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

Boygenius exclusive to RHK. No chance of them at EP now that’s been announced.

Much more expensive I believe.

if 20% -25% of EP ticket sales is spent on artists probably looking at €4-5m. The acts announced so far probably eat up 40% to 50% of the Artist budget gone already on 11 acts.

I always consider an act greedy when they play a standalone gig.

3 hours tops of a show and then "get out". Divil a bit of value nor the chance to see something else when they're playing filler. I'll always side with festivals over standalone gigs. Picnic will always rule supreme for this reason

Yeah, anything out the main 5 stages/tents is either sponsored stage (sponsors budget covers artists fees) or free tickets & nominal fee

Latchikos, yeah? That’s tough alright but I guess the buzz helps and free tickets for 7/8 people not bad.

More significant is the exposure. There are a few acts I’ve seen at Trailer Park and similar stages that I’ve paid to see since. Harvest are now playing big venues around the country including the Olympia in Dublin. That’s unheard of for an Irish tribute band and I think it’s greatly due to several years of big crowds at the Trailer Park leading to increased gig sales and strong word of mouth. Fair play to them, that’s an impressive ascent.

Meryl Streek/Vulpynes/Peer Pleasure in Whelans tonight. PP veering from VU chug to Cramps swing. Very much early days but a couple of songs were decent. They also brought along a group of teenage indie girls that made me feel absolutely ancient and a disgusting perv (guilty of both i guess). Vulpynes did what they do.

Meryl Streek i struggled with as it was simply one man bouncing around on stage ranting into a microphone as his album played through the p.a. At least Sleaford Mods have the decency to bring a laptop out and press play for every song. I would still recommend checking out the album, but live? Hmmm.... In saying that i expect him to appear at a festival or two this summer.

I see a lot of complaints on the Roskilde thread in Efestivals about the final lineup announcement, although the likes of Blur is playing it, it seems its went the route of Longitude and Forbidden Fruit with pop and rap acts.

And btw @Dreamweapon you may yet get your chance to see Killing Joke. Surely touring later in the year, their new single has them sounding like a band half their age.

Tumbleweed aye!

It says they was last active on March 15th. It's probably no surprise that they haven't come back after some of the bitter comments last time. The announcement should be soon though.

Yup possibly seventeen to eighteen weeks since last announcement.

I do appreciate your viewpoint here Fanirish - imo one of sanguine "lets be reasonable here folks" on every thread. I also gather youre closer to the industry than I am. So i don't want you to be discouraged by a contrary if less informed view. Ive been to 11 Picnics so think i've the festival's interests at heart.

Its reasonable to note that two of those announced as headliner have been there before and the third has played Ireland over a dozen times in the last 4 years. On here at least this small but weighty annoucement hasnt converted into months of effusive anticipation. Peeps are looking for the midcard to judge whether to go in many cases.

A cynic might suggest if they had good stuff to announce they would have already. One reason theyre holding out is the announcement is malojin. To leave annoucement late might minimise negative press/online banter/comparisons with other events and potential for peeps to take their cash elsewhere.