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

Their main headliner Route 94 cancelled last minute at Bacardi I think last year, a bit of a disaster. Also I don't remember White Claw at EP, but Bacardi is gone off the site and White Claw is added, possibly something around that incoming as they're a main sponsor now. Would probably drop into that area.

others noted a few weeks ago that Bacardí have been scrubbed off the updated EP website as a sponsor/partner and pretty sure a poster confirmed that it’s gone through a friend who was involved in it over the years.

Thanks for this, I was nearly sure I tried it at EP last year but it wouldn't be the first time I hallucinated novelty drinks.

White claw should be renamed as sh1te claw.

I think my booking at the comedy tent should be secure with wise cracks like that.

I don't think selling out next year is a fait accompli, but like I said, I think ultimately it will mostly come down to what the acts they've booked are like and the overall feeback on the festival itself this year (as in, whether people who attended generally had a good time and would want to return), it's just that I think the delay in announcing is becoming more of a net negative than a positive PR-wise. They sold out completely with nothing at all announced this year, which shows that people generally trust the organisers will be able to book something great to make it worth the cost of admission (by "great" here, I mean by the standards of the general public who will buy most of the 70k tickets, which are probably not the exact same thing as what most posters in this thread would want to see).

If they don't deliver then the public probably won't give them the same benefit of the doubt going forward. Ironically, it would make sense that selling the full whack early this year would have given them more ability to get their ducks in a row compared to normal. At least with ticket revenue, there's a lot less ambiguity than if you can't be certain how many you'll sell after the spring announcement. May have resulted in more complacency too though since they don't have to impress anyone enough to sell some more tickets.

reading and Leeds are far leaner operations, only a handful of stages in comparison to EP and festival republic made £12 profit in 2022 and its parent company LN Gaiety made £35m profit.

Very good/. I saw DIIV in Vicar Street couple of weeks ago. I had never heard of them.

I really enjoyed the gig. Very guitar driven. With quiet vocals, that are almost inaudible live. The vast expanse of 3Arena might be a bit much for them. Also, considering there will be a few hundred bare-chested Fontaines fans up the front in eager anticipation of beating the shlte out of each other when Fontaines hit the stage, the mellow trippy vibes of DIIV may go over their heads.

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Your bang on there, don't really give a fiddlers who's playing, I'd like to hear Diplo play Anthem live with a guest appearance by M.I.A during the set, that's about it for my requests anything else is a bonus, love just ending up at random gigs, rarely look at set times.

Going for the giggles and to party with my friends, hard to believe we'll be 20yrs at it now.

there may not be ‘major’ changes for the Trailer Park. Just one response from one artist discussing alterations. It’s hard to see what they could do with it. I’d prefer some FR focus on doing more with the Body and Soul area which feels kinda empty now.

This Is true @Fanirish. Is there anything that Melvin could do that you would actually denounce? Just allow yourself to exist as a punter for a bit.

I used to spend a fair bit of chill out time in the Body and Soul, and always after the main arena had shut. Great for coffee or taking a break and looking at installations, etc. Now in the space between the Croi stage (superb curation by Cian Finn last year) and Mindfield they seem to have done nothing. We’ve lost the stage where the Mother DJs used to end our weekends, another couple of smaller stages, some cafes, etc. It just seems a little lifeless, but it’s probably pretty irrelevant to current FR thinking. I’d love Avril & Co back but that’s never going to happen.

Better than Mind & Body in fairness.

Nas tour announced today, no tour dates in Ireland, in London on the weekend of EP. We really are our own worst enemies on this thread getting excited for things that probably won't happen.

Rumours of a Linkin Park return tour incoming flying around twitter tonight, may be a far fetched booking for EP if so. A deleted story by a singer who previously recently performed their stuff with them mentioned (probably jokingly) joining/touring and other sources seem to be fueling them. As far as I remember they haven't played Ireland since like 2009 supporting Metallica and didn't play here loads. Would be a big booking, and worth dealing an announcement for if the rest of the headliners were somewhat lackluster + missing a rock headliner. Not sure how much sense it would make for FR but make sense with R&L package deal, and not sure how well a standalone gig would sell here given history and new singer.

They could also be waiting on someone like faithless to confirm their touring again, also strongly rumoured.

Would love to see one or all of local Acid heads, No Comment!, Nesbit and Bubbless in Terminus or the Rave In The Woods. 303's a-go-go😁 Below is a track from No Comment!

I agree, solo stuff a bit hit and miss over the years but would be a great headliner and has some great stuff, even though I'm not sure if he'd be big enough certainly more talented than most of the names thrown around. Seemed to be done with touring for a few years did a bit after LP, hasn't had an album released in years to tour with either. Wouldn't be surprised to see LP back touring at some point but probably not for this year.

LP are a band I would've loved to see live in their heyday. Not mad about what they released post 2010 but the first two albums and the Oppenheimer one are great. Mike Shinoda is a very talented lad.

bohrandude bought 5

Bacardi whether you like or not has been a stage/sponsor since the start, I know it’s just business but a shame to see on the 20year anniversary.

As the License is for 75k max, if tour de picnic is cancelled, does that mean they can sell or comp those tickets? It’s several hundred normally inc bike, run and support.