Electric Picnic : Aftermath

quarryman

My favourite year so far.

Highlights:

• Silent Disco - Why is this my first year going into this? Amazing stuff
• Sigur Rós - Expecting loads, and they delivered
• The weather - Thank you God!
• The crowd - The friendliest happy bunch I can remember
• The funny t-shirts - Why didn't I order something from nerdytshirts.com in time for the weekend?

Lowlights:

• Those people who snuck in with no wristband - Why should I have to pay full price when you can come in use up the facilities?
• The lineup - weakest I can remember but didn't take from an otherwise fantastic weekend.

RasTa

I did sneak in but my mate invited me down as he was playing at it with two different bands. Got his first band no hassle for Lost Vagueness but they wouldn't give him one for the Body and Soul arena without any ID and my mate doesn't even have a bank account let alone a drivers license.

I was all set to come home until some friends in there found a way to slip their bands off by pulling on the silver thing. A few more came down on the Saturday, but it turned out to be pain. There was a few security guards doing random band search's around the campsite. One mate got caught but he talked his way into getting a new band for 30 quid.

Left on the Sunday night in a state and feeling it in work now.

Highlights was the atmosphere at the Christy Moore gig, George Clinton and some of the small tents/bandstands around Lost vagueness. Good people and good times though.

Oh I'm wrecked.


Body needs TLC.

Can't remember much.... Good Vibe.

Great all round.

Time to DETOX.

eth0_

RasTa wrote: »

One mate got caught but he talked his way into getting a new band for 30 quid.

That is fscking outrageous.
If the security guards at EP are *that bent*, it doesn't exactly inspire much trust in them if anything were to kick off or if someone was attacked.

actua11

Great crowd full of great people,
Weather held up well (till late sunday:rolleyes:)
Turned out to be a decent lineup with some great performances and atmospheres.
Loads of other cool things to do in between bands. (Maeve Higgings-Legend)
And all the great memories!

Piste

Highlights:

Getting married in the inflatable church
The Crowd
The Gaeilge Bheo Tent
Salon du Chat
Cans
The Eco Cup system
Free things (t-shirts, lube etc.)

Lowlights:
KOing and missing Underworld, Franz Ferdinand and Crystal Castles
The rain last night
being covered in bites
Missing lots of things I wanted to see because no one else wanted to see them or I forgot or they clashed with something else.

gofaster_s13

quarryman wrote: »

My favourite year so far.


[*]Those people who snuck in with no wristband - Why should I have to pay full price when you can come in use up the facilities?

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This was down to security not squeezing the metal clamp on yhe wristbands properly allowing people to take them on and off any that were squeezed properly couldnt be taken off and are far better than the plastic wristbands

Irjudge1

Highlights:

Bands I knew of: Franz Ferdinand, George Clinton, Grace Jones,
Bands I know now: Herbaliser, Kormac, Booka Shade
Brewin up a storm (Da, de de Da, de de Da, de de Da Da) Memories of Feile.
The food. Pie Minister mmmmmmm.
The Velvet Toilets
The Village Green
The Silent Disco. Why isn't there a full time one of these in Dublin
The famous people (Patrick Bergin, Liam Cunningham, Michael Eavis and Duncan)
The not so famous people (marquee erector from wales.
Dennis from Laois (aged 5) joke on the comedy stage.:D
Being able to look forward to doing it all again next year.

Lowlights:

Having to come home early on Sunday missed MBV and the Sex Pistols. (Bloody school system.)
The turds in the campsite on Sunday morning. Do these people have no shame.

arigold

Amazing amazing weekend.
First time there, I'll never miss another!

Highlights:
MBV
Sigur Ros
Those floating people performing at the Blue Room
Pies
Sneaky cans all weekend
Bavaria! (booze and merchandise!)
the buzz!
playing kazoo to sesame street songs
silent disco (especially the dutch dj on the left, what a hero!)
Unplanned dancing to Franz Ferdinand on tree trunks
The people. Great crowd. Basically totally hassle free and game for a laugh!
The Cello player in RA RA RIOT
Podge Ham Sandwich
The fact that it goes on all night!

Lowlights:
Trying to get the car out of the car park this morning! it was like quick-sand! took over an hour
having to return to work and not do whatever the hell i want!
John Lydon
Chaplin's toilets! sheesh. some people camped right next to those. more power to them!
My hang-over on Saturday morning. My favourite tie will never be the same again

Underworld?

Any reviews?

Got text from a friend who thought they were excellent, but he wouldn't have been a huge fan beforehand.

planB

underworld sucked in my own opinion...And I was told just recently I've one of the top five opinions in the western hemisphere...

saw them 5-6 years back and some other time since, and its the same set really...

Highlights -
MBV
The money back for beer cup things
the people.
Michael Franti Spearhead

Lowlights
- the over all line up was poor,
-Sex Pistols were drivel

but over all I'd give it a A+ as far as festivals go...

panda100

Was my first year and just one word really describes it-wow!

Highs:
Trad in the body and soul
Cider in the walled garden
Having an access all areas wristabnd and being able to use the lovely crew toilets
The Canadian dude in the poetry tent,he was mindblowing
Roddy Doyle on Dustin,eurovision and a short history of Ireland
Franz Ferdinand


Lows:
phone battery being dead
stupid 10 O'Clock licensing laws

Charles Slane

Highs -

Elbow.
Grace Jones.
Grinderman.
CSS.
Finding my way back to my tent on Saturday night despite being hardly able to remember my own name.
Lots of fun and laughs with my buddies.
Bus Eireann doing a surprisingly excellent job of getting me there and back really quickly.
The weather!!! Who'd have believed it???
Dublin Gospel Choir bringing my soul back to life on Sunday morning.
The vast majority of people there being cool and friendly.

Lows -

Sinead O'Connor.
The toilets (again).

planB

planB wrote: »

saw them 5-6 years back and some other time since, and its the same set really...

That's a standard problem with them. Then again, when you have stuff as good as 2 Months oFF and Jumbo and Cowgirl, why change a winning formula!

honru

The Roots, My Bloody Valentine, and Sex Pistols were my favourite acts of the weekend. Faust were bloody great too. All of them on the Sunday.

Found the other days were pretty weak music-wise in comparison... or more likely I didn't go to the right stages! I was disappointed with Sigur Ros. They were good to listen to while lying on the ground looking at the sky but otherwise I found them pretty boring.

Teferi

I got in for free because my OH's dad runs a food kiosk at these events and he got us some of the 3 day Trader pass's.

The line-up was just awful. I only liked two acts - Franz Ferd and Sigur Ros. I vaguely knew a few of the other acts but overall it was a pants line-up.

I liked all the different places though - body and soul, spoken word etc. They were fun to wander around + a lot of the small acoustic stuff around there was awesome.

The crowd was awesome. Cheerful and friendly.

John

Does anyone know if Fovea Hex played in the end? And if so, how were they?

BarryCreed

f®eak s©enery wrote: »

I was disappointed with Sigur Ros. They were good to listen to while lying on the ground looking at the sky but otherwise I found them pretty boring.

Is this not the best way to listen to them? (for me..)

BarryCreed

Teferi wrote: »

The line-up was just awful. I only liked two acts - Franz Ferd and Sigur Ros. I vaguely knew a few of the other acts but overall it was a pants line-up.

you vaguely knew of a a few other acts????

alas, twas wasted on you....

chris d

Just had the most amazing shower.

Too many highlights to name, it'll be nice having them seep back into my memory during the next few days. But a few of note...

- Elbow finishing on 'One Day Like This' was a religious experience.
- Crowd's reaction when Jape pulled Put'em Under Pressure out.
- Body & Soul for a bit of breakfast.
- Having a cider in the sun in the green crafts area while backsmithing & flint knapping went on in the background
- Friday evening after jape. 'what'll we do?' 'dunno.' 'dave o'doherty's on in a min, fancy it?' 'ehh, why not.' And he was awesome.
- chairoplanes. they kinda sucked afterwards now i think about. The girl in front of me falling over when she got off was brilliant tho.
- having a quick kip in the cinema tent.
- having the yard dogs on the main stage to me & my girlfriends selves, for a while anyway.

On the cons side, it would have been nice if people could use bins instead of leaving half eaten food at their arses. I wouldnt have liked to have been a girl looking at the toilet queues. & so many lads just pissing anywhere.

The main stage & big tent could have done with screens. I could just about make out nick cave.

Overall a fantastic few days. Arriba

projectmayhem

Stupid maths exam c0ck-blocked me from the festival, which is rather annoying. So while all of you got to enjoy the drug-infested den of joyous rapture I learned how to represent graphs as data structures.

Screw you all

Parsley

George Clinton/P-Funk is/are the biggest living legend/s on earth.
MBV was the loudest thing I've ever experienced.
Dan Deacon's set was f*cking amazing.
Crystal Castles, Conor Oberst, Faust-(got a piece of chainsawed drywall from them), Grinderman and Giveamanakick kicked ass too.
Chairoplanes were unreal!
You can always depend on the kindness of strangers for drugs.

Bluefoam

MBV were let down by poor sound.
Ham Sandwich were great.

scoot on

chris d wrote: »

On the cons side, it would have been nice if people could use bins instead of leaving half eaten food at their arses. I wouldnt have liked to have been a girl looking at the toilet queues. & so many lads just pissing anywhere.

The toilets were a massive con for me. I was the only girl in a group of 8 and it was a bloody disaster trying to go to the toilet. How hard is it to put in enough toilets?? The queues were crazy. And of course all the lads had to wait for me most of the time. Ffs, ****** left them for dead in relation to the toilets this year.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

I had a fantastic weekend. Far too tired to write much now though!

Had a great laugh with my friends and anybody we got chatting to. the food was actually alright. Sawa few good bands and comedians. Camped in the Andy Warhol site and it was grand, was a bit of a laugh without anybody annoying around!!! lol

The cons would have been the toilets, and the line up wasnt great.

But overall i had a great weekend

Captain Darling

Tip for next year, if ya want to drop the kids off at the pool, go to the main arena early. The crappers were in a pristine condition in the morning/early afternoon, it put an old pep in my step for the day, after it!!

I'd a great few days, i never eat so much in all my life at a music festival. On both Friday and Saturday nights, i ended up back in a rave/reggae disco in the forest, drinking tequila and vodka shots. Absolutely brilliant craic. I've never talked and had the craic with so many random strangers in all my life. I couldnt hack it Sunday so i fecked off early.

I've nothing negative to say about the festival, i wasnt expecting much from the line up, the only band i really wanted to see were the Breeders, and they were awesome. They looked like they were having a good time, and their set was very tight.

Elbow were breathtaking, they remind me of Doves, but with added soul, outstanding........ I was talking to a girl camped out at the front of the stage, beside the barrier before they came on, apparently she came over from New Zealand to see them especially. I was delighted when the band mentioned her during the set!!! I could understand her devotion to them after seeing them live though, bloody massive so they were.

Brilliant weekend, am still getting flashbacks of some of the madness i experienced/took part in!!! Happy memories............

FX Meister

do you even know what the term cock block means?

projectmayhem wrote: »

Stupid maths exam c0ck-blocked me from the festival, which is rather annoying. So while all of you got to enjoy the drug-infested den of joyous rapture I learned how to represent graphs as data structures.

Screw you all

FX Meister

toilet facilities were a disgrace. A lot of the food was awful but at least i got refunded for it. Line up had lots of good bands.

Jazzy

FX Meister wrote: »

do you even know what the term cock block means?

do u think he cares? do u think anyone cares? do u really care?



good stuff. last year was probably better line-up wise and i thought the toilets were better last year too.

rain on sunday night while trying to watch that effigy burn was sh1t.
4 teenage scumbags from ballymun with a lighter and a can of petrol would have done a better job at burning down that thing imo

tman

I'd say this was my least favourite EP so far, but still pretty damn enjoyable nonetheless.
Guess that I was just comparing it with Glastonbury a bit too much, which was in a totally different league!

Highlights;
Underworld rocking the shop
Deadmau5 rocking the shop some more... Love that mouse head!:p
Drunken backsaddle carousel action... Surprised that I didn't fall off!
The damn tasty steak sandwiches by the Crawdaddy area, and random food in general

Low points;
Not getting there until after 9 on Friday
Rob Hood clashing with Underworld
Underworld playing in the electric arena instead of the main stage... Surely they should've swapped places with George Clinton?
Rednecks.

JaneyMc

Highlights :
Modeselektor
The Kills
Digitalism
Goldfrapp
The full Irish breakfast area beside the paintball place that had actual proper toilets.


Not so good :
New Young Pony Club
CSS.
The sound was really bad for the wo of those bands.
The toilets.
The wasps in Charlie Chaplin campsite, not sure if other campsites has this problem, but they were EVERYWHERE.

Had a great weekend, lads that we camped with were great, atmosphere in general was a highlight.

EDIT : Thought the food was really expensive for the quality of it. Lived on noodles with sauce for the whole weekend.

Bluefoam

Boutique camping is the only way. Didn't have to queue for a toilet all weekend and they were sparkling clean...

eth0_

scoot on wrote: »

The toilets were a massive con for me. I was the only girl in a group of 8 and it was a bloody disaster trying to go to the toilet. How hard is it to put in enough toilets?? The queues were crazy. And of course all the lads had to wait for me most of the time. Ffs, ****** left them for dead in relation to the toilets this year.

Did you not see "comfy crappers"? They are going to save my life at Bestival this weekend...£13 for a wristband for the 5 days. Clean bogs. woo hoo!

scoot on

eth0_ wrote: »

Did you not see "comfy crappers"? They are going to save my life at Bestival this weekend...£13 for a wristband for the 5 days. Clean bogs. woo hoo!

No??

Wtf are comfy crappers?

Mushy

Pros:
The craic being mighty
The Gutter Twins
The Saloon bar
Candy Floss
Franz Ferdinand(even though I'm fairly sure they played for like 10minutes)
Time Maching Friday night from Meatloaf onwards

Cons:
Sigur Ros:(..maybe they were lst on me after seeing Mark Lanegan though*
MBV...all I heard was noise, couldnt hear vocals at all*
Person trying to rob our booze(thanks to neighbouring tents for telling him where to go!)


Overall a great time, some amazingly cool people out there.

*Still think the bands are very good, just underwhelmed by the experiences with them!

TestTransmission

Highlights:

Being up front for the Sex Pistols,
Elbow
The circus
Franz Ferdinand
Rave in the woods,(what i can remember of it)
Eco friendly glasses
Nice looking girls

Lows:
Sunburn
Hangover

kaimera

back to DUB at last.

wow.

amazing. didnt know a lot of bands but given it was my first picnic twas epicly good.

Stuxnet

JaneyMc wrote: »

The wasps in Charlie Chaplin campsite, not sure if other campsites has this problem, but they were EVERYWHERE

lol, i was in CC also, feckin wasps everywhere, hanging around the empty cans !!

Evenescent

HIGHS:

Foals !!
Gomez
Crystal Castles
Grinderman
The Gossip
The Floating act at the O2 Blueroom
Hearing 'The New York Fund' and 'Yacht' for the first time.
Seeing the band in the Bubble Jukebox thing near the Chapel
Band called Fracas.
The rave in the Woods



LOWS:

Sinéad O' Connor
Main Stage not having Screens
Needed more Water Top up Areas
Thought I was going to keel over and die Saturday Morning - so Hungover

Pretty disappointed with 'The Kills' and I had been really looking forward to them

Brilliant Weekend

MikeHoncho

Too tired to do a proper review now but highlights:

Santogold
Cut Copy
Digitalism
Modeselektor
Grinderman
ATrack
Catching some guy robbing peoples cups from outside their tents early on Saturday morning. Chasing him off whilecalling him a krusty c*nt.
Japanese Popstars in the rain last night. Stood there in only a T Shirt getting drowned but it was well worth it.


Toilets in Warhol and Hendrix were horriffic. Sort that out for next year and your laughing.

Evenescent

quarryman wrote: »

My favourite year so far.


Highlights:

• Silent Disco - Why is this my first year going into this? Amazing stuff

What was it like ?

Like is it not bizarre looking about and everyone is dancing at different times ?

Clearly i have never been

hiphopopotamus

Music wise it was not a good year at the picnic there where a few exceptions of course the Roots where great so to where Wilco and Hayseed dixie were great fun. I was disappointed with Sigur Ros im a huge fan but i felt that on a main stage they just were not as good as seing them in a tent or similar small venue for instance when they played oxygen two years ago it was one of the best gigs i was ever at. The higlights for me at this years picnic came from the comedy tent with David O'Doherty and Jarleth Regan being the standouts. This is my fourth electric picnic and as with previous years you cant but not have a good time the atmosphere and the friendly crowd make up for any shortfalls in the line-up. My major complaints however are that the toilets especially in the campsites were a disgrace. Not enough of them and no urinals for the men. The car parks need to be looked at to I was lucky and left early on monday morning but i just about got out they need to lay gravel tracks or temporary roads along all the headlands and then their would would be no problem whatever the weather.

quarryman

Evenescent wrote: »

What was it like ?

Like is it not bizarre looking about and everyone is dancing at different times ?

Clearly i have never been

here ya go: Silent Disco. The sound in the video doesn't do it enough justice, you take off the earphones and its just people singing really badly!

Also:
Dan Deacon

enjoy!

Toast

Really enjoyed it but I think they need to consolidate a bit. There are far too many stages and things to see and some of them are of only passing novelty value at best. Either that or add another day. Impossible to see everything even with a weak lineup preventing too much distraction from the music stages.

Toilet layout needed looking at... not as bad as 2006 but seemed to be worse than 2007. I feel that they are trying to force people into using posh camping by reducing the quality of the regular camping setup. The heading into the Arena trick only worked until the point that the Arena filled up.

Other than that was a great festival that was over far too soon.

Peteee

First EP (First festival in fact) but it was mighty good craic!

Sigur Ros were epic and played most of my favourite songs, so I was very happy with that. Franz Ferdinand played too many new songs off their upcoming album I thought, still sounded good but ya couldnt bop along to it really.

Comedy tent was pretty awesome. Some short Irish guy (Ian Coppinger I think) was an absolute hoot. Colin Murphy was strangely bad (Seen him twice before and he was excellent)

Brought way too much booze, the 'latrines' and general toiletry was a disgrace, WASPS!, but everything else was awesome.

Kudos to everyone who had funny tshirts too

Evenescent

quarryman wrote: »

here ya go: Silent Disco. The sound in the video doesn't do it enough justice, you take off the earphones and its just people singing really badly!

Also:
Dan Deacon

enjoy!

Bah ha aha ha : Thanks for that.

May try it out at some stage

eth0_

scoot on wrote: »

No??

Wtf are comfy crappers?

They are eco-loo's that you pay to use. They're always clean.

scoot on

eth0_ wrote: »

They are eco-loo's that you pay to use. They're always clean.

Where were they??

Was there much of a queue?

nlgbbbblth

highlights
- The weather
- Taking a shortcut down that was reasonably effective
- Silver Apples. Yeah.
- Twinkranes in the Bernard Shaw. Krautastic. Was too leaden footed to see much of Andy Votel's DJ set though.
- Large Mound rockin' the Little Big Tent
- Faust's chainsaw massacre.
- Super Extra Bonus Party.
- That Petrol Emotion making it seem like Feile 1990.
- That German hot dog place. Bratwurst mmmm.
- Ice cream.
- Actually finding someone handing out Saturday and Sunday copies of The Ticket
- Meeting loads of people I knew and good conversations with strangers.
- My Bloody Valentine. No earplugs necessary and having room to dance. Still glad I went to Manchester. Totally different experience at EP.

lowlights
- Getting lost in the Body and Soul arena on Friday night having spilled drink all over me during Rollers / Sparkers. Kept going round in circles.
- Little Big Tent not being marked on map. Several people I know missed bands because of this.
- Inconsistent seizing of alcohol by security
- Toilets in Charlie Chaplin. Portaloos on Saturday evening too little too late.
- Realising I have outgrown my tent.
- The hellish walk from the car park to the campsite. Never gets easy.
- Frustrating 'walk the long way around' incidents when the place you want is just over the fence.
- Sound quality during the Sex Pistols.
- Hearing someone lament the dropping of their phone in the latrines, Charlie Chaplin.

Grace Jones started well but I left for the Silver Apples. Hope someone gave her the spliff she craved.

Left at around 11.30pm last night. Did the Pistols do Frigging In The Rigging?

Orb any good? Would have liked to stay but a good feeling to be back home and in bed by 12.15am.

Extraplus

Irjudge1 wrote: »

Highlights:

Bands I know now: Herbaliser, Kormac, Booka Shade

Kormac rocked it! Completely sorted my head out on Saturday morning after a bop to these guys.

honru

BarryCreed wrote: »

Is this not the best way to listen to them? (for me..)

Yea, it was nice looking up at the sky with the lights beaming from Stradbally Hall.

chris d wrote:

The main stage & big tent could have done with screens. I could just about make out nick cave.

Definetly concur there. I think the festival has grown to the point where it could really do with screens on the two big stages. Graspop in Belgium had two massive screens on the two sides of the main marquee which were fantastic.

scoot on wrote:

The toilets were a massive con for me. I was the only girl in a group of 8 and it was a bloody disaster trying to go to the toilet. How hard is it to put in enough toilets?? The queues were crazy. And of course all the lads had to wait for me most of the time.

Toilets did look a complete disaster, horrendous looking queues. I did take my one designated festival **** and the toilet I landed upon was far better than jacks I've had to endure at previous festivals. So no complaints from myself anyway, but there definetly didn't seem to be enough portaloos to go around for the whole weekend. I can't recall it being that bad last year.

Toast wrote:

Really enjoyed it but I think they need to consolidate a bit. There are far too many stages and things to see and some of them are of only passing novelty value at best. Either that or add another day. Impossible to see everything even with a weak lineup preventing too much distraction from the music stages.

Yea, was a little too bloated, seemed like the site had doubled the amount of things on offer from the previous year. Let alone the fact that vast majorty of big guns music-wise were on during the later hours, it was slightly disappointing that I didn't get to touch on even half of the going-ons.

Maybe next year I shouldn't drink so much. :pac: