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

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Complaining about superman's and Eddie rockets is odd, it's not like there weren't dozens and dozens of other options, hell they probably made other queues shorter

Everything I ate bar one item (loaded fries, a bit pricey for what it was, but it did the job), was broadly excellent quality and variety. Big blue bus, kinara, little dumpling, one of the Mexican places, and a BBQ place or two, was all lovely

I probably had more fun this year than in quite a number of EP's, because I managed to get around nearly every single stage, even got a food pub quiz in which is a fun change of pace. I will say that the main stage is a bit meh, not enough speakers further towards the back for the larger gigs

Ill be going again next year without a doubt. Toilets and showers also vastly improved, and no mud to be found for the most part anywhere bar near moonlight meadows

Was that the food quiz where they had people peeling ginger for one of the rounds? Such a random but fun quiz.

Sound at the back of the main stage area was terrible. Smirnoff were drowning it out. Would have liked more toilets near the back of the main stage area as it was a trek to try get through the crowds to them.

Ye that was my thinking. Iirc the pizzas in the Fairview Park gigs were around €18 as well

Honestly had a great weekend. The line up and me are only ever gonna get further apart as I age and I've accepted that. You still get a few gems and for the loyalty price I paid vs the amount of acts seen it's decent value.

For 3 days me and the wife get to leave everything at the gate and be the teenagers we fell in love with for a while. Teenagers that like to eat regularly and enjoy a few more sit downs and run into their grown up kid with his mates but you get my meaning.

Young People dominate the demographic but there is still a place for everyone I feel.

That said there's a lot of good points made here about

1. crowd control site needs to be expanded it's no longer big enough for the crowd and the walking between stages is tight. Trailer Park after main arena finishes for example is way over crowded. Salty Dog is a nightmare with the current set up now thats its technically inside give it the space it deserves Croi is almost a wasted space body and soul used to have very well placed acts to satisfy late night owls. Having been to other similar sized festivals in Europe it just feels so much tighter
2. Food: way over priced i did have a few lovely things but almost feels like it's the same stuff by a different name every 4 to 5 pitches at the same extremely high prices. The need to have a budget offering akin to Glastonbury
3. Toilets nice to have the plumbed ones but my wife said that everytime she went alot had no water and were a bit disgusting. The mens had similar issues with the urinals becoming very full. The toilets at electric arena are not fit for purpose at all no where near enough of them.

All that being said I'd gladly take a loyalty if anyone has one going. Work was a **** nightmare the last 2 weeks and forgot to apply 🙃

Florence and the machine and tame impala I’d say are either stradbally bound or doing marlay in the summer. Fred again probably due a return by now.
kingfishr, amble and Cmat doing the big shows next summer rules them out.

It was my first time going to EP with my partner this year. Campervan site was great location. Portaloos were really bad by Sunday but nothing we didn't expect.

In terms of food, I thought most of what we got was fair value and near to Dublin prices. Kinara knocked it out of the park as usual and the portion size was huge. Had a bad experience with a grilled halloumi box on the Friday night - halloumi and pita were lovely but the salad/hummus was very poor but that was on me.

Drink-wise it was expensive when buying at the bar. €10.50 for a vodka and white was ridiculous, clearly far cheaper to bring in from the campsite in a drinks bottle.

Music-wise we had some real highlights every day. No real complaints about acts and we followed our preferences across the site. Felt the green/mindfield/comedy areas were extremely poorly signposted. Croí main stage location was excellent though.

Biggest complaint our end was the lack of security/crowd control which made the main arena feel dangerous, particularly at the outskirts with kids pushing in and out to see their one song. This was very bad on Sunday night during Kings of Leon as gangs left Ewan McVicar to come in for Sex is on Fire. The timing change in the 3 area for BellX1 that night was decent and the tent was packed by the time they finished their set.

Second gripe is the amount of rubbish and single use plastics on site. I saw one of the local GAA clubs say they collected 70K cans for Return scheme for their club development. There had to have been far more than that discarded. The amount of bins and recycling points was not enough for the waste created on site. Bins were overflowing around the main arena area every day by 4pm.

We exited the campervan site before 10am yesterday and hit minor queues leaving but the traffic control was good. Now to try and book again next year!

Feels like security was inconsistent. I also use a walking stick, had no issue with that or the mushroom collapsible stool in my backpack. Definitely didn't feel secure using the walking stick in crowds though. It accidentally got kicked from under me a few times from people pushing through it's very scary.

That's probably one of the randomest comments from ep. Hope you got your 5 points. I was worried as ginger can be like chilli if you rub your eyes so it seemed absolute madness! One of the most difficult quizzes with the shittest of prizes ever! Still enjoyed it

Security was a joke. There were barely any bag searches going in from pudo. I don't think EP have ever allowed camping chairs into the arena. Forever young was the first one that I saw who actively encouraged it and had set areas for them. They've really cut back on staff on site since I was last there.

Your mate hasn't been gradually bashed down mentally over the years.

Fresh meat for the grinder

Indie acts always did well at EP, in fact the very foundation of the festival. I can also safely assume that indie acts like For Those I Love, These Charming Men & Viagra Boys did pretty okay but they weren't on the main two stages.

Hip-hop, reggae, African, heritage and other eclectic acts have also been historically successful with crowds. The issue lies with skewering the main arena towards bland anodyne pop. You end up getting the crowd you wish to attract and thus the more adventurous and challenging acts no longer have an audience. Glasto manages a balance of acts to suit all. As does FR's own Latitude. Primavera Sound and countless others. Why can't EP? The curation ain't difficult, it's just sheer indolence. And alas that ain't changing.

I'd be astonished if earlier in the year the Fontaines hadn't been booked to headline.

First two named acts, Florence and Tame Impala are indie rock/indie psychedelia acts, they just got big. Fontaines very likely I'd guess so fair chance there are a couple of indie headliners. Not had that since 2022.

Hopefully that'll set the tone for the festival and a more eclectic lineup awaits. 😁 My naivety is boundless.

we had this conversation for years, that audience has left the festival. Been years and years of “indie” acts playing to no one in Cosby and rankin woods.
FR getting rid of a tent is a clear sign that they’ve realised that it was wasted effort.
the way that festival fees have grown for top talent the money previously spent on that tent needs to be redirected to the Sam fenders or chappelle roans or the big djs in terminus

there is literally nothing to be gained from booking those type of acts again. Do you think self esteem enjoyed playing to little to no one?