Picileaks. It’s almost impossible to keep something under wraps when it comes festival lineups these days. Blame Facebook and Twitter and all that shizz. What’s bad for promoters is good for punters though and above, via Twitter in the last hour subsequently is the official lineup from the Electric Picnic website. Somebody shared a link they shouldn’t have and it’s too late now.
Of particular note to me personally: Flying Lotus, Beirut, PJ Harvey, Pulp, Lykke Li, Mogwai, Health, Adebisi Shank and lots more. It seems the decision to establish Oxegen as the pop/rock festival and Electric Picnic as the alternative one is an excellent one all-round.
Full copy and paste list after the jump but for now watch the video below.
Update: A few more names are on the official lineup: Sinead O’ Connor, The Cast Of Cheers, Micah P Hinson & Toots And The Maytals. Tickets are €240 for the weekend. Sunday tickets are €99. Both prices do not include fees.
I’m off to Austin for SXSW. Stay tuned for coverage of a gazillion bands next week. Later. In the meantime, what do you think?
Arcade Fire
Pulp
The Chemical Brothers
Interpol
PJ Harvey
Beirut
Jimmy Cliff
DJ Shadow
White Lies
OMD
Midlake
The Charlatans
Big Audio Dynamite
The Go! Team
Boys Noize
Paul Kalkbrenner
Twin Shadow
Willy Mason
Trentemoller
Killing Joke
Ivan St. John
Dave Clarke
Caitlin Rose
HEALTH
Mogwai
O Emperor
Adam Beyer
The Danger is
Adebisi Shank.
Flying Lotus
Mundy
R.S.A.G.
CODES
The Walkmen
LYKKIE LI
Sharon Shannon
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now thats a line up!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hope Chapel Club, Everything Everything, Wild Beasts, Funeral Party, Wolf Parade, Tokyo Police Club, Justin Vernon/Bon Iver, Delta Spirit, Deerhunter, Cold War Kids, Bombay Bicycle Club, Band of Horses and Avi Buffalo play this or Oxegen/Ireland this year. We’re not getting enough of these great bands.
Pulp!!! 🙂
Just offhand – If they could add Death From Above 1979, as the reunion band of the year, then cinched for me.
Great line up there hope we get band of horses from the other list mentioned. Couldn’t get into lykie li two years ago. Security weren’t letting people in, but the tent wasn’t even full. I cried!
I hope their spelling is better on the actual poster, I mean, I’m as intrigued by this new ‘Lykkie Li’ person, but still….
They seem to have messed up the whole website. You’re only meant to be able to see the mainpage but if you google ‘electric picnic 2011’ the 2nd result gives you the tickets page with links to all pages. (http://www.electricpicnic.ie/tickets) page. it’s not displaying correctly but you can get info from it. (nothing that interesting though.
Cheers,
Pa.
Caribou and Death From Above would swing it for a lot of people……….Foals and Bon Iver would be the icing on the cake!
They’ve added Picileaks to their Zeitgeist Generator Gadget. Is this some kind of Inception Zeitgeist within a Zeitgeist infinite loop ?