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

Just been on it bodhran still there for me.

Looks like I've been blocked by accident, what's the name of the female mod, will message her.

It was a nightmare though. Agree Nixer and naked lung have potential. Saw somebody's child at kaleidoscope a few years ago and was alright. Mango x mathman does an energetic show. Still lots to get through but a lot a sh**te in there

Man oh man. That announcement was dire. Put me in awful form yesterday. Had a listen down thru the new added acts…and there is so little there. Piddly poor pop a lot of it.…

…and I don’t accept the “out of touch” argument. Showed it to my 20 year old niece, who is into her music, and she was struggling to recognise most.

Anyway - I see this morning’s big Page 3 ad in the Irish Times has the ‘old’ line up poster, rather than the ‘new’. Includes “Plus Many More to be Announced” at the bottom. The blind optimist in me hopes that there’ll be more added, due to backlash, or holding something back or whatever?

The realist reckons they copped the King Kong Company misspelling and had to scramble to pull the ‘new’ poster. Ha ha. Good enough for them FR spin merchants.

There may be valid excuses but it is portrayed as the biggest event of the year in the Irish music calendar. It promises a lot but is not delivering, so ultimately they have failed.

Charge more if needs be to get more A or B list acts. All the acts on the bottom four paragraphs of the new poster are Whelans bands at best.

After the amazing ATN festival this announcement was like an anti-climax, I seriously hope they have trouble selling tickets next year, they need their rest assuredness to have a kick up the arse. Just look at the line ups from the mid noughties and compare, its like a completely different festival and a slap in the face to long standing regulars. Where is the Friday/Saturday after headliner dance act? Maybe they might sneak a Nile Rodgers announcement over the next week or two, a rave act or a funk act. Hopefully some of the other unannounced areas might have some interesting acts, I don't even know if Mind and Body will actually have a line up like in days of yore. But still going to work this one and review it as I'm intrigued to how it will go down come festival days.

Over the last few picnics there have been some not so great, but still very good, lineups and some great line ups but to me this feels like a shift in target audience which if it is will certainly lose me over time, and many here I would suspect. The good thing is lots of other festivals are now in place so we have options we didn't have in years gone by.

Dunno, you gotta go up to the next level for the Olympia. Glass animals have played the Olympia recently and Wolf Alice are there in two weeks.

As long as it doesn't rain everyone will probably have a good time anyway, it just means I'll spending more time away from the main stages at trailer park etc

off top of my head, bright eyes (vicar st) cmat, Denise chaila, for those that I love, James Vincent mcmorrow, Reiji snow,100 gecs, rina sawayama, saint sister, the academic have all headlined or about to headlined Olympia shows.

jeff mills did the bord Gais, 2 johnnies did 3 arena, my therapist ghosted me is doing 2 weeks in the gaiety.

as much those acts might not appeal to users here they are mid tier acts that all sell 1,500 tickets

Thank you @Stillill42 took your recommendation of Naked Lungs, will definitely check them out. Listen to the bassline on this when it kicks in.

It's not the money spent on acts, or not just that. It's the imagination put into their selection. I'm just used to being assaulted with a variety of really interesting stuff from a range of genres. That is absolutely not there this year. As a number of posters have said, it really feels like a deliberate shift in emphasis, maybe similar to the shift that Longitude made a few years ago where it used to have a range of acts before settling on a very specific demographic. We, and I include this entire thread here, whether you like it or not 😉, are being shunted out of the main arena which will certainly have a more homogeneous feel to it this year. There will still be a great festival going on in the other areas for us but just a much cheaper one. They're not cutting us loose yet, just trying to get away with hanging on to us without spending any money on the stuff we like and I'm with the rest of ye, it could be pastures new next year.

The extra 12.5k tickets at €260 adds €3.25m to the coffers. That covers a hell of a lot of increased operational costs. I think FR have scraped by in previous years. They deserve to make a profit, and a decent one, but in 2022 I believe it to be excessive.