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Electric Picnic 2016 // **Discussion Only / NO Ticket Sales / Requests** //

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  • #8582
    Arne_Saknussem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,732 ✭✭✭Arne_Saknussem


    ghostdancer wrote: »
    I'd love to get a 2005 map. Am I right in thinking that Body&Soul was outside the main arena? I've a definite memory of walking around there with a few cans during the day, which was well before I was wise to can-smuggling ways!

    Pretty sure this is from 2005. After wristband exchange the main entrance brought you in where the Salty Dog entrance is now.

    You can see all the tents surrounding B&S as all this area was in the campsite going down to where Hendrix is now. Wilde was empty.

    Main stage was further up the hill and at a different angle and the Electric Arena was basically behind it. 15,000 people camping with 10,000 day tickets for each day if i remember correctly!


    sept-04-electric-picnic.jpg


  • #8583
    threein99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,596 ✭✭✭threein99


    Arne_Saknussem wrote: »
    Pretty sure this is from 2005. After wristband exchange the main entrance brought you in where the Salty Dog entrance is now.

    You can see all the tents surrounding B&S as all this area was in the campsite going down to where Hendrix is now. Wilde was empty.

    Main stage was further up the hill and at a different angle and the Electric Arena was basically behind it. 15,000 people camping with 10,000 day tickets for each day if i remember correctly!


    sept-04-electric-picnic.jpg

    I thought the Sunday tickets introduced a couple of years ago were the first day tickets you could get for EP since it started.


  • #8584
    Arne_Saknussem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,732 ✭✭✭Arne_Saknussem


    threein99 wrote: »
    I thought the Sunday tickets introduced a couple of years ago were the first day tickets you could get for EP since it started.

    No there were 10,000 day tickets for Sat & Sun in 2005 but they changed it in 2006 to 25,000 camping and a 3 day festival.

    They then brought back the day tickets a few years back for Sunday.


  • #8585
    Pickpocket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Pickpocket


    Here's the 2005 itinerary map. Body & Soul is the base of the 'mushroom'.


  • #8586
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    I think you also had a choice of weekend tickets with or without camping. It's a bit blurry now, but I got a weekend ticket without camping and just slept in the back of a mate's van on the Saturday. It was really warm and sunny on the Sunday morning and felt like I was in an oven when I woke up!


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  • #8587
    Arne_Saknussem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,732 ✭✭✭Arne_Saknussem


    Yeah the weather was great on the Saturday and Sunday, was overcast and a bit drizzly on the Friday.

    The main arena wasn't open on Friday night but i seem to remember at least 1 band and a pop-up hip hop show from the back of a horse box or something in the car parks with generators etc. Think Scary Eire might have performed.


  • #8588
    Pickpocket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Pickpocket


    Anymore remember this from 2008?

    The itinerary came with a little package of glossy mags detailing all of the acts performing over the weekend.

    I guess the app does the same thing these days but this felt quite special.

    Edit: Crap, can't post the image. I'll try again.


  • #8589
    Pickpocket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Pickpocket


    Pickpocket wrote: »
    Anymore remember this from 2008?

    The itinerary came with a little package of glossy mags detailing all of the acts performing over the weekend.

    I guess the app does the same thing these days but this felt quite special.

    Edit: Crap, can't post the image. I'll try again.

    Here we go.

    29508119416_403e4a528e.jpg


  • #8590
    Pickpocket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Pickpocket


    I've a little box full of itineraries from various festivals over the past 15 years. I'm gonna have to put it away because the line-ups are upsetting me.

    2005, Electric Arena, Saturday.

    Hot Chip, Mixmaster Mike (Beastie Boys), Goldfrap, Arcade Fire, Royksopp, Kraftwerk.

    2006, Bodytonic Tent, Sunday.

    Charles Webster, Splitloop, Pendulum, Metro Area, Ian Pooley, Carl Craig, Coldcut, Layo & Bushwacka, Tiefschwarz, Francois K, Laurent Garnier.

    Back in the day, indeed...

    Don't even get me started on the Oxegen ones.... Rage Against The Machine... No, I'm not doing it to myself.


  • #8591
    threein99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,596 ✭✭✭threein99


    Pickpocket wrote: »
    I've a little box full of itineraries from various festivals over the past 15 years. I'm gonna have to put it away because the line-ups are upsetting me.

    2005, Electric Arena, Saturday.

    Hot Chip, Mixmaster Mike (Beastie Boys), Goldfrap, Arcade Fire, Royksopp, Kraftwerk.

    2006, Bodytonic Tent, Sunday.

    Charles Webster, Splitloop, Pendulum, Metro Area, Ian Pooley, Carl Craig, Coldcut, Layo & Bushwacka, Tiefschwarz, Francois K, Laurent Garnier.

    Back in the day, indeed...

    Don't even get me started on the Oxegen ones.... Rage Against The Machine... No, I'm not doing it to myself.

    Check out Oxegen 05 ;)


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  • #8592
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    threein99 wrote: »
    Check out Oxegen 05 ;)

    Incredible lineup when you think of it. The Sunday was the hottest day of the year too. I got burnt to a crisp. :(


  • #8593
    Pickpocket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Pickpocket


    threein99 wrote: »
    Check out Oxegen 05 ;)

    Yep, ridiculously good.

    Although, sadly, the addition of Snoop Dog meant plenty of more 'heads' than usual. That was the beginning of the end for me.


  • #8594
    maximoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,219 ✭✭✭maximoose


    God I'd love for the Oxegen of 04-07 to come back


  • #8595
    Pickpocket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Pickpocket


    Looking back over some of the Oxegen line-ups is often like reading a who's who of bands I never got to see. I saw my fair share of big names but other than that my time was mostly spent in the dance tent. Although I've no regrets. DJ Sneak and Richie Hawtin (the original version, i.e. bald head and glasses) was a splendid way to spend a Saturday night.


  • #8596
    threein99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,596 ✭✭✭threein99


    BaZmO* wrote: »
    Incredible lineup when you think of it. The Sunday was the hottest day of the year too. I got burnt to a crisp. :(

    One of my mates spent that day going around with no shirt or sun screen on and was essentially basting himself with water from the taps. By 9pm he was a quivering mess on the ground with sun stroke, missed 3 days of work and couldnt put a tshirt on for those 3 days either.


  • #8597
    BullBlackNova
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭BullBlackNova


    maximoose wrote: »
    God I'd love for the Oxegen of 04-07 to come back

    Oxegen 2008 had a cracking line up too. It was '09 when it started to go downhill.

    '08 had Kings of Leon (pre-'Sex on Fire'), Interpol, Editors, REM, Rage Against the Machine, the Verve, Chemical brothers, the Raconteurs, the Prodigy, Manic Street Preachers, Bell X1, Echo & the Bunnymen, Vampire Weekend, Ian Brown, Cat Power, the National, Glen Hansard, Hot Chip, Seasick Steve, My Morning Jacket, Band of Horses, Roisin Murphy, as well as Justice, etc at the Dance Arena.

    Actually, just looking, '09 had a great run of acts too - Blur, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Nine Inch Nails, 2 Many Djs, TV on the Radio...

    It was 2010 they added Eminem, Jay-Z, Dizzee Rascal, Black Eyed Peas, etc to the line up. I was there and it was f*cking grim.


  • #8598
    Tigger99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,247 ✭✭✭Tigger99


    BullBlackNova wrote: »
    It was 2010 they added Eminem, Jay-Z, Dizzee Rascal, Black Eyed Peas, etc to the line up. I was there and it was f*cking grim.

    It sounds like a great line up. Were they not good live or was it more the crowd that was a bit grim?


  • #8599
    byrneg28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭byrneg28


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=142288&page=21


  • #8600
    Pickpocket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Pickpocket


    BullBlackNova wrote: »
    Oxegen 2008 had a cracking line up too. It was '09 when it started to go downhill.

    '08 had Kings of Leon (pre-'Sex on Fire'), Interpol, Editors, REM, Rage Against the Machine, the Verve, Chemical brothers, the Raconteurs, the Prodigy, Manic Street Preachers, Bell X1, Echo & the Bunnymen, Vampire Weekend, Ian Brown, Cat Power, the National, Glen Hansard, Hot Chip, Seasick Steve, My Morning Jacket, Band of Horses, Roisin Murphy, as well as Justice, etc at the Dance Arena.

    Actually, just looking, '09 had a great run of acts too - Blur, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Nine Inch Nails, 2 Many Djs, TV on the Radio...

    It was 2010 they added Eminem, Jay-Z, Dizzee Rascal, Black Eyed Peas, etc to the line up. I was there and it was f*cking grim.

    In fairness, the line-ups were all of a high quality until 2010. The rot set in when the clientele started to change. For me that was 2005, for others it may have been a bit later. I definitely noticed a change the year Snoop Dog was added but what's interesting is that it had been getting progressively scummier year on year since it was Witnness, irrespective of the line-up.


  • #8601
    Pickpocket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Pickpocket


    byrneg28 wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=142288&page=21

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=100979198&posted=1#post100979198


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  • #8602
    Space Shanty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91 ✭✭Space Shanty


    Tigger99 wrote: »
    BullBlackNova wrote: »
    It was 2010 they added Eminem, Jay-Z, Dizzee Rascal, Black Eyed Peas, etc to the line up. I was there and it was f*cking grim.

    It sounds like a great line up. Were they not good live or was it more the crowd that was a bit grim?

    Black Eyed Peas are absolute gash and Dizzee Rascal is as bad apart from maybe two tunes... both are just early teen commercial pop dressed up as something more.

    At least Eminem and Jay-Z have some tunes to back themselves up, but the crowd they'd attract, especially Eminem, is probably what would cause those going for years to start looking elsewhere.


  • #8603
    Pickpocket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Pickpocket


    Tigger99 wrote: »
    It sounds like a great line up. Were they not good live or was it more the crowd that was a bit grim?

    Yeah it's the crowd those artists brought with them. Eminem attracts the absolute dregs of society. Including me, by the way. I've seen him twice. :P


  • #8604
    MyPeopleDrankTheSoup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭MyPeopleDrankTheSoup


    Pickpocket wrote: »
    In fairness, the line-ups were all of a high quality until 2010. The rot set in when the clientele started to change. For me that was 2005,

    yep, Oxegen 2005 put me off festivals for 5 years until friends dragged me along to my first Electric Picnic in 2010. i couldn't believe the difference, fcuking raging that I missed first 5 years of EP. i know another guy who didn't go to another festival until body&soul 2015! 10 years after oxegen 2005.

    i remember the Sunday night in that Oxegen campsite, roaming bands of scobes going around setting tents on fire, just bad vibes. but it was the organisation as well, no fcuking food apart from shíte burgers,chips. there was a standard cheese toastie place in campsite and we lived off that. and then a van going around from 9am Monday morning in the campsite roaring on loudspeaker that the festival is over and fúck off home


  • #8605
    Pickpocket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Pickpocket


    Space Shanty wrote: »
    Dizzee Rascal is as bad apart from maybe two tunes... both are just early teen commercial pop dressed up as something more.

    The irony here is that those two tunes you like are probably (correct me if I'm wrong) the type of stuff that brings the riff raff.

    His debut album is sensational and devoid of any kind of teen appeal, certainly on this side of the water.

    But in 2010 he was post 'Bonkers', hence the crowd he attracted.


  • #8606
    BullBlackNova
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭BullBlackNova


    Tigger99 wrote: »
    It sounds like a great line up. Were they not good live or was it more the crowd that was a bit grim?
    Space Shanty wrote: »
    Black Eyed Peas are absolute gash and Dizzee Rascal is as bad apart from maybe two tunes... both are just early teen commercial pop dressed up as something more.

    At least Eminem and Jay-Z have some tunes to back themselves up, but the crowd they'd attract, especially Eminem, is probably what would cause those going for years to start looking elsewhere.

    This, basically.

    The issue that Oxegen had was that there was f*ck all to do once the music stopped so people tended to just drink. My experience in 2008 was of a fairly even crowd that got drunk but very little trouble.

    In 2010, I saw people hurling cans and bottles at eachother, general trouble everywhere and people who openly admitted they were waiting until the arena opened so they could ransack tents.

    But, even leaving aside pricks like that, the mix in the line up didn't benefit anyone. Arcade Fire drew a very small crowd for their Main Stage show because they were on just before Jay-Z. The same happened for quite a few acts and I remember a horde of people leaving Muse when Calvin Harris started elsewhere.

    This kind of weird mix happened all weekend - the line up just didn't click.

    I went to my first EP the following year and couldn't believe the difference. It was like a different world - everything ran relatively seamlessly, there was so much to do and everyone was so chilled out.

    EDIT: For what it was worth, Jay-Z was great live and Arcade Fire, who are a big favourite of mine live and on record, were ****e because they played a load of stuff from the not-yet-released 'The Suburbs.'


  • #8607
    Pickpocket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Pickpocket


    georgiecasey wrote: »
    it was the organisation as well, no fcuking food apart from shíte burgers,chips. there was a standard cheese toastie place in campsite and we lived off that. and then a van going around from 9am Monday morning in the campsite roaring on loudspeaker that the festival is over and fúck off home

    Looking back it's quite hard to believe the way people were treated at Witnness and Oxegen. The total lack of everything except alcohol, chips and burgers. You were there to spend money, simple as that. Like you I remember the security at Witnness kicking tents at 9am. People that were half cut from alcohol being sent back to their cars to drive home. Unfortunately it took a tragedy on the road a number of years later for the organisers to reflect on their responsibilities.

    Electric Picnic is virtually unrecognisable these days but at the very least there's still food for the soul there. Things to see and be enthused by that don't necessarily involve drinking or spending money. I didn't drink this year and couldn't have spent more than 50 quid. But so much to do and see outside of the music. In fact the music was just the cherry on top. Witnness and Oxegen weren't like that. I didn't drink at my very first Witnness either and that was a fundamentally different, and rather limited, experience.


  • #8608
    Pickpocket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Pickpocket


    I remember Golden Discs (I think?) used to have a stall at Witnness. All they stocked was albums by artists playing at the festival. I remember picking up a Felix Da Housecat album the morning after he performed. That was quite a cool idea. Is there anywhere at EP that sells CDs, particularly of Body & Soul artists? I realise CD sales are down but it might be a decent way of profiling those smaller artists. I'd certainly have picked up some albums if I had seen any last weekend.


  • #8609
    Arne_Saknussem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,732 ✭✭✭Arne_Saknussem


    georgiecasey wrote: »
    yep, Oxegen 2005 put me off festivals for 5 years until friends dragged me along to my first Electric Picnic in 2010. i couldn't believe the difference, fcuking raging that I missed first 5 years of EP. i know another guy who didn't go to another festival until body&soul 2015! 10 years after oxegen 2005.

    i remember the Sunday night in that Oxegen campsite, roaming bands of scobes going around setting tents on fire, just bad vibes. but it was the organisation as well, no fcuking food apart from shíte burgers,chips. there was a standard cheese toastie place in campsite and we lived off that. and then a van going around from 9am Monday morning in the campsite roaring on loudspeaker that the festival is over and fúck off home

    2005 was my last Oxegen too, luckily enough i headed along to EP 2005 and it's still the best, most chilled out festival with the best crowd i've been to.

    Not a single scummer!


  • #8610
    scruff monkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,941 ✭✭✭scruff monkey
    Snarky Snark Snark


    Pickpocket wrote: »
    I remember Golden Discs (I think?) used to have a stall at Witnness. All they stocked was albums by artists playing at the festival. I remember picking up a Felix Da Housecoat album the morning after he performed. That was quite a cool idea. Is there anywhere at EP that sells CDs, particularly of Body & Souls artists? I realise CD sales are down but it might be a decent way of profiling those smaller artists. I'd certainly have picked up some albums if I had seen any last weekend.

    It would make sense to do it at the merch stand


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  • #8611
    The Nal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,711 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Pickpocket wrote: »
    I remember Golden Discs (I think?) used to have a stall at Witnness. All they stocked was albums by artists playing at the festival. I remember picking up a Felix Da Housecoat album the morning after he performed. That was quite a cool idea. Is there anywhere at EP that sells CDs, particularly of Body & Souls artists? I realise CD sales are down but it might be a decent way of profiling those smaller artists. I'd certainly have picked up some albums if I had seen any last weekend.

    Go to a museum if you want to hear physical copies of music, grandad.

    I think the Sad Old Sh1ts Museum in Oldsville has a Phonograph and some cylinders of negro vaudeville songs for you.

    Heres a song for you to listen to in the meantime.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVYHSlEssYY


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