Electric Picnic 2023 **No Ticket Sales / Requests ** - It'll be grand

Fair comment and please don't think I'm having at go at you.

EP has sold out and taken the piss for years. Other festivals have far more punter-oriented approach. EP only focussed on the corporate margins/gains. They won't release the schedule either until the days running up. All twatty craic that most of us see through. If other festivals really get it right - Beyond The Pale this year with a real sense of "we're going places" about them, we'll see how much loyalty remains in the kids EP are left to scrap with the likes of Longitude over.

Lana del ray album out 24th March and besides Glastonbury has not announced any European summer dates.

wouldn’t be shocked if she announces her proper tour announcement early in April.

rumours that she is doing a bunch of august festivals in europe.

Roskilde, Bilbao BBK, Sziget, and NOS Alive have all been drip feeding their line-ups this year. I'm not on the mailing list for the others so I can't say what they've been doing.

Longitude and EP are both ultimately controlled by Live Nation. I doubt they're scrapping with each other for audience share.

All those festivals aren’t sold out or at least weren’t sold based on early bird/Christmas release.

EP is in fortunate position of not having to announce anything to sell tickets. similar to Glastonbury in that sense.

I would be of a different view if tickets are sold then no need to drip feed. Explains why I am not in marketing business

Not sure what you mean by touring acts in that sense?

EP is nearly 100% touring acts/djs. It rarely books once off special performances/commissions.

His website says he is in Chicago the Friday of EP. Take what you want from that. Very unlikely imo

52 acts were announced in the March announcement last year. Given that 11 have already been announced for this year, probably expect another 30 -40 acts in the April announcement.

from my own memories of attending EP launch parties in Pod/crawdaddy the line up has always been launched in either March or April. it’s just it’s tradition at this point.

At least once before they announced a few acts before Christmas with the early bird ticket release.

Yeah 2014 Xmas Jon Hopkins and Belle & Sebastian were announced for the 2015 edition.

Use to be free food and booze in Pod/crawdaddy complex.

recent ones been a few drink tokens etc

🤣 How bitter is this fella? Did an EP organiser steal your wife? Calm yourself.

That was great entertainment reading through the last few days folks!! And fair play Fanirish, a logical & obv informed answer to each poser thrown at you!

I’m happy enough to wait til next month, good things come to those who wait (apparently!)

Anyone going to Forest Fest, deadly little line up for that! The boards for it is like a morgue!

I'm going to FF (first time). In my opinion a great line up (for my vintage).

Acts that are currently touring and have upcoming Irish dates as per the conversation. You’ve implied delays in announcing certain acts due to imminent gigs.

We all know about Bicep but I can’t think of many acts playing this month that will be returning to EP thus necessitating an announcement delay until April. As before it’s extremely rare that this happens and I can’t see 2023 being any different.

i said it’s an industry practice/in contracts that acts aren’t announced for festivals until any headline shows have either happened or sold out. Don’t want to cannibalise sales.

never Said that EP announcement was moved to April from regular March timing due to a specific act having an upcoming show. People here made a guess weeks ago that any announcement would be after bicep tonight as they are probably likely.

realistically could be multiple of these possible factors: it’s already sold out, they have announced 11 acts already so they’ve given customers “something”, maybe big international act has embargoed their tour announcement till April, acts have shows in March, maybe there is a new sponsor coming on board and contracts/marketing material etc weren’t in place for March announcement. Maybe marketing team decided to change things with announcing those headline acts early and rest a bit later than norm.