All Together Now 2024

Looks like live to me! Agreed that was some show in 2019

If its a choice between having rain over the weekend and rain lugging gear back to the car on Monday morning I know which one I'm choosing 😊

I will say this is exactly what happened at Beyond the Pale. Totally Free flow for 2 years, but this year, you were only allowed one open can walking into the arena. It was not heavily publicized before and a lot of people including me were taken by surprise.

There will always be less/more enthusiastic searchers, but I wouldn't be surprised if "one open can" is enforced.

If this should happen the revolution will be swift and bloody.

And this is why me and my whiskey won't be bothered by any can policy.

Plus, if the Guinness is as good as last year I'll be laughing.

Plastic, you'll never get glass at a festival

It came in plastic but I never had as good a Guinness from plastic, or at a festival in general. IMHO it was better than the pints in glass you get in some establishments.

Only one way to find out though... taste test tomorrow!

Agreed. Certainly no checks once inside the arena, but I could certainly envisage this happening at the entrance between the campsite & the Bandstand field. As @MattD said, you could be lucky/unlucky with whoever is on duty at the time. EP have pat-downs and bag searches, but they are set up for that with tables, barriers etc. At ATN it could maybe be more of a swift, "do you have any unopened drink in your bag?" line of questioning rather than full bag/body searches to avoid bottlenecks at the entrance points. Let's hope none of this comes to pass. I love the relaxed nature of free-flow and it is rarely (if ever) abused at ATN. EP has taught me how to be creative in shipping cans into the main arena shall we just say… Too tired and old for that auld rigmarole now!

The Guinness has been savage the last few years. Given the general nature and feel of the festival I can't see an open can policy been enforced. Just smile and have a bit of banter with the security, they're mostly sound.

Is anyone planning to get the train via Dublin tomorrow? It says on the ATN travel page there's buses from Waterford to Curraghmore but only from Friday.

I'm going tomorrow by bus but am curious about other options 🤔

Having security checkpoints within the festival is such a bad buzz and would really put me off, free flow makes such a difference. No one wants to spend 7+ quid a pint and people end up just sitting at the campsite for so much longer instead of floating around and taking it all in. Wouldn't be surprised if they enforced it but I would be raging