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

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    #3092
    Stillill42
    Registered Users Posts: 3,683 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    I read it once really quickly, then several times progressively slower but I don't think I've missed anything. It still looks the same. I can't believe that. That's by a mile, by a MILE the worst I've ever seen. Give me a second here. I'm way behind everyone else. I missed something, right? Give us a minute and I'll catch up on the last few pages. I probably missed something, right?



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    #3093
    Stillill42
    Registered Users Posts: 3,683 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    Sprints, Thumper, Siilverbacks are all I'm coming up with. **** me. For a second announcement!!



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    #3094
    Stillill42
    Registered Users Posts: 3,683 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    I mean I'm a pretty positive guy but....



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    #3095
    Seathrun66
    Registered Users Posts: 8,596 ✭✭✭Seathrun66


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119464860#Comment_119464860

    Exactly the same here - those three and maybe Jams VMcM. At the country's pre-eminent festival I'm expecting decent acts that don't appear in my local pub twice a year.

    Read back through the comments. We've hit peak glumness today.



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    #3096
    Fago123
    Registered Users Posts: 173 ✭✭Fago123


    Usually with a disappointing announcement like that you take a break, do some research and come back with “actually, it’s not THAT bad”. I’ve done that. It’s actually worse than my initial gut reaction!



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    #3097
    Poorside
    Registered Users Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭Poorside


    Jerry Fish announcing Pillow queen's and either SLF or Undertones would blow today's announcement away.

    C'mon Jerry, you can do it.



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    #3098
    Stillill42
    Registered Users Posts: 3,683 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119464882#Comment_119464882

    I see that. We're like a slightly less insane Facebook page. Tonight, we mourn. Tomorrow, we speculate on the possibility of Jerry, the Salty Dog and Mind and Body pulling it out of the bag for us.



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    #3099
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,550 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Just checked out 100 GECS there, just nooooooooooo!!!!, they can feck right off, pure over the top auto tune, a load of sh1te.

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



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    #3100
    Beckett Dazzling Bobsled
    Posts: 0 ✭✭ Beckett Dazzling Bobsled


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119464860#Comment_119464860

    Exactly they are Irish and play all the time. You will see them in an Academy sized venue for about € 30 before Christmas.



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    #3101
    LowOdour
    Registered Users Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭LowOdour


    I just compared the 2019 poster and current 2022 poster, and its not pretty.

    I worry what SaltyDog, Jerry Fish will offer if this is where things are with other acts.

    Only free flow can save us now....or maybe not :-(



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    #3102
    Fatfrog
    Registered Users Posts: 2,357 ✭✭✭Fatfrog


    The Twitter-slaying is unreal!!


    I think EP are trying to bury the negativity by retweeting artists posts!!



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    #3103
    endainoz
    Registered Users Posts: 4,926 ✭✭✭endainoz


    Only one thing for it:

    6pr4zd.jpg




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    #3104
    Fatfrog
    Registered Users Posts: 2,357 ✭✭✭Fatfrog


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119464784#Comment_119464784

    Would love to see!! Only something like this could save face for EP!!



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    #3105
    SoundOfSilence
    Registered Users Posts: 382 ✭✭SoundOfSilence


    Aside from the obvious, a lot of people seem to be scanning down the lineup and finding decent Irish artists on the lineup..... which is great. But I wonder between this and the ATN lineup are the organisers ripping the punters off a little?


    When you see the quality of lineups they get on the continent.... Nos alive Mad cool etc... all international acts with a sprinkle of local acts, there's far more value for money.


    ATN seems to have been a big success this year but I can't help but be a little cynical and think the organisers are screwing us over paying top dollar prices when 85% of the acts are bands we could see from one week to the next.

    Not sure what kind of point I'm making here. I know I'm done with EP for sure and ATN the jury is out. I'll wait for the lineup.


    Someone mentioned Oxegen lineups and even in the tail end of that festival they were getting massive acts. ****, the lineups were insane. What id give to go to a festival with one of those lineups now.



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    #3106
    Mucker46
    Registered Users Posts: 1,624 ✭✭✭Mucker46


    Billie eilish, Christine and the queen's, dermot Kennedy four tet, gerry cinnamon, James Blake, jarvis coxker, jess Glynne, j hus, Johnny maher, Richard Ashcroft, Richie Hawtin, roisin Murphy, the streets, years and years

    V

    anne-Marie, Annie mac, becky Hill, fontaines dc, glass animals, London Grammar, pixies, the coronas, the kooks, wolf alice

    While i don't like all of these 2019 tier 2 smashes 2022 tier 2 even though the crowd numbers have increased.



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    #3107
    Cluner
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭Cluner


    I feel like Andy Dufresne having to wade through a river of **** to try and find something half decent in this horrific line-up.



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    #3108
    adam240610
    Registered Users Posts: 816 ✭✭✭adam240610


    I highly rate sprints for anyone looking at the poor additions



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    #3109
    Mucker46
    Registered Users Posts: 1,624 ✭✭✭Mucker46


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119465159#Comment_119465159

    Second that



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    #3110
    Mucker46
    Registered Users Posts: 1,624 ✭✭✭Mucker46


    Hermitage Green on main stage 3:15 on the Saturday you will find me elsewhere



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    #3111
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 41,498 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    What i thought would happen had happened. They will milk this 70k for as as they can, keeping costs as low as possible


    Jesus who though the coronas would be the biggest name added after that initial mediocre listing



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    #3112
    Mucker46
    Registered Users Posts: 1,624 ✭✭✭Mucker46


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119465159#Comment_119465159

    Thumper also great live



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    #3113
    jams100
    Registered Users Posts: 780 ✭✭✭jams100


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119465217#Comment_119465217

    In fairness, Becky Hill was the biggest one from the second announcement not the Coronas.

    Overall, a little annoyed they built us up for this announcement but there are more than enough good acts over the weekend for me and at the end of the day it's as much about who your going with than just the line up.

    Have to say I'm pretty excited that we're only 3 weeks away, hopefully this weather can hold up for the weekend



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    #3114
    darzog
    Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭darzog


    The five stages of grief in the space of one afternoon

    Denial: Surely to God, no. THIS is the big announcement? It’s ok, I must have missed something. Tell you what, when I get home I’ll run these through Spotify. (Gets home) OOoooooookay, this isn’t great. However…I’m bound to hear a guitar soon.


    Tick, tick


    I will hear a guitar soon, won’t I?


    Anger: Three years and this is what we get? OK. We were probably never going to get R*diohead or (The) James but this is an affront. What about the loyal folk who have attended every Picnic? The m’fkrz are blatantly catering to the pups now. We’re being taken for mugs. I’m done…

    Bargaining: OK. Let’s think about this. We’ve still got Mind & Body, Salty Dog and Jerry Fish announcements to come. Plus we’ve got Trailer Park to fall back on. Ok Guys, I’ll strike a deal with you. I’ll grudgingly accept what you’ve chucked at us if you’ll please just give us These Charming Men and/or The Roadhouse Doors at Salty Dog. Please?

    Depression: do you know what. Even if they do pull it out of the fire with the forest stages, the writing is on the wall. it’s over. They’ve won. The Daisy-chained teens rule now. The guitars have been taken out and ceremonially buried in the woods. It’s time for me to be taken out there with them Into the forest and left there Ubasute-style like an elderly relative that the family can no longer support

    Acceptance: hold on…left in the forest…jaysus, that’s where all the good stuff is! Even Jerry Fish has been kicked out into the woods. That means I never have to leave there. Ok. We can do this. We can let the childer swarm in the places I accept I can no longer pass. I will hide under canopy. I will lurk behind twisted tree-trunks and quitletly hiss as they pass…”I once was you…and you shall be me some day. Enjoy it, it goes in the blink of an eye, ya wee ballix.”

    I am now part of the forest. Here I will stay. Here I belong


    cut to now: sits in the sun. Puts on Two Sevens Clash by Culture. Has a wistful look in his eye. “This time in three weeks I’ll be in Trenchtown happy as Porky in merde. And so it goes…



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    #3115
    fafy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,240 ✭✭✭fafy


    https://twitter.com/theo_barac/status/1558096466878648321?s=21&t=8cNMFnqPmmwbXXgnPH4cEA



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    #3116
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 41,498 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119465299#Comment_119465299

    "Big" for appearing on a British TV talent show isn't exactly my metric of the hierarchy of music



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    #3117
    jams100
    Registered Users Posts: 780 ✭✭✭jams100


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119465340#Comment_119465340

    Alot of others I'd rather before her but she has 20+ million monthly listeners on Spotify, so, yea, she probably fits the definition of a big act even if you or I may not like her



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    #3118
    Seathrun66
    Registered Users Posts: 8,596 ✭✭✭Seathrun66


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119464922#Comment_119464922

    It'll help for sure - We'll have These Charming Men, the Roadhouse Doors and a few other goodies but it's an extremely lightweight lineup irrespective of what gets added. And we weren't being greedy, all we wanted was something along the lines of Squeeze/James/Jon Hopkins. The first announcement gave me a dozen good acts, and that's enough, but look at the poster now and it's pretty grim stuff. Not even a Lorde, Billie Eilish or Sigrid amongst the kid's stuff. The pop music at Glasto is good pop. The pop music at EP is pre-teen pop.



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    #3119
    Poorside
    Registered Users Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭Poorside


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119465193#Comment_119465193

    Are they really on the main stage? In fairness they've been decent when Ive seen them,once was in a castle and they were brilliant in EA when they played, not a main stage act by any measure.



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    #3120
    Seathrun66
    Registered Users Posts: 8,596 ✭✭✭Seathrun66


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119465530#Comment_119465530

    Is this some Limerick bias Poorside? I'm afraid we're going to have to ask you to hand in your Boardsies card and leave the building.



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    #3121
    Stillill42
    Registered Users Posts: 3,683 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119465159#Comment_119465159

    Yeah, lots of potential. Saw them in the Grand Social a while back, band were great, she was a force of nature for 2 thirds of it, then a sulky child for the last bit. They're young. When they're good, they're great.



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