For all you hopeful picnickers out there #EP2017 is already SOLD OUT! @TodayFMNews pic.twitter.com/pJaJvttG79
— Juliette Gash (@JulietteGash) March 23, 2017
Oh.
Meanwhile…
Hmm.
It’s all gone a bit Pete Tong.
Via Juliette Gash
Says the ‘sheet’s resident music head Mike McGrath-Bryan:
So, the line-up is out. Sold-out before a single name was announced.
Commentary/conjecture in the ‘Sheet tomorrow. First impressions: a tad heavy on nostalgia, to say the least. Still, though: Run the Jewels, Young Fathers, Parquet Courts, Phantogram. Well-played.
Ignore Seatwave, etc., too. People will invariably look to offload tix in the run-up, get them that way and stop feeding the beast.
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Yeah, I can understand why, it’s always a really nice experience …
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v361/dogmaticwoof/czech_tekk_girl.jpg
Did your outfit give you a rash ?
So is Clampers a moderator but you just don’t tell us?
Eh… nope….
The great and powerful Oz has never let me even look behind the curtain :(
How did you come to that anyway… me curious. Thanks :)
Plenty of bands there I’d like to go see but not for 300 blips in, what is now, a completely overpacked field.
“The thing is, it’s not like other festivals. It’s just got such a great vibe. A cool atmosphere. No hassle or scumbags.”
– every 40 year old bore that’s ever been.
Pete Tong, Tribe Called Quest, Duran Duran, Chaka Khan, The Pretenders. Does nobody under 35 go to the Picnic? Or *puts on beret and fake stroking goatee* is this a sign of our worsening economy and growing wealth inequality in that under 35s don’t have the disposable income to go to music festivals anymore?
any income or any eh hem taste ..ducks ;)
You talc ’em Janet !
my younger pals are all hyped over chaka kahn and i couldnt give a toss. real annoyed father john misty and perfume genius are playing, AGAIN, whyyyyyy can’t they play in Dublin instead?! *weeps and tears hair*
they both played Longitude last year, on the same day no less.
For everyone freaking out thinking of paying over the odds for a ticket…DON’T! Every year there’s people selling them a few days before for cost price or less. Plus it’s poo! If the maddest thing you’re going to do all year is dress up as a smurf and have the total bants at the Leccie Piccy every year, you are in fact a stale sap. There’s a hundred more fun, original things to do for way cheaper, better festivals that are a way better buzz. Not longitude obviously, that’s even worse
vantastival is best bang for the buck imo
Rory Gallagher Festival in Ballyshannon, 1st – 4th June 2017.
Cheap as chips and a comprehensive education.
Sea sessions in Bundoran the week before also but I’ve never been – Bundoran is nice though.
It’ll be raining.
You’re not made of sugar are you?
I’ll paccamacca for leccypiccy so!
is…is that a In The Night Garden reference?
No quite, thankfully. You’re thinking of this guy.
https://goo.gl/images/MybB8t
He likes to clean rocks.
I don’t know him personally or anything.
that show terrifies me. makka pakka looks like a creep
He’s an awful eejit. Not as much of an eejit as Bing, though.
I *despise* Bing. It’s a Bing Thing, see.
Erm, I’m just typing what the person next to me is saying. I’ve no idea about any of this and definitely cannot sing/hum theme tunes to everything on CBeebies.
Bing. That little sh*t.
If I never see that little bunny again, it’d be too soon.
What exactly is Flop anyway?
I dunno. Some kind of midget male bunny nanny with brain injuries?
Are you lot stoners or parents?
Or both?
I think I’ll let you decide for yourself.
Watch kids tv at your own risk. Some of it is downright trippy.
I’ll add Arcadian Fields to the list.
Great bands. Less than 1000 people. You get to know everyone over the weekend. Bliss.
Other people, though. Yuck.
Probably explains why I’ve never been to a festival.
I have an irrational fear of Portaloos, which doesn’t help either.
I contracted festival-itis some years back. I do like when they’re televised, but give me a good gig in Workmans, Vicar St. any day.
Aye. I love live gigs. Festivals are just too much of a good thing.
Madness.
feck:(
Chas Smash no longer with them. Caught ’em last year, and The Brother came along, both of us giddy, waiting for the HEY YOU DON’T WATCH THAT…routine.
Never happened. They were good, but there was deffo something missing. Mind you, we were a bit back and the ground was waterlogged and it’s *very* hard to do the Baggy Trousers skank wearing wellies at the best of times… On the other hand, they did a cover of Highway to Hell, so, y’know, not all bad
Have you heard his solo album Ivan?
It’s really good, albeit very sad.
Kinda sounds like a bit of fun that :)
It was fun, clampers, but I’d seen them in the Point in 2006 and they were utterly brilliant. I lost weight that night :)
@bertie – i’ll give it a listen. I fired up the Dangermen Sessions album last week and had a blast!
BTW, if you dm me on Twitter I have (quite) a funny Chas story Ivan :)
You’ve never asked me to dm you on Twitter.
I was afraid you’d say no dollface :)
he regularly DMs with Anne
She sends me links to KKK memorabilia auctions, nothing too racy.
Oh what the hell, Mildred, or someone pretending to be Mildred, DM me on Twitter.
Better? :)
Yes :)
Though, I feel I must come clean now.
I’m not on Twitter.
(don’t be duped by a false mildred)
Bit late, I already told 8 different Mildreds that I loved them ;)
Mildred, may I please have permission to be you on Twitter?
You’ll confuse many people, but I’m tempted to say yes.
Also I think there’s a chance you’ll do it anyway, coz you’re cheeky like that. Puckish, even.
Here, everyone DM Bertie on Twitter; let’s go Thomas Crown Affair with this.
The original or the remake?
Nothing makes me go ‘whoop!’ in that lot.
Thank god for the early bird cheaper ticket price, which was reasonable value, even after seeing the line-up :)
Still though, its paid for now, and weather permitting, I think I’ll enjoy the weekend all the same. Fupp the moaners!
Pete Tong tho? For memories alone I shall have to listen to that while throwing the hoover around now
:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53b29ilu-uc
hey ! I’ll have to do the bathroom now too ! Being self employed is tough.
You hoover the bathroom?
Who doesn’t?
naturally, gets any stray hair..I have a military aproach to housework to make up for my lack of discipline at work .ahh procrastination.
Erm, nobody. I wasn’t asking in a surprised way, more in a ‘Oh right, so do I, definitely’ way.
I do…
*raises hand sheepishly*
It’s coz I’m lazy, see.
Strong like bull as the ad says Janet :) More power to ya!
A Tribe Called Quest, headlining? ‘sake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO2Su3erRIA
Just sayin’
Suckers!
Electric Gicknic! Amirite folks?
You are, pet. You sure are.
Hey Merv, book slowdive…