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

Kasabian one of only a few on my shortlist.

Decent enough but most of the tunes sound like mid-70s Gary Glitter. Crowd adoring it. Stick ‘em in the sane-sized tent at EP.

This is completely missing the mark. We've a festival in EP that's already moved dates and still no positive impact on the line-up. This is an evolution in Ireland away from indie/rock acts at our largest festivals in a bid to maximise profits by promotors as I outlined. These same acts in many cases are playing as part of more diverse festival line-ups in Europe. The dates point is irrelevant. If they moved EP to July and it sells out in advance we'd have the same result next year and you'd have to come up with some new excuse to justify why the line-up is muck.

Oh yes I fcukin live for this sh1t

it moved for Calvin Harris, one of the biggest djs/producers around. Was it justified in my opinion or yours? Probably not but Melvin benn had him on his wishlist for years. It’s his festival at the end of the day.
Over the last decade only a handful of big internationally indie/rock acts have not made an appearance in stradbally.
A few haven’t such as pearl jam, green day, foo fighters RHCP etc. I’m sure you can list a few more that you personally are aggrieved over not showing up at stradbally.
The dates thing is important as a festival that is aligned to a particular weekend in the summer has to work with whose around. They can’t book acts that are touring America in august/September or are in some other part of the world. The music industry does not revolve around EP, it’s not like it’s coachella or Glastonbury which artists will change their touring plans for.

Have a great one. Feedback please.

I'm very open minded about music, there's still decent pop music being made out there, happy to enjoy dance music of all sorts even somewhat enjoyed some of his recent music, but honestly could not get into Calvin Harris when I seen him last year at Primavera eventhough I though I might. The worse performer I seen there to be honest. I thought maybe he might play some of his old music but none, he just jumped around with smoke cannons and pyro for the 20 or so mins I could tolerate. Also don't think he was DJ'ing live, can't stand that particularly when someone is getting the money he is getting, the DJ'ing itself is a huge part of the art of a set, visuals were boring, one of the most bland sets I've ever heard. I made a joke earlier in the thread that the booker could have watched back his Oxegen 2009 set and thought 'this fella is great we must book him' without realising how much his sets/setup has changed, a few weeks later he was announced. I can't see how it was moved for him since the last FR gig he played here was last year where he headlined sharing the bill with the headliners of the likes of Lil Uzi Vert, Travis Scott and MK, he's a one man band type setup just him and a pair of decks, he can't be that difficult to book for one year. Got a very small crowd at Primavera too considering it was a prime slot, feel his ship has long sailed and overestimated his appeal now. There's really not a lot of hype around the festival particularly people my age that I know in the target audience, same as in the comments on their socials, I think they've overestimated the fact that it sells out every year before the lineup is out and expect it to continue doing so.

I'll probably go this year but it's really tough to justify it even with early birds. Hoping Nas will save the day, have always wanted to see him but very difficult to justify given the lineup there's probably 5 on there for me so far hoping a lot more decent acts to be announced, can see it as my last one at this point which is very sad. Also don't know how Nas, someone who is pretty much considered the best rapper of all time (or in pretty much every top 5 list) is lower down on the bill than Kodaline who couldn't win You're A Star back in the day and Gerry Cinnamon but that's a different discussion I suppose.

That 'Justice' set was excellent last night, really wished I was there rather than watching ont telly!

The mixing of the tunes, including their best known along with that incredible light rig swirling around the stage... Wow!

Missed out seeing them at Forbidden Fruit because of lockdown but definitely on my must see list.

I would like a fresh announcement of acts.

surely this is very late this year with the 2nd main announcement, 6 weeks to go. suuuuuuuurely

all I want is for them to announce more acts so I can be bitterly disappointed at the lack of bands I want to see, is that asking too much!?!

There was a time….

I was at it alright but it was just a regular SY gig not Daydream Nation. Great performance but not loud enough. Followed by The Stooges and Primal Scream, who were both excellent and loud enough. As for your decision? I can only assume you were in an altered state and/or with very good company who wanted Dan & Pip 😁