Beyond The Pale Festival - 10th-12th June - Glendalough

Yeah, they are a bit light on the details so far and with not long to go. We'll be travelling from Antrim so would be nice to know opening time, directions etc. According to the Facebook Event page gates open at 1pm on Friday afternoon but don't know if that's accurate. We're opted for the Cosy Camping so it's our own tent but looking forward to a cart to the camp site! Will bring our usual truck anyway just in case but can't see the campsite being huge with only 5,000 punters.

I just used the Contact Form on their website to ask about a traffic plan/opening times. Let's see if we get anything back!

Would love to go on the Friday but alas, no day tickets.

There are multiple routes off the N11 to Glendalough Estate in fairness. Keep and eye on google maps to avoid the traffic.

They charged for parking at Life Festival years ago. Think a few other festivals did it too for a while. Yet they still won't guarantee the safety of your car!!! What exactly are we paying for then?!!!! 😡

Really annoys me paying for parking

Still seems really vague on info. We were thinking if we would go for the day or not but €199 for the two of us for the Sunday seems a bit steep especially when there are so many questions still.

Also don't know if it will pull the same crowd as BD.

Might have found it difficult to shift the remainder. Sunflowerfest cancelled today citing poor ticket sales and rollover Covid debts. Body & Soul made a marketing decision to keep their line-up under wraps until punters arrived, can't help but think that the U-turn on that idea was down to poor ticket sales.

What's BD?

Yeah I'd say they are trying to shift tickets. Sure even Life discounted tickets in the days before and they were still selling them over the weekend.

Personally I think this festival isn't coming across as majorly organised, just from the lack of info.

Also on a separate note traffic will be a nightmare, that road is tiny. Say they will make it one way but still will be a pain.

Well we've a 150 mile journey from Antrim to do before any potential traffic issues so we're hoping to get there for the gates opening if not before. We got lucky in the 2019 ATN debacle and were parked up for 10.30am but we were still a good couple of hours in the queue and wasps to get to the wristband exchange. That was a 20k+ festival though, the 5k capacity can't be as bad as that (can it...?!).

Ah the traffic can’t be anything near as bad as Friday ATN 2019. Really looking forward to Friday’s lineup especially

I'm really not sure if it's 24 cans each or per tent, it's one of the many things they are vague about in the run up. You'd hope it would be per person!

I'd say the craft beer (Whiplash) will be at least €7. You can't get it where I live, wouldn't mind tasting it before I go.

RE: Medications, I'd say normal procedures for entry apply so do what you normally do - although I'll admit that it's been many years since I've had that particular concern!

@Dreamweapon Nice thanks. Any other recommendations for BTP?

Impossible to have a definite answer at the mo. Stage times will probably be released a few days before the event. Usual festival type scheduling. Main area will close before smaller stages.