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

Ah yeah, was bit a little tounge in cheek about it. There is no wow band on the ATN lineip for me (most acrs ll see will be for 2nd,3rd etc time) but enough to keep me pretty entertained.

Ive no doubt EP will give me a pretty full weekend also

did the Ryan tubridy scandal not inform you about barter accounts, today fm give festival republic blocks of adverts in exchange for today fm trading them at a discount for electric picnic tickets for on air competitions.
festival republic get hours of direct and indirect advertising for essentially no cost and it helps build up hype as number 1 summer festival.

Festivals in Ireland are on the road to extinction due to greedy promoters and the Irish people's willingness to pay anything but still give out about it at the same time.

There was a time.. The gigs in Anne's Park, Fairview Park, Trinity etc they were artists who would have been on a festival line up.

For whatever reason now they are broken up and we are paying 30, 40, 50.. But we still pay it..

Promoters have copped on and we are suffering for it

as reiterated before the festivals in ireland aren’t generating obscene profits. Electric picnic and ATN lost millions upon millions in its first few years. Electric picnic probably generates between €20m -€30m and its profit ratio is in the 5-10% range even with every possible sponsorship going. A decent return but they aren’t making out like bandits.
A lot of those artists doing summer shows were specifically touring headline shows like air and manics/suede so it’s not like they would have been an option or they played festivals here last summer so that rules them out for next or they are touring elsewhere.

But its all subjective.

We're getting older. We used to be with it. Now what we're with isn't it, and what's it is weird and scary.

The fact remains is Ireland is a small market in the scheme of things. The country has the population of a large city and there is a huge number of concerts on every year here.

It happens to us all someday.

Hopefully there might be more interest if the next announcement is any good. Not holding my breath though. Crazy difference from previous years.

There were issues last year with over capacity for some reason

Late comers in campers and caravans ended up in one of the car parks if I recall.

I measured it on mapping software I use for work - previous camper area was ~20 acres, this years is almost 100 😯 - so in theory 5 times the amount of camper tickets?

On the plus side, it's much closer to the main arena

Also the family camper area (which I have been in) has been moved and is bit smaller than previous years

The past two years the general camping situation has been fairly dreadful if you're arriving early Friday eve, last year we got somewhat lucky they opened an overflow 'Ginsberg' campsite since every campsite was packed but looks like that's removed this year now. The year before was even worse since there was no room people were camping in the fire/health and safety pathways, feels like the attendance numbers have grown but the space for camping hasn't as much as it should comparatively, hope that's different this year.

Think i have my final list if there's no clashes. No absolutely must sees either if I miss any to be honest. Kylie, Gerry, Kasabian, Waterboys, Wolfe Tones, Peggy Gou, Faithless, Kneecap, Teskey Bros, Newdad, the Scratch, Thee Sacred Souls, Post Punk Podge, the pale, fangclub, villagers, Bambie thug, Loreen, the Nilzs, the year grunge broke, melts, stranglers, Sophie Ellis Bextor, putius pilot and the nail drivers, TCM, CMAT. Again plenty of them I can take or leave

If like radiohead add karma police on Survivor stage Sunday

That's piss poor really isn't it? No reflection on your taste but that this is the best you can eke out.

100%. Many of these acts appear in festivals in other countries. The public has shown to accept mediocrity in our festival line-ups here and the promoters have been lapping this up booking in these festival acts as standalone gigs. Looked to have backfired a bit this year however with many summer gigs not selling out.

Just had a look at it there now, I'd say there's a lot more acts to be added. Seems to be nobody for Terminus besides Hannah Laing and she might not even be in there.

I'm liking this talk of additional caravan space nearer the arena and will be interested in hearing feedback on how it goes. Might be very cost affective vs our usual pink moon.