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

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  • #6992
    declanleo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 749 ✭✭✭declanleo


    Mrs Shuttleworth wrote: »
    I don't have a ticket but have accommodation in the area.

    Should I donedeal it or expect a ticket drop on TM later in the week?

    Done deal all the way. If they have personal reviews you won't go wrong


  • #6993
    declanleo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 749 ✭✭✭declanleo


    Poorside wrote: »
    If there's an o briens near you they have 12 bulmers for €15 or 18 for €22:50

    Cheers for that poorside....I'll be making an investment this week


  • #6994
    adam240610
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭adam240610


    dubecho wrote: »
    Main stage today...

    zKzE6iA.jpg

    Few more pictures from today, 27/08/2017

    How's the ground doing? Looks good to me from the pictures


  • #6995
    dubecho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭dubecho


    adam240610 wrote: »
    How's the ground doing? Looks good to me from the pictures


    The site from what I seen today, is bone dry. A lot of dust of the gravel roads. Hopefully it stays that way :)


  • #6996
    jobless
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭jobless


    dubecho wrote: »
    The site from what I seen today, is bone dry. A lot of dust of the gravel roads. Hopefully it stays that way :)

    good stuff..... fingers crossed there is little rain this week :) ..


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  • #6997
    neddynono
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭neddynono


    Poorside wrote: »
    If there's an o briens near you they have 12 bulmers for €15 or 18 for €22:50


    picked some of that already;) but on the lookout for lager now


  • #6998
    Shimurr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭Shimurr


    Hey, going for the first year and can't wait to go but trying to choose what campsite to use. My friends are set on going to Oscar Wilde but I've heard so many horror stories about it I'm not too keen! Was thinking more along the lines of Chaplin or Joplin. I'm in the mindset that I can always hang out with them and then head back to my tent in the early hours anyway so it's not like I'll miss out on the craic. Just don't fancy my tent being ploughed into! Haha. Any advice/thoughts?


  • #6999
    MJohnston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,797 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    Shimurr wrote: »
    Hey, going for the first year and can't wait to go but trying to choose what campsite to use. My friends are set on going to Oscar Wilde but I've heard so many horror stories about it I'm not too keen! Was thinking more along the lines of Chaplin or Joplin. I'm in the mindset that I can always hang out with them and then head back to my tent in the early hours anyway so it's not like I'll miss out on the craic. Just don't fancy my tent being ploughed into! Haha. Any advice/thoughts?

    This might help:
    http://www.thedeskofmatthew.com/electricpicnic/

    Scroll to the bottom!


  • #7000
    Shimurr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭Shimurr


    Chaplin looks to be a good shout and it's closer to Wilde on the map but no one really talks about it? Hah. Reckon I'd get a place there Friday morning?


  • #7001
    Shimurr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭Shimurr


    Mr.S wrote: »
    It's small and if I remember, very little food or drink trucks around, which isn't that big of a deal. Only 'downside' is the walk to the mainstage which is loooooong. Friday morning you'll have the pick of any campsite, it doesn't get busy till around lunchtime.

    Hmmm ok. I'm so undecided... I'd like to be close to everything and still have the craic but the stories about Wilde just really put me off! 🙈🙈


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  • #7002
    MJohnston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,797 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    It's worth pointing out that the walk from Chaplin to Wilde is about 2 minutes, they're really close.


  • #7003
    Shimurr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭Shimurr


    Mr.S wrote: »
    What stories? Wilde is busy but its not exactly mayhem! I'd say stay with your friends and camp in Wilde together. Just don't camp near the toilets or along the paths!

    Like people pissing everywhere and it being extremely rowdy and messy! Might do :P


  • #7004
    Shimurr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭Shimurr


    MJohnston wrote: »
    It's worth pointing out that the walk from Chaplin to Wilde is about 2 minutes, they're really close.

    Yeah that's what I was thinking, can have best of both then, eh?


  • #7005
    G_R
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    I'm actually starting to get ridiculously excited about this.

    Missed the last two years due to work, and I'm bringing my little brother along this year for his first festival. Nearly more excited to see his reaction than the acts!


  • #7006
    Shimurr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭Shimurr


    Mr.S wrote: »
    In that case, best to avoid EP all together! :D

    I joke, but you'll get that carry on all over EP, regardless of the campsite. Stay together and have fun :)

    Haha noted :P thanks for the advice :)


  • #7007
    declanleo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 749 ✭✭✭declanleo


    Loving Mr.jukes....3 tunes on YouTube and it's a yes from me
    Pale rivers and elaine mai also very appealing


  • #7008
    gebbel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭gebbel


    neddynono wrote: »
    picked some of that already;) but on the lookout for lager now

    Lidl doing 24 x 500ml cans of Carlsberg (2 x 12 can slabs) for €26, the sign said Guinness the same but didn't see any in the Drogheda store I was in.


  • #7009
    MJohnston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,797 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    I quickly did a 'real' campsite map using the Garda aerial photo from last year:

    https://twitter.com/deskofmatthew/status/901943661931503616

    I think that photo was taken on the Saturday, and if you zoom in, you can see the relative density of the tents in each campsite. Joplin and Chaplin are nice and spacious. Pink Moon is an OCD dream.


  • #7010
    Fatfrog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,705 ✭✭✭Fatfrog


    Shimurr wrote: »
    Hey, going for the first year and can't wait to go but trying to choose what campsite to use. My friends are set on going to Oscar Wilde but I've heard so many horror stories about it I'm not too keen! Was thinking more along the lines of Chaplin or Joplin. I'm in the mindset that I can always hang out with them and then head back to my tent in the early hours anyway so it's not like I'll miss out on the craic. Just don't fancy my tent being ploughed into! Haha. Any advice/thoughts?

    Same bollox ref camp sites every year, who goes where is completely random and changes year on year! Rather than considering a camp site as a whole, break it down to a smaller area like 10x10 tents, because outside of this isn't going to matter. We you do this and choose your neighbours the name of the camp site is unimportant.
    I normally stay well away from large groups, post leaving Certs tend to gather in groups of up to x40, absolute head wreckers!! Smaller groups are more trustworthy and receptive.

    Btw, Oscar Wilde is actually extremely close to the main arena 2min via the salty dog gate!


  • #7011
    scruff monkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,855 ✭✭✭scruff monkey
    Snarky Snark Snark


    MJohnston wrote: »
    Pink Moon is an OCD dream.

    close up of pink moon

    dp102599drotated.jpg


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  • #7012
    dubecho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭dubecho


    scruff monkey wrote: »
    close up of pink moon

    dp102599drotated.jpg


    Close...

    ETxbNrX.jpg


  • #7013
    scruff monkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,855 ✭✭✭scruff monkey
    Snarky Snark Snark


    it really is the way the campsites should be laid out, wouldn't be that hard to impose some degree of order into the other ones (which really need it)

    one of those blue ones is mine, ooooh yes, all mine...


  • #7014
    GidCudi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55 ✭✭GidCudi


    And now we begin the most unproductive of weeks


  • #7015
    grudgehugger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭grudgehugger


    Stage Times!

    Main Stage, Rankins, All of B&S, Other Voices.

    Main Stage is tasty on Saturday


  • #7016
    thebusher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 385 ✭✭thebusher


    MJohnston wrote: »
    I quickly did a 'real' campsite map using the Garda aerial photo from last year:

    https://twitter.com/deskofmatthew/status/901943661931503616

    I think that photo was taken on the Saturday, and if you zoom in, you can see the relative density of the tents in each campsite. Joplin and Chaplin are nice and spacious. Pink Moon is an OCD dream.

    Great job, thanks.

    Looking at it, Eco will be fairly rammed if they are doubling the numbers.


  • #7017
    Lzmunky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭Lzmunky


    thebusher wrote: »
    Great job, thanks.

    Looking at it, Eco will be fairly rammed if they are doubling the numbers.

    I don't think they're doubling are they? 25% increase I thought?

    No sign of Interpol on the stage times either...


  • #7018
    Rigor Mortis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,914 ✭✭✭Rigor Mortis


    Lzmunky wrote: »
    I don't think they're doubling are they? 25% increase I thought?

    No sign of Interpol on the stage times either...

    Interpol almost certainly going to be an EA headliner


  • #7019
    thebusher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 385 ✭✭thebusher


    Rigor Mortis wrote: »
    Interpol almost certainly going to be an EA headliner

    Lot of bands I want to see not been announced on those stages 😊


  • #7020
    Lzmunky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭Lzmunky


    Rigor Mortis wrote: »
    Interpol almost certainly going to be an EA headliner

    That realisation hit as it hit reply... it's Monday of EP week


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  • #7021
    heebusjeebus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,781 ✭✭✭heebusjeebus


    Weather for sunday not looking great now! Dammit


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