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

There have been some awful bookings at EP over the years but Wolfe Tones must be the worst by a very very long shot. This isn't Siamsa.

This is the same festival I've seen Paul Buchanan, Mavis Staples, Gil Scott Heron, Robert Plant, David Byrne, George Clinton, That Petrol Emotion at.

Wolfe Tones, christ we need to start a petition to have them decommissioned.

The faux outrage over the wolfe tones is a bit laughable to be honest. The same kind of music that 98% of the country would sing at a wedding at 3 in the morning. I didn't hear about the same outrage when Kneecap filled terminus a few years ago, funny that..

Good to see a birra consensus on 'ere for Sauron to click through.

@FrDublin hey there. Without giving too much away do you care to share any insight with the bookings this year?

Who you were looking for but perhaps fell through.

Possibility around whether there are further international band announcements and perhaps the music genre of the blurred out sub headliner.

Is there any surprises left for fans of indie/alternative music that isn't Irish based? Like an Electric arena headliner for example.

Thanks

They're trolling us with the Tones.

Also in regards to the blurred out act. I really couldn't even come close to making out any of the letters so fair play to anyone who is trying to. Only theory is that it looks like it's two words. The best guess I saw on social media was probably Fatboy Slim (who was terrible in 2013).

I would also wonder why have they included a blurred act? This is not the final poster so a new one will have to be issued. In the past whenever they have added a headliner or sub late they simply added them to the final poster (The Prodigy one that springs to mind). I reckon either a) it's an act that will be announced individually soon for whatever reason, before the next batch of acts comes out. Or b) they deliberately wanted to create a bit of mystery and show us there still is one (and only one) major act left to come.

It not outrage from me I find it hilarious I've long gone from EP. But there's far more than 2% of the country who think the wolfetones are moronic beyond belief even when hammered at a wedding at 3am. Especially amongst seasoned festival goers.

Leaving their far less forgiving interpretation of them to one side (which Kneecap have parrallels with) at best they are exactly that what you say.. the nauseating shite you hear sung started by drunkest at 3 am at a wedding, **** it petition them to play wonderwall while yer at it.

It looks like EP broke that embargo rule with the Terminus headliner 999999999 as they are also Life Festival's Saturday headliner and I don't think its sold out yet.

This a hundred times

While I not think either of them were good bookings, in fact those kinds of acts ruin the festival for me for the organisers a full tent has to equate to a good booking so definitely depends on the lens you are looking through

When do the tickets go on sale. Need to make myself scarce in case habit takes over and I buy one by mistake.

I love EP. Has been best festival for years, and I’ve defended it no end. But this line up is a complete travesty.

I’ve tried to pull down through the line up, listening on Spotify, see if anything I don’t know in the sub tiers is decent…but Christ on a bike lads. There is some amount of ‘whisper / whiny lyric depressed teenager in the bedroom’ pop in there. Like, at least 5 acts. Knock off Billie Ellish stuff, or low rent Lorde, or C-class Taylor Swift tribute. Brutal. Add that to some instantly forgettable indie, and what are essentially novelty / gimmick acts (Wolfe Tones, Rick Astley) - it makes for slim pickings.

Mind & Body was terrible last year with the B&S curating and organising. Nothing going on and just kind of soulless.

Similarly since Terminus stage was added, the level of electronic acts generally has dipped badly. Where is Adam Beyer, Jon Hopkins, Ritchie Hawtin…Bicep? It’s all heavy Techno again this year. Same as last. Zero progressive / melodic house or melodic techno. Such an unimaginative curator for that stage / area.

My group of mates (age range 35 - 50) had been holding out to see what was added. They had tickets but consensus today was to ship them on and go to Beyond the Pale. Some already going to ATN.

Sad day. Perhaps a tad melodramatic, but so deflating seeing my favourite festival (and weekend of the year) turn to garbage.

Looking again it resembles a pisstake poster. Start with a few realistic big names, sprinkle in many unknown (to me) teeny acts and for the icing add in very random artists like Rick Astley and the Wolfe Tones.

Oh what fun we’d have had commending this satirist in 2014.

I see that I now have the option to sell on the ticketmaster app.

Just waiting to hear from the crew we normally go with before hitting the sell button.

Only Fred Again that would really appeal to me but he played last year? Shocking really. And I can't see him being as good on the main stage. His vibe suits a tent a lot better.

No big techno or dance acts? Unreal.