Electric Picnic 2025 **No Ticket Sales / Requests** - Hot metal and methedrine, I hear empire down

2pm opening for early entry if that article is to be believed. Thank **** I only live 20 minutes away.

150k in 2030. Belvo running it into the f8cking ground. He should be loathed by all in sundry.

Stradbelvy

Its the only way to go, i do this everytime, tickets say 4pm though. Avoid the biblical entry q !

This, my friend, is the very definition of everything being relative.

I did some volunteering work at last year's gig and first job was crowd control at one of the gates. We arrived at 14:00, got chatting with the punters at the top of the queue who were there since 07:30. It's gonna be a scrum for tent pitches this year with the added numbers.

Last year had so many issues with regards to so many different things, one being camping. The previous year (2023) we arrived around 5PM Friday and there was zero camping space in any campsite, we were redirected to an overflow which was quite a bit away from general and without toilets (with a long-ish walk to them) but in fairness it was a nice area and near the car park, I suppose understandable with us being so late. Last year I'm pretty sure they increased capacity and descreased camping space due to them removing one campsite for boutique + reconfiguring another smaller, I could see this being an obvious via the map so arrived at 9:30am Friday morning to be sure to get a spot. But after walking for well over an hour through every campsite, thousands of people were all looking for spots and none were left, we read similar reports on here, it was carnage. Stewards were saying to hang tight an overflow would be ready in the next couple of hours, we were already there close to 2 hours, having to wait another 2/3 hours was a disaster along with having to carry everything another couple of km's. We eventually got very very lucky and managed to find a small spot barely big enough for the tent in the middle of a group of other tents. But all this leads to people throwing tents everywhere on/ too near pathways cleared for emergencies, etc. and becomes very messy should an emergency happen. People with gazebos and taking up big amounts of room/ more than needed don't help, but we could see a lot of stewards actively trying to tackle these.

Reconfiguring campsites for boutique meant everyone probably had an extra half km extra walk to the start of general camping too from the red gate and meant boutique didn't have any more/less walking to do, so no advantage anywhere. On top of this, there seemed to be very little cubicles/bathrooms in general camping in contrast to previous years and no matter what time of day it was (until the evening), people seemed to be quing (in hundreds at times) for a very long time.

80k vs 75k probably isn't a huge difference, but as a concern they NEED to cater for an extra 10/15k camping spots and that's apart from the main arena crowding issues (although I didn't find this as bad as some people), probably need two new larger general campsites to avoid similar issues with increased capacity.

I’ve noticed for a couple of years now that they don’t scan your Thursday ticket, just want to see that you have one, Literally showing them in the TM app. In fact I had two earlies and two weekend, after showing them one early entry they weren’t interested in seeing the 2nd one, ‘just need to see the weekend one to scan” is what they told me.

Last year it was 25k (I think) with a 75k capacity, if you waked around gen-pop Thursday night it felt as if it was 80-90% full.

Anymore info on whether eco is returning this year? Melv stated it definitely was back before Xmas......at this stage it is a deal breaker for me on whether I go, I ain't doing gen pop

free for all in that no preference for long-standing returning campers.
byeco managed that list and it’s gone with them.

You should be copyrighting your material Scruff.

all the tickets are sold out and loyalty code is no longer working