Sonic Youth plays Electric Picnic!
 

In Ireland. FRI 31ST-SUN 2ND SEP 07, STRADBALLY HALL, STRADBALLY CO LAOIS

Fuck Yeah! Where to buy a ticket??? Sorry I've posted this one in nonsonics accidentaly.

This year's highlights include The Beastie Boys doing their first Irish show in over a decade; the recently reformed Iggy And The Stooges - their only UK/Ireland performance this year; a rare live outing by the wonderful Bjork; ex-Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker; a hark back to 1980s punk-pop with The Jesus And Mary Chain; cutting edge dance-rock from LCD Soundsystem - who have just released one of the albums of the year; the newly resurgent Primal Scream; the first ever Irish show by the Damon Albarn-led The Good, The Bad and The Queen; Modest Mouse, the dramatic Polyphonic Spree and the eminently adaptable Craig Armstrong; Soul II Soul - who are arriving over with a 12 piece band and string section in tow! Paul Hartnoll's The Ideal Condition make a debut performance in Ireland and the return of the Dublin Gospel Choir who will be there to redeem your souls on Sunday morning.

Also performing are: Sonic Youth, Aim, The Go Team!, Ratatat, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Ladytron, Jamie Lidell, Damien Dempsey, The Magic Numbers, The Undertones, Fujiya & Miyagi, Horace Andy, Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain, Marlena Shaw, !!! (Chk, Chk, Chk), A Trak, Josh Wink, Electrelane, Bonde do Role, Deerfhoof, Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid, Derek May, Hextatic, Derick Carter, The Glimmers, The Elecktrons, DJ Marky, plus many more yet to be announced.

o yeah, it's here

http://www.ticketmaster.ie/event/18003D88AA041B0C?artistid=952846&majorcatid=10001& minorcatid=60

220 eur....uff. nice lineup tho. it seems they're going on sale tomorrow. doesn't seem you can buy ticket just for one day, huh?

nah, man, weekend only. it's a good little festival...went last year, was worth the admittedly ridiculous price.

and though the line-up this year is decent, there's a good few yet to be added. wilco, for instance, are pretty much confirmed, but not on that list.

That's a busy weekend you're going to be having, Richard :)

sy
lcd soundsystem
fujiya and myagi
beasties
deerhoof
stooges (even if the wierdness is shit)
excellent. gotta attend this mother

sy on the sunday.......

all i can say now is..
cmon shellac and cmon nick cave/grinderman/dirty three
low,

^^^ i'd say low are playing, but they're gonna wait and announce until their solo gig has been and gone. same with cat power.

they have a gig coming up??????
drums and guns is a faboulous album...

another ep wish of mine is liars, thy like ireland and are doing an album in the early summer, or now actually!!!

yep -- may 9th, the village, check ticketmaster. as for liars, that would be too cool.

foggy notions organize a stage every year. they usually put on some super cool indie-type stuff. last year they had yo la tengo. line up for that should be announced soon-ish.

true true. i wonder is sy doing the daydream set like at atp and the london gigs? that would be supersweet.......

€220 is an awful lot of money to fork out at once, double it cuz the missus is going too! fuck it. havent picniced it yet due to kidz and other stuff so i gotta go this time. sy is the excuse!

Hmmmmm.....

Have 2 tickets booked to see SY play the Roundhouse on thursday.... I could be back for the Friday/Saturday and pop straight down to Stradbally so I get to see SY on the Sunday.

Christ.... this is serious fucking money

in deed. should be worth it.

seen a shitload of good stuff there last year: mogwai, pj harvey, ylt, broken social scene. crowd's fairly lax, too. especially compared to the inhabitants of the shithole that is oxegen.

as for them playing ddn, i don't think so. they'd have mentioned it, i think. not too bothered, first time seeing them, they could play anything. but the sprawl would be a treat :)

Pauly what do you make of Steve apparently......dudududu..... lying! He said to you that they wanted to do their own gig here instead of another fest date.....

I'll forgive him this once :D

Ok, here's the full list of who's been announced:

The Beastie Boys,
Chemical Brothers
Iggy and the Stooges,
Bjork,
Primal Scream,
Jarvis Cocker,
The Good, The Bad and The Queen,
Modest Mouse,
Soul II Soul,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
LCD Soundsystem
Craig Armstrong.
The Undertones
Fujiya & Miyagi
Horace Andy
Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain
Marlena Shaw
!!! (Chk, Chk, Chk)
Electrelane
Deerhoof
Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid
Sonic Youth
Aim
The Go Team!
Ratatat
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Ladytron
Damien Dempsey
The Magic Numbers


Bodytonic Tent:
Bonde do Role / Jamie Lidell / Mr Scruff / Simian Mobile Disco (live) / Derrick May / Hexstatic / Josh Wink / Derrick Carter / The Glimmers / DJ Marky / A-trak* / Greenskeepers LIVE

i got my ticket this morning, it cost me €222.25, what a trippy amount of money,

i'm pure hoping for the Daydream Nation set

Same here man. Had a ticket for the Saturday show but organised a change to Thursday, and changed my flights this morning. So here's my crazy plan:

Fly to London on Thursday morn. Rock the Youth. Sleep in airport and fly back to Dublin at 10.00am Friday morning. Head straight to the Picnic for more antics.

I've spent over 550euro alone today - EP tickets for my girlfriend and I, and the bastard Ryanair charging me 100euro to change my flights by 2 days.

Still, gonna be the most amazing weekend ever.

It's a great line-up, I've never been to EP, but with sonic youth playing, and jarvis as well. I'll have to find the money from somewhere to go. I've never seen SY, and am dying to see them, and it's been so long since I've been to a festival. Money, money, money....

Splendid stuff!

doubt they'll play DDN start to finish but i'd say it'll be a fairly DDN heavy set in any case. If they spend time gearing up the songs for the don't look back tour they probably won't just drop them all from the set when they're done.
I'd love to see that, they diddn't play any DDN the last time I saw them.

Need a couple of days to get the money together, but if I remember rightly took a little while to sell out last year so should be ok.

It is a good festival over all, especially food wise. Even had decent sushi last year. Can't argue with that.

expensive as well. don't know what if to go or not. i'm due to pay car insurance+road tax soon, then Paris, London + rents and all shit, hehe. I'd really like to go tho. I have to try scratch cards probably.

Christ, i never even considered sleeping in the airport. There's a few quid saved :D

Getting my EP ticket in the morning... it's going to be an insane weekend. SY are the only band I'd do this shit for

Hey folks. Tickets are rumoured to sell out by the end of this week, at the current rate of sale. Get your skates on.

If you havent got the money, try soundcellar, they supposedly give you a week or two to pay the balance.

Best of luck and stuff, just got mine.

got my ticket yesterday. 32000 tickets went down 4000 in the space of 6 hours!!!!! this will sellout at the weekend i reckon.......

ithinkimissyou- ha! well im sure its out of steves hand but hey, its been 10 years since an indoor irish sy gig but at least i dont have to go to poxygen to see them, and they will probably be one of the last bands ill see at e.p. to round off a hazy weekend. all i ask is for sun, heat and no fucking rain!!!!!

another irish boardie meet up is on the cards guys!

i'm up for a meet up anyways.

good god in heaven! i don't log on for a while and look what happens! looks like i'll have to sell my mother to get to this one but it's probably worth it!

gotta go sonicsphere. its a straight run up from wexford via carla and portlaoise, 2 hours tops even with traffic.......

big rumours circulating about shellac playing too. no one else extra announced as of yet!

shellac?

*cums*

where did you hear that?

No such straight run for me, I'm delighted to say! From Donegal to Dublin on the Friday (or maybe the Thursday if I can swing it) to London to catch SY do the DN thing in the RH, then back over on the earliest AM on Saturday to drive over to the EP, hopefully reaching car-park/campsite queue-hell by about 9.30, maybe 10, before a wknd of unabashed self-harming indulgence, leading up to and hopefully including the SY appearance on Sunday, and a final downward spiral which will somehow, and without much forethought, calculation or logic, return me to my starting point in time for a feigned work effort on Tuesday, all on some pretence which I have as yet to concoct.


cbeattie

kinda on the grpevine regarding other gig promoters in dublin.... its all hush hush but no smoke without fire....

how many folk from wexford are there on here, there seems to be more each week!!!!

just been added to bill

erasure (?????????????????????)
mia
spiritualized acoustic mainline
sons and daughters (ex arab strap thingy)

oh yeah...
its totally sold out now guys!

Spiritualized, very nice.

As for Erasure, absolutely horrible, but EP seem to have a hard-on for nostalgia acts.

ha, already had the erasure men pitching tents, CAMPsite jokes.. yeah ep does throw up odd acts but i would have loved to see gary numan last year, tubeway armys replicas is a damn fine album!!!!!

spiritualized acoustic mainline.....acoustic sets from spacemen 3 and new album!!!

chemical brothers now added.. yay fucking yay. the new album suckes....

now added..
yo la tengo
si schroeder (recommend seeing this guy, big time)
malajube
nouvelle vague

Who told you Yo La Tengo are playing? They played last year.

saw it in hot press or some rag!

warlords of pez are conducting their midday mas on the sunday. attendance is mandatory....

I still might be going. pisses me off they'd be here and i wont see them play. any spare tickets? electricpicnic.ie maybe, huh?

There are loads on ebay.ie but kinda expensive, but lots of good bands playing this year. best line up yet

its getting closer now, so who is actually interested in meeting up? a quick 2 pints and a chin wag after the gig so to speak.

yep....... im up for a meet. ill be there from noon on friday til about 60 minutes after sy finish! greenlight... leave it with me! face value. no profit to be made!