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

The minute you said Kerbdog I thought of Therapy, just checked both have updated their YouTube in the last 2 days.

So maybe it's Therapy playing EP, they're not on the forest fest lineup.

Not that I know of, except they've recently posted on Facebook that they're only doing stand alone shows and Forest Fest this year.

Bukem was on IICON last year I think 1.30am, and is on the Glade Main Stage this year. We missed him on IICON because we did Leftfield (Park)>Helena Hauff (Lonely Hearts Club) and were at the other end of the site ffs. Hopefully be able to catch him in Glade this year as they shut down around 3am.

I usually try to do at least one 5am+ finish at Glastonbury, and this past few outings I've found myself at Blind Tiger in Unfairground for Uncle Dugs & Friends - always some key rollers and it's a cracking wee tent!

Oooft. Is the New Order/LCD Soundsystem Glasto/EP double on again like 2016?

24 hours until disapointment.

Having a look around at festivals around the same time and many of the "WOW" acts are doing standalone shows so I don't suspect any major surprises - bar Pulp obviously if it happened. Hopefully we get a handful of these (haven't checked if any are available on EP dates or what their budget is like incase anyone gets too stressed over it!!)

Pulp
Sleater Kinney
Big Theif
ibibo sound machine
Mannequin Pussy
Personal Trainer
Nation Of Language
Lemon Twigs
Jamie T

Just listening to the 2 jonny's podcast in the car, I'd say we'll see them playing Sunday. They're in Galway on the Saturday.

Yeah I realise my whining has been intolerable at best on here but c'mon. The two johnny's. Really?

Yeah I eventually got it to work after an extended series of catpcha tests. Tbh there's not much in the article anyway. Main points seem to be that it's appealing too much to celebrities/influencers (including wannabe versions of each) rather than fans of the music, there have been several high-profile technical issues over the years for big performers, and the prices at it are absurdly high (which is true tbf, assuming the prices in the article are accurate and representative). But at the same time it still concedes that many major musicians do still like to play the festival and it appears to still be profitable despite not fully selling out its enormous capacity. Didn't really give that much that would lead me to think that it's about to end anytime soon or even that the problems highlighted are unique to this year's event.

Why was it that Oxegen ended? This lineup, while having a few big-ish names, looks like it was a pretty massive step down from the previous event both in terms of the volume and star power of the acts performing. You can say Calivn Harris and David Guetta were pretty big names and then Snoop Dogg and Pitbull on the next tier, but looking back at the previous lineup in 2011 it's kind of insane how many acts were there who could easily have been headliners at a show like EP, or who EP would struggle to ever book. This poster is honestly a big step back from major mainstream acts compared to before, not a step toward it, and really looks like it's the result of enormous cuts to the budget for booking artists compared to prior years.

oxegen lost millions in the last few years and mcd had gained control of EP in 2012 so pivoted to concentrating on that and standalone shows

Also, Oxegen had deteriorated into a hellfest from neglect and mismanagement. Kids were stabbed - one fella in the neck. Reputation straight into the bin.

I warned everyone a couple of months ago, a few acts will come from the MCD Galway Airport gigs - TDCC and the Waterboys also.

Gotta agree. I thought the Lemon Twigs set was incredibly poor.

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It's a banger year to see them, currently performing the green and brown albums. Hopefully the sound won't cut out on them this time.

Those chord progressions in Impact (The Earth Is Burning) though.

"It's a cry, a cry for survival…!"