Electric Picnic 2022 - Here we go again! - **No Ticket Sales / Requests **

Would you rule the Pixies out based on their Galway and Iveagh Gardens gigs, lads? Surely the fact that they're across the water at the End of the Road festival that weekend gives us a chance? Nothing else booked around it either. God I'd love that, a full set of roaring my head off.

The Specials announced yesterday for Botanic Gardens, Belfast on 5th June. There's your Sunday afternoon Main Stage sorted!

A French festival no doubt trading acts with Rock en Seine on the same weekend in late August.

Victorious Festival in Portsmouth UK announced their lineup late December and have some interesting and contrasting acts to other festivals announced around the same time. Foals apparently added to the Friday headliners, so jointly headlining with the Stereophonics.

Stereophonics...

Yes!!! Especially as I missed them in December

I'd say a fair chance but won't be announced until later. A few tickets left for the two Galway gigs so if they's doing EP we'd probably not know until late July.

My turn for requests. My soundtrack this morning has been The Skids and the entire mixed and varied career of Steve Winwood. Good people at FR can we please have both in Stradbally?

I think we'll likely see Arctic Monkeys, Fontaines D.C. and (thankfully) RATM as they seem to have been rebooked for Reading & Leeds for 2022.

EDIT: and Run the Jewels, who seem to be touring with RATM.

Arctic Monkeys peaked after that wee wink from the drummer in the video for I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor, after that it was diminishing returns.

I love when The Sun Goes down, most of AM and a few other tracks but they were woeful at EP. My partner was also photographing them there and they had lots of copyright and contractual restrictions. No other act had that weekend and it left a bad taste with those working in the pit.

I'd prefer some other headliner but I'll not complain as I'd give them 30/40 mins or else catch something else on the 10/11 other stages available. We'll not be short of stuff to see.

Radiohead & Sons of Kemet. Shall we add them to the shopping list?

Our crew gave up after 30/40 mins and headed to The Knife who were excellent.

I remember the Glastonbury set they had after AM came, looked brilliant. Didn't see them that year at EP so can't comment but have seen them plenty of times at festivals and gigs over the years and I always enjoyed them. Think the first time was oxegen 2006 in the pissing rain. I love AM as an album but to be honest I haven't listened to anything they've done since. Still, I'd see them as perfectly acceptable headliner. But for me, rage will be the main event this year by a country mile.

The sugababes would be brilliant, 5.30pm on a sunday afternoon......