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Electric Picnic 2016 // **Discussion Only / NO Ticket Sales / Requests** //
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This was my 7th E.P and the past few years I felt it had gone downhill big time. Skimping big time on dance acts, security being horrible etc.
Major improvements at this one over the last few E.Ps!
Main ones for me were:
1) Security were much sounder and pleasant this year.
2) Huge increase in the amount of dance music. Wasn't expecting as much. Almost as good as 2011 with Dave Clarke, Tensnake and kalkbrenner all in the one tent
Contained almost enough dance to be a "dance festival"
3) Traffic management seemed much better, arrived late this year so that might have made a difference too but was very organised and got pretty close to the gate.
4) Crowd were fairly sound all around.
If line up is decent would prob go again.0 -
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Roscoe P Coltrane wrote: »Liking the rteco clip Niall, not like you to be using multi-camera format, stage access & rte branding in the top corner...your usual approach of middle of the crowd & now famous absinthe stagger is so much more of an EP experience- and what we all truly remember from the weekend!!
As always, your blog was brilliant (always chuffed to get a mention!) It was great to catch up with you at the festival and on a dinal note, I made it to the caravan for your mad jam session that night with mandolin/mini guitar guy (cant remember his name at the mo) and it was the highlight of setup for me. Rock on EP 2017!
Twas a gas Roscoe P Coltrane to meet up with ya, Fergus Costello is the name of that dude.
:)
If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)
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dirkmeister wrote: »We lasted about 10 minutes at Jenny Greene.
I couldn't even be sure if the orchestra were playing the sound was so bad.
It was like she pressed play on a CD.
I read Una Mullally calling it "potential gig of the weekend" on Saturday morning and was hugely confused.
This. THIS!
I left 2 songs in, during Robert Miles Children, as I couldn't see any of the orchestra playing an actual instrument & it sounded exactly, EXACTLY, as if someone has pressed play on a CD.
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Northernsoul wrote: »This. THIS!
I left 2 songs in, during Robert Miles Children, as I couldn't see any of the orchestra playing an actual instrument & it sounded exactly, EXACTLY, as if someone has pressed play on a CD.
The orchestra was obviously playing their instruments, but I'd be intrigued as to what exactly Jenny Greene's input was? After she pressed play for the backing beat, what else could she have been doing other than some serious knob twiddling.0 -
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I watched RTE's EP footage from the other night, Jenny Greene takes a serious amount credit for it !! McDermott complementing her throughout the show, at no point does she compliment the Orchestra or even say "Well I couldn't have done it with the help of......." not once!!
Looking at the set-list, it's basically the greatest dance hits of the 00's (Volume 5) 0 -
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Looking at the set-list, it's basically the greatest dance hits of the 00's (Volume 5)
I said (pretty much) this on the night!! remarked that it sounded exceptionally close to one of the dance cds I heard my teenage cousins listening to a few years ago..
Other half plays in an Orchestra himself and was disappointed - like others have said, he thought it was like someone had clicked on a CD. Played the songs exactly as they were initially recorded, with no waver from the exact original. Complete replica. Was hoping for a small shred of originality/ genuine sound.0 -
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bodhrandude wrote: »Looking at the feedback on Bestival, this seems to be their most unsuccessful year, they only sold 30,000 out of the 50,000 tickets and lots of people complaining about the line up and the cost cutting. it seems too there was a lot of corporate tents and stages there this year. It looks like Boomtown, End of the Road and Festival No 6 seems to be getting some of the former Bestival crowd too.
Yea seen pics of it over the weekend and it seems they really downsized , This was their main stage
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