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  • Electric Picnic - 14 new acts to be added to the bill

    June 30, 2009 @ 5:16 pm | by Jim Carroll

    Full list to come on Thursday, sports fans. Anyone want to do some guessing?

    • 42 Comments

    1.
    June 30, 2009
    5:21 pm

    i just can’t work myself up to have a guess…

    bring back one day festivals in the RDS called lisdoonvarna… but with better acts this time… and guaranteed sunshine…

    Comment by Ally
    2.
    June 30, 2009
    5:40 pm

    Blitzen Trapper

    Comment by guckletis
    3.
    June 30, 2009
    5:54 pm

    Alela Diane, Peter Broderick…..

    Comment by Quint
    4.
    June 30, 2009
    6:06 pm

    Yngwie Malmsteen
    Burt Reynolds
    Englebert Humpaduck
    Iron Butterfly and the Garda Band (as In-A-Garda-Da-Vida)
    The Tesco Checkout Revue Burlesque Show
    That awful Barbershop quartet that hangs around Glasthule on Bloomsday
    The Priests
    The John Player Tops Winners of 1992
    The Fall

    Actually this should be my entry to the oxegen competition

    Comment by Major Alfonso
    5.
    June 30, 2009
    6:15 pm

    I would defo say Tori Amos (hopefully!) She is in UK the following Monday

    Comment by al70
    6.
    June 30, 2009
    6:33 pm

    Oh why must you torment me so - if I had just seen the acts it wouldn’t be so bad, but now despite myself I’ll be hoping only to be disappointed!

    Comment by Joe
    7.
    June 30, 2009
    6:44 pm

    aeroplane
    cap pas cap
    the rye
    baaba maal
    nightmares on wax
    alloy mental
    major lazer
    stee downes
    blitzen trapper
    julie feeney
    overlap audiovisual thingy
    zombie nation
    beardyman
    berkavitch
    fake blood
    katie kim
    toddla t
    tiny vipers
    streetlife djs
    omri hasan
    laura izibor
    richmond fontaine

    Comment by sponger
    8.
    June 30, 2009
    7:04 pm

    Florence & The Machine
    TV on the Radio
    The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
    Foals
    Friendly Fires
    The Gaslight Anthem
    Fight Like Apes
    Passion Pit
    Hockey
    The Phenomenal Handclap Band
    Camera Obscura
    Fever Ray
    Casiokids
    Of Montreal
    M83
    Ladyhawke

    Oh wait…

    Comment by Lenny
    9.
    June 30, 2009
    7:13 pm

    the jackson 4?

    Comment by petee
    10.
    June 30, 2009
    8:12 pm

    In Tua Nua v An Bord Snip Nua?

    Comment by hugger
    11.
    June 30, 2009
    8:37 pm

    Dunno but there is guaranteed to be at least one act whose presence there will greatly upset me because I’ve had to opt out of the Picnic this year.

    Comment by Colette
    12.
    June 30, 2009
    9:06 pm

    kraftwerk
    the cure
    animal collective
    bon iver
    squarepusher
    richie hawtin

    Comment by kh
    13.
    June 30, 2009
    10:07 pm

    Sponger is definitely right about Julie Feeney - it’s on her My Space page.

    Pretty sure Richmond Fontaine have already been officially announced. Major Lazer must be playing, i’ve read so many internet rumours that they are and the internet never lies, does it?

    Doubt Alela Diane is playin as she’s doin Crawdaddy in a couple of weeks.

    As Lenny’s rather wittily hinted, a lot of your traditionally EPish sort of bands are playing the horrid, teen puke fest that is poxegen instead.

    Am not goin to list who i’d hope will appear as hopes will be cruelly dashed i’d imagine!

    Comment by Alan
    14.
    June 30, 2009
    11:27 pm

    petee made a funny.

    Comment by kablaamee
    15.
    July 1, 2009
    12:03 am

    Yeah, on the day of the first annoucement I was commenting on nialler9.com and wrongly took a hint from Niall to mean ALL my favourite bands were playing, when in fact none of them were.

    Regardless of the fact that lots of names I’d hoped to see at EP are at Oxegen instead, I’m quite excitied about going to a festival where there’s loads and loads of bands I don’t know particularly well to check out. Loads of potentially exciting discoveries to make. Anyway, at the risk of being crushed, I’d love to see one or two of Animal Collective, Dan Deacon, Final Fantasy or Doves on the list.

    Comment by Lenny
    16.
    July 1, 2009
    12:31 am

    ”kraftwerk
    the cure
    animal collective
    bon iver”

    We can but dream.

    Comment by Quint
    17.
    July 1, 2009
    12:43 am

    patrick kelleher and his cold dead hands.
    prince and the n.p.g.
    future islands

    Comment by maeveyo
    18.
    July 1, 2009
    8:55 am

    KH - if you’re close I’ll be very happy!

    Comment by Le Catch
    19.
    July 1, 2009
    9:00 am

    Phoenix

    Comment by aidan
    20.
    July 1, 2009
    9:05 am

    The Liquidators

    Comment by UnaRocks
    21.
    July 1, 2009
    9:07 am

    i heard richie hawtin….i’ll soon find out how reliable that source is…
    hoping for animal collective & bon ivor also

    Comment by Catherine
    22.
    July 1, 2009
    9:12 am

    i’ll eat my hat if there’s anything worth talking about in this upcoming annoucement

    and it’s a big hat

    Comment by Keith
    23.
    July 1, 2009
    9:31 am

    unarocks - down girl!

    Comment by Jim Carroll
    24.
    July 1, 2009
    9:32 am

    Jamie T just announced some October shows there, wonder if he’ll throw in a few more fests before then?

    Comment by Sean C
    25.
    July 1, 2009
    9:38 am

    Lamb
    Major Lazer
    The Big Pink
    Temper Trap
    Katie Kim
    Aeroplane
    and a few others

    I’d crawl over hot coals for AC and/or Sunset Rubdown (whos new album is a thing of beauty).

    Comment by ShowYourBones
    26.
    July 1, 2009
    9:39 am

    Nothing much I imagine, but what I do want to know is, your top ten for the year so far Jim. It’s July 1st, will we be treated to your rundown of the year so far like last year?

    Comment by Totally Dublin
    27.
    July 1, 2009
    9:41 am

    Totally - you read my mind, though it’s a list with a twist. Coming up later today

    Comment by Jim Carroll
    28.
    July 1, 2009
    9:48 am

    The twist being ‘heres 14 new acts for this years EP, which has unfortunately been cancelled’.

    I jest.

    Comment by ShowYourBones
    29.
    July 1, 2009
    9:49 am

    Bon Iver
    Alela Diane
    Animal Collective
    Peter Broderick (who announced via his own myspace months ago)
    Julie Feeney

    Comment by G-Man
    30.
    July 1, 2009
    10:03 am

    Roky Erickson would be great. He’s playing the Green Man Festival around the same time.

    Comment by overfriendly concierge
    31.
    July 1, 2009
    10:05 am

    Definitely Neko Case….

    Comment by JF
    32.
    July 1, 2009
    10:09 am

    It’s really funny - for all this talk of “EP not as good as it used to be”, one mention of the EP here sends traffic and comments thru’ the roof.

    Comment by Jim Carroll
    33.
    July 1, 2009
    10:28 am

    I’d love to see one or two of Animal Collective, Dan Deacon, Final Fantasy or Doves on the list.

    Final Fantasy playing Belfast on August 4th, I’m not sure he’d be doing that and EP.

    I’d crawl over hot coals for AC and/or Sunset Rubdown (whos new album is a thing of beauty).

    Sunset Rubdown playing Belfast on September 11th and Crawdaddy the next night so again, I doubt it.

    Is there anyone else who’s fervent hopes and dreams I can dash for them before I have to do an end of year warehouse stock take after lunch?

    Comment by Ian
    34.
    July 1, 2009
    10:42 am

    I knew of thon Sunset Rubdown gig in Belfast but was hoping for a slot at EP too, a man can dream can’t he?

    Whats the chances of a little crossover with Oxegen now that Festival Republic own a portion of the pie?

    Comment by ShowYourBones
    35.
    July 1, 2009
    10:43 am

    I heard a rumour that one of the EP bookers was trying to book Eazy-E for this year. I think that’s called “doing a Nick Drake”

    Comment by Jim Carroll
    36.
    July 1, 2009
    10:44 am

    will it be 14 from this list who are playing bestival a week later? taking out anybody who is playing oxegen

    http://www.bestival.net/html/artists/2009lineup

    Comment by petee
    37.
    July 1, 2009
    10:50 am

    anyone know if Tangerine Fields are coming back to EP this year - they don’t have EP info up on their site.

    Comment by JC
    38.
    July 1, 2009
    10:51 am

    David Byrne please.
    and Thom Yorke.
    and Dizzee Rascal would be fun too..

    Comment by eoiny
    39.
    July 1, 2009
    10:52 am

    Ian - I wouldn’t rule out those bands because they’re playing gigs here around the same time (aren’t Okkervil River playing EP and then Roisin the Monday after?), but maybe I’m wrong.

    Re Bon Iver, I seem to remember most of the press around his Galway Arts Fest stating it was the only Irish gig he’d be playing this year.

    Comment by Lenny
    40.
    July 1, 2009
    11:13 am

    vampire weekend
    PJ Harvey
    Grizzly Bear…raawwwrrr

    Comment by caroline
    41.
    July 1, 2009
    11:16 am

    I wouldn’t rule out those bands because they’re playing gigs here around the same time (aren’t Okkervil River playing EP and then Roisin the Monday after?), but maybe I’m wrong.

    Of course there’s always a chance (and personally I’d be very happy if there was a Bell Orchestre gig announced separate from EP) but the Okkervil River gig is, as you pointed out the day after EP finishes compared to weeks in and around the festival and neither FF or SR are scheduled to be in Europe at EP time, Pallett’s last gig on the tour is August 16th and Sunset Rubdown’s tour doesn’t start till September 9th.

    Also I suspect the Okk Riv gig in Galway is partly only happening because gugai knows them and has been trying to land them for a gig there for years.

    Comment by Ian
    42.
    July 1, 2009
    2:09 pm

    Youse can all stop guessing

    http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/ontherecord/2009/07/01/electric-picnic-latest-acts/

    Comment by Jim Carroll

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