All Together Now 2025.

The loop ones are great at gigs, as they still allow you hear the person beside you.

I dont find them great as "total noise blockers" for trying to catch some sleep if the campsite is lively.

For that, these are a great job

The link seems to be breaking boards!!

Im on about the Alvis earplugs from Decathlon...their intended use is as ear protection at shooting competitions, so they can block out the morning sesh in your neighbours tent quite well 🙂

really hope this is true

Yeah the experience ones are great...you can really feel the low end when wearing them too!

Ordered the loop ones. Hopefully find them comfortable now!

No official shuttles Waterford to ATN on the Thursday stupidly… I'll be in the same boat trying to get to the festival on the Thursday from Waterford. trying not to stress about it yet lol.. hopefully something pops up..

I wonder if the AVA stage will be in the same spot as last year? It was shite, packed and no one dancing. Left Ben UFO after about 10 minutes. Years previous when it was in the woods it was class. Some DJs I really want to see there this year, especially Blawan, but the whole lineup for it is quality.

I haven't been on boards in ages but the lineup this year is much better then the last couple of years IMO. Way more good local Irish bands lower down the bill (Search Results, Altered Hours, Affection to Rent, Adore etc.). Very excited for Gurriers and Maria Sommerville who released two my my favourite Irish albums since 2024. And I'm way more into the DJs, there was basically no Techno last year and now there's loads. Also some big slots for amazing Irish DJs which should be special (JWY at Arcadia will be insane). Can't wait!

I thought it was just me, until I saw some comments on here. It was awful last year I thought. Way too bright and in the centre of a really busy area. Nothing but people passing in/out/across. Immersive me ho1e.

Sound bleed to the lovely days stage was terrible

Will echo what others have said above regarding the AVA stage, the overwhelming majority of anyone we camped with/beside last year was that stage was nothing but a nuisance and a complete drag on the Lovely Days stage.

A massive own goal, it felt completely shoehorned into an area it didn't belong.

Totally agree about AVA, in theory it sounded like a great stage, I was excited to see it as AVA have such a great reputation, in reality however it just didn't work, the sound wasn't great, it was in the middle of a hugely busy throughway from main arena to lovely days, bandstand field etc, and then there's the awful smirnoff shite associated with it, it was in the perfect place previously but as the capacity of festival continues to grow I don't think it coould have stayed there long term, plus the rumour is the owner of curraghmore house didn't want late night music down near house, just not sure where else they could put this stage, as it stands they're already moving into campsite fields to expand and the flow of festival is suffering due to this

To be fair this was the campsite last year

As far as I remember that whole bit on the left was the carpark, so could track with the extra campsite size the extra people
I know Capervan/Family and Boutique campsites have all changed sizes and places as well

Maybe he's wrong, hopefully he is, but he's normally fairly in the know with these things. Does seem like a lot consideign how fast it sold out this year as well

For sure yeah! Fontaines driving a lot of the extra ticket sales