Electric Picnic 2024 **No Ticket Sales / Requests** - Waiting in line, terrible time, over familiar

To be fair the rain was nothing more than a drizzle and was on/off, the temperature was 18-19 during daylight so this helped.

ATN I found to be very similar to EP but with some exceptions, I was a little surprised to see the number corporate stands, minimal art installations.

Distances: Smaller site so shorter distances from car to campsite etc.

Timing: It’s a great time of year for a festival, higher temps and bank hol weekend, Less time to book off work.

Site: It’s a beautiful location & grounds, but not flat, rolling hills, constantly climbing or descending, lots of filling/drainage type rocks layed down in parts, some quite large, trip hazard. From word of mouth vs EP I was expecting there to be more “space” but it’s a tight site, a busy period there in terms of people traffic is just like EP, the combo of night time + hill + rocks can be a little hectic. I was there in some light rain, but after a dry week, I felt the ground was very soft under foot, I would not like to experience ATN in extreme wet.

Campsite: Usual festival, the site I was in was super clean, they had litter pickers on the pathways, the odd dirty group. Some campsites on a slope so tendency to slide or roll during the night.

Food and Drink: Nice selection available, vodka, whiskey, baileys, white claw, Guinness, rock shore as well as the usual good and bad food traders. Cashless. Had several delicious pints of Guinness.

Stages: The rolling site and tree coverage means there’s lots of outdoor stages close to each other, but thankfully without huge sound bleed. Lovely days, the circle and Schweppes all outdoor and within ~200m of each other. Lovely days was my favourite, really comes to life a night time with an electronic act. Great to see Arcadia again, but to me the location is restricted and bottlenecked, needs to be in an open field to allow for crowd overflow.

Crowd: Great mixture of all ages, I’d say ave. Age was early 30’s. Calm, considerate, friendly, no large groups. The crowd really make a difference.

Freeflow: Saved the best for last!! 24 cans in first time only. This was perfect for me as the amount of alcohol consumed over a festival weekend is much less with age. We took cans home! Freeflow has a huge impact on the festival, you don’t need to skull cans in the campsite, you can head off @12 with your bag o cans, take your camping chair if you wish. This meant stages were well attended early in the day, opens up new music discovery for everyone! no security checks, no dealing with buzzkill jobs worth security guards multiple times per day, no emptying of pockets, finishing up cans, or having the wristband checked. No security check makes the site more intimate, it’s really easy to be on time for an act or nip back to the tent.

On the line up posters, 2024 (54) Vs 2023 (82) were still short 28 odd acts, CMAT and 9 others still aren’t added to the poster, so taking this into account around 18 more.

These 18 will be spread from EA, Rankins and Three stages, so I expect some calibre to be announced.

But last years poster didn't cover casa bacardi so don't think comparing like with like. Bar terminus poster was the main arena tents and main stage so still well short