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Workers/Volunteers @ Electric Picnic

  • 06-08-2008 3:51pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,578 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering if any other boardsies are working/volunteering at the Picnic this year - just been accepted for (volunteer) stage crew in the body and soul area and hoping it will be a good weekend.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭HouseHippo


    How to you go about Volunteering


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭LadyMayBelle


    I applied to volunteer with the myhab people but heard nothing back..how did you go about it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 132 ✭✭Potcher


    Mad to see the pistols for free how'd you volunteer?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭Toast


    Pretty sure the date to apply is well gone.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,578 ✭✭✭jimi_t


    Mr.S wrote: »
    plus the fact you might acutally not see the bands you want, you do have to work;)

    True that, but you only do about 5 hours a day and it seems flexible enough.

    But yeah, all the volunteer applications need to have been done quite some time ago - www.bodyandsoul.ie


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,799 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    I got offered a place, but in the end I just thought I'd actually like the weekend off work, actuallenjoy the whole thing rather than breaking up the day. May do it again sometime though once I've already been there as a paying customer!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,024 ✭✭✭Awayindahils


    I got an email to volunteer as an attendent this week. I think the bobyandsoul volunteer places are full but there may be others, though probably way less glamourous.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭00011000


    i could volunteer but should i bother? is it an experience or is it just work?

    i'm 24... too old for this kinda thing? hahha


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26 Geometric_Jon


    I got accepted last week too for B&S Stage work. Did you send off the postal order yet. I sent it monday, but haven't received any confirmation yet. Cant find a phone number for them anywhere. Have you heard anything at all from them since your application was accepted?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,578 ✭✭✭jimi_t


    I got accepted last week too for B&S Stage work. Did you send off the postal order yet. I sent it monday, but haven't received any confirmation yet. Cant find a phone number for them anywhere. Have you heard anything at all from them since your application was accepted?

    Nothing at all - they're probably rushed off their feet. I haven' actually sent mine off yet but I'm working quite close to where the postal address is so I'm going to pop in and suss it out.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26 Geometric_Jon


    Cool. Let us know if you hear anything else. Ill do the same.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20 blackbagtrack


    I volunteered for security last year with some friends and we had to work 12 hours from start to finish for 2 days, hard goin, but it was kinda fun at the same time. Great for pickin up the chinks ...whoops I mean chicks!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23 Pris


    I got a message this week, email, to say a place had been confirmed for me so I think they're finalising it at the moment. Have you checked the B&S website? You might have a private message there if you log in.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,578 ✭✭✭jimi_t


    Pris wrote: »
    I got a message this week, email, to say a place had been confirmed for me so I think they're finalising it at the moment. Have you checked the B&S website? You might have a private message there if you log in.

    Yeah, saw that. At this stage I'm just going to bring my postal order up to the box office on the day. Good to see a couple of boardsies are about.

    (by the by, buy a pair of steel toed boots if you don't already wear them. A static 50kg at foot height will break a couple of small but inconvieniently painful bones if you walk into it :P )


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,118 ✭✭✭afatbollix


    your paying them to be local stage crew????

    if its stage work... it will be start at 9 in the morning finishing at 2-3 am.. working stright... youll be working all that and wont get to see bands out front... ( it sounds pritty crap back stage)

    ussally its a 15 euro a hour job so its pritty crap if your doing it for free... also on the last day its a all nighter after working all day to get out before the lock down..... at 6am


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,794 ✭✭✭chillywilly


    anto-t wrote: »
    your paying them to be local stage crew????

    if its stage work... it will be start at 9 in the morning finishing at 2-3 am.. working stright... youll be working all that and wont get to see bands out front... ( it sounds pritty crap back stage)

    ussally its a 15 euro a hour job so its pritty crap if your doing it for free... also on the last day its a all nighter after working all day to get out before the lock down..... at 6am

    i believe you have to work three 8 hour shifts over the weekend, as soon as i heard paying them a 240 bond i decided not to apply to volunteer


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,578 ✭✭✭jimi_t


    anto-t wrote: »
    your paying them to be local stage crew????

    if its stage work... it will be start at 9 in the morning finishing at 2-3 am.. working stright... youll be working all that and wont get to see bands out front... ( it sounds pritty crap back stage)...usually its a 15 euro a hour job so its pritty crap if your doing it for free...

    Not in the slightest - Aiken are in from tomorrow AFAIK. I dunno about other volunteers but doing B&S stagecrew work you're doing 3 5-6 hour shifts in exchange for a ticket + camping.

    The 240 deposit is just so you don't apply as a volunteer, get your wristband and then feck off as soon as you get in - they don't apply it if you've worked there at any stage previously.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    dear lord, scam artists in the extreme, i'm working there and getting paid hansomely


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    dear lord, scam artists in the extreme, i'm working there and getting paid hansomely
    Me too:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,578 ✭✭✭jimi_t


    dear lord, scam artists in the extreme, i'm working there and getting paid hansomely

    I'm delighted for you - some of us don't have that option though, so cut the gloating.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭DadaKopf


    I'll be volunteering with a charity. Ahhh... it's the way to travel. Trader wristbands, trader campsite 5 minutes walk from the main stage, access to the night time arena early in the morning just after the toilets have been cleaned, early access to food stalls for brunch... oh, yes.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    jimi_t wrote: »
    I'm delighted for you - some of us don't have that option though, so cut the gloating.

    waves fingers in insulting jesture


    :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    The Myhab people are still looking for volunteers, I think...
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055359679

    I'm volunteering with 'em. Spur of the moment. Boardsbuddies, anybody? :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,787 ✭✭✭g5fd6ow0hseima


    Yup, I sorted it all out, looks like im in!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Seeya there then.

    Our myhabs will, obviously, kick everybody else's myhab's asses.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,787 ✭✭✭g5fd6ow0hseima


    ah sure, they all seem the same, it should be good auld craic putting them up, im sure the hours wouldnt be too lenghtly either.......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Aw, dude, where's your competitive spirit? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Getting to Stradbally for Tuesday morning is going to be tricky. Any Myhab volunteers from Dublin or Midlands care to carpool...?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 Paul-M


    Yea, I went for this too, seems like a pretty good deal. Getting there will be pain alright, I'd be up for a carpool situation, if anyone is driving.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,787 ✭✭✭g5fd6ow0hseima


    Getting to Stradbally for Tuesday morning is going to be tricky. Any Myhab volunteers from Dublin or Midlands care to carpool...?
    coming from roscommon im no use,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 534 ✭✭✭jimmay


    I'm workin EP in the bar. Was just wondering I've never been to a festival...what are the shower facilities like does anyone know? And I've no tent was thinkin of just kipping it in my wheels...would that be ok?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,787 ✭✭✭g5fd6ow0hseima


    if you like thew thought of sleepin in a car for 3 nights, why not, but you might like a tent where you can stretch out, but alas, only you can know what you want...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Right, so I'm guessing all my fellow myhab'ers got the email from Kev today (cheers!)

    There's a couple of early buses leaving for Portlaoise from Dublin early Tuesday:
    portlaoisebuses.jpg

    So if we get ourselves organised now to meet up and get the same bus, we can share a taxi. So... say so. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 534 ✭✭✭jimmay


    if you like thew thought of sleepin in a car for 3 nights, why not, but you might like a tent where you can stretch out, but alas, only you can know what you want...

    Eh even I don't know what I want! ;) I couldn't be arsed buying 1 I might try and befriend some generous fellow festivaler :p and chance my luck. I heard you could buy them down there anyway if ur stuck? What sort of shower facilities are there does anyone know? Im kinda gettin bit nervous to be honest ha don't know what to expect!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,787 ✭✭✭g5fd6ow0hseima


    Right, so I'm guessing all my fellow myhab'ers got the email from Kev today (cheers!)

    There's a couple of early buses leaving for Portlaoise from Dublin early Tuesday:
    portlaoisebuses.jpg

    So if we get ourselves organised now to meet up and get the same bus, we can share a taxi. So... say so. :D
    Ill meet ye on site.......


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,403 ✭✭✭The Gnome


    Just saw this now, I'll be working with MyHab too. Probably gonna get the 7.30 from Dublin to Port Laoise. If anyone else is around just PM me and we'll arrange something!

    Any one not going from Dublin I'll see ye there! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Seeye at Busaras at 7.30 so.

    Jesus Christ, seven thirty... I daresay the MyHab folk will have the damn place to ourselves....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 sweettooth


    My friend and I were all excited, we got jobs at EP, getting paid and enjoying a bit of the festival who could complain.

    Today my friend rang up the organisers to find out what time the bus leaves on friday to find out she doesn't actually have the job. What happended was that my friend worked there last year and was told over the phone that because of this she has it this year. She then got an e-mail and was told to fill out the attached form, which wasn't attached. So she got the e-mail again with the form this time, had to fill it and send back within 10 days, this was on the 19th.

    She posted the form yesteday. When she said this to the organisers today they said it was ment to be in before the weekend. Is there anything she could do? We're both pretty annoyed at what happened, I would have gone for the job if it hadn't been for my friend.

    Thanks for any help.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 175 ✭✭cudsy1


    hi, i got accepted by body n soul as a volunteer but am unsure whether ill accept. it says i have to be there on the thursday:

    Be available to arrive at the Festival site by 12.00 noon on Thursday 30th August 2012.

    http://electricpicnic.ie/volunteers

    and that id be workin monday too, until what time on monday i wonder..

    does anyone have any experience of volunteering at EP?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    So how do you get into this line of work and get paid for it, I have been volunteering at festivals for two years now. I would like to be paid to do this work and enjoy the festival too, And why do some people get freebie tickets and yet do sweet fcuk all to get them.

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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,539 ✭✭✭ghostdancer


    And why do some people get freebie tickets and yet do sweet fcuk all to get them.
    knowing people who work for POD/sponsors/PR companies who are involved with EP, or be involved in media/music scenes in general.

    i know someone who works for Bacardi and got 6 free tickets last year. i know a few who work for a PR company, and a radio station, and they got free tickets for themselves and a +1 and could get more if they asked.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭LeftBlank


    I applied for stewarding through the main EP site and never heard anything back, despite numerous emails. Very disappointing.


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