Electric Picnic 2019 **Discussion Only // No Ticket Sales / Requests **

So disappointed with the new layout. Also, it doesn't look like there's been any attempt to alleviate the crowds/crushes around anachronica area. Looks like all the campsites, campervans etc. to the west (including a new overflow one!) will be served by the single arena entrance at the bottom left of Freetown.

Lads, there's a line between the main stages area and the late night area, could be B&S and SD are freeflow.

Where is Spike Island on the map? It's so low res I cant make anything out.

This is a bit crap, especially for Thursday night, when it would have been chilled in the Hazel Wood with your own cans.
On the other hand, I always made decisions for the Salty Dog Stage based on whether I could be arsed to go through the security and back, so at least I have a better chance of getting to some Salty Dog acts.

The route from the paintball entrance looks very different. It sends people alongside the road all the way around the arena. Looks like a long walk on Thursday if Green is the only parking open. It looks only convenient for getting into the arena and nothing else. Arena entrance looks like its moved closer to the paintball entrance as well. I never understood why there wasn't an entrance there anyway, probably kept as emergency access.

Tour de Picnic camping moved across the road, and Oscar Wilde is now where Tour de Picnic and (pre-2018) Eco campsite were. Wilde looks smaller than before. They are taking some of the Freetown field for an arena entrance, probably the main one. The two routes from the Eco campsite will be in through Freetown, past Salty Dog and to the main section, or outside the woods alongside Warhol and Hendrix.
It will be a real pain if you're in Warhol to get to Salty Dog because of the way they are blocking arena access in the woods.

New orange campsite. There was talk of naming it Keith Flint but don't see it on the map.

Overall I can understand that they are trying to handle the capacity by moving people away from the main stages area into Freetown/SD/Trenchtown and I think its good that they are expanding the area. The lack of freeflow area except in the campsites is a huge loss though, and I think it will make a huge difference to SD and surrounds.

sydthebeat wrote: »

That's correct.

No BYOB stages any more, not by my reading anyway

That's a bad decision me thinks...

AIB Tap Houses on the map.
Hopefully they will have a good uptake from vendors.

Otsuka wrote: »

AIB Tap Houses on the map.
Hopefully they will have a good uptake from vendors.

have seen these mentioned a few times, what exactly are they?
The promotional blurb doesn't really explain anything.

Raphael Prehistoric Junkyard wrote: »

According to their twitter, mother djs are only playing jerry fish on the saturday night. The arnt closing the earthship stage in body and soul on the sunday night. Thats really crap tbh

Unless they’re doing Freetown too, but have been embargoed on mentioning it yet?

ghostdancer wrote: »

have seen these mentioned a few times, what exactly are they?
The promotional blurb doesn't really explain anything.

Basically a wristband that you can use as a credit card at the vendors. You load it up with money at one of the AIB places and then off you go.

They had them at Kaleidoscope. I thought it was a bit pointless myself, especially if you have either a card or a phone that you can use to tap.

LimboSlice wrote: »

Hopefully this isn’t the end of the Salty Dog... was always lovely to hang around it and finish your cans before heading into the main arena.

Just wondering from anyone who’s been to Pink Moon before how you expect these changes to make it difficult? Such as - Judging from the map it’ll be pretty much impossible to get from the main entrance to pink moon with your stuff? (We’re driving and aiming for Green Park obviously).

Last year we were in the red car park and just walked along the road on the outskirts of the site and there was a wristband exchange right next to Pink Moon, that's not much of a problem but looking like that route will be the only way to bring drink from PM to the regular campsite?

Maybe ''Free''Town is going to be freeflow, and there will be an allotted amount of drink per person to bring into areas like Salty Dog, Trench town, B&S

Maybe I'm just clutching at strings....

Fics wrote: »

Maybe ''Free''Town is going to be freeflow, and there will be an allotted amount of drink per person to bring into areas like Salty Dog, Trench town, B&S

Maybe I'm just clutching at strings....

I fear the irony of the name FREEtown was perhaps lost on the organizers.

rubick wrote: »

I'd have thought Eco was exactly the same size - it's surrounded by the same line of trees. They also didn't increase the capacity this year.

They have been steadily increasing the capacity by 2,500 each year