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Nitin @ the picnic?

Bit of puzzle here. Nitin Sawhney (that electronic/moody/chill/hip-hop/all round ledge) says in his site that he is playin' the Picnic on the 31st @ 21:45.proof.

But the good people of the Picnic don't have it up on their site. Is he playing and they forgot to tell us or has he been dropped from the line up and they have forgotten to tell him?

Either way he has a new album due in Oct.13th called London Undersound & will be playing the SAMA festival on the 11th of Oct so we get an Irish show out of him this year.

Picnic is safe!

Rejoice brothers and sisters. The Picnic is safe from court wranglings and overdue payments. POD and IMRO who were fighting over cash from past gigs, going as far as talk so stoppin all future concerts by POD which would include this years Electric Picnic. Salvation came this week when both partys saw the light and have ensured all the faithful can worship the Gods of music in the mud.
Amen.

Picnic could be cancelled

Our beloved Picnic is in danger!
It may be cancelled as a result of an on going dispute between Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) and POD concerts. The fight revolves around royalties going back 4 years for a number of concerts including the Electric Picnic. We are not talking a few quid here either, it’s more than €432,000. 
According to the Irish Times  if IMRO don’t get their dues they could apply to restrain future live events by POD, which would mean the Picnic could very soon end up on the chopping block! Mr Justice Kelly, who will sit in on the case has given Pod 7 days to lodge their defence and then 3 weeks leeway for the sides to see if they can settle out of court.
Come on guys my Summer Holiday was booked just for this………fix it, fix it FIX IT!

More Picnic Acts

The Picnic line just got bigger and so much better. Roll on Gomez who will play the whole of Bring It On in honour of its 10th birthday.......Christ is it ten years?!

Picnic Time!

Sex Pistols, Sigur Ros, Grinderman, Franz Ferdinand, George Clinton & The P-Funk Allstars, My Bloody Valentine, Goldfrapp, Christy Moore, Wilco, The Gossip, Duffy, Underworld, Tinariwen, CSS, Tindersticks, New Young Pony Club, Josh Ritter, Lisa Hannigan, Cathy Davey, That Petrol Emotion, The Breeders, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Sinead O'Connor, Henry Rollings, The Waterboys, The Roots, Kila, Micah P Hinson, Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes), Hayseed Dixie, Candi Staton, Juana Molina, Turin Brakes, Faust, Midnight Juggernauts, Tartit, Hadouken!, Silver Apples, Mark Geary, Teitur, Blitzen Trapper, Absentee, Balanescu Quartet, Lou Rhodes, Adrian Crowley, One Day International, The Yard Dogs, Tobias Froberg, Boss Volenti, Dawn Landes, Constantines, Yacht, Lionheart Brothers, Large Mound, Emmy the Great, Foals, Kormac & the BSQ Band, Jape, Noisettes, Dublin Gospel Choir.

The list comes form here. The ones in bold have gotten me all giddy.

Lee Scratch Perry, The Orb, Gemma Hayes, Bloc Party, James, David Kitt, Human League, Rodrigo y Gabriela and Fatboy Slim are also tipped to play. Now if they could steal The Prodigy for a set we would be rightly sorted.

The fun runs from the 29th to the 31st of Aug

Electric Picnic 'early' tickets out Friday

Electric Picnic 2008 'early bird' tickets go on sale this Friday, November 9. So, should we be expecting another increase of the normal price after the early birds fly?  Here's the email...

As the sheep of Stradbally Hall finally get rid of the ringing in their ears we can announce that early bird tickets for the 2008 festival go on sale next Friday November 9. 

PHOTOS: Electric Picnic 2007

What music?

PlayRewind were in part at Electric Picnic over the weekend - this amateur photographer was there from late Saturday afternoon and had to leave before mid-day on Sunday. Here is a selection of what we snapped, there are over 20 more photos on our Flickr Electric Picnic gallery.

The Chemical Brothers headlined the Saturday night line up (on Sunday morning actually)

The Beastie Boys on stage in a rather large tent, but one which could not take half the crowd. Sure, they're a new group, how would anybody know so many people would have wanted to see them? 

Polyphonic Spree: Cult or not, you decide. 

MIA on Saturday evening.

Some of the stranger headgear for the weekend.

Forget the silent disco, the Gramophone Disco was opened for far longer, then the strange looking car tuck over, after that there was a bicycle-powered disco.

No comment.

Why were the Beastie Boys in a tent?

So, EP again has set standards high for the competition (ie MCD), but that doesn't mean there wasn't fuck ups.

The Beastie Boys played in a tent on Saturday around the same time played on the main stage. It was quite a large tent, but there was - to our estimate - at least four times the amount around the tent trying to hear as well as see the New York group (some picture above).

Parts of the side of the tent was opened up (as pictured below), from what we could see this was done on the direction of the Gardaí.

As would be expected, sound was quite low outside the tend. To our ears the sound volume was raised within 15 mins or so, but many left quite early in the set - although some most likely heading for the Chemical Brothers who were .

So, who put, made, or even allowed the Beastie Boys to play in the bloody tent?