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

Has any festival like EP ever cancelled previously after already selling tickets, with the exception of the big covid lockdowns that forced everything to cancel?

Maximo Park announced a tour with an Irish date for the autumn. Hopefully a festival run too 🤞 started listening to them again after years of not. Quality!

Just to be clear, I was aware that it's not being cancelled. I was just asking if there's any precedent for a festival to be cancelled at this stage in the process. My assumption was that there isn't, because the idea of the organisers of a festival that have done this many previous events suddenly bollocksing the whole thing up so badly and leaving everything so last minute that they have to announce a cancellation by April (for any reason, I've also heard "rumours" that they failed to get planning permission or that the local farmers have been blocking it) after everyone has already paid their installments (and therefore would have to process 70k refunds in addition to everything else) just sounds like a ludicrous proposition, and outside of covid or some similar level of extenuating circumstances it would be very hard to even imagine it happening.

I'm aware some other festivals like Body and Soul were "cancelled" but afaik, they just decided to take a year off. They didn't sell out all of their tickets and then say "oops, actually we're not doing this after all" just a few months before it was scheduled to go ahead.

Some additional names added to Rock En Seine the week after EP.

Yeah. that's always a good plan for festivals.

Yeah but I'm in with the Picnic really as I know the volunteer admin and love the build up, for me anyways its like a week event with all the concerts and raves in the weekend. Some of the separate areas of the festival have wee raves on the build up some of which the early campers on Thursday get to witness a bit. If I was doing Green Man would prefer to do the volunteering route if it came together. I've four festivals marked for working in Ireland this year, I just hoping Wild Roots announce a few crackers otherwise the current line up as it is, is not inspiring.

It's a real shame, the location is outstandingly beautiful, and the people working at it and attending seemed very sound when I was there the first year, 2022. Was definitely keen to go again but the offerings as regards line-ups have remained very poor since so decided not to go last year or this year. Maybe one or two proper mid-range acts could make all the difference to it. Also the festival should include more covered areas/big tents to cater for normal Irish weather when it occurs - they've been the luckiest weekend festival in Ireland for 2 years running now with fantastic sunshine.

The fact Catfish and the Bottlemen were as successful as they were speaks volumes as to how poor rock bands were in the 2010s. That said the biggest venue they played here was the Olympia I think so it’ll be interesting where they wind up if they do EP.

I see Moby has announced a European tour in September...

Halsey/ Janelle/ Skrillex/Liam Gallagher/ Raye/ Four Tet/ Tom Odell/ Mo/ Lany added to sziget lineup.

Looks like scissor sisters logo? Or that some lesbian style band are playing?

Every year i forget to note the time - when is typically the first lineup announcement?

Line up this week.

Is there a press event announced? Would be very unusual of them as they usually have all newspapers, radio stations, etc. involved. If not expectations will really be on the floor. Sziget isn't actually looking too bad this year, well not as bad as it's been recently, but no where near where it used to be.

Is there anything to look forward to? Sense I get is EP24 = Reading dregs + Kahan.

Ah come on, at least wait until it's announced before complaining about it

Apols for being negative, it was a question as opposed to a complaint however.

Expectations are low for a good few on 'ere. Bar Scruffzy. He'll be giving it the hills are aliiiiive no matter what.

If you were the booker Wooderson who would you pick for your dream line up? Just curious.

Nice one mate.

Given who's around at the time, I'd get the following dozen for yer first announcement on Friday.

Green Man: Big Thief/Ezra Collective/Osees

Lowlands: QOTSA (headliner)/Nas/Smile

Sziget: Stormzy (headliner)/Janelle/Marc Rebillet

Rock En Seine: Lana (headliner)/Offspring/Hives

Heading along to Bilbao Live in July. Funny to see locals on Instagram complaining about the lineup when Air and Grace Jones were added today, I reckon there's some here who love it. Tickets are only 150 quid as well.