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

I keep seeing Forest Fest referred to on here and I feel I must be looking at some completely different festival.

A few largely washed up, one hit wonder (IMO) 80s acts, a few forgotten 00s UK indie landfill acts, some minor Irish rock acts from the 90s, and a few small Irish acts from the last 20 years.

It certainly has plenty of names people would know but not big names. I doubt EMF, Stereo MCs, Ocean Colour Scene, The View or some version of Dexys Midnight Runners are looking for much.

I can’t see the hype here for Forest Fest. I’m in the my late 20’s so maybe that’s it. A festival that books the view & is on a gaa pitch is laughable

i was at Kylie in Glastonbury, no way 100,000. More like 60-70. I was also at Elton which was closer to 100,000 i reckon. Just going by what a packed Slane Castle feels/looks like and adapting for the Pyramid Stage.

Sad times, my 2 tickets were snapped up, sad that I sold them and sad that they went so quick.

Melvin must be laughing his arse off knowing the shīte he call pull and still have a demand for tickets.

We should be talking about how Noah Kahan is headlining not Kylie FFS

The Killers and Arctic Monkeys headline every festival they play

I think the criticism is mainly of lazy journalists pulling a figure like 100k out of a hat for want of a more accurate number. I’m with you on looking forward to her (if I go). Several great singles. I just think that Lylie is unfortunate to be lumped in with the garbage at the top of the pile. Undeserved, though she’s not a booking of the cost of Billie or the Killers which we went over as nauseum yesterday. If the weather holds she could do one of the most memorable Picnic sets ever so no complaints at all from me.

I’d also enjoy Sophie-Ellis Bextor too, for the same reason. Two superb tracks enough for me.

Kylie is the only 1 of the 6 headliners that I might have went to see, I'm sure it'll be a great show and a real feelgood way to close out the main stage.

I know there's a hell of a lot more to the festival and it shouldn't be judged on just those 6 but out of the 50 announced I might go and see 6 of them, and for me it's about seeing acts, last year was saved by the weather but I knew coming away there would have to be something massive to pull me back, a 1 hit wonder, a DJ are not what I was expecting.

TLDR: Kylie is not the issue.

They're all shite. It's the main stage though so that's to be expected these days. The worrying aspect is the lack of anything in the mid/lower tiers. Spiritual Cramp, Eyedress and Thee Sacred Souls the only ones i'd be looking at, and at a quarter decent festival i probably wouldn't even bother. It's real desperation/clutching at straws stuff.

I'm hoping ATN will get some Green Man-bound acts as there's not one single crossover at EP the same weekend.

Melvin did an interview with Kieran Cuddihy

Melvin touching on the broad demographic of EP, everything from babies to grandads

“Calvin has been wanting a long time so it’s finding a date that works for him”

Friday: Jerry Cinnamon & Noah Kahan.
Saturday: Kodaline & Calvin Harris.
Sunday: Raye & Kylie.

The only additions for 3 all for music after the April poster look to be City Stages Collective, Mae Stephens, Chasing Abbey, and Debbie.

Thought it was limited alright

I know ticket selling/buying isn’t allowed on here but would it be ok to ask anyone thinking of selling back through Ticketmaster if they would be happy to give us a quick heads up here before listing them? Maybe more chance of a fellow boardsie getting them.

Everyone seems to be hating the lineup yet no tickets showing at any stage on ticket master. It’s so frustrating I think I’ve developed a Ticketmaster addiction 😂😂

Still depressing this. EP has changed but it's a real slap on the face overall for those who've supported supported it over the years, not that organisers care. Kylie is best of a bad bunch booking, nothing amazing about it really besides she being difficult to book seemingly, I think hardly anyone here would have been asking for her pre announcement, have 0 faith much more interesting will be added. There's a small handful decent none of the headliners, and I'm a very easy going/easily entertained gig go-er in my opinion which says a lot.

It's a shame, one of few gigs this year I can go to, I'm sure a decent amount of music people are even worse off here with personal circumstances that EP is one of their only gigs of the year/highlights of the year and now have this letdown to look forward to. There was decent Longitude festivals over the years but also ruined now by organisers. I think for me in future, booking abroad for festivals is the way forward like I've done the past few years, unless later announcements announcements are mind blowing or something drastically changes here, I know they'll mess it up in the long run if they haven't already.

I'd rather watch Simon. God's honest truth.