On The Record

Electric Picnic - the countdown has begun

August 28, 2008 @ 8:15 am | by Jim Carroll

(1) Check out our Electric Picnic special which features videos from Lisa Hannigan and will be where you will find the Daily Ticket on Saturday and Sunday plus a host of other news and updates over the weekend.

(2) How about an Electric Picnic mix-tape? With Muxtape out of commission while they have a chat with the RIAA about stuff, On The Record has decided to go with 8tracks to house the latest mix. It’s available for you to listen to right now right here. Press play and enjoy.

(3) The Picnic site promises that the running orders for the music stages are “coming soon” (the times are up for the other stages). but Quint is already ahead of them. Ideal for those who want to get a head-start on planning stuff while they’re supposed to be working for the man today.

(4) First reports and photos from the festival site this afternoon. Stay tuned.

15 Comments »

August 28, 2008
9:03 am

Anybody know what time the Yellow campsite opens at?

Comment by Brian

August 28, 2008
10:28 am

Yeah I’d like to know that as well. Hoping to be down from Belfast by lunchtime.

Comment by Chris

August 28, 2008
11:19 am

all campsites open at 9am on Friday.

Comment by unarocks

August 28, 2008
11:20 am

oh…

Comment by unarocks

August 28, 2008
11:22 am

I’d like to know that myself. Heading down early tommorow and want to camp in Yellow.

Comment by Sean D

August 28, 2008
11:25 am

Kudos on the Tinariwen tune on the playlist, they’re champion!!

Comment by Emerald

August 28, 2008
11:25 am

According to the EP messageboard, it didn’t open until 1 pm last year.

http://forum.electricpicnic.ie/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5499

Comment by Sean D

August 28, 2008
12:11 pm

So I heard somewhere that Jeff Tweedy of Wilco is doing some sort of book reading thing, seperate from the gig they are playing… A few artists are doing this, does anyone one know anything about this??
Thanks in advance
Jeff

Comment by Jeff

August 28, 2008
12:40 pm

All you need to know is that You’re Only Massive are playing This is Pop Baby tent at 2.15pm on Saturday.
Megan will be making special appearance.
Fink will be live drawing.
David Murphy of Queen Kong will be playing guitar.
Paddy will be wrestling.
You know it!

Comment by Maebh C

10.

August 28, 2008
1:20 pm

Eh, they do realise it starts tomorrow don’t they? When’s ’soon’? Where did Quint get his/her information? Is it reliable do you think?

Comment by Gwen

11.

August 28, 2008
2:56 pm

official timetable is on entertainment.ie

http://entertainment.ie/summerfestivals/timetable.asp?fid=1397

same as quint’s as far as i can see.

Comment by B'dum

12.

August 28, 2008
3:10 pm

nialler9 mixtape

http://www.nialler9.com/blog/2008/08/28/electric-picnic-mixtape/

Comment by Niall

13.

August 28, 2008
5:01 pm

Gwen@10..it’s 100 per cent genuine, it couldn’t actually BE any more genuine, if you get my drift. You can check it against the official timetable that has just appeared on EP website.

Comment by Quint

14.

August 28, 2008
6:15 pm

I assume everyone has gotten their hands on one or other of the timetables floating around. I haven’t been over to check if the official ones are up, but this one of the main music stages is nice, tidy and small for printing.

http://www.theyatecobainsbrain.com/files/EP2008.pdf

Comment by kDamo

15.

January 9, 2009
1:24 pm

There’s a very good chance that Kraftwerk or Depeche Mode will be playing on the Electric Picnic this year.

Kraftwerk are now minus founding member Florian Schneider but their recent tour without him didn’t seem to be effected. And they have released dates for an upcoming 2009 Tour. So thye may very well be there. Hopefully they can be convinced to do work with POD again after the roadies made a B*****cks of the stage set in the Royal Kilmainham Hospital.

Depeche Mode will also be in the middle of a tour and I know they are anxiuos to play Dublin so this could be their chance.

Comment by Deetrom