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

I'd say their policy of not announcing the acts wasn't working for ticket sales based in the number of comms sent out over last week.

Wasn't particularly clever, given they have a strong line up (not sure it's worth €250).

I love Mogwai but based on EP experience, don't put them on a Sunday after 3 days of partying and your head is already melted!

The old Marketing, what?

Throw in the Zutons and Darkness for an evening slot. Wouldn't say no to the futureheads either.

Zutons playing night and day a few weeks later so think unlikely to play EP as well but I could be completely wrong. Would be happy to see charlatans and Ash two gigs missed due to Covid

You forget we're coming out of a pandemic, there's a busy thread in Gigs and Events called Cancelled Gigs, lots of artists still cancelling at the moment, half the US acts are not touring so the pool of available bands and acts is going to be small at the moment. The likes of Primavera and Mad Cool in Spain get help from the government with grants. Not so much over here and you will probably see it over time that these Spanish festivals will get cancellations as that malcontent covid still seems to be hanging around in street corners lol. It will take a while for Irish and UK festivals to pick up back to 2019 standards. Glastonbury is always going to have the top hand as they are business partners with the BBC which is guaranteed coverage for a lot of acts.

We've been off-topic since February 2020.

It's primarily an EP thread with loads of other Irish gigging info. Works well.

Absolutely. There are very few impressive lineups this Summer and there's lots of crap on the EP poster. However there's more than enough good stuff already and much more to come. If the weather is half-decent we've got an epic weekend ahead.

Well of course, Dreamweapon and the post EP reviews will give plenty of airtime to the ways they've messed up this year. My entirely selfish take is always focused on what's in it for me and I've yet to be let down. This year's about reestablishing the event and I'd be prepared to make some allowances but if the initial announcement is anything to go by, I don't think I'll have to. The onus on festival republic is the event, not just the acts and I'm really looking forward to seeing what the new incarnation of the beloved Body and Soul area looks like, what Jerry makes of his new domaine, how they shake the Terminus area up....the list goes on. My mate paid 120 yoyos to watch the rugby the other week. I dare anyone to tell me I'm not getting value for my 170 bucks in September. But yeah, you're right, standards are important.

That's all true. Fair points. I think we're all on the same side of the argument.

The loss of body&soul was a big turn in that direction. Not a bad thing. But its a commercial beast now

Get. Them. Booked!

Another way I used to work out possible tours, gigs and possible inclusions to festivals was looking up the website Metacritic, they have a section called upcoming Album Releases which would have album release dates of albums over the next few months. Depending how busy the band is at touring, its usually anything from a few months to six months that they might go out on the road to promote it, so I'll give you a bunch of releases and you can do some guesstimating. :)

April 1st

Pillow Queens

April 8th

Father John Misty - Chloe and the next 20th Century.

Health - DISCO4 Part II

Jack White - Fear of the Dawn

Kate Tempest - The Line is a Curve

Wet Leg - Wet Leg

15th April

Cancer Bats - Psychic Jailbreak

Kurt Vile - (Watch my moves)

22nd April

Fontaines DC - Skinty Fla

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Omnium Gatherum

29th April

Bloc Party - Alpha Games

Girlpool - Forgiveness

6th May

!!![Chik Chik Chik] - Let it be Blue

Arcade Fire - WE

Belle and Sebastian - A Bit of Previous

Warpaint - Radiate Like This

13th May

Kevin Morby - This is a Photograph

Moderat - MORE D4TA

Black Keys - Dropout Boogie

Everything Everything - Raw Data Feel

Flume - Palaces

SOAK - If I Never know you like this again

Zola Jesus - Arkhon

3rd June

Angel Olsen - Big Time

GWAR - The New Dark Ages

17th June

Foals - Life Is Yours

Hercules & the Love Affair - In Amber

Perfume Genius - Ugly Season

Just a wee teaser of some of the up and coming releases.

AltJ had a new album out in Feb, playing 3 Olympia in May, there's a big gap in thier tour July to Nov.

Do you not mean Friday Fatfrog, the Cosby and Rankin Woods is open on Sunday evening, Friday usually these tents are shut apart from when Jenny Greene and orchestra were in Rankins.

Edit: Aaah I see what you mean, if it was your choice you'd prefer to open in these places, sometimes acts have to do that though, remember poor Squarepusher playing to a few hundred in the vast Electric Arena in 2012.