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Electric Picnic 2011

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  • Posts: 12,761 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    He really squeezed that gram of MDMA out!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,596 ✭✭✭threein99


    He really squeezed that gram of MDMA out!

    hahaha true, but it did seem everywhere he went people were throwing MDMA at him


  • Posts: 12,761 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Same here. It was tough to move with all the MDMA being thrown about. Ankle deep at one point. I was hoping it wouldn't rain in case it ran into my socks!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    Just saw this on efestivals, it's one lad's experience of sneaking into Electric Picnic. Makes a pretty good read but the guy that wrote it sounds like a total knob who never saw drugs in his life before and the kind of guy I'd go out of my way to avoid if I met him at a festival. Fair enough, he couldn't afford a ticket but he could have worked for one, like I and a lot of other people had to do this year...... Enjoy:


    http://www.efestivals.co.uk/forums/blog/806/entry-1484-my-electric-picnic-experiences-2011/

    I've just lost all faith in humanity reading this....
    DICKHEAD wrote:
    I find that Electric Picnic is always a kind of a competition between the indie fans and the techno heads to see who can take the most drugs and who is getting the best laugh out of it

    Am I weird because I spent the weekend enjoying music?

    "I felt bad about lying but I had no option" Here's an option, use the money you spent on cans, drugs, hats, sunglasses, icecream, food and other ****e to buy a ****ing ticket.....

    I know this is wrong, but I really hope this guy dies of a horribly painful disease, it'd be a great day for the planet to get rid of this waste of air.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,420 ✭✭✭electrobanana


    just saw this now what a fcukn muppet. Im off to efestivals now to tell him how much off a tosser he is...we should bombard him with hate filled comments over there for the craic:D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    just saw this now what a fcukn muppet. Im off to efestivals now to tell him how much off a tosser he is...we should bombard him with hate filled comments over there for the craic:D
    The piece in bold does not sit well with me for some reason.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,044 ✭✭✭budgemook


    Bit of a clown alright but death by disease and a hate campaign eh?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    An over-excited young lad hardly deserves so much hate. He didn't go around punching people in the face or anything.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,278 ✭✭✭johnnykilo


    That efestivals review has to be a pisstake. It's far too well written to be done by your average skanger. It's full of inaccuracies, like when he says he was refused entry into the main arena on the Friday night (presumably because he had no wristband) in which case he would have been removed from the site. I know as this happened to a friend of mine (he had a wristband, but it was loose all weekend and when one security guard took exception to this he was removed from the site).

    If he was off his face all weekend he seems to remember a lot of details, what people looked like, people's ages, the price of things etc... The bit about the plumber with the machine gun WTF!!! It reads more like a short story than a festival review. Perhaps he thought he was entering a writing competition? :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 140 ✭✭MeetReality


    I also like how he just refers to the Picnic as being a competition between indie heads and techno heads to see who can take the most drugs. Yet all he does is talk about taking drugs. :rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,420 ✭✭✭electrobanana


    The piece in bold does not sit well with me for some reason.

    Fair enough it looks bad i was in a fowl mood earlier after work when i wrote it.
    it just pisses me off that i like many people on here work hard to pay for tickets for events like this and guys like this go with the intention just to sneak in and then have the neck write a blog about it..just gets on my nerves.
    Didnt mean to offend


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭AG2R


    It's the fact he was promoting drugs tbh, I was at it this year and seen first hand what MDMA and E done to people, wasn't pleasant.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,038 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    AG2R wrote: »
    It's the fact he was promoting drugs tbh, I was at it this year and seen first hand what MDMA and E done to people, wasn't pleasant.
    dunno about that!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,245 ✭✭✭old gregg


    I saw a few people who probably bought what they hoped was E but who ended up experiencing an evening of stumbling around on K :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭Lumbo


    old gregg wrote: »
    I saw a few people who probably bought what they hoped was E but who ended up experiencing an evening of stumbling around on K :eek:

    Score :):):):):)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    old gregg wrote: »
    I saw a few people who probably bought what they hoped was E but who ended up experiencing an evening of stumbling around on K :eek:

    They should have paid more attention to Sesame Street when they were young I guess.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 375 ✭✭pauliewallie


    Just saw this on efestivals, it's one lad's experience of sneaking into Electric Picnic. Makes a pretty good read but the guy that wrote it sounds like a total knob who never saw drugs in his life before and the kind of guy I'd go out of my way to avoid if I met him at a festival. Fair enough, he couldn't afford a ticket but he could have worked for one, like I and a lot of other people had to do this year...... Enjoy:


    http://www.efestivals.co.uk/forums/blog/806/entry-1484-my-electric-picnic-experiences-2011/

    would like to read this but the link is experiencing difficulties - is it anywhere else?


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


    some errors in his story too, no female could have reissued him a wristband at the box office, he had to go to the gate


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,351 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    AG2R wrote: »
    It's the fact he was promoting drugs tbh, I was at it this year and seen first hand what MDMA and E done to people, wasn't pleasant.

    Yea seeing all the lads & ladies run into the forest at the dirty Equinox rave on sunday night with no bog roll wasn't a pretty site. I had to shoo one of them away from the tree I was chatting up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 245 ✭✭SoulRock


    .... Arcadia for Underworld was good craic too. Found the sound on the main stage dire all weekend. Was up the back so maybe that was it
    That was Darren Price From Underworld live on Arcadia sunday night.. he came to do a set for us after the show on the main stage and yea it was Rockin!!
    fun times alright :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭the_doctor199


    Lots of photos from the festival at the following link: Click me!

    EP-23.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,068 ✭✭✭galwaybabe


    Lots of photos from the festival at the following link: Click me!

    EP-23.jpg

    Great shots. You really captured the vibe well!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    good job on the photo's. Just goes to show how much cool stuff I missed.

    thats what makes it such a great few days, no matter how much you see, you'll miss loads.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,068 ✭✭✭galwaybabe


    A shot from our gig at the Salty Dog. What a cool stage!


    flingsaltydogexport.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 702 ✭✭✭wreckless


    SoulRock wrote: »
    That was Darren Price From Underworld live on Arcadia sunday night.. he came to do a set for us after the show on the main stage and yea it was Rockin!!
    fun times alright :D

    Darren Price? you mean Darren Emerson?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    An over-excited young lad hardly deserves so much hate. He didn't go around punching people in the face or anything.

    Some people deserve hate.... to be honest, I could get past the drugs(even though he comes across as a complete toolbag), it's more the sneaking in and being so proud about it that pisses me off when I paid 280quid before leaving my house.(ticket+transport).....and the line "i had no choice but to sneak in"(paraphrasing, don't want to read that again).....

    Maybe wishing disease on him was a bit harsh I suppose.... still....would be nice if he could stub his toe or something... :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭bryaner


    Lots of photos from the festival at the following link: Click me!

    EP-23.jpg

    Great pics, top camera by the looks..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭Lumbo


    wreckless wrote: »
    Darren Price? you mean Darren Emerson?

    Darren Emerson hasn't played with Underworld since around 2000. Darren Price was Underworld's tour DJ (not sure for how long but I remember seeing him warming up for them in 94) who now plays with the band.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,662 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


    good job on the photo's. Just goes to show how much cool stuff I missed.

    thats what makes it such a great few days, no matter how much you see, you'll miss loads.

    Was thinking that myself, looking at most of these pics I keep saying "when did that happen?"


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭the_doctor199


    good job on the photo's. Just goes to show how much cool stuff I missed.

    thats what makes it such a great few days, no matter how much you see, you'll miss loads.

    Thanks, this was the first time at EP that I really took the time to explore and skip some bands, especially in the Body & Soul which has so much.


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