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

EP is not the festival of ten years ago and all here seem to have accepted it, begrudgingly or not. The main attitude appears to be - let the main stage have most of the crap and give us a dozen acts to chew on. That continues and I for one am happy.

It remains a very eclectic festival and we don’t want that to change - Body and Soul main stage changing to high-class trad last year was a great move. Jerry Fish, Salty Dog, Providencia and Trailer Park again provided quirky lineups. Trenchtown remains an option in place, Terminus is a brilliant set up and in the main arena we had the likes of IDLES, Johnny Marr, Billie Eilish, Chalk, Gurriers, Murder Capital, Nia Archives, Steve Lacey, Young Fathers, etc. The feedback here last year was overwhelmingly positive, maybe the best EP in a decade. All I’d ask for is more like that but throw in more hip-hop, main stage reggae and shake it up a bit.

We’re a reasonable bunch here. We’re not asking to curate the festival but just for some edginess and continued variety.

I kinda get the negativity around the main stage stuff in here but as an EP newbie, I absolutely love the festival. I couldn't get over the scale of the place in '22 (my first) but was slightly underwhelmed by the line up. Last year, however, was amazing. I had a packed programme and only visited the mainstage twice (Jonny Marr and KKC). I'm hoping for more of the same this year.

Hey, where's the festival talk lads and lassies?

i’ve been to tinderbox it has two alternative main stages and two other small tents, they can afford to pay a headliner far more than EP. same model as rockwerchter which has enormous headliners. How many music stages does EP have? 20?

Glastonbury capacity is 210k, you should know that only way that Glastonbury can provide that many stages/tents is because of huge portion of free tickets given as payment to performers, artists etc.

the vast vast majority of artists and performers at Glastonbury are doing so for tickets only, with possibly a nominal cash fee. These are a currency for the festival bookers, that’s why they don’t sell more tickets. Cause they need them in order to have the dozens upon dozens of stages. It’s a trade off, they need to hold back the tickets cause they need them for crew and performers.

Stages like the glade, Stonebridge, downlown, icon etc up to acoustic stage the artists are playing for tickets.

we all know that Glastonbury tickets are worth weight in gold and they use that to their advantage.

Emily eavis has said she only pays 10-20% of an artists normal fee for Glasto. McCartney got about £200k to headline which is peanuts against his normal fee.

friends have played big stages at Glastonbury and said that paying for on site camping wiped out the fee and that was a good fee for Glasto. Others have solely played cause their agent/manager wanted the extra ticket. It’s such an anomaly.

the boring choices come with the greater capacity, booking an act like portishead won’t cut it in 2024 for a headliner

Great points regarding the comparative prices. With early-birds and discounts we definitely get a great deal. FR could have reneged on them over time but to their credit haven’t.

I think free-flow is definitely an advantage at the likes of ATN and smaller festivals but not at Glasto. The distances make it too much of a slog. Carting an enormous amount of alcohol to your tent is exhausting and you can’t simply nip back to your tent to get a few cans. The distances are just too much. At my last Glasto I walked an average of 28km a day. So I take the hit and buy at the bars.

FAO Microdisney fans; Documentary on BBC4 this Friday 15th at 10pm https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001x9fs

A pal worked with him for a couple of decades in London, said it was chaotic but brilliant. I’ve great memories of the Fleadhs in Finsbury Park and I wish I’d gone to the Phoenix Festival which always had great reports. Look at the dance stage alone in 1996.

Whatever about the lack of quality in the artists, the loss of the Electric throwback, body and soul and the little ranch type stage and bar are a big loss IMO

Yeah him and Maisie peters are stradbally and Belfast bound. Either Friday or Sunday headliner for him

He instigated the switch at Reading from rock to indie in 1989 with this lineup.

Spacemen 3's last ever gig. Supposed to be higher up the bill but typically they didn't confirm their appearance until it was too late!

The Aloof, Lamb, Weatherall - there is no question I would have had to be worked with here.

I attended the second day of Vince's Fleadh Mor festival in Waterford in 1993, some line up for that gig.

Holy crap!!!!!!