salty Dog on Sunday night?

bodhrandude

Korvanica wrote: »

Be very surprised if KKC didn't play. They're usually announced in august for it anyway so there's time yet. I mean who else is going to close the Salty Dog on Sunday night?

Maybe the Mighty Stef (Now called Stefan Murphy & the Athletes of Soul), they've closed before a few times or the Touts.

scruff monkey

Korvanica wrote: »

Be very surprised if KKC didn't play. They're usually announced in august for it anyway so there's time yet. I mean who else is going to close the Salty Dog on Sunday night?

It was the lovely Cathy last year.

rubick

Have they started building the festival yet? How long does it usually take?

Stillill42

Cathy should change her name by deed poll. We all call her 'the lovely Cathy...'

She is lovely, in fairness.

In other news, Waiting for Smith is a singer. I thought These Charming Men had gone all avant garde there for a minute.

scruff monkey

rubick wrote: »

Have they started building the festival yet? How long does it usually take?

bodhrandude can answer that.

Stillill42

The Scratch sound great. Anyone seen them?

Poorside

Stillill42 wrote: »

Cathy should change her name by deed poll. We all call her 'the lovely Cathy...'

She is lovely, in fairness.

In other news, Waiting for Smith is a singer. I thought These Charming Men had gone all avant garde there for a minute.

If they don’t have him on before TCM, someone should get a kicking.

bodhrandude

scruff monkey wrote: »

bodhrandude can answer that.

Not there yet but there is probably some onsite putting the bones together of the arena, probably the first thing going up will be the 40 km of heras fencing that acts as the festivals perimeter. In a few weeks the main stage and marquees will be erected and all the little bits in-between until I arrive onsite.

red face dave

scruff monkey wrote: »

bodhrandude can answer that.

Drove by it this morning and no sign of build usually straight after the bank holiday

Korvanica

Crew will be onsite on the Tuesday after the bank holiday. Takes a whole month, then 2 or so weeks to teardown from what i remember.

bodhrandude

Yeah something like a two month preparation for the likes of Glastonbury and Sziget that seems about right for EP a month before, don't forget half the stuff from last year is still there, peripheral areas like the B&S arena.

Mucker46

bodhrandude wrote: »

Maybe a sub, sub for the main stage (7.30 PM slot or thereabouts) or a headliner for Electric Arena or Rankin Woods marquees.

Headliner electric picnic like st vincent last year i would guess

Mucker46

Great line up for salty dog. Will defo be spending time there. Looking forward to otherkin live again.

davywalsh7

I’ve agreed with a guy off toutless to buy two family camping tickets for face value but kinda worried after seeing the dodgy barcode reports. He’s on toutless 8 years so I’m sure he’s legit, but is there any way for me to check these out?

LowOdour

davywalsh7 wrote: »

I’ve agreed with a guy off toutless to buy two family camping tickets for face value but kinda worried after seeing the dodgy barcode reports. He’s on toutless 8 years so I’m sure he’s legit, but is there any way for me to check these out?

You could ask for the toutless users names he last sold tickets to. Drop them a DM, see if they had an ok experience dealing with him.should give you an idea on who you are dealing with

Mucker46

Given the announcements already plus more arena announcements jerry fish and b&s already have serious clash fear. How many sleeps scruff?

scruff monkey

36 sleeps

Poorside

Looks like slabs are on offer in Tesco and Super Valu, I imagine Dunnes will follow suit over the weekend.

Fatfrog

Poorside wrote: »

Looks like slabs are on offer in Tesco and Super Valu, I imagine Dunnes will follow suit over the weekend.

Yesh... It begins!

bodhrandude

Fatfrog wrote: »

Yesh... It begins!

Like having an electronic frapp with combustible absinthe.

Tago Mago

BaZmO* wrote: »

Yep. Can never understand the moaning after sell out gigs.

The Olympia really gets me. It has a capacity of 1,240, so at least 240 are sold in presale, leaving 1,000. Not counting tickets held back for comps, I would say that most people buy 2. So that's 500 people buying up the lot. Why are people so surprised/annoyed that they didn't get theirs in something that's essentially a lottery?

My moaning on social media re my 3Plus sale woes has maybe landed me tidings of two tickets via a sympathetic mate, so there is that aspect

Rigor Mortis

Not going to EP this year but that is a seriously good Salty Dog announcement. You've also got to reckon that the likes of Pillow Queens and Touts are going to get other outings over the weekend,

PabloAndRoy

All this talk of the Salty Dog quality announcement ignores the elephant in the room:

Is Salty Dog inside the main arena this year?

rubick

Sure they can't move 'er.
Yaaar.

PabloAndRoy

rubick wrote: »

Sure they can't move 'er.
Yaaar.

Yes, but they can move the main arena boundary. Considering that Freetown is taking over Wilde, it could well be the case.

thebusher

PabloAndRoy wrote: »

All this talk of the Salty Dog quality announcement ignores the elephant in the room:

Is Salty Dog inside the main arena this year?

I've asked EP directly twice, on FB and Twitter. Also asked Salty Dog on Twitter.

Nothing but tumbleweeds so far.

showpony1

How could they do that really its a big crossroads of routes coming from Pink moon etc.