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Electric Picnic 2021 - Cancelled :( **No Ticket Sales / Requests **

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    #1022
    Stillill42
    Registered Users Posts: 3,693 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    In unrelated news, the teenagers are getting their **** together.

    https://youtu.be/4MfG80SID6I


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    #1023
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    Stillill42 wrote: »
    In unrelated news, the teenagers are getting their **** together.

    https://youtu.be/4MfG80SID6I

    Interesting but strange movie. It looks a bit like something written by an English Smiths fan but wasnt picked up by UK media, so he sold it to a US company and they santisied it of humour and context.

    Im going to wait for the US remake of Quadrophenia.

    Edit: though after some further research, based on a true story! Well I never


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    #1024
    Stillill42
    Registered Users Posts: 3,693 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    johnnyskeleton wrote: »
    Interesting but strange movie. It looks a bit like something written by an English Smiths fan but wasnt picked up by UK media, so he sold it to a US company and they santisied it of humour and context.

    Im going to wait for the US remake of Quadrophenia
    Bizarre alright. I'm getting it up on Google Classroom. The kids kind of movie with my music. It'll be a portal to a better life for them.


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    #1025
    rubick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,749 ✭✭✭rubick


    Stillill42 wrote: »
    Bizarre alright. I'm getting it up on Google Classroom. The kids kind of movie with my music. It'll be a portal to a better life for them.

    Called it! :)


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    #1026
    Stillill42
    Registered Users Posts: 3,693 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    In the absence of the usual feverish EP line up speculation, it's good to have talk of music back on the national airwaves with the Choice awards and the return of Other Voices. Most of the Choice shortlist are EP alumni, although Fontaines and Roisín are the only ones I've actually seen there, Silverbacks maybe? 2019? I'll have to listen to a few of the albums. Great to see Pillow Queens getting such good press.He didn't make the shortlist but just listened to Joe Chester's album this morning. I only know him as the guitarist with A Lazarus Soul, but he has a lovely little album out too.

    Even the remotest hint of a possibility of EP this year might make me try harder to listen to new music rather than reaching for the old reliables.


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    #1027
    Seathrun66
    Registered Users Posts: 8,630 ✭✭✭Seathrun66


    rubick wrote: »
    Never seen the Arab Strap but did see Malcolm Middleton back in 2009 in the Black Box, Belfast when he was touring Waxing Gibbous. Introduced himself by stating that he "wasn't a miserabalist" before kicking into a rake of tunes I'd never heard before. Was a great gig!

    The band are great live. Moffat is decent live in his many incarnations and Middleton pretty decent too. Felt very sorry for him when he last came to Galway. A Sunday night in January two years ago and only 11/12 in the audience but he put on a real effort. He schedule the same show in the Róisín tomorrrow and he'd have thousands outside itching for tunes and pints. Speaking of which we all went up afterwards and bought him beer. A very chatty and decent guy but I'd prefer to see him making money in front of 1,500 people at Vicar St than being ignored on the west coast.

    The album gets better with every listen.


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    #1028
    Seathrun66
    Registered Users Posts: 8,630 ✭✭✭Seathrun66


    Stillill42 wrote: »
    In unrelated news, the teenagers are getting their **** together.

    https://youtu.be/4MfG80SID6I

    Love it already. Great cast too, the kid from Boyhood, Will Poulter, Thomas Sangster and some others. Fair chance the soundtrack will pass muster also.


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    #1029
    Stillill42
    Registered Users Posts: 3,693 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    Seathrun66 wrote: »
    The band are great live. Moffat is decent live in his many incarnations and Middleton pretty decent too. Felt very sorry for him when he last came to Galway. A Sunday night in January two years ago and only 11/12 in the audience but he put on a real effort. He schedule the same show in the Róisín tomorrrow and he'd have thousands outside itching for tunes and pints. Speaking of which we all went up afterwards and bought him beer. A very chatty and decent guy but I'd prefer to see him making money in front of 1,500 people at Vicar St than being ignored on the west coast.

    The album gets better with every listen.

    I'm just listening to the Arab Strap album now. Really enjoying it. Have they played Stradbally?


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    #1030
    Seathrun66
    Registered Users Posts: 8,630 ✭✭✭Seathrun66


    Stillill42 wrote: »
    I'm just listening to the Arab Strap album now. Really enjoying it. Have they played Stradbally?

    No. They were broken up from 2006 to 2016 with only a one-off gig in 2011 for a Glasgow venue's birthday celebrations. I don't think they've played Ireland since they came back but I could be wrong. I only saw them once, at Field Day in June 2017, a week before I escaped Brexit Britain. Bet they wished they could do the same.


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    #1031
    Fatfrog
    Registered Users Posts: 2,371 ✭✭✭Fatfrog


    On a positive note my 76 year old father got his first vaccine Jab today!

    My 40year old mate who now lives in NI also got a jab today. (He isnt a front line worker)


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    #1032
    Seathrun66
    Registered Users Posts: 8,630 ✭✭✭Seathrun66


    Fatfrog wrote: »
    On a positive note my 76 year old father got his first vaccine Jab today!

    My 40year old mate who now lives in NI also got a jab today. (He isnt a front line worker)

    Great to hear. All my healthcare pals, my parents in their eighties and several other elderly relatives all have at least their first jabs.

    Things are proceeding steadily. It'll hasten in April /May but what that means for us gig-wise is very hard to tell.


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    #1033
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,577 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    I'm going to be taking the vaccine myself, but fair play to Ian Brown for pulling out of the Neighbourhood Weekender festival as his way of protesting the festival's proposal to use vaccine passports for gaining entry. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56278140

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #1034
    scruff monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 5,084 ✭✭✭scruff monkey
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    No No No, no fair play to him, he's a f*****g clown for pulling that ****e.

    120,000 people are dead in the UK alone from this, one hundred and twenty thousand, keep saying that number over and over again and then start saying half a million 100 times before bedtime because that's the number in the states and russian apparently now has 400,000 excess deaths.

    Fcuck each and every one of these anti scientific ****wits who think that 2 mins of their utube and goggle research gives them the right to spout dangerous bollocks and shame on any one who promotes their crap

    There is no "fair play" here, there's death merchants and fcuking idiots and may hell fire rain down upon them.

    You don't want to get the vaccine and still want to mingle, well fcuk you and the horse you rode in on. That's just not how this works. Pandemics are potentially an existential crisis, you do not fcuk around and those that do need to be removed from popular discourse.


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    #1035
    johnnyskeleton
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    His stone roses stuff was quality, but his solo stuff leaves a lot to be desired


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    #1036
    everlast75
    Registered Users Posts: 19,551 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    johnnyskeleton wrote: »
    His stone roses stuff was quality, but his solo stuff leaves a lot to be desired

    A few exceptions to that statement


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    #1037
    Stillill42
    Registered Users Posts: 3,693 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    I'm going to be taking the vaccine myself, but fair play to Ian Brown for pulling out of the Neighbourhood Weekender festival as his way of protesting the festival's proposal to use vaccine passports for gaining entry. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56278140

    Ah BD, you're joking. Surely you of all people want this industry opened up again? What merit do you see in Ian Brown's ramblings? Of course it's people's choice to not take the vaccine but they can't have it every way..Vaccine passports of some description are a logical route to getting society up and running again. If Ian Brown is being held up as a poster boy for free choice and civil liberty, God help us all.


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    #1038
    endainoz
    Registered Users Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭endainoz


    Maybe himself and Van the man can go do a gig in Russia.

    Interesting point about the proof of vaccine thing though, looks like it could well be used. I wouldn't have any issue with proving it myself, if this will be the case for flying then it stands to reason it could be used for festivals or matches that require a ticket. The antivax loons will probably say it's against their human rights or some rubbish but will grudgingly get the jab anyways.


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    #1039
    endainoz
    Registered Users Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭endainoz


    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nme.com/news/music/festivals-2021-uk-covid-testing-vaccine-passports-line-up-chances-2894716%3famp

    Interesting article on the subject


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    #1040
    Seathrun66
    Registered Users Posts: 8,630 ✭✭✭Seathrun66


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    I'm going to be taking the vaccine myself, but fair play to Ian Brown for pulling out of the Neighbourhood Weekender festival as his way of protesting the festival's proposal to use vaccine passports for gaining entry. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56278140

    Nope, he's a moron who is spreading misinformation that will kill some of our most elderly and most vulnerable. Maybe there are some here that don't feel threatened by the virus, but self-preservation isn't the main reason for taking the vaccine. Preservation of others is.





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    #1041
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,577 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Has anyone heard of this group, Creedon was playing them the other day, a great sound. Tree Lined Streets.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #1042
    s8n
    Registered Users Posts: 3,838 ✭✭✭s8n


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Has anyone heard of this group, Creedon was playing them the other day, a great sound. Tree Lined Streets.


    Nice find


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    #1043
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,577 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Stillill42 wrote: »
    Ah BD, you're joking. Surely you of all people want this industry opened up again? What merit do you see in Ian Brown's ramblings? Of course it's people's choice to not take the vaccine but they can't have it every way..Vaccine passports of some description are a logical route to getting society up and running again. If Ian Brown is being held up as a poster boy for free choice and civil liberty, God help us all.

    No I disagree with Ian Brown, but I like a good debate sometimes and thought it would be interesting to post to see the reactions seeing that Mr Brown was on the 2020 EP lineup before the festival was cancelled. Yeah I wouldn't rate him myself, he can't sing for sh1te these days but his Stone Roses stuff was quite decent.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #1044
    endainoz
    Registered Users Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭endainoz


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    No I disagree with Ian Brown, but I like a good debate sometimes and thought it would be interesting to post to see the reactions seeing that Mr Brown was on the 2020 EP lineup before the festival was cancelled. Yeah I wouldn't rate him myself, he can't sing for sh1te these days but his Stone Roses stuff was quite decent.

    I had totally forgotten he was on the 2020 poster, suppose I just blocked it out of my mind. I like F.E.A.R. that's about it.


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    #1045
    Fatfrog
    Registered Users Posts: 2,371 ✭✭✭Fatfrog


    scruff monkey wrote: »
    No No No, no fair play to him, he's a f*****g clown for pulling that ****e.

    120,000 people are dead in the UK alone from this, one hundred and twenty thousand, keep saying that number over and over again and then start saying half a million 100 times before bedtime because that's the number in the states and russian apparently now has 400,000 excess deaths.

    Fcuck each and every one of these anti scientific ****wits who think that 2 mins of their utube and goggle research gives them the right to spout dangerous bollocks and shame on any one who promotes their crap

    There is no "fair play" here, there's death merchants and fcuking idiots and may hell fire rain down upon them.

    You don't want to get the vaccine and still want to mingle, well fcuk you and the horse you rode in on. That's just not how this works. Pandemics are potentially an existential crisis, you do not fcuk around and those that do need to be removed from popular discourse.

    Get off the fence fir f**k sake!! ;)


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    #1046
    scruff monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 5,084 ✭✭✭scruff monkey
    Snarky Snark Snark


    Fatfrog wrote: »
    Get off the fence fir f**k sake!! ;)

    No, i have a lovely arse groove worn into it now and it's very comfortable.


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    #1047
    Poorside
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    Seathrun66 wrote: »
    Nope, he's a moron who is spreading misinformation that will kill some of our most elderly and most vulnerable. Maybe there are some here that don't feel threatened by the virus, but self-preservation isn't the main reason for taking it. Preservation of others is.





    .

    Have tickets to see him since last year, postponed twice, it will be again, I'd happily take my refund now after watching the shïte he's posted over the last 12 months


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    #1048
    Seathrun66
    Registered Users Posts: 8,630 ✭✭✭Seathrun66


    Poorside wrote: »
    Have tickets to see him since last year, postponed twice, it will be again, I'd happily take my refund now after watching the shïte he's posted over the last 12 months

    Same here, I've tickets for Leisureland in May which obviously won't happen. Don't know why I bought them really as most of his solo stuff is poor and he can't sing. I guess I just wanted a few beers with pals.


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    #1049
    nc6000
    Registered Users Posts: 3,251 ✭✭✭nc6000


    Preparation for the Electric Picnic festival is underway with the event scheduled to take place as usual in the first weekend in September, the organisers have said.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/electric-picnic-to-go-ahead-unless-the-government-tells-us-otherwise-1.4503686


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    #1050
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,589 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    nc6000 wrote: »
    Preparation for the Electric Picnic festival is underway with the event scheduled to take place as usual in the first weekend in September, the organisers have said.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/electric-picnic-to-go-ahead-unless-the-government-tells-us-otherwise-1.4503686

    Fingers crossed for them :)


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    #1051
    ThunbergsAreGo
    Registered Users Posts: 10,399 ✭✭✭✭ThunbergsAreGo


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Fingers crossed for them :)

    Yeah totally would love for it to go ahead.

    And if there really is no chance, it is awful form on the government to not just come out and say it now, as they are spending money on it already.

    Gives me a teeny tiny bit of hope


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