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

Bad reviews for week 2 could have her rattled, could just cancel her entire euro tour. I mean doesn't she have form for that from previous touring. May be wrong of course.

lol u2 been about the money for decades. They were getting €2m a night for vegas, don’t see them heading to stradbally.
also have u2 even played a festival since Glastonbury over a decade ago?

Might not have seen but some really bad allegations going around the past few years unfortunately. Incl people on from people in the industry. A lot of people don't work with him anymore it seems Jack U broke up too (thankfully, dreadful music)

Ah, bitta the old Marketing. Delay the line-up announcement, wait until the click-bait sites have generated enough traction so that it makes National 'news', everyone's talking about it without having to do a thing.

That won't catch us out with that nonsense, rubick. We won't be talking about it, will we?

How can they fit U2 in with Taylor Swift, AC/DC, Foo Fighters, Oasis, The Beatles, Nirvana, Gerry Cinnamon tribute act and others playing?

No sign of the announcement. I got dodgy information from Melvin again. I don't know why I trust that guy.

I wonder would they be delayed because they're trying to confirm the rebooking of Lewis Capaldi who remains on indefinite hiatus after he cancelled last year. Melvo would expect us all to be over the moon if he secured him... so much different from Gerry Cinnamon, Dermot Kennedy, Paolo Nutini et al, ad infinitum!

U2 (DJ Set)

Makes sense 😀

completely unrelated to the lineup debate, last year was my first time in years there (2007 was last time before this). I very much enjoyed it. My (overvalued) two cents worth:

They need more camping space.

They need to let people bring in chairs…. I say this knowing that sometimes we are our own worst enemy. Guaranteed SOME scrote is gonna chuck a chair and hurt someone if they let them in but I'm an auld geezer and, while last year was perfect weather for sitting on grass when I needed to, I think I'd struggle if the weather was bad.

Signposting. I thought this could have been better for people who had not been there before. Thought that was very poor.

Bringing in alcohol…. Unfortunately again we are our own worst enemy. Would LOVE to be able to bring in our own booze but you KNOW people would just go mental

However I was extremely surprised how clean the place was. Of course there was overflow at the bins etc but compared to other festivals, it was remarkably clear of empty beer cups.

The screens on the main stage were excellent.

The people were, in general, excellent also. (It was fun to see how many people caught when Nutini snuck in "Dayman"… and the look of befuddlement of others. I personally was talking to someone and then went "Wait, did he just say 'Fighter of The Nighman'?… Is he singing DAYMAN???"

Looking forward to this year

Why bother though? Tickets are already sold out long ago for whatever acts announce. At this stage the only thing they're marketing for is the 2025 show, and looking disorganised isn't great for that. It'll be overshadowed by the acts ultimately but it's probably not a great look for people thinking of buying for next year to think that they have to buy them and then not find out who the acts are until very close to the show itself, which doesn't even give much time to sell them on the secondary market if they decide they don't want to go.

Event has been deactivated I found. This and the non announcement will add to the noise behind electric picnic not going ahead.

tickets on sale next week, wonder if it sold well or sold out would they be added to the picnic

Guys, there is no way they are going to cancel a sold out festival.

Has this changed recently though? Last year the initial announcement didn't include The Killers, The Script, or Paolo Nutini, which were a mix of eventual headliners and subheadliners. It did include Lewis Capaldi who dropped out later (not sure if Nutini was brought in to replace him) but I don't think it was seen as egg on the face of the organisers that he had to drop out after being announced. Even the second big announcement didn't include The Script who were blurred out on the initial poster.

In 2018 they announced with just Kendrick Lamar, NERD, and Massive Attack. Two of those (Kendrick and MA) were later placed as headliners and NERD were a subheadliner, and then the The Prodigy were added as a third headliner with Picture This added as second subheadliner. Exact scheduling presumably isn't finalised until much closer to the date itself when they announce that. Even saying who is playing which night is not something they've always put up on the poster (a quick look back shows that 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2016 all left it off on the poster announcement).

Which leads me to think that with no announcements at all news at this point, they either don't even have the contracts signed for 3 of their top-line acts, or else they have 3 but they're 3 who will be subheadliners bordering on Tier 2 acts and they think it would be an underwhelming initial announcement when people generally expect at least 1 pretty big name on a partial announcement (like a Kendrick Lamar or Billie Eilish).

*until plans change.

I'm just saying it's not a great stategy even from that perspective. When you want to sell tickets to next year's festival, having national news reporting that many members of the audience are getting worried about it even happening isn't a great look image to put out. Even if the headline is the organisers re-assuring people that it is happening, it's still putting the idea in the heads of people who otherwise wouldn't have noticed that maybe it is going to be cancelled (in the same way Joe Soap isn't going to want headlines saying "Joe Soap denies beating his wife"). I don't see it as a deliberate stategic move on the marketing team's part so much as trying to do damage control for grumbling ticketholders.

I am getting worried the way things are heading. So Tour De Picnic looks cancelled, difficulty getting bookings and obviously there is a problem with this which is concerning this time of year, major Trailer Park changes incoming, no announcement. Tour De Picnic was a huge part of their marketing, as was their lineup, announcements, press events, etc. Sounds like a serious mess up this year with a bunch of things I hope doesn't set precedent for the festival, obviously minor things in the grand scheme but collectively not a great look. It sounds of a team who are complacent with the fact they think it will just sell out every year by doing the minimum, which is never the case for festivals, the rumors are not good for them and I thought they'd want to quash them ASAP the easiest way to put out some sort of a lineup, hopefully it's not the case, obviously still going ahead.

Bacardi area is gone too. So main arena will do be getting a shake up.

I think people on here are overestimating the negative feedback on the delays and tour de Picnic (seemingly gone). End of day once they announce line up the general ticket holding public will probably be happy and EP 2025 will sell out insta fly when it goes on sale in October.

Wow, although I don't think it's a bad thing, has been fairly dreadful the past few years. Probably sponsorship changed to Pernod Ricard/Irish distillers or LVMH. Wouldn't be too surprised if they did a Hip Hop area with mostly Irish acts instead with LVMH/Hennessy like Body & Soul given that's gone and their hip hop connections or some other company.