Electric Picnic 2017 **Discussion Only // No Ticket Sales**

Feel sick reading the posts about all of the toilets. I paid €20 for the cosy crappers one year and at the time it was a great decision compared to the toilets in the Hendrix camp site. Really hope we get an announcement tomorrow or else we are all going to be very disappointed. A few beers tonight has got me very excited for what is guaranteed to be the best weekend of the year!!

I see the guards have managed to shut the fifth indie festival this year, Fuaim Gathering in Thurles, Tipperary. The first being Keep Lit in Galway a New Years eve festival, then Bare in the Woods, Scrobarnach and this. Whats next fuinneamh festival in September.

They are forcing all the skint music heads into the successful rich festivals, not a rant against EP there but there should be room for everything. Its like the Gardai and Health & Safety are reverting to the UK police of 1991 and the Criminal Justice bill where they outlawed illegal gatherings and raves, except this time they are targeting go-it-alone festivals that have had some moderate success, generalising them as illegal raves.

Their facebook statement about the cancellation. https://www.facebook.com/events/1327128107346118/permalink/1476908549034739/?action_history=[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22timeline%22%2C%22mechanism%22%3A%22surface%22%2C%22extra_data%22%3A[]%7D]&pnref=story

Edit: why is my text going past the page as if a great big jpg has been posted, is there a setting to make the text normal again.

If there's to be an announcement today what time should we expect it at, based on other announcements?

bodhrandude wrote: »

Their facebook statement about the cancellation. https://www.facebook.com/events/1327128107346118/permalink/1476908549034739/?action_history=

Seems like more than just the guards and health and safety putting a stop to it.

From their statement:
'We will not have the sound systems or equipment we thought we would have, we will not have the timetable as exactly as planned and we will for sure not have the "correct" licensing in the next 24 hours.'

scruff monkey wrote: »

Pretty sure they used to explicitly say no, but as others have pointed out, there's no where to actually erect one

Cheers guys, will leave it at home

are we expecting an announcement today only 58 main arena acts announced i think the average is around 90 ... def had at least 85 last year

Going back to the toilet talk, have they gotten rid of the long drop/trough's altogether?
I much prefered them, everyone was so horrified by what they had to see that there was never a queue it was great!

Seathrun66 wrote: »

The final announcement can't come soon enough.

hoping for..
2 very good acts
3-5 decent
5 okish
and the rest as filler

a Gallagher, Peter Hook,undertones ,stiff little fingers sort of announcement would do nicely

MusicLover8498 wrote: »

Just if anyone's interested, now that we're hitting the two week mark, I made a 1000 or so strong playlist with about 5 or so songs from every artist playing (well as man as I could find) :rolleyes: just cause I always find EP's own playlist a bit bland in terms of giving the impression of a band/artist. Here's the link hopefully it's of some use to someone...even if it is just me :P
https://open.spotify.com/user/1187290569/playlist/7FZ3nvbRN2jF7509rz9e2u

Cheers. I don't usually use playlists as I like albums as a whole but I'm on for a bit of cramming.