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Electric Picnic - The Best Festival In Ireland!

Dont be at yourself

So, just over a month to go until Electric Picnic, and I reckon, all things considered, it's time for a bit of a love-in!

So who went last year? I did, and had a great time. The line-up was terrific, I loved every minute of the Arcade Fire and Flaming Lips sets - the only disappointment was the clash of Kraftwerk and Flaming Lips, and I still caught the end of Kraftwerk! This year's line-up is looking equally good, and it's 3 days this time too, wayhey!

A great vibe too, I was completely at ease the whole time. Everyone from the festival goers to the burger flippers to the security were very curtious and treated everyone like actual human beings, which is nice to see at a festival. Hopefully this will continue this year!

I loved the body & soul area, the silent disco is a brilliant idea, even that the festival area was shaped like a mushroom - brilliant!

So, what are your thoughts, memories and expectations for what is, undoubtedly, Ireland's best festival?

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Sajan

Kipping in the Cinema Tent.. Not a bad isea at all.

Frankiestylee

Damn... the cinema tent looks good... thankfully I'm toying with the idea of making alcohol my only vice for the weekend, so I might be able to actually leave the cinema magic land.

Tusky

wow. Great lineup for the cinema tent.

jimi_t

Fear and loathing on at 2:30am in the morning...
My kind of festival

It's getting close

Crash

Hehehe, i kinda like the fact that they're showing "before sunrise" just before sunrise - if you really want to be a romantic, drag someone along to that

bringitdown

Anyone going down Thursday? I know the official line is now way, no how etc but I'm wondering will there be enough people there that they'd have to open the car park at least...?

garthv

Mr Rivers

That's one confusing map...

Toast

Ive simplified it for you.

fits

What are Tir na GCasta doing at it? Thats the free party crowd isnt it???..

goes to look it up...

ronano

there isnt even a fan provisional timetable going around for when bands are on?

Mr Rivers

No, the offical timetable will be released this coming Wednesday

Cunning Alias

Just checked the weather on weather.com. Says that there will be showers on friday and saturday and scattered showers on the sunday! Lets hope something changes it between now and then.
Gotta get me some wellies

Mr Rivers

When you put enough people in one place and make them happy if affects the weather! I did the past 2 years anyway

benny24

itss going to be the best most relaxed festival of the year, everyone should go

Sajan

Hope the weather does hold out.. A lot depends on it.

Helix

flamingo wrote:

all we need now is for the weather people to swear on their lives that there's gonna be a miraculous and wonderous change in the climes just on time! - mind you, iv'e heard that the weather's supposed to pick up in september, so i'm just hoping that on the stroke of September, it'll bumph up a couple of degrees and dry out a smidgen!

the weather this time last year was exactly the same

loads of rain up until the wednesday of the gig, then it stopped

Sawa

Does anyone know where in Dublin sells Kopparberg pear cider by the can??
I wanna get a crate of that for e.p rather than some ****e!
I've never seen cans on sale, only glass bottles which aren't allowed...
but i saw loads on the ground at a previous festival so they're coming from somewhere??

memaeve

Sawa wrote:

Does anyone know where in Dublin sells Kopparberg pear cider by the can??
I wanna get a crate of that for e.p rather than some ****e!
I've never seen cans on sale, only glass bottles which aren't allowed...
but i saw loads on the ground at a previous festival so they're coming from somewhere??

Ooh super idea, let me know if you find out!
xm

holland501

used to be able to get them in the Whelan's off-license on Wexford st. They were flogging them off for a euro cos I think they were going out of date. Ooh I stocked up for sure that time.

Dunno if they still have them but worth checking out.

radiospan

There's a Carry-out in Cork that sells Kopparberg cans (looks like it's imported from Poland), so maybe try a few Carry-Outs up there.

But I was told they sold Kopparberg at Electric Picnic last year? (I'm an EP virgin)

Anyway, official timetable out before Wednesday.

New Order are on the Main Stage at 10pm on Saturday.

greenasgrass

Anybody know if there are going to be power sockets for the camper vans at EP? I tried e-mailing them a couple of times but no reply. If not could anybody tell me what exactly I paid €60 for?!

Anybody who likes a bit of decent alternative folk. Check out Devandra Banhart on Friday Evening....

joseph brand

Kopparberg Pear cider is just yummy.

Maybe try that Off licence at Blanchardstown centre, one of the retail parks opposite, not the one with Argos and LIDL, the other side.

Anyone know this one???

bringitdown

Warm pear cider ... can't work! ... unless you manage a cooler?

Warm beer is bad enough ...! Just picked up 48 cans, tis an awful lot, last year we ended up abandoning beer in favour of those delightful mojitos the served in the bacardi bar - however our wallets were not as happy as us as a result

holland501

mojitos? Praise the lord. I thought it'd be a decent booze free-zone this year what with it being 3 days and us having no cooling mechanism.

radiospan

joseph brand wrote:

Kopparberg Pear cider is just yummy.

Maybe try that Off licence at Blanchardstown centre, one of the retail parks opposite, not the one with Argos and LIDL, the other side.

Anyone know this one???

Not sure, but apparently theres going to be a thing called the "Dingly Dell Bar" in the Body and Soul area with loads of fruity flavoured beers and smoothies. It was there last year too.

Evil Sausage

plazzTT wrote:

Anyway, official timetable out before Wednesday.

New Order are on the Main Stage at 10pm on Saturday.

Is it online anywhere?

quarryman

I haven't camped there before. How near is the car park to the campsite. Could you realistically travel between the two to get stuff?

Noelie

Did anyone try the paintball at EP last year? seems like to be a reasonable price at 20Euro for 200 shots. anyone got any experience of it

Bacchus

Hey does anyone know of any buses going to EP from Athlone? There is the Bus Eireann bus at 8:55am that gets in at 10:45. Is it far to walk from Stradbally to where EP is on?