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Electric Picnic 2015

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    #5762
    Swashbuckler
    Registered Users Posts: 6,582 ✭✭✭Swashbuckler


    Have to say a big thanks to everyone on this tread over the past while it's been a mine of information for newbies like myself. (Not fishing for Thanks). I've been keeping three other newbies up to speed thanks to this tread.


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    #5763
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Right Turn Clyde wrote: »
    You're obviously new to this thread. How to sneak in drink is possibly the second most popular topic on here.

    Yeah some of the mods don't like it been discussed though, I remember a warning note in the 2014 thread as the drink smuggling tips went on for two and a half pages or something like that. :)

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #5764
    novemberskye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭novemberskye


    dublinjen wrote: »
    +1 on this.


    Can't believe the amount of time I spend in here and I miss that. Face palm

    Not able to send screen shot on pm ðŸ˜


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    #5765
    BullBlackNova
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭BullBlackNova


    Has the map shown up on Twitter or anything?

    Annoyed to miss that!!


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    #5766
    SmallBalls
    Registered Users Posts: 533 ✭✭✭SmallBalls


    I'd take a pm of the map if a kind soul would like to send it...


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    #5767
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,882 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    you're really missing nothing by not seeing the map. imagine last years map with one or two minuscule changes. It was taken down because it was like a site survey map with grid marks and all for the fire safety engineers and it had all the entrances and exits marked on it including ones we shouldn't know and where they were storing the LPG tanks and all that.

    Despacio is south of the oxjam tent and just beside the ferris wheel.

    Everything else except for the stuff that was mentioned in this thread right after it was posted is nearly identical to last year's layout! So don't worry :D


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    #5768
    Fiachb7
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭Fiachb7


    Lads, if you want to get drink into the arena, get the collapsible water bottles from Mr.price for €1.50.

    I had a picture but I can't post links.

    Don't fill them up completely and they will slide nicely into a welly or hook onto the inside of your coat. They can hold 400 mls full.

    We used them at T in the Park and worked like a charm every time. Just make sure you enter the arena at a busy period because you'll get checked more vigorously the quieter the entrance and the more bored the stewards are.

    Bare in mind, TitP security was a lot laxer. For example, I saw boys getting raped by sniffer dogs just being waived through the gates like nothing was happening. I'm also pretty sure some of them weren't even sniffer dogs.


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    #5769
    Swashbuckler
    Registered Users Posts: 6,582 ✭✭✭Swashbuckler


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Yeah some of the mods don't like it been discussed though, I remember a warning note in the 2014 thread as the drink smuggling tips went on for two and a half pages or something like that. :)

    Yeah that's why I was a bit dodgy about asking. Anyway, appreciate the feedback and we'll leave it at that. I really can't wait. Looking forward to the experience.


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    #5770
    Irish_rat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,554 ✭✭✭Irish_rat


    Staying in the pink moon camp site, wheres best to park?


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    #5771
    Swashbuckler
    Registered Users Posts: 6,582 ✭✭✭Swashbuckler


    Irish_rat wrote: »
    Staying in the pink moon camp site, wheres best to park?

    You should have received an email from them in the last day or so. Car park X and Z are the best places to park.


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    #5772
    scruff monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 4,954 ✭✭✭scruff monkey
    Snarky Snark Snark


    So the next question then is what's the best route to ensure that you get funnelled into those car parks and not into the big ones that are far away.


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    #5773
    dublinjen
    Registered Users Posts: 178 ✭✭dublinjen


    Feel like I'm a festival genius or missing a vital flaw in my plan.

    Picked up a picnic blanket with plastic backing, I'm imagining myself sitting at the back of a daytime gig, with some of those yum chips and a pint.

    €7 in Tiger (blanch), with a absolutely insulting pink & polkadot pattern if anyone else is considering the same


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    #5774
    ando
    Registered Users Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭ando


    MadYaker wrote: »
    If anyone saved the pic of the map I'd be very grateful to get it in a PM

    Yes please me too! Thanks


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    #5775
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Just got decent batteries for the lantern and the blow up mattress gizmo, have tent, sleeping bag and inflatable mattress ready. Will do a laundry tomorrow and when I hit Stradbally on Sunday will get booze, wet wipes, snacks and toilet roll and I have about four or five things to charge up tomorrow night. Bring it on!

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #5776
    novemberskye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭novemberskye


    Inside info.... Shane McGowan making an appearance on salty dog on Saturday ssshhhhhh :-)


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    #5777
    ghostdancer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,539 ✭✭✭ghostdancer


    scruff monkey wrote: »
    So the next question then is what's the best route to ensure that you get funnelled into those car parks and not into the big ones that are far away.
    aim so that you're coming into Stradbally from the south.
    if coming from Dublin, go down the m9, off into Athy, take a right halfway through the town at the sign for Stradbally, drive through Stradbally main street, carparks X/Y/Z will be on your left and you should be directed into them.


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    #5778
    grudgehugger
    Registered Users Posts: 887 ✭✭✭grudgehugger


    A.Gorilla wrote: »
    There

    It calls the "Little Big Tent", the "Little Big Stage".

    People think there's anything in it? Could they be turning that into a more outdoorsy vibe?!


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    #5779
    ghostdancer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,539 ✭✭✭ghostdancer


    i wouldn't say so, the pink circle to the left of it is the tent.


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    #5780
    pmalone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭pmalone


    Fatfrog wrote: »
    The full map is class!! Yea I'd say they're pissed off alright, it shows a whole host of items they might not want the general public to see! Like generators LPG gas tanks etc.

    and CCTV ;)


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    #5781
    declanleo
    Registered Users Posts: 748 ✭✭✭declanleo


    BullBlackNova wrote: »
    Has the map shown up on Twitter or anything?

    Annoyed to miss that!!

    I'll stick it on twitter in 10 #epmap


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    #5782
    pmalone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭pmalone


    Effects wrote: »
    Some people don't like sleeping with the peasants. Generally if you can afford a camper van you have moved on from camping and don't mind the extra cost involved.

    that is a crazy generalisation... there are all sorts of folk in campervans. We got a camper cos it saves us on accommodation costs when we travel around Ireland .. not only for festivals, It wasn't a huge outlay and has paid for itself in 3 years ... It does become a bit of an obsessive lifestyle after a while I can tell you.


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    #5783
    pmalone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭pmalone


    Swashbuckler wrote: »
    Have to say a big thanks to everyone on this tread over the past while it's been a mine of information for newbies like myself. (Not fishing for Thanks). I've been keeping three other newbies up to speed thanks to this tread.

    a bit like not asking for upvotes or gold on reddit ... Thanked!


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    #5784
    pmalone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭pmalone


    dublinjen wrote: »
    Feel like I'm a festival genius or missing a vital flaw in my plan.

    Picked up a picnic blanket with plastic backing, I'm imagining myself sitting at the back of a daytime gig, with some of those yum chips and a pint.

    €7 in Tiger (blanch), with a absolutely insulting pink & polkadot pattern if anyone else is considering the same

    I have lost more picnic blankets at festivals than i care to remember ... its great for the afternoon but after a few hours .. "where's the blanket?" "I dunno, I thought you had it" "no, you had it" "FFS.. where were we when we last had it?"

    prepare to lose this useful item


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    #5785
    ghostdancer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,539 ✭✭✭ghostdancer


    Mr.S wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/KenSweeney/status/637219524534759425
    that's wrong though, it's last year's with 2015 written on it.
    none of this year's new changes/areas are on it.


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    #5786
    sputnick123
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭sputnick123


    Swashbuckler wrote:
    Haha. It's a helluva tread. Had a look but couldn't really find anything concrete.


    I must've missed my post about buying breast milk bags and filling them with vodka or whatever and sliding them down the side of your wellies 😎


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    #5787
    ghostdancer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,539 ✭✭✭ghostdancer


    Mr.S wrote: »
    I haven't been keeping up to date with EP, what new areas are there!?

    Typical Irish Sun :rolleyes:
    Despacio tent is down just after the Hendrix entrance when you come into the arena.
    Eco/BYE campsite has moved from Wilde to beside the Tour de Picnic, where part of the Chaplin campsite was last year.
    probably a few more too.


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    #5788
    RabbitHearted
    Registered Users Posts: 101 ✭✭RabbitHearted


    Guys would anyone be able to tell me roughly where volunteer/crew camping is? Is it far away from everywhere else or is it grand??


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    #5789
    declanleo
    Registered Users Posts: 748 ✭✭✭declanleo


    scruff monkey wrote: »
    So the next question then is what's the best route to ensure that you get funnelled into those car parks and not into the big ones that are far away.

    My missus was preggers 2 years ago so we parked in car park Z. Came off at portlaoise but indeed of following directions we went straight through at the roundabout and went through the back roads with the sat nav. Took 15mins


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    #5790
    declanleo
    Registered Users Posts: 748 ✭✭✭declanleo


    ando wrote: »
    Yes please me too! Thanks

    Twitter #epmap


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    #5791
    Swashbuckler
    Registered Users Posts: 6,582 ✭✭✭Swashbuckler


    pmalone wrote: »
    a bit like not asking for upvotes or gold on reddit ... Thanked!

    Couldn't give a crap about thanks on here. Just a genuine thanks!


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