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

What a weekend! I had tempered expectations as the lineup was a little threadbare for my liking and I was working but I was pleasantly surprised with the fun I had meeting up with friends, bumping into Brian Kerr and random conversations with new people. Great buzz.

First year working as a volunteer which saw me at the PUDO Gate welcoming punters in on Thursday and Friday. Big shout out to the hardy folk who were there from 07:00 Thursday morning! The weather certainly played a part in it being a wholesome experience with my fellow volunteers and the hordes of revellers patiently waiting in the queue. Got a great tan!

Highlights: NAS was unreal, a real belter of a set. Faithless were class. In the pit for Kasabian and had a great bop. Dec Pierce's Block Rocking Beats was oldschool personified yet with a great mix of young and young at heart attendees. Staff camping which was a quiet green field site with hot showers and clean jacks. Cannae go wrong.

Lowlights: Lack of basic facilities including toilets. The ladies' queues in the main arena were shocking. The rubbish. 'Nuf said.

One thing that was immediately clear from working on the gate was that if you didn't purchase an early entry pass, you were not getting an optimal pitch for your tent. It was way busier between 16:00 and 18:00 on Thursday that at any other time over the weekend. Was there enough capacity for general camping? Anecdotally, no, which necessitated the use of overflow sites. This isn't a new phenomenon but it's an issue that needs to be urgently addressed at the planning stage, especially if the early entry allocation is increased for 2025.

I might return next year but based on this year's lineup, it won't be with an early bird ticket.

My thanks to everyone who contributes to this thread, the tips, the spats and the general joie de vivre of all things music. Better living through music!

I'm glad they got to see their true popularity across the nation before they leave us. The traditional media boycott really hurt them but that doesn't work in the digital age. Spotify, YouTube, twitter etc you can't stop the people from signing anymore.

Just imagine how legendary they'll be when they do pass on.

Great weekend, TCM, Nas and faithless was a great double bill, Kasabian really should have been in kodalines slot, 2nd half of their set was magic, stranglers great but the surprise act of the weekend was RAYE, absolutely owned that stage, can only see her going stratospheric next year....surprised there wasn't more chat about her set after? Couple of comments on here about her not belonging as a sub headliner, couldn't disagree more

Hahaha! My Garmin is set up with my original (northern) email account! It works out at 95.6km.

Kylie's shows in the 00s ("Showgirl" 2005 and "Aphrodite" 2011) are two of the greatest pop shows I've ever seen. Huge sets and live band and amazing choreography and she sang really well. When she split with her creative director combined with the cost cutting switch to digital screens and backing tracks in general, she went south (her last gig in Dublin was awful). Her current push to the forefront is a mystery but anyway fair f*cks to her for giving it large in 2024 from a pop career that should have lasted five minutes in 1987.

Imagine, if we were smelling that stench of piss coming from the right hand side of the main stage, Kylie was defo smelling it too…..

Consequence of peace, simple as that. Generations change as do opinions.

Any Eco regulars get chatting to the head honcho Steven. We're hearing wars and rumours of wars that it may not be back.

Here's where we were pitched on the Monday morning.

The carnage elsewhere is jawdropping. Oxegen levels of filth, laziness and disregard.

I really doubt it has anything to do with the Ireland is full crowd of dickheads, particularly because those morons are aligned with loyalist dickheads.