Electric Picnic 2024 **No Ticket Sales / Requests** - Waiting in line, terrible time, over familiar

Doesn't bother me the way it seems to annoy other people.

Oh shucks /s

*Rubick has been Marked Safe from the Kings of Leon*

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I see Justin Timberlake has announced a European tour this morning in July to early Sept, mostly doing arenas. Would he be too big/ big enough to move a festival for? There's a 6 day gap in touring for him at EP, hasn't played here in years and no Dublin date.

As on Calvin Harris, he has a 4 week Ibeza residency around EP time, he is only playing once a week but doesn't have any other dates around then, hoping he just sticks to Ibeza around then, obviously possible he can fly over for EP.

Cian Finn did a great job tbh

Would love if they involved B&S in some way again but I reckon it's unlikely, I personally think their artistic touch and professionalism when dealing with performers and overall is absolutely top notch, I couldn't give them enough praise. The festival will be missed for sure, have attended every year since my first 7 or 8 years ago. I am delighted it's a "See you soon" instead of a "Bye Forever" for now. I feel sorry for the organisers and staff as all were top notch, I think its demise was more circumstances with the industry, other festivals and COVID after effects, I think if they came back with a slightly different approach, slightly different booking policy but kept it more or less the same and expanded it would boom again.

I'm of the opinion that Cian Finn is one of the most talented musicians to come out of Ireland so having him curate makes sense. I hadn't listened to a lot of his music in years just with COVID/festivals stopping, will never forget seeing him I think in 2018 at B&S for the first time, empty big huge tent early in the middle of the day, mind-blowingly good. Listened to him in the car on the way up to the festival last year and thought "Would be fantastic to see him live again wow", didn't realise he was involved at the time. I was at Fred Again at the front when I made the decision to run from halfway through the set to the Mind&Body area when I got the notification Cian was starting a secret set (although I've seen Fred about 5 times in 3 years), special moment, also seen him pop up and close out trenchtown the following night with Radikal Guru. Hope he curates the area and plays again, it was absolutely excellent I felt it was like a follow on from the B&S days with a slightly different feel. He played a lot and did a lot with B&S and their other festivals/on goings before so I wouldn't be surprised if they were giving a small helping hand in the background still.

I wouldn't say I'm a fan but I wouldn't have minded seeing Timberlake, although I don't think he's likely to be there. Definitely would rather have a pop act with a few catchy songs than one of the dreary domestic set (Gavin James, Dermot Kennedy, Picture This, etc.).

Maybe Electric Picnic should rebrand itself as Electric Dimwit, just for the auld craic. 😁

Sorry 42 I left out Chic & The Coronas.

Kings of Leon out. Doing a Marlay Park show in July.

I thought his debut album was really good. Cry Me a River and Rock Your Body are excellent pop singles and he has a few more. Given some of the recent dross he’d have been a big step up.