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

New list of acts announced.

CMAT, Lankum, Villagers, Loreen, The Stranglers, Blindboy, Bambie Thug, Daydreamers, Cardinals and ZIMMER90.

Thats a bit better. Like stranglers and the villagers. And as a Eurovision fan Loreen and Bambie thug are good additions! Must give Lankum a listen

At least I'll have a bit to do now apart from manning the Providencia DnB stage from start to finish.

hadn’t happened before but trinity series and fairview nearly always international acts and they wouldn’t have availability or be about europe in September if they already played June/July European dates.
different matter with local to Dublin artists.

Heard at Glasters that Fest Republic - including Belvin - were shocked at negative reaction to the orig announcement.

Five definites for me. Cork band the Cardinals are excellent. Pogues and Libertines influence but they’ve their own sound.A great addition, for me they’re superior to most of the decent indie bands we’ve seen arrive in the past 5/6 years.

Not sure if All Points East is their only European show, but would love to see Decemberists over here.

Yeah I saw him too. Got a load of goss about him over the weekend.

Great to see the new additions. Will there be more announced?

Nothing overwhelming.
EP time is so precious, you can spend hours trying to make it to an act/location, if you get there and it’s not to your liking it’s time wasted you could have spent elsewhere! At this stage I need to see all acts, especially new/unknown artists, need research time! No fun getting loads of acts two weeks before and not being able to look them up!

Happy to see CMAT added, but was kinda banking on her anyways. I assume she’ll sub or close the EA, what night I wonder?

I can relate to this. All very bland, maybe besides Bambie Thug if you look at their solo/ non Eurovision stuff but I don't think it's for me. Lankum a very good booking but again not really my cup of tea, have also enjoyed CMAT a few times. Same with the Villagers solo gig I seen years ago quite boring.

But where is the non super generic bookings the festival is known for? There's always a huge bunch mixed in. Hard hitting stuff, DNB, Hip Hop, Jungle, Rock, Experimental, it mostly fits the bland indie-pop snooze fest the rest of the lineup has been so far, you can even say the same about the dance acts announced, nothing special and whatever is the flavor of the month. A lot of the bookings strike me as a 'would be decent at 3PM' type of bookings, their booking policy is really geared towards being totally generic. Even London Grammar are usually very good in fairness, but Loren a very odd booking. Will have to check out the two I don't know of on the list.

I know we're long gone from the days of Death Grips or The Prodigy but how middle of the road everything is overall, it's hard to get excited for. I'm hopeful we'll get some better announcements going forward but starting to lose hope at this stage, finding it very difficult to find anyone exciting besides 5 so far where as only 5 years ago there would be 30/40 acts come festival time, although there's still time.