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

Latitude has gone downhill over the past decade but I just took a quick look and there are plenty of acts there that’d keep us happy over the weekend. Orbital, Beak>, The Zombies, Khruangbin, Fat Dog, English Teacher, Lankum, Kevin Drew, Future Islands, CMAT, Pillow Queens, Duran Duran, Alison Goldfrapp and loads more. Possibly some of them to be added but it’s astonishing pushed that there’s zilch crossover with another FR festival. One that was set up to copy EP after Benn visited EP 2005.

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Think all this unpleasantness has gone to people's heads. The lionisation of The Killers prime example. Dreadful stuff.

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80m for the combined total of singles and albums. Albums always the measure, including for other pop stars like Madonna or MJ. Streams and ticket sales fast replacing those as the measure of popularity but historical measures of comparison will remain in album sales (Beatles, Zep, etc).

A disingenuous comparison. Bowie had to be replaced at Oxegen with 11 days notice with nobody not on the lineup able to step in. Kylie pulled out of the world’s biggest festival with 5 weeks notice and dozens of acts clamouring to replace her. Not comparable.

I think a fair few people would view Kylie as a more significant booking that the Killers mate. Theyre totally different genres so its not like for like swap. The Killers have sold more than QOTSA but I reckon most people again would side with me that Queens a more significant booking for the festival.

Agree fully on the Billie V Noah comp however.

Half of those have either Irish festivals, headline shows announced or work with other promoters in ireland.
orbital, beak> Khruangbin, Lankum, future islands, cmat and pillow queens have shows or festivals here in the next few months.

Latitude a smaller fest (45k) so the Kasabian slot not so surprising. Nice site but agreed that EP is far superior, as it is in most respects bar the lineup thus far.

I only went once, their second year, when it was a relatively decent crowd, 30k capacity and a stunning lineup (see below).It was very family friendly which was great but since then it’s become VERY VERY middle-class with BBC4 broadcasting from there and Pimms stalks/double-decker buses doing very well across the site. It’s very safe, which is preferable to latter-day Oxegen but I think it lacks energy. I’d still go again as they book well, which begs the question why EP aren’t getting several of their acts. Siouxsie last year would have been a bit special in Stradbally. FR make their bookings more eclectic and varied and EP will survive. If not then it may struggle in 3/4 years, or we fall into recession and it may be gone.

Its a bold strategy to lower the amount of pills people would be taking: Book a bunch of sensitive white guys with acoustic guitars.

Honestly feel sorry for most of the people that bought tickets already.

You are forgetting that as much as FR may want a certain act playing latitude to play EP it’s ultimately the decision of the agent/artist where they play and for numerous reasons they might decide to go with other offers for ireland. Many an international band have had a terrible EP experience and take up other offers instead.

It’s all subjective in terms of taste, but in terms of pulling power and cost Kylie is way behind The Killers on all measures of metrics. She’s never headlined a festival before (as far as I’m aware) and she’s unlikely to again. The Nevada crew can headline wherever they want whenever they want. And I’m no fan, just aware of their clout.

When The Cult were announced for FF I was half-tempted but I can't see it happening this year. Would be nice to experience it when it wasn't raining the whole time. Thought the camping facilities were a disaster, no segregation bewteen Security/Family/General was more than a little half-assed.

Beak, gentlemen, are playing Green Man, along with all the other acts you might want to hear at Stradbally.

Am I wrong in thinking there isnt a single act performing at both GM and EP? Not even one?!

We're being taken for utter fools.

In fairness to FR there’s never been any crossover with Green Man. Not a single act that I remember. On this thread the posters regularly brought this up, obviously no connection between promoters. A pity as we yearly miss out on great stuff.