Electric Picnic – my must-see acts!
August 28th, 2008 by FrankOk, legging it here to get packed for the Electric Picnic… in case anyone is doing last minute research online for who they should see, here’s my must-see list.
Times and stages are provisional because Electric Picnic organisers have not released the official schedule, if I thought it was a cynical ploy to get more of us to buy those timetables for around your neck at about €25 a pop or something after paying €240 for a ticket I would NOT be happy. Especially seeing as they seem incapable of producing a usable timetable – it’s always impossible to figure out.
There is LOADS of other great music, and plenty of clashes, but below are my MUST-SEE’s. Thanks to the kind folks on Twitter including rinkyrink, nialler9 and Elimare for their help in dicovering some new acts that made my must see list.
I didn’t have time to link them up for you, but if you’re arsing about on Electric Picnic stuff you have time to Google for their MySpace pages 
Friday
Fred - Cosby Stage – 17.15
Jape – Crawdaddy – 18.30
Joan as Policewoman – Little Big Tent – 19.45
Goldfrapp (I’ll catch half this act after Joan as Policewoman) – Main Stage – 20.15
Sigur Ros – Main Stage – 22.30
Saturday
Midnight Juggernauts – Electric Arena – 15.15
Elbow – Electric Arena – 18.45
Josh Ritter – Crawdaddy – 21.15
Tindersticks – Crawdaddy – 22.45
Sunday
Florence & the Machine – Crawdaddy – 13.15
Leila – Cosby Stage – 18.00
Grinderman – Electric Arena – 19.35
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August 30th, 2008 at 1:49 am
looks like a bloody boring line up to me.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Hey Frank, How was the weekend? Are you going to post a review?
September 4th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Amaaaaaaazing weekend. Dunno if I’ll get aound the the review, it would take a long time, plus I don’t know who I was watching half the time!!!
September 4th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
How would it rate versus the previous 2 years?
September 5th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Good question – this year was a little bit less about the music for me and more about having a shed load of fun.
It compared well, the atmosphere and the crowd were as you’ll have come to expect, there was loads of stuff to do other than the music, food was great, prices weren’t too bad, and although the lineup wasn’t as immediately appealing maybe as other years there was some seriously good gigs on.
I discovered a newfound love of electronica and found some really good acts like The Presets, and although I missed them everyone was talking about Crystal Castles so I bought their album too… fuck it maybe I will get around to that write up…!
Sigur Ros was like BEING IN HEAVEN – I can’t say it enough!
September 8th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Was I telling you about this the other night?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpJYCBG7Or4