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

not really a factor.

I don't agree here look at his gig schedule. Copenhagen, Stockholm, Best Kept Secret - Holland, Sonar, Barcelona, Verona Italy, Field Day London, Kalorama Lisbon and Forwards Festival Bristol. These are all standalone city gigs with only Dour festival being a five day camping one.

The exact response I feared after posting. The EXACT person. 😄

The best thing is to check out one of his gigs, this is his most recent at Field Day.

The best way I could describe Aphex Twin live is a hybrid DJ set. So he had decks, and a bunch of sequencers, analog equipment, etc that he mixes together. Plays a mixture of his music and other people's too, some really good tracks mixed in back in Dublin too.

As for a draw, I think he is. If you look at FF, it had a pretty amazing lineup that year but his day he was definitely the main draw, the main stage was full. To a lot of people he's in a god tier for electronic music almost above the rest, and whether you like him or not his influence on music in general has been massive without ever really having a commercial hit besides two "sort of" semi successful songs in the 90s.

Even the year that never was blew this year's line-up out of the water. & this was only the first wave or so of announcements. I guess that's why they put the early bird tickets on sale earlier than anticipated - would ye be bothered scrambling for a ticket next year off the back of that Script announcement. We were conned. I'll make the most of this year. Please sweet Jesus let it remain dry at least.

The Script lol lol lol lol **** that. I was getting fomo but im delighted i never got tickets. 14 picnics but it went to **** 10 years ago. Melvin Benn has ruined it imo.

I think the script are unfairly bearing the brunt of everyone's frustration at the lack of quality on the line up just cos they were the blurred out act and cos everyone's expectations were pinned on this act 'saving the festival' bit unfair as I'm guessing it was done due to the personal circumstances of the band.....Niall Horan is getting off very lightly imo.

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A fairly active thread over the last few days. I guess it gives me a few things to comment on.

Looks like I was 17 days out with this comment. That was a bit unexpected. I almost didn't open the loyalty code email and having opened it I was only half reading it until I saw the 31 August expiry date and the find tickets link. I didn't notice the date change until halfway through the booking process.

While it was a bit disconcerting buying tickets for next year before this year's festival has taken place, it's not entirely inconsistent with other years. In recent years tickets have gone on sale slightly less than a year before the following years edition which is the case here given the date shift.

It was good that sales were only open to loyalty holders. Queues were short and I know someone who picked up family tickets at about 4. Although the availability of family tickets is probably more due to parents having already spent hundreds on Taylor/Coldplay tickets for their children.

I doubt the date change has anything to do with trying to put pressure on ATN. If they wanted to do that they would need to move to the bank holiday or one of the weekends either side. A two week gap is plenty of recovery time for people considering multiple festivals. People generally don't like planning big events for consecutive weekends, if they only moved one week back, in addition to clashing with Reading/Leeds, Coldplay would still be cannibalising a lot of their sales.

I'd say Festival Republic feel that their three end of summer festivals are a big enough draw for them to attract the acts they want. I suspect the date shift will only be temporary for next year. That said maybe they'll move Lollapalooza Berlin to directly compete with Superbloom and EP will stay on the new date.

The date change has scuppered the rough plan I had to go to Green Man next year. I'll have to look at my other options for UK festivals. EOTR is probably the obvious one but travel might be problematic so soon after EP.

I thought it funny watching posters complain about FR's marketing strategy around the concealed act while at the same time speculating about who it might be and feeding into that marketing strategy. I found it much easier to put it out of my mind and assume that it would be a disappointing announcement. With low enough expectations anything can be seen as a positive outcome. FR certainly got a lot more promotion value out of The Script as a hidden act than if they had been announced in the second announcement.

I not sure why people are surprised that the stage times haven't been released yet. I don't think EP have ever released them more than three days out from the festival so this year is likely to be no different. I don't recall getting more notice from any of the other large Irish festivals until this year. It just seemed to be the why things were done, maybe we'll also see a change for EP this year and if not it's something to include in your festival feedback form.

I'll leave it there for the moment as I've a few things to do before going to a gig.

I was hopeful, but not overly optimistic, that the blurred act was going to be an act that appealed to me. Not to be. Ho hum. I'm going to have a great weekend regardless. The main stage wasn't somewhere I frequented much last year and that'll be the same this year. Plenty more to see elsewhere. I'm really looking forward to it. I think part of this is due to the fact, for various reasons, last year was my first EP and I don't have the earlier EPs to compare/contrast superior line-ups.

Usually at TCM, not sure their timing works this year, and just look for a group of Minion like men.

Last year in Trailer Park. L-R Thundercats Ho, Mucker, Desk Tidy, Seathrun, yours truly, Stillill, Rubick. Kepler. Born to be Mild!