The official Schedule is due out today, so I am waiting with bated breath hoping that some of the tough decisions will be alleviated by it...

In the meantime, Colin, a commenter at Nialler9.com, left a link to a PDF download of a lovely visual schedule which allows you to easily see clashes in your preferred acts.

1. Daft Punk's movie Electroma is playing in the cinema there on Sunday morning at 10.45 until noon. See trailer below.
2. Tim Biskup will be giving a talk on Sunday night as part of the Sweetnness and Light talks. Tim Biscup is a guy who draws cool stuff. I have a little monster of his sitting on my computer. he did the painting above.

Nialler9 provides us with an EP07 unofficial schedule that 'fell off a lorry! Nice.

With thanks to Nialler9, check out the schedule for:

Electric Picnic Schedule: Friday
Electric Picnic Schedule: Saturday
Electric Picnic Schedule: Sunday

Please visit the above links for the schedule, in the meantime, here are my first (red) and second (normal) priorities with time and stage... I can see I have some revising of my schedule to do, some conflicts in there that will mean some tough decisions. Well, that was bound to happen.

plus, as the Picnic draws near I keep discovering more bands I want to see. My head is going to explode!!!

Damien Mulley has set up a Facebook meet-up at Electric Picnic... on Facebook? Then come and join us!!!

I'm looking forward to meeting some people who, up until now, I have only talked to online!

The Body & Soul area is the place to be at Electric Picnic. Regular visits throughout the day are a must. Last year the oddly soothing yet invigorating properties of Chai Lattés from a stall in the Body & Soul area kept me going all weekend.

The Chill Out Stage at the Body & Soul area means you are not music starved while taking refuge from the insanity of other Electric Picnic areas.

While we wait for the full schedule for other stages, the Chill Out Stage line up and timetable is freely available - check it out below.
I don't know many of the acts, there's a couple I know, like Mick Flannery, Liam O'Maonlai, Ronan O'Snodaigh, Donal Dineen, Lisa Hannigan and most importantly an old college friend of mine: Chequerboard - at 17.30 on Saturday!. If you don't know who he is check out the Chequerboard MySpace page and be sure and listen to 'Indian Ink'.

Friday 31st August 2007
13:00 Opening
13:40 DJ Noel Phelan
15:00 Love Deadly Yeah
15:40 DJ
16:00 Mick Crehan
16:30 DJ Will Softly
18:00 David Turpin
18:30 DJ Andy Barlow
20:00 Analogue Minefield
20:45 DJ Fiasco
22:00 Surprise Live Act
22:45 DJ Stephen Manning (Space Camp)
00:00 The Egg
02:00 Headgear
02:30 Cachimbo
03:30 Bedtime Treats

Saturday 1st September 2007
11:00 Small Hours Breakfast with Donal Dineen
12:30 Liam O'Maonlai
13:00 Somadrone
13:40 Pressure Drop
15:00 Jenny Lindfors
15:40 DJ Slot TBC
16:00 YOAV
17:00 Christy McNamara
17:30 Chequerboard
18:00 Cane 141
18:45 DJ Shane Mannion
20:00 Si Shroeder (DJ & Live Solo Set)
20:45 DJ Hazo
22:15 Les Bien
22:55 DJ Will Softly
23:20 Halfset
00:00 Donal Dineen & Special Guests including Liam O'Maonlai and Ronan O'Snodaigh
03:00 After Hours: Djembe Faso
04:00 Bedtime...

Sunday 2nd September 2007
11:00 Small Hours Breakfast with Donal Dineen & Special Guest Lisa Hannigan
13:00 Adrian Crowley
13:50 Iarla O'Lionard
14:30 Eoin Dillon
15:00 Mick Flannery
15:45 DJ Fiasco
16:30 Harry J & The Conspiracy
17:30 DJ Padraig Disconaut
18:15 Luna Seeds
19:00 DJ Aliji (ID Spiral)
20:00 Cinephile
20:45 DJ Aliji
21:15 Rumpistol (live)
22:15 Surprise Guest DJ
23:00 DJ Stevie G
00:30 Gaudi Live
02:30 After Hours: Surprise Guest!
03:00 After Hours: The Jahm

So while we're waiting for the timetable to be announced, let's have a quick look at whose playing on what day...

Looking through the list and trying to decide what to see is HARD. And that's before the scheduling clashes are apparent!

Assuming of course that I want to see everything, I have tried to put in red the acts I absolutely don't want to miss and in blue the acts I really don't want to miss, and the ones in black I would rather not miss.

What are your absolutely don't miss acts?

UPDATE This list was taken from the Electric Picnic site, however it seems to have some ommissions and discrepancies... for example, where is Marlena Shaw? Check out Jim Carroll's "fell of the back of a Lorry" day by day list too... where you will find other gems like the fact that Spilly Walker is also known as David Kitt who absolutely ROCKED last year.

Friday:

• Hot Chip
• Scott Matthews
• Paul Hartnoll Band
• LCD Soundsystem
• Bjork
• Manic Street Preachers
• Simple Kid
• Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain
• Modest Mouse
• The Good the Bad and the Queen

Saturday

• Easy Allstars Radiodread
• Craig Armstrong
• Fionn Regan
• Channel One
• Duke Special
• Aengus & Julia Stone
• Beastie Boys
• 55 Days of Static
• Architecture in Helsinki
• Deerhoof
• Kissaway Trail
• Chemical Brothers
• The Jimmy Cake
• Erasure
• The Undertones
• Jarvis Cocker
• My Brightest Diamond
• Magic Numbers
• Nouvelle Vague
• Final Fantasy
• Stephen Fretwell
• Camera Obscura
• Dave Geraghty
• Polyphonic Spree
• Malajube
• Delorentos
• The Jesus and Mary Chain
• Redkid
• Ladytron
• MIA
• Ratatat
• !!! (Chk Chk Chk)
• Spilly Walker
• Spiritualized Acoustic Mainlines
• Electrelane

Sunday

• Rahzel & MC Supernatural
• Iggy & the Stooges
• Lusito Quinero
• Primal Scream
• Dublin Gospel Choir
• Fujiya & Miyagi
• The Go! Team
• Soul II Soul
• Damian Dempsey
• Kila
• Sons & Daughters
• Rilo Kiley
• Aim
• Sonic Youth
• Dave Couse
• The Little Ones
• Oppenheimer
• Patrick Wolf
• Loney Dear
• Horace Andy
• Two gallants
• Warlords of Pez
• Dans Le Sac VS Scroobius Pip
• Serena Maneesh
• Unkle
• Bat for Lashes
• The Fall
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
• Si Schroeder
• The Aliens
• Kieran Hebden & S Reid
• Skream
• Good Shoes
• Dub Pistols & Terry Hall
• Switches

This time next week I will be recovering from Friday evening while checking out afternoon bands at Electric Picnic. With the Summer we've been having I've been worried about whether it would rain at EP this year. We were lucky last year with the odd shower, not enough to dampen anyone's spirits or take from the festive atmosphere.

So what can we expect this year?

Well, at the moment the weather forecasts are good. We're looking at zero rain for the weekend, temperatures between 14 and 17 degrees and Saturday looks to be a great day with very little cloud cover.

Fingers crossed people, fingers crossed.

Damn! Just over a week to go at the time of posting... this time next week I'll be on my up the country headed for the Picnic early Friday.

Someone on Facebook asked if anyone had any advice regarding heading to Festivals, and of course last year I swore I would remember all the things I should and shouldn't do. Can I remember them now? Can I f*ck.

Here are two things I do remember:

1. Don't bother lugging loads of DIY food. If you're lazy like me you'll never feel like sorting it out. There are better things to be doing. It's costly eating from stalls etc all the time, but it's even more costly buying a load of food, not eating it and buying stall food anyway. Bring bottled water and cereal bar supply to keep you going.
2. Running around trying to see everything just doesn't work. Not for me anyway. It has it's advocates, but my method is to make the hard choices. Decide who you're first preference is, and have a second choice just in case they turn out to be crap. Get to your first choice venue 10-15 minutes early. This can be tough because you will have more timing problems trying to get to gigs early, but it pays off. It is SO much easier to get into the mood when you have a prime position. You won't get a prime position without major hassle for popular acts once they kick off.

Maybe I'm just getting old... let's have a little poll about the best way to approach the Festival:

I came across this wonderful video some time back and was really impressed by both the video and the song... so I am thrilled to hear that Loney Dear will be playing Electric Picnic! Even if he is listed as 'Lonely Dear'... easy mistake to make. I know it's Loney Dear because they mention his real name, Emil Svanangen.

Loads of other acts have been announced, so we now have the full line up - this one jumped out at me, but I must go and look ut some of the others again... Warlords of Pez and Kila jumped out as Irish acts who will be playing.

Just heard on the Last Word on Today FM that Bat For Lashes are to play Electric Picnic! Check out their MySpace page for confirmation! Yes! The album is great, been listening to it for the last week or so...