[Cancelled] Electric Picnic 2020 **Discussion Only // No Ticket Sales / Requests **

showpony1

Calvin Harris headlining Sziget,
looks a strong possibility now.
EP thread favourite Major Laser also annouced.

Thundercats Ho

They're both Friday. Leeds is the week before.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rage-against-the-machine-2020-headlining-tour-950346/


March 26 — El Paso, TX @ Don Haskins Center
March 28 — Las Cruces, NM @ Pan American Center
March 30 — Glendale, AZ @ Gila River Arena
April 10 — Indio, CA @ Coachella
April 17 — Indio, CA @ Coachella
April 21 — Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena
April 25 — Portland, OR @ Moda Center
April 28 — Tacoma, WA @ Tacoma Dome
May 1 — Vancouver, BC @ Pacific Coliseum at the PNE
May 3 — Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place
May 5 — Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome
May 7 — Winnipeg, MB @ Bell MTS Place
May 9 — Sioux Falls, SD @ Denny Sanford Premier Center
May 11 — Minneapolis, MN @ Target Center
May 14 — Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center
May 16 — St. Louis, MO @ Enterprise Center
May 19 — Chicago, IL @ United Center
May 23 — Boston, MA @ Boston Calling
June 19 — Dover, DE @ Firefly
July 10 — East Troy, WI @ Alpine Valley Music Theatre
July 13 — Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
July 17 — Ottawa, ON @ Ottawa Bluesfest
July 18 — Festival d’Été de Québec @ Festival d’Été de Québec
July 21 — Hamilton, ON @ FirstOntario Centre
July 23 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
July 27 — Buffalo, NY @ KeyBank Center
July 29 — Cleveland, OH @ Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse
July 31 — Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena
August 2 — Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena
August 4 — Washington DC @ Capital One Arena
August 7 — Camden, NJ @ BB&T Pavilion
August 10 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
August 11 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
August 28 — Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival
August 30 — Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
September 1 — Paris, France @ Rock En Seine Festival
September 4 — Stradbally Laois, Ireland @ Electric Picnic Festival
September 6 — Berlin, Germany @ Lollapalooza Berlin Festival
September 8 — Prague, Czech Republic @ O2 Arena
September 10 — Krakow, Poland @ Tauron Arena

PabloAndRoy

showpony1 wrote: »

Calvin Harris headlining Sziget,
looks a strong possibility now.
EP thread favourite Major Laser also annouced.

Every. Feckin. Year.

STOP!

endainoz

Snow patrol on the latitude lineup, surely they are a shoe in EP aswell? I personally wouldn't mind them on Sunday evening, easy to listen to.

Seathrun66

Wooderson wrote: »

Youre not spoiling my buzz at all - respect your opinion. My apols if I've stepped out of line.



I'd have RATM over at least a dozen headliners i've watched in Michael's field. Not having a ticket for the first time in nearly 20 years has me quite pleased with goings on in Stradbally.

No disagreement at all man. Delighted for you and others here as Rage are a huge booking and a good indication of how the main acts will go. I'd not pay €80 to see them at a standalone gig but I'll be near the front for this one. Enjoy.

rubick

Maybe the EP Booking Squad will develop a theme for the Friday and we'll have an appearance from Therapy? this year.

Seathrun66

endainoz wrote: »

Snow patrol on the latitude lineup, surely they are a shoe in EP aswell? I personally wouldn't mind them on Sunday evening, easy to listen to.

Never had a problem with Snow Patrol, Coldplay or Keane. I'd not shell out for their shows but each have a handful of very good tunes. Plenty of bland stuff too, but I've never understood the hatred for them.

And as potential headliners go we could do a lot worse as Showpony has pointed out.

scruff monkey

PabloAndRoy wrote: »

Every. Feckin. Year.

STOP!

optogirl

endainoz wrote: »

Snow patrol on the latitude lineup, surely they are a shoe in EP aswell? I personally wouldn't mind them on Sunday evening, easy to listen to.

ah jaysus - another band with the Coronavirus

Seathrun66

rubick wrote: »

Maybe the EP Booking Squad will develop a theme for the Friday and we'll have an appearance from Therapy? this year.

That's a great call. Caught them in Galway last year and they were excellent. They looked like they were really enjoying gigging still and did a lengthy set, all the usual stuff and Husker Du, Joy Division & Buzzcocks covers. Fab stuff.

And while we're at it can we finally have SLF in Stradbally?

rubick

optogirl wrote: »

ah jaysus - another band with the Coronavirus

As a Down man I'm supposed to show support for them but neh. Watery oul sh*te.

Seathrun66 wrote: »

That's a great call. Caught them in Galway last year and they were excellent. They looked like they were really enjoying still playing a did a lengthy set, all the usual stuff and Husker Du, Joy Division & Buzzcocks covers. Fab still.

And while we're at it can we finally have SLF in Stradbally?

Good god that all sounds world class!

endainoz

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Never had a problem with Snow Patrol, Coldplay or Keane. I'd not shell out for their shows but each have a handful of very good tunes. Plenty of bland stuff too, but I've never understood the hatred for them.

And as potential headliners go we could do a lot worse as Showpony has pointed out.

Same, I never had an issue with them myself. Would prefer them a hell of a lot more than so many other Irish pop acts.

Oh Therapy could be a possibility, already down to play Indiependence.

showpony1

PabloAndRoy wrote: »

Every. Feckin. Year.

STOP!

They are both at the very top of the bill of a huge Festival in Mid-august.
Probably the one year it's actually a possibility Pablo.


Hopefully they can get Foster the People from that Sziget line-up also.
There's a load from that line-up could imagine being at EP.

Mushy

Seathrun66 wrote: »

That's a great call. Caught them in Galway last year and they were excellent. They looked like they were really enjoying gigging still and did a lengthy set, all the usual stuff and Husker Du, Joy Division & Buzzcocks covers. Fab stuff.

And while we're at it can we finally have SLF in Stradbally?

They're playing the Olympia later in September. Therapy that is

PabloAndRoy

showpony1 wrote: »

They are both at the very top of the bill of a huge Festival in Mid-august.
Probably the one year it's actually a possibility Pablo.


Hopefully they can get Foster the People from that Sziget line-up also.
There's a load from that line-up could imagine being at EP.

FTFY
/s

Wooderson

Was caught short at MadCool between the two main stages and had to experience some of Snow Patrol's set. Grim. Really grim.

Rfrip

I can be funny about gigs, if snow patrol were headlining I’d have a meltdown but if they were on main stage at around half four on the Sunday I’d probably go see them!!!

keeponrockin

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Never had a problem with Snow Patrol, Coldplay or Keane. I'd not shell out for their shows but each have a handful of very good tunes. Plenty of bland stuff too, but I've never understood the hatred for them.

And as potential headliners go we could do a lot worse as Showpony has pointed out.

Even reading the word Keane makes me nauseous never mind listening to them

scruff monkey

Travis doing a few dates round picnic time

Fatfrog

Wooderson wrote: »

Was caught short at MadCool between the two main stages and had to experience some of Snow Patrol's set. Grim. Really grim.

I'd say you have just woken up after the deep sleep!!

Do snow patrol have any kind of following though? I'd argue anyone under 30 would even know them and the >30 year olds that like them probably wont be at the picnic!

Stillill42

Terms like 'Coldplay', 'Snow Patrol' and 'Keane' being thrown around in here willy nilly. Seathrun clearly drunk in charge of a keyboard. Scruff babbling about Travis. I mean what the feck is going on? Who's moderating this shambles of a thread? Lads we're mere weeks away from an actual announcement. Get your **** together.

InTheWoods123

The scale of this years lineup really needs to reflect the increase of capacity to 70k. After all if FR are planning on maintaining a sell out festival at that scale in the future they need to continuously impress with lineups especially given what’s on offer in mainland Europe...

BadTurtle

InTheWoods123 wrote: »

The scale of this years lineup really needs to reflect the increase of capacity to 70k. After all if FR are planning on maintaining a sell out festival at that scale in the future they need to continuously impress with lineups especially given what’s on offer in mainland Europe...

They will maintain it simply by booking whatever flavour of the month is in the charts at the moment and sticking them on the main stage at 7 on the saturday.
Who released that Dance Monkey ****? That'll do for them.

endainoz

BadTurtle wrote: »

They will maintain it simply by booking whatever flavour of the month is in the charts at the moment and sticking them on the main stage at 7 on the saturday.
Who released that Dance Monkey ****? That'll do for them.

Well aren't you just a ray of sunshine today?! We just got one of the best bookings in the history of the picnic and your giving out about a hypothetical pop act.

Stillill42

Turtle doing his pantomime villain stuff again. Fair play.

Paddy2012

I'm calling it that Taylor Swift will headline this year.

scruff monkey

Paddy2012 wrote: »

I'm calling it that Taylor Swift will headline this year.

Only if she does the show with Def Leppard.

BadTurtle

endainoz wrote: »

Well aren't you just a ray of sunshine today?! We just got one of the best bookings in the history of the picnic and your giving out about a hypothetical pop act.

Hardly complaining, that was a legitimate guess. It's been a very effective strategy for them the last few years to book the biggest chart sensation of the year. The last two years it just happened to be decent bookings. This year it may not. They still plonked Picture This on before the Prodigy in 2018, that's not exactly intuitive scheduling, but by booking the former they can afford to keep getting the latter. The tweets from duck faced girls and metrosexual lads about the Rage announcement at R&L wouldnt be a million miles from where EP is now, so they have to balance the genuinely great bookings with whatever it is kids are shifting to at GAA club discos these days.

BullBlackNova

New Tame Impala record out today. If I keep guessing them as headliners, it'll happen eventually, right?...

(album isn't doing much for me - definitely needs a few more listens, though. 8/10 from Pitchfork if people care about that sort of thing)

Q - what sort of slot do people think Run the Jewels will get? On before Rage as part of the package deal or will they get their own prominent spot elsewhere on another day if the weekend is free?

Just before Rage on the main stage makes the most sense to me given that they're touring together. I had the idea that Friday was the quiet day because of the shorter schedule but last year it had Billie Eilish (biggest crowd of the weekend) and the year before Kendrick Lamar, so certainly a precedent from that year at least in using a big headliner early.

Ricosruffneck

BullBlackNova wrote: »

New Tame Impala record out today. If I keep guessing them as headliners, it'll happen eventually, right?...

(album isn't doing much for me - definitely needs a few more listens, though. 8/10 from Pitchfork if people care about that sort of thing)

Q - what sort of slot do people think Run the Jewels will get? On before Rage as part of the package deal or will they get their own prominent spot elsewhere on another day if the weekend is free?

Just before Rage on the main stage makes the most sense to me given that they're touring together. I had the idea that Friday was the quiet day because of the shorter schedule but last year it had Billie Eilish (biggest crowd of the weekend) and the year before Kendrick Lamar, so certainly a precedent from that year at least in using a big headliner early.

Same stage, same day. They are touring together and will likely share production crew.