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Paddy2012 · 06-09-2016 01:30PM

I thought Catfish were not bad but was glad I left early to see Joey Bada$$. I was surprised by how small their crowd was though, maybe they just don't get as much radio play in ireland as in the UK

roll · 06-09-2016 01:35PM

Canneverfindit wrote: »

Right - My 2016 experience:

One guy took the guitar for a bit and started the Oasis songs. I took it off him and told him to stop for his own safety.

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:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

The Davestator · 06-09-2016 01:41PM

Thanks for all the great info from all the Vets here - made this a brilliant first time EP for me.

Stayed in the caravan site and it was perfect. Zero traffic in our out.

Loved the trailer park area and saw some brilliant band on sunday about midnight (Anyone know who they were)

Lana del ray was a shocking act to put on a Sunday night - sucked the life out of me.

Nas - (never heard of him before) was brialliant. Chemical brothers - loved them.

Got too locked to enjoy Noel Gallagher and my photos tell me I was wandering aimlessly around when he was on!

Will be back with some lessons learnt next year.

Lotus Flower · 06-09-2016 01:51PM

fillup wrote: »

New Order were better than i expected but that version of Love Will Tear Us Apart that they played is rank

They've taken a post punk classic and reworked it as a stadium rock anthem and replaced the melancholic feel of the song with an uplift *shudder*

Love Will Tear Us Apart is the most "anthemic" and well known of Joy Division's songs and they're going to tailor it to a festival set. You can hardly expect them to play something off Closer! (Not that I would complain!)

bodhrandude · 06-09-2016 01:55PM

Well I enjoyed my weeks stay in Stradbally but like others mentioned I noticed a much younger clientele at EP this year. Absolute madness but couldn't score any pills the whole weekend, wandering about Todd Terje's gig and then the Chemical Brothers gig, half the audience hyper ventilating but no joy although the gigs were tremendous. It was the same at Daniel Avery's gig, trying to score a pill and all I do is get mocked by a bunch of 18 year old scum bags calling me granddad, I wanted to scream at them that dance music has been about since 1987 or possibly longer if you take in the evolution of Chicago House, not taking away from Avery's gig which was splendid. I also heard of creepy stories of spiking, two 18 year old girls who were volunteers who apparently got spiked by someone in the Trenchtown crew as they woke up in the Trenchtown crew campsite, luckily they weren't interfered with or raped. I also heard one of my neighbours, a young fellah in the crew campsite was spiked too and ended up in the medical tent. This is new and not welcoming news for EP. Also the path through the hole in the wall coming from crew camp badly suffered from the rain, no wood chippings laid at all, I belted my left shoulder on Sunday night when I slipped on the way to see New Order. And changes as well for crew I had cans removed from my bag by Specialised Security on the way into the arena, this never happened before, fecking leave the crew alone who have been down there all week, at 7.20 and 7.40 a pint no bloody wonder we take in our own drink.

Highlights or acts I caught:
Friday
Booka Brass Band and Skipper's Alley (trad band) at Other Voices stage.
Shah Smooth at Salty Dog and went for a wander into Hazel Wood which is a nice chilled area.
Todd Terje
Chemical Brothers (I got a bit of a headache from their lights but they were excellent.)
Wandered slowly about Body & Soul and Trenchtown for Friday night.

Saturday
Wandered up to Electric Ireland to watch a bit of Bananarama, curious like and took some video clips for my sisters who liked them back in their time, they actually put on quite a good show to a packed out tent.
Caught a bit of Dylan Moran (Don't really know what to think of his set, it was alright.)
Had a few tunes at the Bog Cottage in Body & Soul with tin whistler Liam Lyons and another fellah which was good for my soul.
DJ EZ ( he was good but a bit cheesy, well using Xfactor sounding female vocals at the start, didn't hang around long enough to see him do the scratch hip hop stuff as it was fairly packed and wild in there and what the actual fcuk is this Whooomp there it is carry on, it practically drowned out the actual music.)
Noel Gallagher (I actually enjoyed his set and he had a nice tight band)
King Kong Company (Watched a bit of their set outside the Cosby Tent, the tent was absolutely rammed and it wasn't raining at the time, a great set.)
LCD Soundsystem (They were fantastic, the main stage had a superb sound and I loved the way they dipped into their last three albums, it was brilliant to hear Someone Great live for the first time. We split after that as I know only too well that Daniel Avery's gig would be jammed. A question here, why did they change the Little Big Tent back to the smaller marquee.
Daniel Avery (A phenomenal gig, two tracks from Drone Logic bookending the gig and probably about another album and a half worth of material played on the night and my god it was hot in there.
Myself and my mate decided to head for crew camp after that as we wanted to get rested and be up at a good time tomorrow to catch the legendary Toots and the Maytals.

Sunday
Toots and the Maytals (Bloody magnificent, they are my favourite reggae act, Toots Hibbert still has an amazing voice and they pulled a nice crowd for the Sunday afternoon reggae act, plus it stayed dry and warm although the sun didn't come out.
Kelly Anne Byrne (Really enjoyed her set at the Bacardi bar, playing soul, funk house or as someone else described it as uplifting house, but the music was more reminiscent to her Saturday radio show on Today FM rather than her Sunday show.) By then slight intermittent drizzle and hotish dry weather.
New Order (Were magnificent, amazing visuals and some classic tracks) Would have caught more of the set if it wasn't for that stupid specialised security guard holding me up and causing me to drink my Spanish absinthe outside of the arena, probably also the intoxicating effect too.
Skepta ( I enjoyed Skepta a lively and wild gig, I wouldn't really know any of his material but his music was pumping, the audience were slightly demented and crazy, a bit much for an elder like me as you will see when I upload the video clip, camera shake not by me by the way ha ha.)

Couldn't take anymore rain after this, my jacket was soaking right through and I lost ambition to go exploring fearing I would get pneumonia and headed for the crew camp.

Easy Rod · 06-09-2016 02:04PM

I want to give a shout out to the soundest security guard in the world who removed a can of Heineken from my bag on Sunday before shooting me a knowing look and carefully placing it back on the bag for me.

IamMetaldave · 06-09-2016 02:05PM

My favourites were DJKormac, Plutonic Dust, Overhead, the Albatross, Chemical Brothers, Snap (I know!), New Order, Nas was fun too.

Canneverfindit · 06-09-2016 02:06PM

bodhrandude wrote: »

I also heard of creepy stories of spiking, two 18 year old girls who were volunteers who apparently got spiked by someone in the Trenchtown crew as they woke up in the Trenchtown crew campsite, luckily they weren't interfered with or raped. I also heard one of my neighbours, a young fellah in the crew campsite was spiked too and ended up in the medical tent. This is new and not welcoming news for EP. .

Ooh on this - you've just reminded me. When we had our 'guests' at the tent for the singsong, people were being lovely - handing us cigarettes and cans (one girl gave me her necklace) as a way of saying thanks (I think). One lad handed me a 2 litre of bottle of coke and something - said it was lovely - (cant remember what he said it was mixed with) to drink it and (idiot that I am) was just about to when his friend - another guy I didnt know, grabbed it out of my hand and shook his head and whispered to me 'dont drink that, theres a lot of sh1te going on this weekend'. He then gave me a sealed can.

Didnt think about it until now but think you might be right.

Canneverfindit · 06-09-2016 02:08PM

Easy Rod wrote: »

I want to give a shout out to the soundest security guard in the world who removed a can of Heineken from my bag on Sunday before shooting me a knowing look and carefully placing it back on the bag for me.

Same!
I didnt get searched once and at one stage, was going through to the main arena with a plastic pint glass of white wine in hand (fully understanding I'd have to knock it back/ throw it away) when he said "drink that off" I nodded. Didnt. and walked straight through still holding it.

MadYaker · 06-09-2016 02:17PM

Jaysus bodhrandude, get your stuff sorted before you go to the festival! There's no way in a million years id go wandering around asking randomers for pills, asking for trouble that is.

fillup · 06-09-2016 02:17PM

Lotus Flower wrote: »

fillup wrote: »

New Order were better than i expected but that version of Love Will Tear Us Apart that they played is rank

They've taken a post punk classic and reworked it as a stadium rock anthem and replaced the melancholic feel of the song with an uplift *shudder*

Love Will Tear Us Apart is the most "anthemic" and well known of Joy Division's songs and they're going to tailor it to a festival set. You can hardly expect them to play something off Closer! (Not that I would complain!)

They're not Joy Division so why bother covering it in the first place if you're not going to do it justice

Why bother covering it if you're going to dance all over it with muddy festival boots?

I have issues with New Order and this cover kinda embodies what they are -

scruff monkey · 06-09-2016 02:20PM

Does it really count as a cover if they had a hand in performing and writing the original?

Surely they're entitled to do what ever they want with it and if people get a little precious about it then boo hoo?

DC10555 · 06-09-2016 02:26PM

First time going to EP this year, I went on the Sunday and I have to say it left a good impression. The overall atmosphere for the festival seems to be pretty positive. I didn't see any fighting what so ever and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. Granted there were a few who had more than than "a few beers" but that's expected at festivals.

I seen some people saying the Sunday line-up could have been better but I have to say I really enjoyed it, discovered a few new bands too. Thought Lana Del Rey was great, much better than I expected her to be. New Order were amazing too, Picture This were savage. I caught White Mice at the Body and Soul area too which were stunning, the lead singer has amazing voice! Discovered ELM too at Body and Soul, thought they were great.

Anyone else experience the vendors short changing? Over the Sunday I made 6 purchases between drinks and food. I was short changed 4 times in total. At one stage I had to have more than a few words to convince the girl at the Orchid Thieves tent that €50 - €6.20 did not equate to €33.80. The highlight of this was at one of the main Heineken areas where the girl "just happened" to have the change in her hand ready to give me when I spotted how she tried to cut me short. I've been to festivals and large outdoor gigs in the past and I've never experienced this, but that's a lesson learned always check your change at any of the beer tents.

Speaking of staff, I'm not sure where they get some of these. While the majority were out their doing their job there were more than a few just their to "impress" with their schitty chat up lines and awkwardly dancing into groups of women. The sort of thing you see on a YouTube cringe video collection in a few years. The staff who were doing their job were great, the festival overall was kept quite clean which was great to see, you weren't tripping over trash all night.

On a positive note the variety of food choices was amazing. Due to the amount of them there never seemed to be any major queue's either which was nice as there is nothing worse than having to queue 20 mins.

One of the things that surprised me enough was the amount of kids there, I understand the festival is family friendly and provides a tonne of activities for them but I genuinely believe they should be out after about 8pm as it can get a little bit messier with people drunk and what not.

AdMMM · 06-09-2016 02:32PM

Going on what some people were saying before the festival, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Pink Moon was going to be a revelation in luxury. It really isn't.

You're essentially paying a lot of money for making sure you have an atmosphere that's simply taken for granted at other European festivals. And even then you have to put up with queues for toilets, queues for showers, queues to charge your phone and one of the longest queues for coffee that I've ever seen in the morning. I know that they warn you that it's busy in the mornings but given the amount of money they cleared, they could have easily put in an additional bar, more food places and some higher quality toilets towards the top of the site.

That being said, the rear entrance to the arena was very welcome and security were pleasantly lax when it came to checking you for drink on the way through.

Ferris_Bueller · 06-09-2016 02:37PM

Finally back to reality. Had a brilliant weekend! Thanks to all who had recommended Pink Moon earlier in the year, was my first time staying there and would highly recommend it, it was definitely a factor in why the weekend was so enjoyable. Didn't use the facilities that much tbh but the convenience of getting into the arena combined with the clean and respectable campsite/toilets was so nice to come back to every night compared to the other campsites. The 2 man tents were nicely sized and didn't feel worried about the rain at any point, €90 well spent staying in there.

Left at about 10am on Friday morning and found there was more traffic this early than in previous years, tried taking exit 15 off the motorway for Vicarstown but the gardaí had the road closed off, didn't have a choice in which carpark I was sent to and had to park in red, the worst part of the weekend was walking from here to the pink moon campsite as we were walking through Oscar Wilde, Salty Dog etc there was a lot of foot traffic coming the other direction, took forever with our bags and drink, I think they really need to sort the car park situation as friends of mine who wanted to go to red ended up in green and ones who wanted to go to green ended up in red (this was the only negative I had all weekend).

Once I had the first can open and got a bit of food in pink moon it was full steam ahead for the weekend, it was great being back in that environment again. I must be one of few who actually thought the crowd wasn't as bad as last year, felt there was more people above 30 than last year and less of a messy crowd at it, but maybe that is just in some of the areas I was. Certain stages such as the RBMA and Casa Bacardi do have noticeably young crowds but around the main stage and B&S it was a very nice atmosphere I thought. I love going down to Casa Bacardi during the day for a bit of a boogie but at night time it is very much full of the young crowd that are just there because it's the place to be.

Despite it not being my favourite line up of the past few years, musically I thought it was the best picnic I was at. Saw so many great bands and acts (planned & unplanned) and in general I got around to a lot of different stages rather than spend the weekend floating between one or two which has happened in the past. Highlights of Friday were Todd Terje, Cinema, Chemical Brothers & Le Freak, Saturday was LCD Soundsystem & Plutonic Dust (who were absolutely unbelievable!), enjoyed Glass Animals but was probably too far back in the crowd to hear it properly. Didn't get to do as much on the Sunday but New Order were fantastic.

I've only been going to EP for 4 years and I've noticed a change in that time, so I can only imagine how much of a change there has been for the people who've been going for longer. But to say it is turning into oxegen is harsh IMO, there are so many wonderful people at the festival and so much to do that each year I leave thinking "I'll have to do X, Y & Z next year", even the younger crowd aren't that bad, I didn't see any hassle at all and almost everyone I saw was enjoying themselves and being quite respectful to others, obviously the worst comes out in the campsites late at night but it can be avoided if you are careful where you camp. One of my most memorable moments this weekend was coming out of B&S on Sat night after Plutonic Dust and seeing a random little tent still playing music, it was full of an older crowd all giving it socks to tunes like One Night in Bangkok and Total Eclipse of the Heart, everyone smiling and laughing with each other, it was a perfectly weird moment which is really what I love about these weekends, maybe we have to look a bit harder for moments like this at EP now but there is no doubt in my mind that the magic is still in the air down there.

Lotus Flower · 06-09-2016 02:38PM

fillup wrote: »

They're not Joy Division so why bother covering it in the first place if you're not going to do it justice

Why bother covering it if you're going to dance all over it with muddy festival boots?

I have issues with New Order and this cover kinda embodies what they are -

I guess you have issues with Macca performing Beatles songs, Roger Waters or David Gilmour performing Pink Floyd or any of the countless examples of this type of thing? Out of interest, what did they do to butcher the song so much? To me it was already the most anthemic and upbeat sounding of their songs

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup · 06-09-2016 02:41PM

I was giving out loads about the lineup and I still think it was bad and going to be worse next year probably, but I should have jsut went the full weekend. There was loads of cheap tickets last week. All weekend I was FOMOing bad and I decided to pick up 2 Sunday tickets in Limerick. I sold one in Galway Saturday night when no friends would go at late notice (bunch of losers!) and driving home 2fm played 'all my friends'. I'd to turn the radio off!

so headed up Sunday and it was great. saw talos, frankie cosmos, bit of animal collective (anyone got a setlist?), new order and skepta.

lineup was bad enough that I finally checked out Mindfield and the comedy tent for the first time in 6 attempts! i can't help but feel contempt for the geriatrics who look like they're camped out for the weekend there! if you don't like music, don't come to a music festival!
again attempted to try out Kinara kitchen but the queue is just too long. got some lovely stuff in Saba instead.
i've never seen a bigger crowd outside a tent than Rankin's wood when i was at frankie cosmos. was trying to figure out who it was from reading here and i think it was picture this. fair play to them, Irish and all.
couldn't understand how i spent so much, and i never checked my change. was probably shortchanged. pisses me off as i sometimes tip as well! i'd hate that i tipped someone who already robbed me!
spent the rest of Sunday night in B&S and it was as good as ever, chatted to load of randomers. eventually the rain soaked through my jacket and it was cold as well. it was that hazy kind of rain that absolutely soaks you. i headed back to my hotel around 3am I think. even my jocks were soaked! that feeling jumping into that warm, dry bed with a fresh pair of jocks ahhhhhhh. €129 well spent
i didn't really mind the extra crowds, it never seemed that packed. but a previous poster mentioned the old way of hanging out with friends outside Electric Arena or one of the other tents! that's such a distant memory, impossible now with the crowds.
song of the festival was Your Silent Face. 3rd time seeing New Order and I was hoping they'd play more of the new album as I think it's class. but i suppose that's what you get with a festival set.
despite the rain the ground held up spectacularly. stradbally always had good drainage. compare it to the slugfest of the mud at Body&Soul festival this year which was no fun.
there was A LOT of Tipperary jerseys going around the Sunday. i thought it was tradition to never show matches at EP with people having to go into Stradbally. not complaining at all, just shows that the festival has changed

so i'm def buying tickets this Friday and going full weekend again next year. i'll go every year until they get rid of the Body&Soul area, that'll be the final straw

MJohnston · 06-09-2016 02:42PM

DC10555 wrote: »

One of the things that surprised me enough was the amount of kids there, I understand the festival is family friendly and provides a tonne of activities for them but I genuinely believe they should be out after about 8pm as it can get a little bit messier with people drunk and what not.

As many of us have said, this is really the first year that having kids out later has been a 'problem'. People are always taking lots of drugs and drinking too much (the latter being a far more annoying situation for everyone else around them imo), for me the difference this year is there were a significant amount more people in a too far gone state, and they were significantly younger and unable to deal with it as much.

Also, possibly the drug of choice has changed to something far less craic than in the past.

Art Fonzarelli · 06-09-2016 02:44PM

MadYaker wrote: »

It seems to be a problem they have with that stage so? Me and someone else noticed it at broken social scene too. I think it only affects bands? I saw Todd Terje and Skepta in that tent too and the sound seemed fine, although they were all on quite late and I was a bit mashed at that stage. It's frustrating that they can't get it right after several years with the same setup.

Yep, noticed it at BSS too.

I'm still not completely clear on exactly who I saw - mind's still not pieced itself back together enough for even a semi-proper account.

What I do know is that despite the questionable line-up quality, the capacity increase, changing demographics, rain, mud and corporate creep, I had a brilliant time. And that was largely down to the group of people I was with: it's the single biggest factor. I won't be buying a ticket until I know who else is going.

skD13 · 06-09-2016 02:45PM

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

the worst part of the weekend was walking from here to the pink moon campsite as we were walking through Oscar Wilde, Salty Dog etc.

Yeah, I don't understand all this routing through campsites to the arena/other camp sites. Surely there is enough space to create routes around these areas. It's a pain walking through them and it's a pain for those staying in the campsites.

Late at night also the exit was not clearly marked and you had to go through Hazel Wood to leave the venue proper. That was confusing.

ghostdancer · 06-09-2016 02:50PM

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

the worst part of the weekend was walking from here to the pink moon campsite as we were walking through Oscar Wilde, Salty Dog etc there was a lot of foot traffic coming the other direction, took forever with our bags and drink, I think they really need to sort the car park situation as friends of mine who wanted to go to red ended up in green and ones who wanted to go to green ended up in red (this was the only negative I had all weekend)..

why didn't you just walk along the Abbeyleix road outside the festival gates which brings you to the paintball entrance?

scruff monkey · 06-09-2016 02:51PM

There was actually a route laid out from the red car parks to the paintball entrance but it was not sign posted at all and meant that you didn't need to cut through the other camps to get to the paintball entrance. I was parked at the back of red in B6 and it meant a long but pretty clean walk to that entrance, didn't need to go near the other one at all.

That's something that could well be improved/signposted.

MJohnston · 06-09-2016 02:51PM

georgiecasey wrote: »

if you don't like music, don't come to a music festival!

Ferris_Bueller · 06-09-2016 02:57PM

ghostdancer wrote: »

why didn't you just walk along the Abbeyleix road outside the festival gates which brings you to the paintball entrance?

scruff monkey wrote: »

There was actually a route laid out from the red car parks to the paintball entrance but it was not sign posted at all and meant that you didn't need to cut through the other camps to get to the paintball entrance. I was parked at the back of red in B6 and it meant a long but pretty clean walk to that entrance, didn't need to go near the other one at all.

That's something that could well be improved/signposted.

Didn't really know that was an option to be honest. As scruffmonkey said, not signposted from where I entered anyway. I would definitely think the carparks could be sorted out a bit better as a lot of people know before they arrive which campsite they intend on staying in.

fillup · 06-09-2016 03:02PM

Lotus Flower wrote: »

fillup wrote: »

They're not Joy Division so why bother covering it in the first place if you're not going to do it justice

Why bother covering it if you're going to dance all over it with muddy festival boots?

I have issues with New Order and this cover kinda embodies what they are -

I guess you have issues with Macca performing Beatles songs, Roger Waters or David Gilmour performing Pink Floyd or any of the countless examples of this type of thing? Out of interest, what did they do to butcher the song so much? To me it was already the most anthemic and upbeat sounding of their songs

i said i had issues with New Order not with people performing songs from previous stages of their career - not sure how many Lennon penned song Macca plays in his regular set and i'm still to frazzled post picnic to even contemplate Pink Floyd *shudder*

i'd hardly call Love will Tear Us Apart upbeat, anthemic yes but not upbeat -

The original is in a minor key and it's about as melancholic as it gets

But the version New Order are hawking seems to start in G major rather than the E minor original - plus its far too bombastic and c0ckr0cky.
Macca would have too much respect for Lennon to rework one of his or even their songs in that manner

But.... apart from that (and the shameless plugging of their new bass player - Stalinist revisionism anybody?) i did enjoy New Order

MeatTwoVeg · 06-09-2016 03:02PM

Does Pink Moon only seem great because the other campsites are so unbearably awful?

The prices they charge against what you actually get for it seems extortionate.

Canneverfindit · 06-09-2016 03:06PM

MeatTwoVeg wrote: »

Does Pink Moon only seem great because the other campsites are so unbearably awful?

The prices they charge against what you actually get for it seems extortionate.

I'm trying to figure this out too.
Also (to help me to decide on 2017) is it typical that you can openly decant your beer into plastic pint glasses leaving PM to go into the arena or was that just something that happened when I was there Saturday evening? I'm so surprised I havent heard about this part before?
if this is the norm, it'd be so worth it as you'd never buy beer 'inside' you'd just tip back into PM every now and then.
Security were pouring it from cans to cups for us..

Reggie noble · 06-09-2016 03:06PM

bodhrandude wrote: »

Well I enjoyed my weeks stay in Stradbally but like others mentioned I noticed a much younger clientele at EP this year. Absolute madness but couldn't score any pills the whole weekend, wandering about Todd Terje's gig and then the Chemical Brothers gig, half the audience hyper ventilating but no joy although the gigs were tremendous. It was the same at Daniel Avery's gig, trying to score a pill and all I do is get mocked by a bunch of 18 year old scum bags calling me granddad, I wanted to scream at them that dance music has been about since 1987 or possibly longer if you take in the evolution of Chicago House, not taking away from Avery's gig which was splendid. I also heard of creepy stories of spiking, two 18 year old girls who were volunteers who apparently got spiked by someone in the Trenchtown crew as they woke up in the Trenchtown crew campsite, luckily they weren't interfered with or raped. I also heard one of my neighbours, a young fellah in the crew campsite was spiked too and ended up in the medical tent. This is new and not welcoming news for EP. Also the path through the hole in the wall coming from crew camp badly suffered from the rain, no wood chippings laid at all, I belted my left shoulder on Sunday night when I slipped on the way to see New Order. And changes as well for crew I had cans removed from my bag by Specialised Security on the way into the arena, this never happened before, fecking leave the crew alone who have been down there all week, at 7.20 and 7.40 a pint no bloody wonder we take in our own drink.

Highlights or acts I caught:
Friday
Booka Brass Band and Skipper's Alley (trad band) at Other Voices stage.
Shah Smooth at Salty Dog and went for a wander into Hazel Wood which is a nice chilled area.
Todd Terje
Chemical Brothers (I got a bit of a headache from their lights but they were excellent.)
Wandered slowly about Body & Soul and Trenchtown for Friday night.

Saturday
Wandered up to Electric Ireland to watch a bit of Bananarama, curious like and took some video clips for my sisters who liked them back in their time, they actually put on quite a good show to a packed out tent.
Caught a bit of Dylan Moran (Don't really know what to think of his set, it was alright.)
Had a few tunes at the Bog Cottage in Body & Soul with tin whistler Liam Lyons and another fellah which was good for my soul.
DJ EZ ( he was good but a bit cheesy, well using Xfactor sounding female vocals at the start, didn't hang around long enough to see him do the scratch hip hop stuff as it was fairly packed and wild in there and what the actual fcuk is this Whooomp there it is carry on, it practically drowned out the actual music.)
Noel Gallagher (I actually enjoyed his set and he had a nice tight band)
King Kong Company (Watched a bit of their set outside the Cosby Tent, the tent was absolutely rammed and it wasn't raining at the time, a great set.)
LCD Soundsystem (They were fantastic, the main stage had a superb sound and I loved the way they dipped into their last three albums, it was brilliant to hear Someone Great live for the first time. We split after that as I know only too well that Daniel Avery's gig would be jammed. A question here, why did they change the Little Big Tent back to the smaller marquee.
Daniel Avery (A phenomenal gig, two tracks from Drone Logic bookending the gig and probably about another album and a half worth of material played on the night and my god it was hot in there.
Myself and my mate decided to head for crew camp after that as we wanted to get rested and be up at a good time tomorrow to catch the legendary Toots and the Maytals.

Sunday
Toots and the Maytals (Bloody magnificent, they are my favourite reggae act, Toots Hibbert still has an amazing voice and they pulled a nice crowd for the Sunday afternoon reggae act, plus it stayed dry and warm although the sun didn't come out.
Kelly Anne Byrne (Really enjoyed her set at the Bacardi bar, playing soul, funk house or as someone else described it as uplifting house, but the music was more reminiscent to her Saturday radio show on Today FM rather than her Sunday show.) By then slight intermittent drizzle and hotish dry weather.
New Order (Were magnificent, amazing visuals and some classic tracks) Would have caught more of the set if it wasn't for that stupid specialised security guard holding me up and causing me to drink my Spanish absinthe outside of the arena, probably also the intoxicating effect too.
Skepta ( I enjoyed Skepta a lively and wild gig, I wouldn't really know any of his material but his music was pumping, the audience were slightly demented and crazy, a bit much for an elder like me as you will see when I upload the video clip, camera shake not by me by the way ha ha.)

Couldn't take anymore rain after this, my jacket was soaking right through and I lost ambition to go exploring fearing I would get pneumonia and headed for the crew camp.

Prepare ur area man, have the bangers bought in advance

MJohnston · 06-09-2016 03:11PM

MeatTwoVeg wrote: »

Does Pink Moon only seem great because the other campsites are so unbearably awful?

The prices they charge against what you actually get for it seems extortionate.

Well it's mostly that, plus a pre-erected (oooh) tent is a massive bonus if you're arriving with a backpack.

As a comparison, I did Pink Moon camping at EP last year, and regular general camping at Body and Soul festival last year, and there wasn't much difference between the two. EP just has significantly fewer camping areas where you're guaranteed a bit of chill.

Lemsiper · 06-09-2016 03:17PM

I'd just like to weigh in on the subject of the standard campsites bing terrible, I was in Joplin and it was grrat. Not many "lads" & "hunzos" knocking about.

I'll just add I'm usually in Hendrix but think I'll be unlikely to camp there in future.

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