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Electric Picnic 2015

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    #3872
    SligoBrewer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭SligoBrewer


    -=al=- wrote: »
    Can't beat a good whores bath!

    I'd love to shower but I can't get up that early and I don't queue too well 😀

    Rarely buy a pint at the festival usually a bottle of soft drink and tip my favourite spirit into it. It's less peeing an expense! Don't mind the odd pint for afternoon chilling though. Pretty sure Heineken owns most of those beers anyways. They own Tiger which is prob their version of a "craft beer"

    Their version of a craft beer is actually Cute Hoor.


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    #3873
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,882 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    you'd be spoiled after the baby wipes


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    #3874
    Bobby Baccala
    Registered Users Posts: 7,341 ✭✭✭Bobby Baccala


    Are there any stands selling Galway hooker and the likes?


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    #3875
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,882 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    P4DDY2K11 wrote: »
    Are there any stands selling Galway hooker and the likes?
    ah no theres none of that kind of thing, just buy someone chips and they'll come back to your tent


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    #3876
    deeceemee
    Registered Users Posts: 73 ✭✭deeceemee


    EP Lockers are now available for booking if anyone is interested 15yoyo....https://secure.tickets.ie/Listing/EventInformation/25257/giglocker-electric-picnic-2015-stradbally-04-September-2015


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    #3877
    Arne_Saknussem
    Registered Users Posts: 2,723 ✭✭✭Arne_Saknussem


    Fatfrog wrote: »
    Toyed with the idea of taking a shower Sunday last year, until I seen the queues!! Must have been half a mile long and wasn't moving too fast!
    Used my own alternative shower method back at the tent, which involved pouring water over a baby wipe, mixing up with soap standing in my boxers I was able to give my self a 'good oul clean'. To rince again I soaked a baby wipe, used that to take of the suds. Towel dry and boom it was pretty dam near a shower feeling!

    You must have passed by at peak time of around 12?

    Before 10:30 or after 1pm there's little or no queues usually for the men's and relatively short queue's for the women's.

    Although there has been a big jump in capacity in the last couple of years so maybe that's a factor!


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    #3878
    grudgehugger
    Registered Users Posts: 887 ✭✭✭grudgehugger


    budgemook wrote: »
    Hello. I've been to electric picnic 5 or 6 times (though not in last couple of years). Any time I've been I have never once taken a shower.

    I'm a bit older now and I think I would like to shower this time! So, outside of boutique camping, what are the showering options at electric picnic?

    I've become slightly addicted to festival hot tubs over the last few years of attending the Picnic and Body&Soul. A side benefit of these is showers with little or no queuing.

    Go hard at it on the Friday night, get up around midday on Saturday, hot tub for 1 or 2pm, then off and running again...

    The hot tub experience includes not one - but two (!!!) - showers, all for the very reasonable price of only 20-25 yoyos depending on how many people you convince to join you (in the tub, not the shower...). One before and one after the very pleasurable experience of wallowing in some warm-ish water while several other passing festival goers gawk at you (Body&Soul has a fairly private woodlands vibe for the tubs, @EP you're basically a spectator sport).

    Pro tip: Bring your own togs. Whatever about the water, do you really want to wear togs that have been to more Irish music festivals than Le Galaxie's road crew?


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    #3879
    budgemook
    Registered Users Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭budgemook


    Fatfrog wrote: »
    Toyed with the idea of taking a shower Sunday last year, until I seen the queues!! Must have been half a mile long and wasn't moving too fast!
    Used my own alternative shower method back at the tent, which involved pouring water over a baby wipe, mixing up with soap standing in my boxers I was able to give my self a 'good oul clean'. To rince again I soaked a baby wipe, used that to take of the suds. Towel dry and boom it was pretty dam near a shower feeling!
    Arne_Saknussem wrote: »
    You must have passed by at peak time of around 12?

    Before 10:30 or after 1pm there's little or no queues usually for the men's and relatively short queue's for the women's.

    Although there has been a big jump in capacity in the last couple of years so maybe that's a factor!

    Was just going to ask what time was that at. I'm often up early at festivals. Happy enough to get up for a shower and then head back to bed I'd say.

    And if not there are the baby wipes of course! I am no stranger to the baby wipe bath.


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    #3880
    dublinjen
    Registered Users Posts: 178 ✭✭dublinjen


    Are the showers like separate cubicles or prison style group showers?


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    #3881
    BadTurtle
    Registered Users Posts: 1,486 ✭✭✭BadTurtle


    Don't drop the soap


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    #3882
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,417 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Just looking at Death from Above 1979 on the Lollapalooza stream, would love to see them added to the Picnic but I reckon they are probably too heavy a style of band for EP.

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



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    #3883
    SligoBrewer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭SligoBrewer


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Just looking at Death from Above 1979 on the Lollapalooza stream, would love to see them added to the Picnic but I reckon they are probably too heavy a style of band for EP.

    You'll see no more big additions like DFA1979.


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    #3884
    Mince Pie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,901 ✭✭✭Mince Pie


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Just looking at Death from Above 1979 on the Lollapalooza stream, would love to see them added to the Picnic but I reckon they are probably too heavy a style of band for EP.

    Dont think they are too heavy, sure they have Girl Band on the line up. Would love to see them added myself. Missed them at Glastonbury. Always miss something there.


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    #3885
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,417 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    SligoBrewer wrote: »
    You'll see no more big additions like DFA1979.

    The only reason I mentioned them was that they looked like a mid afternoon or early evening act, so they could still make the line up as an evening act in the Rankins or EA or Cosby tent.

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



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    #3886
    novemberskye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭novemberskye


    Any one know if they will show the all Ireland hurling final this year? :-( hate that they moved the dates back this year. Last year was the first year I could go and then they go and change it back to first weekend in sept


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    #3887
    Thundercats Ho
    Registered Users Posts: 2,531 ✭✭✭Thundercats Ho


    There's and Irish speaking tent in mindfield that shows it every year.
    It's pretty small but get there early enough and you'll be grand.


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    #3888
    total former
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭total former


    novemberskye wrote: »
    Any one know if they will show the all Ireland hurling final this year? :-( hate that they moved the dates back this year. Last year was the first year I could go and then they go and change it back to first weekend in sept

    See post above re Mindfield, but I usually just walk into Stradbally and watch it in a pub, always good craic.


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    #3889
    novemberskye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭novemberskye


    total former wrote: »
    See post above re Mindfield, but I usually just walk into Stradbally and watch it in a pub, always good craic.

    Ok thanks! I'll be torn if tipp are in it :-(


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    #3890
    we'llallhavetea
    Registered Users Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea


    Just got two family camping tickets today, 650 for two, hole is fairly tender after that D:


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    #3891
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,882 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    jesus ****ing christ 650 euro


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    #3892
    we'llallhavetea
    Registered Users Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea


    I know, they were originally bought for 150... sicken the hole off ya :/


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    #3893
    askU
    Registered Users Posts: 466 ✭✭askU


    Casa Bacardi arena line up with no real headliner?


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    #3894
    Fatfrog
    Registered Users Posts: 2,310 ✭✭✭Fatfrog


    budgemook wrote: »
    Was just going to ask what time was that at. I'm often up early at festivals. Happy enough to get up for a shower and then head back to bed I'd say.

    And if not there are the baby wipes of course! I am no stranger to the baby wipe bath.

    Baby wipes are grand alright, but don't leave a fresh feeling! Personally I hate the generic scent they all seem to have. If you rince them out with water, use one lathered with plenty of soap! Boom that fresh magic shower feeling!! (Almost!)


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    #3895
    scruff monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 4,963 ✭✭✭scruff monkey
    Snarky Snark Snark


    if the current weather keeps up, every one will be showered, 3 or 4 times per hour whilst being blown about the shop like a rag doll on a string in a tornado simulator


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    #3896
    Irish_rat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,554 ✭✭✭Irish_rat


    I think this years lineup definitely trumps last years. Blur & FaTM are super headliners to start with.

    Some real gems that many won't be queuing for like Alvvays, Viet Cong, Parquet Courts and Circa Waves.

    I couldn't start with the rest, so much quality. So many bound to clash :-(


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    #3897
    stevire
    Registered Users Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭stevire


    Are you allowed to bring a few cans to the hot tubs*?

    *to drink while in the hot tub, not outside perving


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    #3898
    lbj666
    Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭lbj666


    stevire wrote: »
    Are you allowed to bring a few cans to the hot tubs*?

    *to drink while in the hot tub, not outside perving


    No, but if ya sneek in a hip flask of something no one will care. They give drinks or juice or cordial to keep ya hydrated and ive topped it up with booze plenty times. Of course you've to try get the booze into the main arena anyway.

    Trying to smoke a joint in a hot tub is tricky though.


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    #3899
    scruff monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 4,963 ✭✭✭scruff monkey
    Snarky Snark Snark


    stevire wrote: »
    Are you allowed to bring a few cans to the hot tubs*?

    *to drink while in the hot tub, not outside perving

    You really would not want to perve, by sunday it looks like tramp stew


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    #3900
    BeanFlicker
    Registered Users Posts: 1,085 ✭✭✭BeanFlicker


    Any idea when they are announcing the day line ups? Cheers


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    #3901
    Toast
    Registered Users Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Toast


    we'llallhavetea wrote: »
    I know, they were originally bought for 150... sicken the hole off ya :/

    Supporting people who charge that sort of markup by paying their prices will ensure it continues to happen.


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