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gauralordon · 09-08-2019 09:29AM

Jmorris93 wrote: »

Hey pals, what are the Thursday queues like? First time with an early pass

We left Dublin around 2 pm last year, traffic was grand, loads of parking to get close to the entrance (I think we parked in red), and no queues at all. Really relaxed atmosphere i.e. nobody scrambling over one another to get to where they wanna camp. I can't recommend going down a day early enough

drunkmonkey · 09-08-2019 09:29AM

Ah that was brilliant, what a shanty town. Hijacked one of the golf buggies to go for a drive round and see the carnage, eventually left it stranded in the mud somewhere. Electric Picnic could do with having a look at that lineup.

BaZmO* · 09-08-2019 10:21AM

Mollyb60 wrote: »

And no festival will ever compare to the mudfest of Witness 2002 (IIRC).

A bit of a tangent, but I was looking back to see who played that year and realised how depressing it is to see bands that I really love now that played the years I was there but i hadn't a clue who they were.

09-08-2019 10:34AM

BaZmO* wrote: »

A bit of a tangent, but I was looking back to see who played that year and realised how depressing it is to see bands that I really love now that played the years I was there but i hadn't a clue who they were.

Another tangent, with an added question. What was the thing with the misspelling for festival names? Witnness, Oxegen, etc? Interns in admin?

The Davestator · 09-08-2019 10:36AM

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Another tangent, with an added question. What was the thing with the misspelling for festival names? Witnness, Oxegen, etc? Interns in admin?

Could be wrong but i think it was to do with the sponsor. Witness were sponsored by guinness and Oxygen by Heineken.

heebusjeebus · 09-08-2019 10:36AM

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Another tangent, with an added question. What was the thing with the misspelling for festival names? Witnness, Oxegen, etc? Interns in admin?

Cant answer for Oxegen but Witnness was named that as it was sponsored by Guinness.

Thundercats Ho · 09-08-2019 10:39AM

Mollyb60 wrote: »

And no festival will ever compare to the mudfest of Witness 2002 (IIRC).

My God that was the worst. We had to get on the 'dirty' bus coming back cos we were mucked to bits.

EP 2-3 years ago was a nightmare too.

sprucemoose · 09-08-2019 10:40AM

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Another tangent, with an added question. What was the thing with the misspelling for festival names? Witnness, Oxegen, etc? Interns in admin?

I imagine it was mainly down to trademarking (or copyright, im not too up with legalese), you can't trademark/copyright a word or phrase if its in common usage but if its a different spelling you can as far as i know, might be a bad explanation but i think youll get the gist

BaZmO* · 09-08-2019 10:40AM

heebusjeebus wrote: »

Cant answer for Oxegen but Witnness was named that as it was sponsored by Guinness.

Yup, that's correct. I'm not sure about the Oxegen reason though.

griffdaddy · 09-08-2019 10:41AM

The website says eco isn't open until 9am Friday morning

https://www.electricpicnic.ie/information/ticket-info#info-section-38623

sydthebeat · 09-08-2019 10:45AM

The Davestator wrote: »

Could be wrong but i think it was to do with the sponsor. Witness were sponsored by guinness and Oxygen by Heineken.

i never would have correlated either of those !

Stillill42 · 09-08-2019 10:46AM

Thundercats Ho wrote: »

My God that was the worst. We had to get on the 'dirty' bus coming back cos we were mucked to bits.

EP 2-3 years ago was a nightmare too.

Ah, but I still look back fondly on Public service broadcasting on Body and Soul main stage in the absolute pissings of rain on the Saturday night. That was beautiful.

griffdaddy · 09-08-2019 10:46AM

griffdaddy wrote: »

The website says eco isn't open until 9am Friday morning

https://www.electricpicnic.ie/information/ticket-info#info-section-38623

I've emailed them to ask now anyway. After the ATN sh1tshow I'd leave now for EP if I could

09-08-2019 10:48AM

I dunno what it is about this year but I’m way more excited than I usually am a few weeks before it.
Itching to get my hands on the new map to see Freetown

Synergism · 09-08-2019 10:50AM

rubick wrote: »

They sent out Family Camping Pass Barcodes on General Admission Weekend Tickets the other day, second year in a row.

They also already run a balance payment scheme.

Would this be a reason to avoid buying a Family Camping ticket off someone? I've been offered one and I'm trying to think of any potential problems.

Mollyb60 · 09-08-2019 11:03AM

BaZmO* wrote: »

A bit of a tangent, but I was looking back to see who played that year and realised how depressing it is to see bands that I really love now that played the years I was there but i hadn't a clue who they were.

I would sell my left kidney to get a lineup like that year now. It was amazing.

Thundercats Ho wrote: »

My God that was the worst. We had to get on the 'dirty' bus coming back cos we were mucked to bits.

EP 2-3 years ago was a nightmare too.

It was my first festival, arrived late (like 11pm) on the Friday with my 2 mates and struggled through the mud to the first campsite we could find. Squeezed our way into a space between some tents, absolutely failed at putting up the tent right, gave up half way through and just started drinking. It was possibly the most miserable I've ever been at a festival. Mucked to the eyes, shattered tired, pissed, freezing cold. We all huddled together to keep warm and moved the tent at first light. Ran out of money at the festival and hadn't arranged any way home coz we were stupid children. Had to call our mate's dad to come collect us (from Tipperary) on Monday morning. I'd say we looked like refugees getting into his van.

haitens · 09-08-2019 11:15AM

And no festival will ever compare to the mudfest of Witness 2002 (IIRC).[/quote]

Ah the mud that year was unreal crazy rain the week before it. But I think the Saturday was nice and Sunday was a scorcher. Sunburnt and covered in Mud.

ghostdancer · 09-08-2019 11:25AM

sydthebeat wrote: »

i never would have correlated either of those !

it was pretty obvious from a lot of the branding.
oxegen had the the 'en' at the end in the same colour and font as the Heineken logo.
the Witnness logo had a pint of Guinness at the end.

beecee · 09-08-2019 11:31AM

haitens wrote: »

And no festival will ever compare to the mudfest of Witness 2002 (IIRC).

Ah the mud that year was unreal crazy rain the week before it. But I think the Saturday was nice and Sunday was a scorcher. Sunburnt and covered in Mud.

It was the idiots having mud fights with the dried up mud on the Sunday that drove me mad. Persuaded friend to leave Oasis when I got hit on the back of the head for the third time :mad: ... Basement Jaxx were a million times better!!!

sydthebeat · 09-08-2019 11:31AM

ghostdancer wrote: »

it was pretty obvious from a lot of the branding.
oxegen had the the 'en' at the end in the same colour and font as the Heineken logo.
the Witnness logo had a pint of Guinness at the end.

obvious now

though those were more of my 'hazy' days

LowOdour · 09-08-2019 11:32AM

Ah Oxegen 2004 - went for 2 acts...David Bowie and the Strokes.

While the Strokes gig was one of my best gigs ever, it still irks me to this day that I never saw Bowie live. Don't think he played Ireland again after that?

Arne_Saknussem · 09-08-2019 11:40AM

LowOdour wrote: »

Ah Oxegen 2004 - went for 2 acts...David Bowie and the Strokes.

While the Strokes gig was one of my best gigs ever, it still irks me to this day that I never saw Bowie live. Don't think he played Ireland again after that?

Yeah as far as i know the Reality Tour at the Point in 2003 was his last Irish show

tvercetti · 09-08-2019 11:59AM

griffdaddy wrote: »

The website says eco isn't open until 9am Friday morning

https://www.electricpicnic.ie/information/ticket-info#info-section-38623

Kepler21 · 09-08-2019 12:01PM

griffdaddy wrote: »

The website says eco isn't open until 9am Friday morning

https://www.electricpicnic.ie/information/ticket-info#info-section-38623

On the email invitation and the Eventbrite ticket for the BYEco campsite it says Thursday Aug 29th at 4pm. The Electric Picnic website doesn't have a great track record of going back and correcting errors like this.

endainoz · 09-08-2019 12:03PM

Oxegen 04, my first real festival experience. Had followed Witnness all the way through it's brief existence but wasn't old enough to go so upon turning 18 Oxegen was the first for me.

It's seems to be a rite of passage for young people going back to the last 70s. Macroom in cork was the first proper outdoor event, was followed by Lisdoonvarna from '78 to '83. Seems to be a long gap up to the First feile in '90 and then another gap to the first Witnness in '00.

I don't believe there was anything to fill the gap between lisdoonvarna and the first feile but I could be wrong!

At least there is so much variety now in bigger and medium sized festivals now. I'm not sure if we could ever go back to the 80,000+ gigantic events of the old oxegens but who knows.

In between all this of course you had fleadhs and the like which were definitely very big events in their day and arguably still are.

BullBlackNova · 09-08-2019 12:08PM

endainoz wrote: »

Oxegen 04, my first real festival experience. Had followed Witnness all the way through it's brief existence but wasn't old enough to go so upon turning 18 Oxegen was the first for me.

It's seems to be a rite of passage for young people going back to the last 70s. Macroom in cork was the first proper outdoor event, was followed by Lisdoonvarna from '78 to '83. Seems to be a long gap up to the First feile in '90 and then another gap to the first Witnness in '00.

I don't believe there was anything to fill the gap between lisdoonvarna and the first feile but I could be wrong!

At least there is so much variety now in bigger and medium sized festivals now. I'm not sure if we could ever go back to the 80,000+ gigantic events of the old oxegens but who knows.

In between all this of course you had fleadhs and the like which were definitely very big events in their day and arguably still are.

To be fair, capacity-wise, EP isn't a world away from that. 65k now, isn't it?

The difference now is that festivals cater for people on more than just a big musical sense - EP has so many distinct and unique areas that the crowd very rarely feels like an enormous mass of people, in my experience.

That is the big difference - Oxegen just threw 80,000 people into a field for four days, put on a few burger vans and then just said "go nuts". It always felt like everyone was right on top of each other for that reason.

davywalsh7 · 09-08-2019 12:09PM

LowOdour wrote: »

Ah Oxegen 2004 - went for 2 acts...David Bowie and the Strokes.

While the Strokes gig was one of my best gigs ever, it still irks me to this day that I never saw Bowie live. Don't think he played Ireland again after that?

Replaced by the darkness

maximoose · 09-08-2019 12:13PM

davywalsh7 wrote: »

Replaced by the darkness

Their cover of Street Spirit will forever haunt me

endainoz · 09-08-2019 12:20PM

BullBlackNova wrote:

That is the big difference - Oxegen just threw 80,000 people into a field for four days, put on a few burger vans and then just said "go nuts". It always felt like everyone was right on top of each other for that reason.

Very true, but I think Oxegen always did s decent job in terms of crowd control, it can't have been that easy but yeah it was a mess in other aspects of course and the anti social aspect ruined it for many.

On a total side note, it looks like Republic of Loose are bringing out a best of album on the 30th and seem to be active on FB again too. Some bit of a reunion tour to promote the album that would include and EP date in somewhere like Rankin's woods on the Friday night possibly?

sprucemoose · 09-08-2019 12:23PM

endainoz wrote: »

It's seems to be a rite of passage for young people going back to the last 70s. Macroom in cork was the first proper outdoor event

and literally nothing good has happened there since

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