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

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.

Ah was looking at this map from last year must have been a draft.

Some big changes for sure this year. Hard to make the map out as it is low resolution when you zoom in. I would imagine that the free flow areas of Salty Dog, Trenchtown, Hazel Wood etc are a thing of the past now, as ghostdancer said it is hard to see Trenchtown surviving this as it takes up such a large area and rarely has any people in it even at peak times. My guess is that once the "main area" closes, then you will be allowed bring your own drink into the "late night arena" - so in other words, after midnight on Fri/Sun you will be allowed bring drink in to Salty Dog, Freetown, Body & Soul, Jerry Fish etc, but it would be after 2am on Saturday.

I'd say they were under pressure from the bars/sponsors as they wanted to make more money on the bars. Disappointing but it won't effect me too much really, I'd say I spent less than 1 hour per day drinking cans in any of those areas. Was nice to chill out with a few cans but on the flipside it will mean once you are in the arena it will be easier to access places like Freetown, Made by Music etc without going through more security checks.

My concerns lay around pink moon - what entrance/car park will we go in now?! If we cant access pink moon from the paintball entrance it looks like it will be a serious walk. Also will it be possible to bring drink from pink moon down to the normal campsites? Usually this would be of high importance to me but this year I have more friends in pink moon than usual.

ghostdancer wrote: »

most vendors take card already

do they?? havent been in a few years but it wasnt that way last time. would be very very happy if this were the case

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Some big changes for sure this year. Hard to make the map out as it is low resolution when you zoom in. I would imagine that the free flow areas of Salty Dog, Trenchtown, Hazel Wood etc are a thing of the past now, as ghostdancer said it is hard to see Trenchtown surviving this as it takes up such a large area and rarely has any people in it even at peak times. My guess is that once the "main area" closes, then you will be allowed bring your own drink into the "late night arena" - so in other words, after midnight on Fri/Sun you will be allowed bring drink in to Salty Dog, Freetown, Body & Soul, Jerry Fish etc, but it would be after 2am on Saturday.

I'd say they were under pressure from the bars/sponsors as they wanted to make more money on the bars. Disappointing but it won't effect me too much really, I'd say I spent less than 1 hour per day drinking cans in any of those areas. Was nice to chill out with a few cans but on the flipside it will mean once you are in the arena it will be easier to access places like Freetown, Made by Music etc without going through more security checks.

My concerns lay around pink moon - what entrance/car park will we go in now?! If we cant access pink moon from the paintball entrance it looks like it will be a serious walk. Also will it be possible to bring drink from pink moon down to the normal campsites? Usually this would be of high importance to me but this year I have more friends in pink moon than usual.

Will you be able to bring your own drinks to the salty dog during the day?

Going to miss the ritual of drinking cans on the Friday afternoon at the Salty Dog. Hopefully we'll get a decent announcement this afternoon for Freetown. Only a week to go now!

Wouldn't make any judgement without a HD map.

Two blue entrances are the main ones still in place. But the usual paths towards Trench/Salty are all marked with red and then to get from those areas into typical main parts you have to cross a black entry.

Could be a designated free flow area.

Edit: looking at the legend (the red markings not included) I'm most likely clutching.

d_levins wrote: »

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

Same people that renamed the taxi company to FreeNow??? :rolleyes:

alastair wrote: »

Sooo; Thursday. What’s the story on cans at Salty Dog then?

I’m beginning to wonder if there’s mileage in some sneaky stashing of cans inside the expanded arena on Thursday. Life will find a way. ����

I was looking at the map on that certain radio stations site and if you open it in a new tab/window and go full-screen, they have two 'boundaries' so The Salty Dog etc. fall within the Main Arena until the Main Stage/Rankins close and then there is a 'late-night' boundary which means only then do Freetown, Salty Dog, Trenchtown become free-flow.

I'd hope that they'd have the late night boundary in place for Thursday so you could bring yer cans, but who knows!!

At least that is what I'm reading. (disclaimer: I could be completely talking out of me hoop!)

Bit of a silly question folks but a friend of mine has a performers ticket but it has a girls name on it, he is worried they won't let him in as they will realise the ticket was given to him from someone else. Surely he will be fine?

ghostdancer wrote: »

thanks, yeah seems like a bit of a faff, you're presumably going to need a card to top it up in the first place, and most vendors take card already, so seems unnecessary. more corporate brand engagement nonsense.

I found it great at Kaleidoscope
You can top up with cash and (dare I say it) get them for the kids and give them pocket money for the weekend. I’m always rooting in my bag for purse , card, money so it eliminates that too

Otsuka wrote: »

I found it great at Kaleidoscope
You can top up with cash and (dare I say it) get them for the kids and give them pocket money for the weekend. I’m always rooting in my bag for purse , card, money so it eliminates that too

Raging they aren't doing them this year. We heard great feedback about them at Kaleidoscope, but were told the software isn't developed enough for larger events when we asked about the terminals for EP this year.

fish_fingers wrote: »

Is there anybody out there ;-) with young eyes that can tell me if that is the Made By Music stage where Other Voices used to be, i.e. between Trenchtown and Salty Dog, please?

Is there anyone else that can tell them how to spell boundary?

yeah, its where other voices was, really going to miss other voices.

"boundry" missed that.