Electric Picnic 2022 - Here we go again! - No Ticket Sales / Requests

Stillill42 · 27-08-2022 08:45AM

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While I agree regarding the line up and completely understand you getting rid, there's more to the Picnic than the poster. You've lumped the 70,000 of us together as if there's only one experience of the Picnic to be had and we'll all be up the front for Picture This. We all have our own stuff we like about it and while everyone on this thread has their reservations this year, we'll make our own minds up about it.

Navan Man01 · 27-08-2022 08:58AM

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Well said Stillill👍🏻👍🏻

HarryTheSpider · 27-08-2022 09:26AM

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2022 is going to be a different year for a lot reasons as a lot of things have changed since 2019 both inside EP and outside. This could hopefully be one bad year and things might get back to the better days.

It is true that we are not going to be as spoiled for choice as previous years. But there is still a lot of good stuff going on.

It is in Festival Republics interest to put on the best festival they can. The best/worst advertising for next years festival is this years festival, how much or how little the punters enjoy it and how it is reported on in mainstream media and also social media.

It is hard to know the direction the festival may take over the next few years. Hopefully I am not wrong, but I think we are still a few years away from turning in to the likes of Oxygen and still looking to the likes of Glastonbury for inspiration.

Beechwoodspark · 27-08-2022 09:35AM

It does seem like it is heading towards a oxygen type of festival

going by the lineup

and the scaling back of the likes of salty dog, mindfield, body and soul stages

EP2022 · 27-08-2022 10:09AM

Not sure about the tickets but I also bought Pink Moon from a reseller, they just gave me a printout of their order with their name on it and the 5 digit order number.

You can email Pink Moon at info@pinkmooncamping.co.uk with the name and the 5 digit order number to confirm its a real ticket.

fafy · 27-08-2022 10:11AM

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100 % agree, lineup only part of it for me, overall experience more important, meeting people- thats the gold here, and several dollops of the many non music events that seem to be totally ignored by the vast majority, but to me, are a key part.

HarryTheSpider · 27-08-2022 10:11AM

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True. But only time will tell.

If they are going that way, then so be it. That will be the end of a great festival. People will (eventually) vote with their feet/ticket purchases.

The only problem is that for every Salty Dog, Mindfield, Body and Soul fan that decides they are not going and sells their ticket/doesn't buy one, there will be someone else who does want to go and snaps that ticket up. Once they keep selling all the tickets (and they most likely will), Festival Republic will be happy. They don't care if you have bought a ticket and sell it on, they have sold the ticket and that is all that counts to them

I really don't know the finer points of running a festival, but maybe if there is demand for it, then there should be Oxygen and Electric Picnic.

BTW. I am not on their side and I am not happy with the way things seem to be going either. As I said before, hopefully this is just one bad year and we will be back to better days in the future.

EP2022 · 27-08-2022 10:22AM

Not sure about the tickets but I also bought Pink Moon from a reseller, they just gave me a printout of their order with their name on it and the 5 digit order number.

You can email Pink Moon at info@pinkmooncamping.co.uk with the name and the 5 digit order number to confirm its a real ticket.

27-08-2022 10:39AM

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I can understand your displeasure with the lineup. I share that. However stating that this bunch of acts wouldn't get 10k attendees elsewhere is a little inaccurate. The Arctic Monkeys will likely headline Glastonbury (again) next June and can draw 70k on their own to most European festivals. Tame Impala are Glasto sub-headliners and have been the main act at several US and continental fests in 2022. None of the other top six acts I care about but they all sell tickets in enormous numbers on these shores. Same when you get to the undercard though many not to my taste. Similar to many on this thread most of my time is spent at the smaller stages where I catch young Irish and overseas acts on the up. This continues and, if the weather holds out, you'll hear great reports from this weekend.

Furious-Red · 27-08-2022 10:45AM

Global Green line up is out

Dreamweapon · 27-08-2022 11:31AM

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Pretty much sums up how i've been feeling this week. A few weeks ago i said it would be a grim state of affairs if we were pinning all our hopes on Jerry Fish, a stage i've had little reason to visit in previous years. This year it's the best on offer and that to me is unacceptable. I'm sure i'll have a good time but flitting from one Irish act to the other, all of whom i've seen multiple times and will be able to do so again post-festival, really doesn't get the juices flowing.

Anyways, we'll make the best of it and see what next year brings. Onwards and upwards...

Stillill42 · 27-08-2022 12:19PM

I'm not sure the Oxegen comparisons are valid lads. Sure, the main arena lineup is gearing itself more towards the yoof but they're actively expanding the areas outside the main arena. The forest is bursting at the seams with stuff that might not make the headlines a huge main stage performer does but is massively interesting and exciting to me. Read that Freetown announcement yesterday. I mean that sounds like great craic, no? I'm on the fence like lots of you but the all that stuff, is still the magic dust for me. It's an entirely different animal from Oxegen still.

Stillill42 · 27-08-2022 12:20PM

Not to suggest that the music isn't massively important to me. It is.

endainoz · 27-08-2022 01:00PM

I think it's more time to get excited and hyped for the week ahead rather that reflecting on the lineup again. All the grieving was done a couple of weeks ago, time to make do with what we've got. I still find it hard to believe it'll be three years since we've set foot in the place.

Mucker46 · 27-08-2022 01:27PM

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I am with you had Neil Young on in the car thinking of harvest in trailer park drink in hand. Put a big smile on my face

Fatfrog · 27-08-2022 02:05PM

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Completely agree it’s like bringing up a death again😂 we’re one week out!

Any comparison to Oxygen ref commercialism I’d agree with, but definitely not true when it comes to the line up, look at Ep vs the last years of Oxygen 😢

HBC08 · 27-08-2022 03:03PM

Can anyone help with this,EP first timer here....

I'm about 3 hours drive from stradbally,I can leave any time after 11 on fri morn.

I'm staying in my friend's campervan so I guess he has camervan tickets,he will be arriving about 7 or 8pm on the fri.We are travelling separately as I need to get back for work,he's doing the 3 nights.

I wondering what's the best way to work this,Can I park in the car park then walk back of the car park to somehow arrange to meet up with him on the road so we travel in together in the van?

Do I need my ticket to park in car park?

Any suggestions welcome!

Stillill42 · 27-08-2022 03:28PM

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So he has your ticket? You can park in the carpark no problem, just doesn't seem much point getting there way ahead of him if you can't get on site. No way of getting your ticket off him before then? But sure, you can park, leave, then meet him wherever before he goes in.

grudgehugger · 27-08-2022 03:44PM

@HBC08 If he has your festival ticket, my suggestion would be to get your ticket from your mate beforehand OR travel down around same time as him as you won’t be able to get onto the festival site without a ticket and hanging around the car park / Stradbally will likely get boring pretty quick (especially if it’s ☔️ - if I talk enough about bad weather hopefully it’ll be dry!)

HBC08 · 27-08-2022 03:45PM

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Perfect,great info and thanks.

I can get my ticket off him,my main worry is if I go in on my own through a different entrance I won't be able to get into the campervan area.This might be completely stupid and irrational but I just don't know the lay of the land there.

HarryTheSpider · 27-08-2022 03:59PM

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It might be a good idea for you to leave all/most of your stuff with him in the campervan. If you arrive early, your choices will be to leave your stuff in the car and have to go back out or else lug it around with you.

alastair · 27-08-2022 04:04PM

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you’ll have access to the campervan area with any camping wristband.

HarryTheSpider · 27-08-2022 04:04PM

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The Oxegen/EP comparison was more so (the fear of) where the festival might be heading in the future. But you are right, there is still a lot of stuff away from the main arena. And areas are not mutually exclusive. A lot of us will most likely see every part of the site over the weekend.

HarryTheSpider · 27-08-2022 04:06PM

Anyway.....

Back to music... Thanks to whoever it was that suggested Silverbacks. Enjoying them a lot today.

Fatfrog · 27-08-2022 04:08PM

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Unless something changes this year, but the camper area has always been open in previous years! So if you have your ticket park in the main car park, get wristbanded and head straight into the camper area.

Fatfrog · 27-08-2022 04:11PM

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My heads melted after putting up one tent, can you imagine facing this !!!

Mucker46 · 27-08-2022 04:21PM

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Gavin Murphy Songs is the singer with TCM

alastair · 27-08-2022 04:23PM

I’ve done 11 EP’s. I got fatigued with it and took a break after 2008, which wasn’t a vintage year, and it was becoming a bit samey. Went back and was reinvigorated, but it never quite matched the early, glory years, and the density of punters made enjoyment a bit more of a challenge. I’ve been to all ATN’s, and even allowing for the problems of the second one, it’s rather closer to the appeal of the early EP’s - but in a nicer location, and with the benefit of no booze check bottlenecks. It’s, for me, a more enjoyable experience. The remaining appeal of EP is the international undercard, and the ad-hoc nonsense of Salty Dog, Trailer Park, B&S, The Haunt, etc. Two of those draws aren’t there this year. I’ll go, and I’ll enjoy myself, despite the contextually poor offering. I dunno if I’ll be buying a ticket for next year though.