Anthony – playing Body & Soul stage

i see mumford & sons are still going

For all the snarky criticism, when you see the line-up like this you realise how good it will be. Can’t wait!

@Jim: See that’s why we come to you for the infos. Thanks.

i’ll be doing a lot of legging it around on the saturday, lcd to edan via gil scott heron to leftfield to caribou/twinkranes

The line up looks like major overlap hell which while a nice position to be in, is kinda annoying…

Nothing earth shattering for me at first glance. Just:
Cymbals Eat Guitars & Foals versus Modest Mouse.
New Pornographers versus Wolfparade .

“.If someone has made this into one all-singing, all-dancing super timetable, let me know and I’ll link to it.”

A U.K. festival site has exactly that, but it has not yet been updated for todays running order announcements on the main music stages:
http://www.clashfindergeneral.co.uk/s/ep2010/

@ Catherine

Thought the exact same thing myself

Couple of clashes – wanted to see both Jonsi and modest Mouse, the Low Anthem and the National, Wolf Parade and Massive Attack… Coulda been worse I guess though! Roll on Friday!!

Would have though Villagers would be higher up the bill. Way too much going on Saturday night between 12 and 2…..

Loving the way Sunday has worked out. The national and The new pornographers dont clash. Headline slot for the new pornographers is cool but not sure what that ‘Cosby Stage ‘ is like for viewing & sound etc . Any ideas there Jim?

Looking forward to LCD in electric arena but would like to have seen teh frames. I reckon LVD is gonna be crazy packed (Florence style last year).

Its the Crawdaddy stage for me on Saturday Night.

So can we get a few recommendations for the festival. Say 3 -5 acts to see on each day…..

Argggh – Eels vs. Pil clash alert. Pil it will have to be. Eels will be back for their own gig later in the year no doubt.

Some overlapping between Fever Ray/National/Massive Attack but could be a lot worse. Will see all of Fever Ray (Do NOT miss this) and most of Massive Attack and National. Looking forward to MNDR, Crystal Castles, L Marling, Philip Selway too…And So I Watch You From Afar and A Crowley will get Saturday going very nicely indeed.

Mountain Man might work on the main stage if the weather’s good. Can’t see Roxy Music pulling it off as a mainstage headline act though.

Roxy music Vs eels; phil selway vs villagers; low anthem vs national are the 3 big clashes for me. But clashes are as inevitable as manky toilets.

The most important question is what’s the deal with 45min to 1 hour gaps between some acts on the bigger stages. I can’t remeber it being that long other years.

And Quint, have you heard anything about a proper eels gig? That would be sweet.

bah humbug ! the fall clashing with fever ray.

bah humbug ! the fall clashes with fever ray.

An awful lot of cash to fork out for what are 90% unknown bands and a couple of decent ones. Even the headliners are not really headline material. e240 for a ticket, and at least another e260 say for transport, food and drink etc making it a e500 weekend at least. Sure you can have a weeks holiday in the Meditteranean for that much. And there you’ll have guaranteed sunshine, no queues for toilets or showers (covered in other peoples faecal mess) and much less crazy weirdos wandering around. One well aimed nuclear bomb on Stradbally, and another on Punchestown at Oxegen time and we’d wipe out half the delinquent messers in this country as well as all those thieving music promoters and overated layabout bands. Hoo haa!

The fact that I can (just about) manage to juggle The National, Fever Ray and Massive Attack on Sunday night is a relief.

Glen@”ha! and some people are actually willing to pay for this! the same bands that were playing 10 years ago…enjoy your tent & portaloo…”

EP started in 2004 and only massive and the Frames have played before.

Peter@28”And Quint, have you heard anything about a proper eels gig? That would be sweet”

No, heard nothing yet but there are usually gig announcements after the Picnic and hopefully Eels will be one – new album out and all that and they haven’t played here in a while. I doubt Pil will be back for a standalone gig so I’m gonna go see them instead. Who can resist that Lydon snarl? Get the bread ready – Britain and Cork’s best butter salesman is on his way!

Sam – I think that is The Truth

Saw Roxy Music at Rock en Seine in Paris last Sunday night. Great versions of ‘Virginia Plain’ and ‘Love Is The Drug’ really got everyone buzzing, although a few proggier numbers in a row (a bit of a Montreaux Jazz Festival vibe) midway almost dampened the buzz. No ’80s cocktail lounge/coffee table stuff like ‘Avalon’, mostly 70s stuff with ‘Let’s Stick Together’ and ‘Jealous Guy’ as encores. Overall the sound and visuals were great and himself was in suave form. Definitely worth seeing, though the clash with PiL AND Eels is a tough one…

flynnduism/ciaran – re axing of theatre groups. Could anyone hear have named those 22 groups before this thread went up? People don’t buy tix for EP for theatre groups – yes, it’s part of the package but you don’t spend €240 for some plays. I think it’s probably a cutback – though a strange one, seeing as they weren’t paying for their services, per that post – but it’s probably not the only one. As Joe said on another post yestereday, this is the year when people deemed that €240 was too much, no matter how much they wanted to see Janelle Monae, The National, Crystal Swing or Ryan Tubridy reading the newspapers.

Yeah I won’t be miss seeing those shows either – not why I’m there.
Still it’s a very tough break for those who were all aset to go and perform

Jim@43,

no, absolutely not. I have no interest whatsoever in plays, cabarets, debates, talks, or any of the non-music stuff at all. personally i’d be delighted if they cut about 50% of the attractions, and brought down the ticket price.

It just seems very strange that they’re cutting things from the bill at this stage, especially seeing as you’d think EP would be trying to get as many bodies through the door to make money in other areas (eg. the massive amount of competitions for tickets going).
if they’re cutting acts (however irrelevent to 95% of people), then i wonder how that bodes for the rest of the festival, given the organisational and and facilities cutbacks of last year?

although, Reynolds says it’s going to be a glorious sunny 22degree sell-out, so there couldn’t possibly be problems….

John – that was always the case – bands had to request weekend passes if they wanted one.

I’d be happy with just the music stages and Mindfield – get rid of everything else – even Body and Soul!!(I know, shock, horror|). Reduce ticket price and get better headliners with the savings made.

Follow up statement:

Day passes have been released for Saturday and Sunday and the majority of performances will be going ahead as originally schooled. The Theater companies are being contacted as we type! With the new arrangements

Ha, didn’t notice that!

Day passes? Well, yee-haw. One measly day pass to treck all the way down to Laois, lug your set and costumes through a million acres, do the show, then leave the premises. No payment in kind at all, just the sheer honour of performing at the blessed Electric Picnic. No thanks!