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Forest Fest 2025 - Emo , Co Laois 25-27 July.

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  • #272
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,734 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Stranglers went on 40mins ahead.

    They could really do with explaining what the **** is going on



  • #273
    facehugger99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,936 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672469#Comment_123672469

    Seriously. What's the point of having a timetable/app if you're going to do that.



  • #274
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,734 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    So far each act is taking the advanced time of the previous and adding ten. Manics will be an hour early at this rate (and clash with Kerbdog)

    I've seen the Stranglers before, and thought they might be 30 early so not missed much and nothing I've never seen before either; but still



  • #275
    scruff monkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,774 ✭✭✭scruff monkey
    Snarky Snark Snark


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672440#Comment_123672440

    he’d have a fairly curt response and I’m not sure I’d blame him.



  • #276
    scruff monkey
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    Snarky Snark Snark


    It mentioned the tribute but didn’t say everything was f’ed due to it.

    If it’s just one hartnoll does that make it orbit instead of orbitall?



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  • #277
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,734 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    VIP area is overcrowded and hasn't enough toilets. Toilets are one of the biggest selling points!



  • #278
    scruff monkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,774 ✭✭✭scruff monkey
    Snarky Snark Snark


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672615#Comment_123672615

    looks to mostly be an issue for the wimmins loos though. I’ve been brewing a special all day for the “posh” loos.



  • #279
    machiavellianme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,824 ✭✭✭✭machiavellianme


    Kula shaker are abysmally awful. Honestly can't believe they're not the first band of the day and not in a plum spot on the bill. Actually, scratch that, can't believe they're still going as a band.

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  • #280
    L1011
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672714#Comment_123672714

    Rest of the site seems way busier when they're on....



  • #281
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 43,701 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Please tell me that is not Lerbdog playing one hour ahead of the wooz schedule

    ?



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  • #282
    LLamachara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 ✭LLamachara


    Crowd got noticeably busier at Kuala Shaker at the time when they were due on. But they only had 2 songs left and were 40 mins into their set.

    Bit of a **** up with the main stage times.



  • #283
    blowitupref
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭blowitupref


    Kerbdog started at 8:15.



  • #284
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,734 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672776#Comment_123672776

    Closer to 830. That stage isn't running insanely early, it's just the main stage



  • #285
    scruff monkey
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    looks like a 21:30 start for MSP


    scratch that. They’re still fiddling about.



  • #286
    rino87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,173 ✭✭✭rino87


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672714#Comment_123672714

    In what way? Sloppy playing, band singing, or they just not interested??



  • #287
    facehugger99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,936 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    Very small crowd for The Manatees but I thought they were pretty good.



  • #288
    over-30s-soccer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭over-30s-soccer


    Weather this year vs other ones must have brought a full crowd?



  • #289
    machiavellianme
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123673122#Comment_123673122

    Yeah they weren't bad. Only caught a few of their songs due to clashing with Kerbdog but might check them out again. I only bothered because the Coach Party girls were raving about them so thought they'd be worth a gander. Coach party themselves were excellent.

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  • #290
    machiavellianme
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123673034#Comment_123673034

    All of the above. Bad singing, bad songs, bad vibe, just all around bad.

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  • #291
    blowitupref
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    Solid 90 minutes from Manic Street Preachers in front of probably the biggest ever crowd on the field for Forest Fest in its a 4 years so far.



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  • #292
    scruff monkey
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    orbital enjoyable but bed is singing her sweet sweet siren song.

    and we have much work tomorrow.



  • #293
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Great day, saw charming men, therapy, Peter hook, stranglers, kerbdog and the manics ....all great



  • #294
    Stillill42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    Great day. Very impressed with the whole thing. Kicked off with TCM, maybe the most I've ever enjoyed them, great crowd. Just got the end of Therapy?, Hooky, deadly, a couple from Dirty Blond, not for me, last couple from Coach Party who sounded great. Wandered off near the end of the Stranglers to the Fleadh tent, caught a bit of Buille, Armagh lads, fantastic craic. Lovely crowd there, room in front of the stage where a little one, 4 or 5, was out giving us her Irish dancing moves, cheered to the rafters. Where would you get it? Pillow Queens excellent, tent hopping for Kerbdog, Manics left me cold, loved Teenage Fanclub, bit of Beoga back in the Fleadh and a rip roaring set from Johnny Cash before home. Fantastic day. Only quibble was the mother flipping chairs which ruined the main arena for me. Everything behind the sound desk is chairs and there's loads of the feckers beyond that right up to 10 rows back from the front for the Manics, a couple of dopes sitting down like it's Sunday afternoon at the bandstand. They really need to do something about it.

    Lovely to bump into the legend that is @scruff monkey

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  • #295
    facehugger99
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    Couldn’t believe how much it emptied out after the Manics. Thought Teenage Fanclub and Orbital would be wedged but you could go right up the front for both. I presume most of the Chair-Feckers had kids and left early.

    Loved Orbital, wasn’t expecting them to play Satan but they did and it was so intense.

    My first year there and I’d definitely go again. The Potato Shack food truck doesn’t sell potatoes but they had the nicest festival chicken I’ve ever had. Or maybe I was just starving.

    Great set up and organisation, other than the main stage times going a bit wonky half way through. I’d agree they need to enforce the ‘no chairs near the front’ rule a bit better because let’s face it, you’re always going to have a small percentage of ignorant fcukwits at a big event like this.



  • #296
    machiavellianme
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123673695#Comment_123673695

    Why not just install some long benches at the back of each tent / stage and ban chairs altogether? That way folk have no excuses. First come, first sitting.

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  • #297
    Stillill42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    I get people wanting to sit around and have a chat, also that it's a necessity for some, just the nature of the site means there's no dead space so the chairs clog up the flow. No excuse for the clients that pitch themselves 30 yards out from the main stage headliners.



  • #298
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,485 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    Its that way every year, after 11pm people just leave in big numbers hence why they have changed the headliner timeslots. In 2023 they had the headliners running from 11.30-1am but it was likes of Proclaimers and Bell X1 who had the biggest crowds not James or Suede who probably should have had.



  • #299
    Stillill42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    Folks i have a spare ticket for today if anyone fancies it. Free gratis to a genuine punter.

    PM me.



  • #300
    LLamachara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 ✭LLamachara


    Fantastic little festival. Really exceeded my expectations of it. Great crowd and vibe.

    Thought Manics were excellent followed by Orbital. TCM were brilliant, they seemed really chuffed with the turnout for them. Therapy? we’re class. James Joyce is **** my sister caught the chair brigade unawares. Ha.

    Great to see Hooky but Jesus, he can’t sing. But those guitar riffs!

    Chairs are a bit annoying, particularly those creating whole rows and blocking access to the main stage.

    Brilliant festival though. Reminds me of the Avalon area of Glastonbury.



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  • #301
    Furious-Red
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 16,152 Mod ✭✭✭✭Furious-Red


    Anyone use the martleys shuttle bus that goes from portlaoise to emo and back? Do they take cash or card and how much? Trying to decide on my route down today but the Dublin shuttle that stops in newbridge at 4ish isn't bookable on their site so maybe it's sold out.



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