by the way. only 60% of line up is released! a lot more playing that havent been released yet and wont be for another ten days!!! i awaiting a mail with full listing on it from someone close who is working at e.p.

Yeah im defo up for meeting, will be nice to talk to fellow sonic youth fans

the fall have been announced!!!!!!!!!
65 days of static as well

is the full announced line up.................................

Beastie Boys; Clap Your Hands Say Yeah; Erasure; Dub Pistols & Terry Hall; Sonic Youth; Bjork; Hot Chip; Iggy & The Stooges; Easy Allstars; The Undertones; Chemical Brothers; Kieran Hebden & Steven Reid; Manic Street Preachers; Horace Andy; UNKLE; Mixmaster Mike; Kila; Ladytron; The Jesus and Mary Chain; Fionn Regan; Soul II Soul; Magic Numbers; The Good, The Bad and the Queen; Damien Dempsey; The Go! Team; Nouvelle Vague; DHOL Foundation; The Fall; Rilo Kiley; Malajube; MIA; Fujiya & Miyagi; Paul Hartnoll Band; Modest Mouse; Serena Maneesh; Warlords of Pez; Final Fantasy; The Jimmy Cake; Bat for Lashes; Camera Obscura; Sons & Daughters; Dave Couse; Duke Special; Marlena Shaw & Orchestra; Primal Scream; Electrelane; Apparat; Oppenheimer; Two Gallants; Simple Kid; Gospel Choir; Patrick Wolf; Skream; The Aliens; Jarvis Cocker; Kissaway Trail; My Brightest Diamond; Dave Geraghty; Aim; The Flaws; Ukelele Orchestra of GB; Polyphonic Spree; Stephen Fretwell; Dans le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip; Halves; Craig Armstrong; Rahzel; Ratatat;!!!; LCD Soundsystem; Deerhoof; Red Kid; Scott Matthews; Shychild; Si Schroeder; Good Shoes; Acoustic Mainlines Spritualized; Lonely Dear; The Company; Architecture in Helsinki; Spilly Walker; Channel One; Delorentos; Candi Payne; The Field; Fight Like Apes; Angus & Julia Stone; Luisito Quintero; The Little Ones; 65 Days of Static.

Acts are also now listed according to day they perform at www.electricpicnic.ie. Running orders will go live the Wednesday before event.

Nice line-up. It's a shame it's in a field with ten of thousands of other people, not a club with a few hundred.

I hear they're playing 7PM on the Main Stage, before Iggy.

7pm sounds early but hey. ive a drive home in front of me... sy + iggy = wanna be yr dog with kim vocals...... mike watt being the common denominator.... just a thought!

oh but there is.....Warlords of Pez!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I done the ol' pack up and drive home Sunday night thing last year, but being absolutely fucking shattered, barely able to stand during the YYYs, I reckon the Youth will require a bit of an alcoholic buzz to keep me going, and in a decent mood; so I might have to bare the traffic on Monday morning. A bus would be ideal but I haven't come across any.

now that's what I call a lineup.

what part of wexford are u from mr nolan?
im sure there is a bus going from wexford town, i can check it out for you tomorrow.....

The town, Pauly. I've already checked White's and Fleetline, nothing's doing. Surprising, I know. I'll drive, fuck it.
They had a thing in the News of the World yesterday about breathalyzers in the car-park, and no time limit on leaving the site come Monday. Pretty ingenious; not that I'm a piss-head but nice to know if you're over the limit so as to avoid hassle with the piglets.

yeah. im gonna have a very sober sunday unfortunatley. you are from the town, do i know you then i d say we have come in contact before... i live in murrintown but work as a postman around town. the only postman with long hair in the town and the only postman that blares magik markers and lightning bolt from the van on regular days!

man id offer a lift except my car is full at the moment but ill get back to you if anything changes.

do you know the guys from chaplin by any chance, i do work for them......

Can't say that I do, but I've probably seen them around somewhere. I might recognize you. Seem to recall a long-haired posty delivering me a couple of a DVDs a while back, though I don't remember any Lightning Bolt ;)

Did you ever happen to drop a mix-CD into Finnegan's, back in the day? I remember a friend, who worked there, showing one to me once, saying a postman had left it in. It had Pavement and Explosions in the Sky on it and I remember thinking, This guy has a bit of taste.

ha! yeah, that was me! paul wanted some musak dj for thursday nites in there so i dropped one into him. it didnt work out cuz im up at quarter to 5 every weekday morning for work. funny, i went in there one afternoon with my folks for lunch and there it was playing! ian doyle from chaplin used to run the songclub in there on tuesdays, all a bit to singer songwritery for me tho.....

ha! classic, same small town and meeting via an internet forum based in new york. world shrinkage!!!!!!!!!

if i remember correctly the cd had an xray image of a fish on the cover.

i wonder where it is now? paul finnegans car? bin? box of dontwantanymore?

Yeh, I went to that songwriter thing now and then, fucking interminable.

I'm guessing it ended up in the skip with the rest of the place... Should've played it more ;)

And a bit odd, yeh, but 'tis the wonder of the internet; and Sonic Youth, I guess.

Have you seen them before?

dalymount 93 and marlay park 2005. i met steve there and got my syr4 signed. this weekends aim is to get thursts, kims and lees scribbles on it to! im workin n that!

I wias at dalymount park too, what a scorcher of a day that was!

Cool. In 93 I was six, think I was only getting into Merzbow then ;) Couldn't bring myself to go in 05, Chemical Brothers and that. So first time for myself.

How are you planning to meet them? If you do, tell them to sort out a gig at Vicar Street or something, for fuck sake!

Me too! I still remember the sunburn :(

yeah i agree on that small venue thing. itsbeen a decade since sy played indoors in ireland! i said that to steve at marlay pk and he seemed suprized.

fuck it, at least its the picnic and not oxygen they are playing!!!

by the way. my mates band halfset are in the body and tonic stage at 11.15pm on saturday, check em. nice and chilled and funky!

...and bob mould getting hit on the head with bogroll the second he walked onstage!!! welcome to phibsboro mr mould!

packed and ready to go! 8am im off, see you all there........

quick thought. we could meet up at the midday mass in the inflatable church on sunday?

Not sure how the head is gonna be then but if we are there ill be the one in the confusion is sex t shirt. If not enjoy Sonic Youth! And all the other amazing acts

Candle
Incinerate
Reena
'Cross the Breeze
Hey Joni
What A Waste
100%
Jams Run Free
Pink Steam
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Silver Rocket

thanks to everone who put up with my opinionated rantings before sy! i was the guy with curly hair and the thurston atp shirt! yet again, pre sy gigs are a great place to meet new cool people and be as anally retentive about music as you can possibly be..........

if my "china girl" is on here..................... its still an awful song!!!

purple bumble bee, there were many confusion shirts but are you the melvins fan/ pearl jam hater we were talking too?

I sort of knew it would be good when Thurston said the word "jamarooni."

i was the dude crowd surfing in the red sonic youth nurse t-shirt.

oh the fun times.

ha! kick me in the head will ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Silver Rocket and 'Cross The Breeze. It was great to finally hear those songs live, Daydream Nation being my favourite lp from the Youth.

ending with silver rocket told me that it was time to go home. the perfect ending to a near-perfect festival

oh yeah, thanks to whoever donated 2 marlboro lights to us just before sy played, very appreciative!!!!!!!!

thank god they were light :P

glad you have enjoyed.
was sound good?

links, pictures?

I just saw in news, somebody died at EP.

Yeah, a 23 year old guy collapsed and died at the Chemical Brothers set, sad news.

The sound wasn't bad but I'm not a big fan of main stages. I wouldn't exactly say that Sonic Youth were noisy or anything. A bit more volume would have been nice.

the lack of volume was very dissapointing especially after seeing the fall and !!! who were fucking loud out. sy should have been in the electric arena tent, that would have made a great gig into an astonishing one!

rich, i forgot to bring my camera, i would have got some great shots. the girl beside me (my china girl) got some quality photos but i dont think she is a memebr here, tho she seemed hardcore enough!

[quote=PAULYBEE2656]the lack of volume was very dissapointing especially after seeing the fall and !!! who were fucking loud out. sy should have been in the electric arena tent, that would have made a great gig into an astonishing one!


Yeah, The Fall were great. That's my fourth time seeing them and it was probably the best. The drums and the bass were really loud but crisp. (if you don't include MES' amp fiddling and microphone experimentation):p

marks amp fiddling is hilarious. did you notice the only equipment he didnt fiddle with in a destructive way was elenas, the missus!!! she was telling him what to do!!!! christ she is gorgeous in the flesh as well!