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

Never a fan. But they are glasto fixtures at this point and mad popular. Easy booking for Emily eavis.

That's barely 10% of the final line-up.

The rumoured PJ into LCD Soundsystem on the Friday will be perfect for us, and a rare visit to the Pyramid. Getting offside and down to the South East Corner as Coldplay come on is just a bonus. Only way to top this is to have Squarepusher on The Glade right after LCD Soundsystem but that merely because it's less of a walk.

Orbital doing their first two albums on The Park in that Leftfield slot from last year? You better believe I'll be there with f*cking bells on.

I am seriously getting bored sh*tless with aggy complaining across the web about literally everything festival and music related. We're the lucky ones that get to moan about it online. Some people are live-tweeting their own genocide.

That water thing sounds diabolical. I may be wrong but an Irish fest would get shut down quite quickly for that, or not even be allowed to open after safety checks.

And I fully agree re Reynolds and Pod, without them the fest would be more akin to Oxegen. I also agree re checking out fests. I wanted to check out Sziget sometime, if only for a day or two and explore Budapest the rest of the week/weekend. However it’s utterly gone to ruin and full of acts mentioned here as those we don’t want at EP. Also wish I’d gone to Exit in the old castle in Novi Sad when the likes of the Stooges, Laibach & the Beastie Boys were headlining. Now the main act is the Black-Eyed Peas.

There aren’t a huge amount of quirky festivals in mainland Europe and without sounding arrogant those that offer the most variety and make the most effort are to be found in the UK and Ireland.

Who are these magical non bland glasto headliners that are household names then??

Several of us here are pretty regular attendees though if you want advice on how to get tickets EVERY last year then look no further than @rubick and @desk tidy.

It really is the pinnacle. Tough going over 4/5 days and even harder when wet or muddy but there’s really nothing like it and I recommend going at least once.

Taylor Swift doing her own stage production. Beyonce, Depeche mode, rihanna, U2 not touring this summer. Ac/D.C. doing stadiums for millions.

Green day exclusive to IOW.

Rolling Stones probably won’t do glasto again as pay is too little.

Subjectively Dua lipa and SZA aren’t bland.

as much as people want to blame Emily eavis, if bands want bigger pay days elsewhere that’s there choice.

It was, I can't see how a festival that size and in a country with that Climate missed that, I'd say the warm water was coming out maybe 1L per minute from the 4 taps which were impossible to find, think it increased to 7/8 by the end of it. Beer only keeps you hydrated for so long, eventually had to pay out for water cans on day 3 during Squarepusher as I'm pretty sure there were no working taps over that side of the festival (half hour walk from the main arena). It was definitely a health and safety issue, I think it wouldn't be allowed here, you could say the same about the 100 or so steps between one stage people were falling on when drunk.

I really enjoyed Primavera overall. But some decisions were really hard to fathom, especially in comparison to ones here. I went to I think 11 festivals in Ireland one year, some very questionable ones (think like 'Oxogen' out of the Hardy Bucks), but still mostly had the basics correct.

I really hope B&S returns next year, as you say there are very little larger quirky festivals with variety around Europe, I really enjoyed it at it's 15k attendance era. I think with most festivals and bands, seeing them at the right time is the key, I desperately need to do Glastonbury some year. I definitely miss the EP days gone by, however still 2023 was probably my favorite years even with it being my least favorite lineup overall, it still has a lot of it's magic. Various suggestions here of De Dannan, Simple Kid and a few others really made it for me as there were plenty of really good acts I wasn't overly familiar with. I'm just terrified with us getting a lot of the names mention for this year by Fanirish, but even if, hope they can pull one great festival together overall like usual.

All of you asked for potential acts. You got ‘em.

All of the above have either played Glasto, been scheduled for Glasto or could do Glasto. And that’s only a random few off the top of my head. Several more that could have been booked and all are superior to the tosh that tops the bill for this June. You know it. I know it. Everybody knows it.

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Again magical acts that could have been booked, end of day maybe Emily eavis reached to 20 other massive acts and they all said no for whatever reason.

Glastonbury pays headliners pittance so that is always a factor.

I’ve never been to Sziget so can only rely on the reports of others. Wish I’d gone before but the lineup doesn’t appeal now. Nonetheless I’ve pals in Budapest, love the city and would happily use up free accommodation with them whilst checking out a couple of days of the fest.

Primavera has definitely worsened. Calvin Harris, Halsey and Rosalia as three of the nine main acts in 2023 confirmed that. But I’d not complain too much as they have so many superb acts over the weekend that the dross is irrelevant (see also Glasto). They also have several unexpected surprises every year that o don’t think other fests match - John Carpenter, Caetono Veloso, etc. They’re also ahead of the curve on upcoming young indie acts and I’d give it another try if the major issues are resolved. Some of the past lineups are incredible.

I also fully agree about Body & Soul/Other Voices. Never replaced nor likely to be Croi last year was excellent but that could easily have happened within the previous B&S space. The area just feels a bit empty and underused. Good to take a rest in and the larger adjacent Mindfield area works well. OVs pulled some great acts. Jerry and the SD haven’t matched that, great though they are.

He's a spoofer when it comes to the G. Dredging forum for clout.

May I be so bold as to suggest ‘a spoofer’ full stop?

He clearly has no knowledge of Glastonbury that isn’t gleaned from misinformed articles on capacity, demographics and booking. But that regrettably won’t stop the flow. 😀

You’ve also been extolling Lana of late but that’s a fair opinion.