Electric Picnic Build Up

**jebus** · 13/08/2008, 10:34 AM

Well after the legal disputes and underwhelming initial line up I was happy with the festival up until this morning. What happened this morning you ask? Well they put out what bands are on what days and basically the main acts I want to see are all on Friday (no doubt around the same time too), and there is feck all on Sunday

anyway here's the line up and the days (in bold are my picks)

FRIDAY 29th
At First Light, Booka Shade, Carbon Silicon, Christy Moore, Dawn Landes,Digitalism, Dobet Gnahore, Fovea Hex, Givemanakick,Goldfrapp,Gomez,Jape,Joan AsPolicewoman,Kila,Kissy Sellout,Late of the Pier,Little,Green Cars,Lou Rhodes,Miles Electric,New Young Pony Club,Pinky,Presets,Sigur Ros,Terry Callier,The Gutter Twins,The Stunning,Think of one's camping Shaabi,Tiga,Tinariwen,Wallis Bird,Yard Dogs

SATURDAY 30th
A Trak,Antibalas,Arno Carstens,Black Acid,Boss Volenti,Cathy Davey,Crash Ensemble,Crystal Castles,Cut Copy,Dan Deacon,Digital Mystikz,Duffy,Elbow,Franz Ferdinand,George Clinton,Grace Jones,Halves,Havana Son,Josh Ritter,Juana Molina,Kormac feat BS Quartet,La Rocca,Large Mound,Laura Izibor,Liam O'Maonlai,Lisa Hannigan,Mercedes Peon,Midnight Juggernauts,Mornington Singers,Msg,New York Fund,Oppenheimer,Ra Ra Riot,Rachel Unthank and the Winterset,Santogold,Silver Apples,Soha,Super Extra Bonus Party,Teitur,That Petrol Emotion,The Breeders,The Faint,The Flaws,The Herbaliser,
The Kills,The Radio,Tindersticks,Tobias Froberg,Ulrich Schnauss,Underworld,Wilco,Yurodny

SUNDAY 31st
Absentee,Adrian Crowley,Black Lips,Candi Staton,Ceili House Allstars,Chromeo,Conor Oberst,Cowboy X,CSS,
Deadmau5,Dengue Fever,Dublin City Big Band,Dublin Gospel Choir,Emmy The Great,Famer's Market,Faust,Florence & the Machine,Foals,Gemma Hayes,Get Cape Wear Cape,Grinderman,Hadouken!,Ham Sandwich,Hayseed Dixie,Hercules & Love Affair,Iarla O'Lionaird's Invisible Fields,Ibrahim Electric,Jah Wobble's Chinese Dub,Johnny Flynn,Leila,Mahmoud Fadl's United Nubians,Mark Geary,Micah P Hinson,Michael Franti & Spearhead,My Bloody Valentine,Pivot,School Of Language,Sex Pistols,Sinead O Connor,Stephen Malkmus,The Congos,The Dodos,The Gossip,The Roots,The Urges,These New Puritans,Turin Brakes,Wolfgang Haffner,Yacht

**stann** · 13/08/2008, 10:46 AM

You don't want to see My Bloody Valentine???!!!
I'd also be at Candi Staton if I was there, just to hear You Got The Love done live, reckon that could be goosebumps time.
Gah, those tickets are wasted on the likes of you!

**superfrank** · 13/08/2008, 10:51 AM

George Clinton will be there???

Balls.

**jebus** · 13/08/2008, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by stann

You don't want to see My Bloody Valentine???!!!
I'd also be at Candi Staton if I was there, just to hear You Got The Love done live, reckon that could be goosebumps time.
Gah, those tickets are wasted on the likes of you!

I don't go to guitar bands at festivals, seems like a waste of time for me and my chosen lifestyle

Dance tents all the way, venturing out for the likes of Underworld or Sigur Ros, and I'm happy

**holidaysong** · 13/08/2008, 10:38 PM

I don't know if I'll bother looking for a ticket now with Sigur R�s on the Friday. I probably wouldn't get down in time after work for them and they really are the band I want to see the most...

P.S. - Go to see The Breeders, Kim Deal's (ex-Pixies) band.. Their new album is their first since 2002 but it's brilliant! I seen them live in Vicar Street in February - fantastic gig.

**Magicme** · 14/08/2008, 9:28 AM

Thinkin of giving it a miss myself this year as the only one am really interested in seeing is Michael Franti.

**anto1208** · 14/08/2008, 9:45 AM

Conor Orburst is the best act there ( wont suit your frame of mind jebus

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I cant wait for it after my initial disapointment at the line up im actually glad that i dont know many acts . I think going to a festival and going to see the "big" acts is a waste. You have so much new music to be discovered why would you waste your time watching the kings of leon or franz ferdinand type bands.

In saying that ill still watch the sex pistols and ill be dragged to christy moore.

**NeilMcD** · 14/08/2008, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by jebus

I don't go to guitar bands at festivals, seems like a waste of time for me and my chosen lifestyle

Dance tents all the way, venturing out for the likes of Underworld or Sigur Ros, and I'm happy

SO you need help then to enjoy the music, Does not say much for the music if it needs painkillers.

**stann** · 14/08/2008, 12:11 PM

All music over the years needed help of some kind though, whether it was hi-fi, graphic equalisers, surround sound or whatever.
Just think of it as chemical equivalents of those!

Jeez I dunno, there are a few there I'd be looking forward to. Wish I had the option of giving it a miss MM.

And jebus, dismissively referring to MBV as a 'guitar band' is even worse!

**jebus** · 14/08/2008, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by NeilMcD

SO you need help then to enjoy the music, Does not say much for the music if it needs painkillers.

Who said anything about me drinking alcohol or taking depressants?

**NeilMcD** · 14/08/2008, 12:43 PM

I never mentioned alchol or depressants. Just think if music needs the listener to be enhanced by whatever it is, whether its drugs or alchol or a bird on their arm it does not say much about the music.

Often you find is guys who were off their head in their 20s and early 30s now not even listening to music in their mid to late 30s as they were never really fans of music in the first place but just enjoyed getting off their head and the whole idea of being cool and going to raves etc.

Anything that makes you go arond with a soother and a whistle and chew the jaw out of yourself cannot be good.

**jebus** · 14/08/2008, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by NeilMcD

Anything that makes you go arond with a soother and a whistle and chew the jaw out of yourself cannot be good.

Thank God this isn't 1989 or I'd probably take offence at that

**kingdom hoop** · 15/08/2008, 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by NeilMcD

Anything that makes you go arond with a soother and a whistle and chew the jaw out of yourself cannot be good.

Still, it's probably better than going around with a "Closed" sign on your forehead.

**NeilMcD** · 15/08/2008, 2:37 PM

Who goes around with a closed sign

**monzo** · 16/08/2008, 3:05 PM

Nick Cave's Grinderman are probably worth watching. Their eponymous debut album is pretty class.

**Dublin12** · 17/08/2008, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by holidaysong

P.S. - Go to see The Breeders, Kim Deal's (ex-Pixies) band.. Their new album is their first since 2002 but it's brilliant! I seen them live in Vicar Street in February - fantastic gig.

Are you serious?, That was one of the worst gigs ever, they were out of tune and didn't look interested at all, they just didn't play well that night. I've seen them before and also when she was in The Amps and they were much better gigs, maybe some things are best left in the past.

As for Sunday at the EP, I'll be checking out Jah Wobble, Grinderman, My Bloody Valentine and The Pistols are always good with a few bevvies inside ya.

**Billsthoughts** · 17/08/2008, 6:55 PM

Originally Posted by NeilMcD

Anything that makes you go arond with a soother and a whistle and chew the jaw out of yourself cannot be good.

ha ha
I would have had this as post of the month(genuinely) until I read the below...

Originally Posted by kingdom hoop

Still, it's probably better than going around with a "Closed" sign on your forehead.

brilliant.
I got free tickets for sat as me mate is playing. whats parking and all like?
will have to be an in and out job so as not to be infected by the overwhelimg smugness of the place....ooooh...controversial...

**anto1208** · 17/08/2008, 7:16 PM

Originally Posted by Billsthoughts

ha ha
I would have had this as post of the month(genuinely) until I read the below...

brilliant.
I got free tickets for sat as me mate is playing. whats parking and all like?
will have to be an in and out job so as not to be infected by the overwhelimg smugness of the place....ooooh...controversial...

It will be pretty full come sat there will be parking in a near by field but it will by far enough away. Still if you are in and out in the one day the walk will be ok its only a pain when you have 3 days drinking done and its your 3rd trip to the car.

**kingdom hoop** · 17/08/2008, 8:10 PM

Originally Posted by NeilMcD

Who goes around with a closed sign

That was a metaphor intended to depict people who aren't open-minded.

But I suppose your mind had too narrow a focus to see that angle.

**Billsthoughts** · 17/08/2008, 8:17 PM

Originally Posted by anto1208

It will be pretty full come sat there will be parking in a near by field but it will by far enough away. Still if you are in and out in the one day the walk will be ok its only a pain when you have 3 days drinking done and its your 3rd trip to the car.

cool.thanks