Electric Picnic : Aftermath

I did sneak in but my mate invited me down as he was playing at it with two different bands. Got his first band no hassle for Lost Vagueness but they wouldn't give him one for the Body and Soul arena without any ID and my mate doesn't even have a bank account let alone a drivers license.

I was all set to come home until some friends in there found a way to slip their bands off by pulling on the silver thing. A few more came down on the Saturday, but it turned out to be pain. There was a few security guards doing random band search's around the campsite. One mate got caught but he talked his way into getting a new band for 30 quid.

Left on the Sunday night in a state and feeling it in work now.

Highlights was the atmosphere at the Christy Moore gig, George Clinton and some of the small tents/bandstands around Lost vagueness. Good people and good times though.

Highlights:

Bands I knew of: Franz Ferdinand, George Clinton, Grace Jones,
Bands I know now: Herbaliser, Kormac, Booka Shade
Brewin up a storm (Da, de de Da, de de Da, de de Da Da) Memories of Feile.
The food. Pie Minister mmmmmmm.
The Velvet Toilets
The Village Green
The Silent Disco. Why isn't there a full time one of these in Dublin
The famous people (Patrick Bergin, Liam Cunningham, Michael Eavis and Duncan)
The not so famous people (marquee erector from wales.
Dennis from Laois (aged 5) joke on the comedy stage.:D
Being able to look forward to doing it all again next year.

Lowlights:

Having to come home early on Sunday missed MBV and the Sex Pistols. (Bloody school system.)
The turds in the campsite on Sunday morning. Do these people have no shame.

Was my first year and just one word really describes it-wow!

Highs:
Trad in the body and soul
Cider in the walled garden
Having an access all areas wristabnd and being able to use the lovely crew toilets
The Canadian dude in the poetry tent,he was mindblowing
Roddy Doyle on Dustin,eurovision and a short history of Ireland
Franz Ferdinand


Lows:
phone battery being dead
stupid 10 O'Clock licensing laws

f®eak s©enery wrote: »

I was disappointed with Sigur Ros. They were good to listen to while lying on the ground looking at the sky but otherwise I found them pretty boring.

Is this not the best way to listen to them? (for me..)

Just had the most amazing shower.

Too many highlights to name, it'll be nice having them seep back into my memory during the next few days. But a few of note...

- Elbow finishing on 'One Day Like This' was a religious experience.
- Crowd's reaction when Jape pulled Put'em Under Pressure out.
- Body & Soul for a bit of breakfast.
- Having a cider in the sun in the green crafts area while backsmithing & flint knapping went on in the background
- Friday evening after jape. 'what'll we do?' 'dunno.' 'dave o'doherty's on in a min, fancy it?' 'ehh, why not.' And he was awesome.
- chairoplanes. they kinda sucked afterwards now i think about. The girl in front of me falling over when she got off was brilliant tho.
- having a quick kip in the cinema tent.
- having the yard dogs on the main stage to me & my girlfriends selves, for a while anyway.

On the cons side, it would have been nice if people could use bins instead of leaving half eaten food at their arses. I wouldnt have liked to have been a girl looking at the toilet queues. & so many lads just pissing anywhere.

The main stage & big tent could have done with screens. I could just about make out nick cave.

Overall a fantastic few days. Arriba

George Clinton/P-Funk is/are the biggest living legend/s on earth.
MBV was the loudest thing I've ever experienced.
Dan Deacon's set was f*cking amazing.
Crystal Castles, Conor Oberst, Faust-(got a piece of chainsawed drywall from them), Grinderman and Giveamanakick kicked ass too.
Chairoplanes were unreal!
You can always depend on the kindness of strangers for drugs.

chris d wrote: »

On the cons side, it would have been nice if people could use bins instead of leaving half eaten food at their arses. I wouldnt have liked to have been a girl looking at the toilet queues. & so many lads just pissing anywhere.

The toilets were a massive con for me. I was the only girl in a group of 8 and it was a bloody disaster trying to go to the toilet. How hard is it to put in enough toilets?? The queues were crazy. And of course all the lads had to wait for me most of the time. Ffs, ****** left them for dead in relation to the toilets this year.

Tip for next year, if ya want to drop the kids off at the pool, go to the main arena early. The crappers were in a pristine condition in the morning/early afternoon, it put an old pep in my step for the day, after it!!

I'd a great few days, i never eat so much in all my life at a music festival. On both Friday and Saturday nights, i ended up back in a rave/reggae disco in the forest, drinking tequila and vodka shots. Absolutely brilliant craic. I've never talked and had the craic with so many random strangers in all my life. I couldnt hack it Sunday so i fecked off early.

I've nothing negative to say about the festival, i wasnt expecting much from the line up, the only band i really wanted to see were the Breeders, and they were awesome. They looked like they were having a good time, and their set was very tight.

Elbow were breathtaking, they remind me of Doves, but with added soul, outstanding........ I was talking to a girl camped out at the front of the stage, beside the barrier before they came on, apparently she came over from New Zealand to see them especially. I was delighted when the band mentioned her during the set!!! I could understand her devotion to them after seeing them live though, bloody massive so they were.

Brilliant weekend, am still getting flashbacks of some of the madness i experienced/took part in!!! Happy memories............

I'd say this was my least favourite EP so far, but still pretty damn enjoyable nonetheless.
Guess that I was just comparing it with Glastonbury a bit too much, which was in a totally different league!

Highlights;
Underworld rocking the shop
Deadmau5 rocking the shop some more... Love that mouse head!:p
Drunken backsaddle carousel action... Surprised that I didn't fall off!
The damn tasty steak sandwiches by the Crawdaddy area, and random food in general

Low points;
Not getting there until after 9 on Friday
Rob Hood clashing with Underworld
Underworld playing in the electric arena instead of the main stage... Surely they should've swapped places with George Clinton?
Rednecks.