Electric Picnic 2008 Tickets Irelands number on festival
Electric Picnic 2008 - The Boutique Music & Arts Festival
29th, 30th & 31st August, Stradbally Hall, Co Laois
Anarchy, funk, nostalgia, surrealism….just another day at the Electric Picnic.
As the evenings get longer, the cogs of Ireland’s acclaimed music and arts festival are turning once more and details are unfolding of what to expect on the last weekend in August when the rock’n'roll circus descends on Stradbally village.
The 2008 festival was confirmed for August 29, 30, 31 when the official Electric Picnic website announced the usual pre-sale was to happen again. These tickets went on sale on November 9, 2007 whilst the genuine tickets go on sale on Friday March 28 at 9 p.m. Weekend tickets – there are no individual day ones – cost €240 including camping, with the various sites opening at 9 a.m. on Friday August 29. Camper van access cost €60. Also available are family tickets permitting entrance for two adults plus four children aged 12 and under. Otherwise it’s strictly over 18s with photo ID required. The Hot Press Chatroom will return for a fourth consecutive year, hosting exclusive public interviews with some of the weekend’s big names. [37]
Recently the official website was replaced by a sequence of brightly coloured boxes (originally smaller in number and toward the centre of the screen but now expanded and growing rapidly) which when solved reveal a secret message concerning the line-up followed by the caption, “Electric Picnic, August 2008, Stradbally Estate, County Laois”. The boxes then became more erratic and the message evolved to reveal a particular date and time referring to the release of the line-up.
35,000 will attend. The recently reunited My Bloody Valentine have stated that they will appear, as have German rockers Faust [38] and Tindersticks. Sex Pistols and Franz Ferdinand have been confirmed, [39] as have Sigur Rós, The Breeders and Grinderman. [40] The full line up was officially announced on Wednesday March 26 at 6 p.m.
Line-Up So Far
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 Rollins, The Waterboys, The Roots, Kila, Micah P Hinson, Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes), Hayseed Dixie, Foals, Noisettes, 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, Kormac & the BSQ Band, Jape, Dublin Gospel Choir…plus many more to be announced.
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