Literally taken directly from the electric picnic website, these links will bring you to a relevant PDF or webpage detailing out the lineups for the different area’s and days at electric picnic this year

Running Orders at Electric Picnic 2008

Music Stages

• FRIDAY

• SATURDAY

• SUNDAY

Comedy & Spoken Word

• International Comedy Club Stage Line-Up
• La Scala Theatre Stage Line-Up
• The Word: Slam/Rap/Words Line-Up
• Poetry & Storytelling Stage Line-Up
• Caint: Gaeilge Bheo Line-Up
• Leviathan: Political Cabaret Line-Up
• Cooking Stage Line-Up
• Cinema Line-Up (Newly programmed schedule, apologies for last minute changes due to reasons beyond our control.)

Arts & Theatrics

• S.S. Lucent Dossier - Performance Times at 7.30pm & 12.30am on Fri, at 7.30pm, 11.30pm & 2.30am on Sat, at 7.00pm and 12.30am on Sun.
• Lost Vagueness Line-Up
• Thisispopbaby Line-Up
• Teas & Tarts Line-Up
• 5 Nights Theatrical Play at Fossetts Circus Tent - Performance Times at 9.30pm on Fri, Sat, Sun.
• Strange Fruit at the 02 blueroom - Performance Times at 5.45pm & 9.45pm on Fri, at 6.15pm and 9.15pm on Sat, at 4pm and 9.45pm on Sun.

Body & Soul

• Body & Soul Main Stage Line-Up
• Merkabar Line-Up
• POD Stage Line-Up
• Schedule of Creative Workshops
• Yoga Theatre classes start Friday at 4pm and run from 8.30am to 7pm on Sat and Sun.

Greencrafts

• Greencrafts Schedule of Workshops

Eco-Picnic

• Cultivate’s Re-Think Tank at the Global Green
• The Green Room Environmental Talks at the Body & Soul

October 21st see’s Black Kids hitting Dublins The Academy having had a great 2008 so far including 2 rocking sets at glastonbury.

Now the Academy are proud to announce that the Magic Wands are all set to support the black kids in a double whammy gig.

The Magic Wands are a Nashville Based duo (Chris and Dexy) who play catchy melodies with drum machine rhythms and distorted guitars. The are hotly tipped to be one of the next big bands out of america.

Tickets for the Black Kids/Magic Wands gig are on sale now!!!

For more info on MAGIC WANDS visit www.myspace.com/themagicwands

The Resident DJ’s Rory Fitzgerald and Anto Molly will also be on hand to spin out some of your favourite indie and rock tunes.

Remember admission is free before 11.30pm and only €5 if your arriving after that. Visuals will be done by award winning music photographer Ruth Medjber with Visuals which are being described as “of the trippy and the cult”.

www.myspace.com/nodiskodublin

www.bebo.com/nodisko

www.theacademydublin.com

NoDisko

Fridays at The Academy’s Green Room

Doors 10pm

Free before 11.30 / €5 after

Tracy Chapman has today announced a tour of europe hitting 21 spots along the way including Dublins Olympia Theatre on December 8th.

Tracy is sporting a brand new album called “Our Bright Future” and gives audiences the first chance in 10 years to see her live.

Tickets go on sale Friday August 29th at 9am on sale at the usual outlets and ticketmaster.ie
24hr hotlines: Tel: ( ROI ) 0818 719 330 ( NI ) 0870 243 4455
Buy online: www.ticketmaster.ie

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Its just been announced that opening night of the No Disko club on Fridays in the Academy, which opens September 5th will be kicked off with Guest DJ’s Niamh and Podge of Ham Sandwich and Jessie Love Action of NeoSupervital.

The Resident DJ’s Rory Fitzgerald and Anto Molly will also be on hand to spin out some of your favourite indie and rock tunes.
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Now the academy is crossing fridays off the bookable list for the forseeable future with the announcement of NO DISKO kicking off on September 5th. Doors open at 10pm and admission is FREE before 11.30 and only €5 if you find yourself wandering in later.

We are being promised some of the be indie, rock and electro pop acts will be part of the sound that defines NO DISKO including the likes of crystal castles, Black Kids, MGMT, Supergrass, The Killers, CSS and much much more for your friday night pleasure. There will also be celebrity guest DJ’s who will be spinning the tracks alongside some of dublins finest dj-ing talent.

All in all this could be a cracking night for all involved any given friday.

www.myspace.com/nodiskodublin

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They are all over the radio with the The Steady Song which is currently sitting at #15 in the irish music charts, they have been all over ireland at assorted music festivals including Oxegen, They performed at the Meteor Music Awards, They released their new album Volume IV: Johnny Pyro and the dance of evil,   they held down a residency in April in The Academy and now you can see them in the slightly more intimate setting of Dublin’s Academy

Its one night only on September 25th and tickets for the event are €22.50 including booking fee and are available from 9am August 22nd. That Friday, Tomorrow, as in less than 24 hours away. These tickets WILL SELL OUT. This is their first major gig since Oxegen where 20,000 fans got to see their mind blowing performance. If you want to go to this gig get up early, set an alarm, get a friend to ring you, its almost guarunteed to sell out.

www.republicofloose.com

www.theacademydublin.com

The Academy up until recent times use to be known as “Spirit Night Club” but that has since closed down and the place has undergone some a serious change of pace as a Live Music Venue.

The Courteeners are one of the many great bands who are lined up to play and Tickets are on sale now if you dont want to take a chance on missing them. They are €21 including booking fee.

If you would like to be in the draw to win VIP Tickets to see the Courteeners on September 30th 2008 @ The Academy. Then all you have to do is join our Competitions Mailing List, which is an infreqeunt mail from goldenplec to update you as to upcoming competitions and we will include gig news and articles on the list too when we have something worth telling you.

Just Fill in the form below and your in the draw to win the VIP Tickets. Competition Closed September 7th. The Winner will be Announced September 10th.

THE COURTEENERS

Following their showstopping Dublin performance at the beginning of the summer, Manchester’s most exciting new export are to play a one off show at The Academy on September 30th.

Having duly notched up their first Top 20 hit with ‘What Took You So Long’, and completed  their first UK sell-out tour – complete with obsessive fans, backstage mayhem and praise from a growing army of celebrity admirers -  the Courteeners seem destined to end 2008 peering down on the opposition from the top of end of year polls.

The single “No You Didn’t, No You Don’t” was released to widespread acclaim in June.

Now, on the back of the explosive release of their debut album, ST JUDE, it would appear that The Courteeners have the indie / rock world by the neck..

www.thecourteeners.com

This same rule can be applied to your band website in keeping your fans interested in your website.
There are a few ways of doing this but in short some quick golden rules to bear in mind are:

1: Keep your website design as clear and concise as possible.
2: Present important information as clearly as possible.
3: Regularly update your website with new information
4: Provide the ability to allow visitors to interact with the site
5: Setup an email list (some people forget about your site and the odd email once a month with some band updates will remind them to pop by your website)
6: Avoid flash if possible (flash websites look nice but some of them tend to be slow loading and over the top which can “turn off” a visitor just as quick as a bad or plainly designed website can)

Rules 1 & 2 - Keeping Things Clear & Concise

Keeping things as clear as possible in both website design and content is an important factor when your building your wesbsite (if you are hiring a professional designer this is something he will know all about)

Something worth bearing in mind is that the average internet users attention span ranges between 10 - 90 seconds (depending on site content , layout and design)

So what you need to sit down and have a good think about is how you can present as much information about your band and music as possible with the most important information first in that time.

If you do not have the funds to get a professional web designer another worthwhile option would be to visit a site like Template Monster who offer high qaulity professional looking templates for an average of €100

Rule 3 - Regular Updates

If you want visitors to return to your website you have to make it as interesting as possible.

One very easy way to do this is with regular updates to your website. While alot of bands would have enough regular news / gig updates to put on their website their is an easy way around this and that is “blogging”. All you have to do is call your blog something such as “my band name’s tour/gig diary” or “my band name’s diary”.

Then all you have to do is post up a quick story about your bands rehearsal , funny goings on and general gig experience etc.

The great thing about blogs these days is, most sites offer such a feature, normally free for you to use. Getting Profiles on bebo.com and myspace.com allows you to upload music and pictures of the band, kit it out with information on the band and some tour dates and start blogging. These kind of sites make it very easy for a band to have a place on the web, free! and still convey what they want to the fans.

It might not be the most exciting of content but it certainly is fresh content thus preventing your website looking stale or out of date. This is a problem a lot of bands fall into. Having a Bebo, a Myspace, a Facebook, a Custom Website. There is just too many to update comfortably and one or two invariably get ignored or forgotten about, and whilst it is true to say that having the profiles on those sites for people to come across is a good thing. Its of no use if the last time the page was updated was 2

years ago and they arnt sure if your still around.

My Advice would be to sign up to these sites but utilise your page cleverly to link to your website or the social network you use the most so that people can visit your myspace and click a link bringing them to say your bebo where your always up to date, or even better your actual band website www.yourband.com which they then might bookmark as the best place for news on your band.

Remember these social networks are great if you use them and interact and update, but ultimately useless if you dont.

Rule 4 - Visitor Interaction

Visitor interaction is the BIGGEST part of generating repeat traffic and helping to maintain a fans interest in your music. Altough some band websites have tried variations the two most widely used and robust tools for the job are either the messageboard or a forum.

Though some people don’t realise it there is a difference between the two and generally a messageboard lets a visitor post up a message quickly and without having to register. Sometimes these messageboards are referred to as shoutboxes or guestbooks.

A forum on the other hand is a much better option as it allows users to sign up with their own unqiue username and post in certain categories and usually has the added benefit of being able to email all of your users at once. One of the best PHP based open source forums around is called phpBB this is an easily customisable forum system and you can add plenty of different featues (such as free downloads after a certain amount of forum posts) by using “hacks” from sites such as phpBBHacks.com

The problems with forums is that when they first start they can seem very bare and it is difficult to instigate conversations. If your finding this is the case you could perhaps do some of the following to help things along:

- talk about the show you played the night before
- talk about the progress of your new studio recording.
- don’t limit messages to your band. Use your site to promote regional events, shows by other bands you like and general music
- like to your bands site in your signature of other forums when posting, forums like goldenplec.com, thumped.com, cluas.com, cpu.ie, Irish Unsigned, Irish Music Central, Drop-d.ie, Irish Bands List. These are all great irish sites about music whom in general ALL want to help promote your band and bands site.

Rule 5 - Running A Mailing List

Alot of bands make one of two mistakes when it comes to mailing lists. They either do not use them at all

OR they overuse their mailing llist causing people to unsubscribe which defeats the purpose in the first place.

However, if used correctly in both the real and virtual world mailing lists can be one of the most cost effective tools for direct promotion of your band you could have at your disposal.

You can download simple mailing list software such PHP List or you can also get them hosted for you by websites such as Your Mailing List Provider both of which are easy to integrate into your existing website with little thought.

IMPORTANT: When you are running your mailing list YOU MUST RESIST the temptation to send out constant emails every few days with next to no information. What will happen is that either people will begin to ignore the emails or they will unsubscribe and either way you look at it you lose out.

Rule 6 - Pro’s & Cons Of Flash

More and more bands are looking for flash sites to be designed for them as they see other bands with a flash site and they want to have it too.

But (this is a BIG but by the way). A flash website does not always necessarily mean a better website in terms of getting more users and here is why:

- not everyone has broadband (remember the average attention span of an internet user)
- they are slower to load than a normal website
- they can often appear over produced and complicated
- they are usually more expensive
- they are not as easily updated by the band
- they are not picked up and read by seach engines such as Google easily
- they do not allow visitors to save images such as band shots or band logo’s (and that includes people who write for webzines / print media too)
- text readers (for disabled surfers) cannot read your site (a large enough proportion

The above is a few reasons not to have a flash site but if you want to have a flash site it would be highly advisable to offer your visitors a “splash” page with the option to view a non flash version of your site as well.

Damien Gill for Goldenplec
UN-AUTHORISED REPRODUCTION, COPYING, RE-POSTING PROHIBITED WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION
DISCLAIMER: While the author (Damien Gill) has written this article from professional experiences as well as taking all reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy of this article, such information is not guaranteed. Therefore the author and Mantra Music will not be held responsible for any individual decisions taken as a direct / in-direct result of this article or any information contained within this article which is intended for general information purposes only.

Its on this saturday following the likes of Muse and Lenny Kravitz in the gates of marley park this year and with just 3 days to go we have a full lineup listing for you with the stage times of the bands playing at lovebox this saturday.

The Event starts up at 2pm with 3 stages for you to enjoy, so here’s hoping the weather holds up so that it wont be too much of a mudbath.

This years lineup features some absolutely class acts including Maximo Park, N.E.R.D and Paulo Nutini.

Main Stage:
21.50 Maximo Park
20.20 N*E*R*D*
19.05 Paolo Nutini
17.55 Kid Creole & The Coconuts
16.50 The Metros
15.45 Plain White T’s
14.45 Das Pop
14.00 RGBs.

Warehouse Stage:
19.30 Gorillaz Sound System
18.15 Arveene
17.30 Filthy Dukes
16.15 Men In Masks
15.30 Detboi
14.45 Miki Dee
14.00 Chemistry DJs.

Stockade Stage:
20.10 Timmy Stewart
19.20 Al Keegan
18.30 Splitloop Live
17.45 Johnny Moy
17.00 Al Gibbs
16.15 Psycatron AKA Paul Hammil
15.30 Chewy
14.45 Mark Allton
14.00 Jev Neilan.

We hope you enjoy the gig and that getting in and out is smooth with little traffic problems.

Currently Touring “Skybound” the successor album to “feather and stone”, Tom Baxter is set to follow up on shows in the olympia, the national stadium and of course the meteor music awards with a double treat for fans.

He is set to play both dates in Dublins “The Academy” with tickets a reasonable 25 euro for either date.

The gigs will take place on the 25th and 26th of November 2008 and tickets will likely be hard to come by so whip out the credit card this Friday August 22nd at 9am to get tickets from ticketmaster and the usual outlets.