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THE ORGANISERS OF Electric Picnic announced this morning that they are planning on moving the music festival forward to August in 2024, instead of the usual first weekend in September.
The earlier date was announced alongside the festival releasing its 2024 early bird tickets ahead of Electric Picnic happening this year and the reveal of who the second Sunday headlining act is.
Electric Picnic, which will celebrate 20 years of the festival in 2024, is set to happen from 1 to 3 September this year with acts such as Billie Eilish, Niall Horan, Fred Again.., Paolo Nutini and The Killers headlining the event.
The tickets for next year are now available to anyone who is signed up to the loyalty scheme, which gives attendees from the previous year first dibs on a ticket for the following year.
Next year will be the first year in the festival’s history that the event is not taking place on the first weekend in September.
Last month, it was announced that Scotsman Paolo Nutini would be replacing fellow Scotsman Lewis Capaldi, after Capaldi announced in June that he is “taking a break from touring for the foreseeable future”.
Hundreds of other acts, from Ireland and across the world, will perform on the various stages the festival hosts which will allow attendees to see live music, comedy, live podcasts and take part in open discussions.
Other acts, set to take the stage in Stradbally, Co Laois next week include Steve Lacy, Tom Odell and Rick Astley – who was due to headline the festival in 2020 however was unable to after the event was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Last year a record 70,000 people attended the three day music festival, which was the first event after two postponements.
A second round of tickets will go on sale as part of the Early Bird offering after this year’s festival, with both general admission and loyalty scheme tickets on offer. There will be a final release of tickets on sale from 1 October.
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Welcome to the real world of their twisted Ideology, thankfully he only snuffed out his own life and not any innocents.
As disgustingly gruesome as it might be..if it demonstrates to all these young people running over to Syria what will be their eventual fate, it might stop some of them going.
Amazingly the people in the restaurant only suffered minor injuries.
C’est bien fait pour lui, I say. Feed his remains to the pigs and guillotine all the rest of the Islamist dogs.
Mais oui bien sur..qui seme le vent….
Show exactly what these lunatics do ? Sure we cant be having that….
I’m amazed that nobody other than the bomber died in that explosion.
I cant be ar##d..ive seen loads of sunnis get atomised on youtube and liveleaks.
Pop goes the weasel
Terror gore.
Hopefully this doesn’t set a precedent for a ratings war of blood.
Just curious about the headline – “apparent” – who writes these headlines?
We don’t to see this,it’s exactly what they would want.
I would have assumed that broadcasting such footage would be counter-productive in efforts to prevent similar events.
If the motives of the people behind the attacks thrive on distilling fear, wouldn’t this be advertising their cause? Especially the prominence of fame amongst peers.
Yes, there will be queues of people in the streets tomorrow copying this.
Not quite what I meant, I’m talking about the deciding factor for people who are already involved with those groups, not the recruitment.
Essentially what these people are doing is trying to send a message rather than killing specific people. I’m not saying that a media blackout is possible, but hypothetically speaking if a blackout was to happen every time an attack like this happened, would they stop happening?
Not quite what I meant, I’m talking about the deciding factor for people who are already involved with those groups, not the recruitment.
Essentially what these people are doing is trying to send a message rather than killing specific people. I’m not saying that a media blackout is possible, but hypothetically speaking if a blackout was to happen every time an attack like this happened, would they stop happening?
Francis, You have a point sort of regarding fear but I think keeping people in the dark is always a bad idea and possibly causes more fear and as Jenni points out it may stop some people from acting.
That’s a fair point! I was calling out the extremes.
What I meant to establish was just the format of which it’s delivered, there’s no need to keep people in the dark with these events. But does releasing video footage have any benefits?
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