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Electric Picnic 2018 **Discussion Only // No Ticket Sales** [Part 1]

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  • #3962
    Davysulls86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 409 ✭✭Davysulls86


    Poorside wrote: »
    Aldi have camping gear on sale today, the inflatable sofa could be an interesting addition...

    Bought a 4 man tent there last year, what a bargain! Not a drop of water came through on the Saturday night, and I know of pink moon campers that got soaked.


  • #3963
    PabloAndRoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭PabloAndRoy


    Davysulls86 wrote: »
    It works two ways. The cheap ones are okay but you will be lucky to last the weekend because, if you're like me, and aging ungracefully, you need the arm to lever yourself out, and they break.. often resulting in the ironic cheers of passers by as you starfish on the ground trying not to spill your beer.
    The more expensive ones will last, but chairs are often stolen by the more undesirable patrons of the festival. So depending on where you're camping, from downtown Beirut, to Eco, to Pink Moon, and depending on your ability to get up from a chair during various stages of inebriation, adjust your chair budget accordingly.

    Happened to friends of ours at B&S last weekend in the campervan area. Very nice chairs left outside the camper, stolen between 5am and 11am. Plenty of cheap chairs nearby were left.


  • #3964
    Poorside
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭Poorside


    Davysulls86 wrote: »
    Bought a 4 man tent there last year, what a bargain! Not a drop of water came through on the Saturday night, and I know of pink moon campers that got soaked.


    The rainbow Tipis in Pink moon are a bit of a joke, got soaked 2 years ago so went for the Podpad tipi last year, not a drop of rain got in and booked again for this year.


  • #3965
    Stillill42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    Other voices telling us how excited they are to be back in Stradbally and to watch out for their line-up 'in the next few weeks'. Ffs.


  • #3966
    Poorside
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭Poorside


    Stillill42 wrote: »
    Other voices telling us how excited they are to be back in Stradbally and to watch out for their line-up 'in the next few weeks'. Ffs.

    I wonder will Booka be there ?


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  • #3967
    optogirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,054 ✭✭✭optogirl


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  • #3968
    Stillill42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    Poorside wrote: »
    Stillill42 wrote: »
    Other voices telling us how excited they are to be back in Stradbally and to watch out for their line-up 'in the next few weeks'. Ffs.

    I wonder will Booka be there ?
    I hope so. Really enjoyed them last year. They're playing Alltogethernow so I don't know if that will have any impact on the likelihood of them being on the bill.


  • #3969
    Poorside
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭Poorside


    Stillill42 wrote: »
    I hope so. Really enjoyed them last year. They're playing Alltogethernow so I don't know if that will have any impact on the likelihood of them being on the bill.


    Ah they will, they’ve opened OV for the last 2/3 years now, I’ll never forget the year they marched through the forest with a huge group trailing them, it just set the scene for a brilliant weekend


  • #3970
    PinkCamper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 204 ✭✭PinkCamper


    Yeah, no announcement about the announcement yesterday tells me there’s no announcement tomorrow. So now they’re doing second announcement in fupping July? That’s ridiculously late


  • #3971
    Davysulls86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 409 ✭✭Davysulls86


    PinkCamper wrote: »
    Yeah, no announcement about the announcement yesterday tells me there’s no announcement tomorrow. So now they’re doing second announcement in fupping July? That’s ridiculously late

    As has already been covered, they're under no obligation to announce bands. It's sold out.


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  • #3972
    PabloAndRoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭PabloAndRoy


    Davysulls86 wrote: »
    As has already been covered, they're under no obligation to announce bands. It's sold out.

    Glad you cleared that up.

    No obligation to inform your paying customers of what they will be receiving.

    OK, all clear for me.

    Thanks.


  • #3973
    Davysulls86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 409 ✭✭Davysulls86


    PabloAndRoy wrote: »
    Glad you cleared that up.

    No obligation to inform your paying customers of what they will be receiving.

    OK, all clear for me.

    Thanks.

    You paid for the tickets without knowing, that's your problem.


  • #3974
    Stillill42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    Could they be looking to make the announcement after the actual event this year? That would be a real marketing coup.


  • #3975
    PabloAndRoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭PabloAndRoy


    Davysulls86 wrote: »
    You paid for the tickets without knowing, that's your problem.

    As I said, "Thanks" ...

    I had this silly idea that maybe I could be informed in ample time of whether I should keep or offload this quite expensive ticket... like in previous years.

    I now understand that because it is "sold out", the organisers are under no obligation to actually show me the pig in the poke. This is new knowledge for me and I really appreciate it.

    Regardless, it is almost certain that there will no exciting additions in the 2nd announcement... the Blur thing was an anomaly.


  • #3976
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,520 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Davysulls86 wrote: »
    You paid for the tickets without knowing, that's your problem.

    I sincerely hope they don't employ you on the customer care hotline for EP.

    The poster was perfectly entitled to voice his/her frustration, shared by many on here about the lateness of the list of bands. Some of us here like to listen to the new bands that we may not have heard of in order to see if we like them and attend their set.

    No need to be snarky.

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #3977
    Davysulls86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 409 ✭✭Davysulls86


    PabloAndRoy wrote: »
    As I said, "Thanks" ...

    I had this silly idea that maybe I could be informed in ample time of whether I should keep or offload this quite expensive ticket... like in previous years.

    I now understand that because it is "sold out", the organisers are under no obligation to actually show me the pig in the poke. This is new knowledge for me and I really appreciate it.

    Regardless, it is almost certain that there will no exciting additions in the 2nd announcement... the Blur thing was an anomaly.

    So stop bitching and moaning about it


  • #3978
    billybonkers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭billybonkers


    The issue is that they have not finalised who is to be announced yet, they have not got the contracts signed so they cannot release the information just yet!

    :):)


  • #3979
    PabloAndRoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭PabloAndRoy


    Davysulls86 wrote: »
    So stop bitching and moaning about it

    Actually I wasn't .. am just trolling you.


  • #3980
    maximoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭maximoose


    billybonkers wrote: »
    The issue is that they have not finalised who is to be announced yet

    I really doubt that


  • #3981
    billybonkers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭billybonkers


    maximoose wrote: »
    I really doubt that

    Really? Ok. The is a particular act holding up the process.


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  • #3982
    PinkCamper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 204 ✭✭PinkCamper


    PabloAndRoy wrote: »
    Actually I wasn't .. am just trolling you.

    I was bitching and moaning about it (and that’s a stretch if you read my OP) and I have every right to be annoyed by this ridiculously late announcement. Sold out or not sold out. This is looking like the latest second announcement ever, anc if I wanna grumble I will grumble.

    ETA didn’t mean to quote you PabloandRoy


  • #3983
    Lotus Flower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭Lotus Flower


    Davysulls86 wrote: »
    As has already been covered, they're under no obligation to announce bands. It's sold out.

    I'm going to assume this is sarcasm and a dig at EP for leaving it ridiculously late to announce some more names. That's the only reasonable explanation


  • #3984
    PinkCamper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 204 ✭✭PinkCamper


    And another thing *points finger* - some of us are just really really really f*cking excited. Especially those of us who have kids, jobs, zero craic lives most of the year. We have just run out of patience


  • #3985
    Rigor Mortis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,914 ✭✭✭Rigor Mortis


    Davysulls86 wrote: »
    As has already been covered, they're under no obligation to announce bands. It's sold out.

    You are absolutely correct. However, they are operating in an increasingly competitive market. Many people have expressed disatisfaction that the communication is unnecessarily poor, that the line up is poor, that ATN would offer a better alternative next year.

    The sell out was later this year than last year. I suspect next year it is later again. They make money from an earlier sellout.

    They dont need to announce, but they would be wise to.


  • #3986
    Easy Rod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭Easy Rod


    Rigor Mortis wrote: »
    You are absolutely correct. However, they are operating in an increasingly competitive market. Many people have expressed disatisfaction that the communication is unnecessarily poor, that the line up is poor, that ATN would offer a better alternative next year.

    The sell out was later this year than last year. I suspect next year it is later again. They make money from an earlier sellout.

    They dont need to announce, but they would be wise to.

    I won’t be buying my ticket early next year. Will wait til the full line up and then make my decision.


  • #3987
    Lotus Flower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭Lotus Flower


    Easy Rod wrote: »
    I won’t be buying my ticket early next year. Will wait til the full line up and then make my decision.

    And it's sad that EP has become that way, it used to be a festival where a quality level was guaranteed but now....


  • #3988
    D.Q
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,054 ✭✭✭D.Q


    Finally got the tickets in the post this morning. Sold them today on adverts. Can't be ****ed waiting around this long for an announcement. Ridiculous carry on. Gonna go to ATN. Better time of year, less days off needed.


  • #3989
    BadTurtle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭BadTurtle


    Like children at Christmas some of yiz, would ye relax ffs.


  • #3990
    Stillill42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    At least at Christmas, you've a fair idea what's coming!


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  • #3991
    Lotus Flower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭Lotus Flower


    BadTurtle wrote: »
    Like children at Christmas some of yiz, would ye relax ffs.

    Give over, they're long overdue an announcement at this stage.


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