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

Pulp haven’t even sold st Anne’s park as their long waited reunion show here, can’t sell 10,000. All the others have sold out multiple 3 arenas or wouid (Fred again).

it’s likely Ava max as second headliner for Sunday

Pulp tour ends nearly two months before EP, limited to no chance of them being second Sunday headliner.

The others, Foals, wet leg and YYY’s aren’t headliner level.

they may well be announced for next tier of acts.

Nailed it. On both counts.

Also, you two should just get a room and figure out your unresolved feelings for each other.

I think I'm going to pull the trigger on EOTR. I've spent the day trawling through that lineup on a superficial level and what a day I've had. Not a word of a lie, there are 60 acts I'd happily watch on that list, most of whom I'd never heard of before. I haven't had a day's homework like that for EP in a long time. I feel those days of convincing myself that 8 or 9 acts on a lineup, 5 of whom I've seen before, is enough are gone. I'm not posting this to dump on EP, I have absolutely loved it and spent a decade telling people how brilliant it is but there are people like us out there still trying to do festivals right.

The debate on acts and demographic is tiring, but I have align with seathrun66!

Does anyone for a second actually think this festival sold out on the 2019/22/23 lineup! Of course not, it’s sold out from a slow, solid build up that’s taken a decade and more, repeatable performance spread across multiple demographic and genres ‘ word of mouth’ from pleased punters has spread through families, schools and work places, 600,000+ tickets sold 04’ current day, it’s touched so many people who have attended or seen loved ones heading off for the weekend, followed by SO Me coverage the odd bit of tv or radio, fomo and envy has spread through all walks of life. This hype and reputation gives EP it’s ticket demand.

Those on here long enough remember a time when Qxegen and EP ran in parallel. If you had to bet on which one would survive, most would have favoured Oxegen, large capacity and stellar lineups, but eventually pigeon holed into one off putting category; pissed up, puking, tent burning 18/19 year old post leaving certs.

Sure you can focus on here and now and say that X demographic only needs Y but this is a fairly risky strategy ultimately over reliant on a fickle 18-24 year old audience.

Well said Fatfrog, its constantly exasperation from me with the way the Picnic has changed, why change such a successful model so much. I really hope like Seath said that Bicep are in the later announcement. The festival built up that reputation of having a barnstorming electronic act over the weekend that gave Electric Picnic its name, so hopefully that might still happen. Most of the festivals seemed to have dropped the reggae act in Sunday afternoon or evening, including Body&Soul who have hosted the Congos and Max Romeo in the past. Last Sunday reggae act I remember was the Wailers at ATN 2019 and has been discontinued since.

Wise, I think, you can plan the trip knowing what you’re going to be watching. Feel free to check in here in August while we’re still speculating.

Wilco alone make the trip worth it. And a big recommendation are Congolese crew Kokoko! Superb live and not to be confused with Kokoroko who are also there. Enjoy.

Enjoy it, line up is very solid. Recommend catching Moin

I think we’ll get another dozen or more acts worth seeing, but mostly those decent young Irish acts you can see in your hometown twice a year. There’s probably nothing to come to make you regret your decision.

I caught Kokoko! At Pohoda (Slovakia) four years ago. The sounds they make are a bit special and they’ll have a decent crowd as BBC6 used to plug them a lot. Very envious.

At what precise point in terms of attendance is a festival in ireland to pivot / pander to pop and kids? Is it 50k? 60k?

Why is 70k so much different to 32k? To me you put on a good line up. They did this with the 2020 announcement. Since then not so much.

Panda Bear & Sonic Boom the must see for me. Kokoko!, KG&TLW, The Murlocs, Deerhoof, Allah Las, Bar Italia (in Workmans in Sept.), 75 Dollar Bill, Ulrika Spacek, Horse Lords, Madmadmad, The Courettes, Teke Teke, Big Brave, Divide & Dissolve all goers for my ears.

@Dreamweapon @Stillill42 our taste in music v similar gents.

Bar Italia are brilliant.

Ah man, I’d love it but starts on the day my kids return to school. EP a hard sell, but a trip to England….

Will undoubtedly cross paths with you, @rubick, @Mucker46 and others in the next six months.