Electric Picnic : Aftermath

Bluefoam · 01-09-2008 05:22PM

Boutique camping is the only way. Didn't have to queue for a toilet all weekend and they were sparkling clean...

eth0_ · 01-09-2008 05:25PM

scoot on wrote: »

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.

Did you not see "comfy crappers"? They are going to save my life at Bestival this weekend...£13 for a wristband for the 5 days. Clean bogs. woo hoo!

scoot on · 01-09-2008 05:32PM

eth0_ wrote: »

Did you not see "comfy crappers"? They are going to save my life at Bestival this weekend...£13 for a wristband for the 5 days. Clean bogs. woo hoo!

No??

Wtf are comfy crappers?

Mushy · 01-09-2008 05:38PM

Pros:
The craic being mighty
The Gutter Twins
The Saloon bar
Candy Floss
Franz Ferdinand(even though I'm fairly sure they played for like 10minutes)
Time Maching Friday night from Meatloaf onwards

Cons:
Sigur Ros:(..maybe they were lst on me after seeing Mark Lanegan though*
MBV...all I heard was noise, couldnt hear vocals at all*
Person trying to rob our booze(thanks to neighbouring tents for telling him where to go!)

Overall a great time, some amazingly cool people out there.

*Still think the bands are very good, just underwhelmed by the experiences with them!

TestTransmission · 01-09-2008 06:02PM

Highlights:

Being up front for the Sex Pistols,
Elbow
The circus
Franz Ferdinand
Rave in the woods,(what i can remember of it)
Eco friendly glasses
Nice looking girls

Lows:
Sunburn
Hangover

kaimera · 01-09-2008 06:07PM

back to DUB at last.

wow.

amazing. didnt know a lot of bands but given it was my first picnic twas epicly good.

Stuxnet · 01-09-2008 06:47PM

JaneyMc wrote: »

The wasps in Charlie Chaplin campsite, not sure if other campsites has this problem, but they were EVERYWHERE

lol, i was in CC also, feckin wasps everywhere, hanging around the empty cans !!

Evenescent · 01-09-2008 06:55PM

HIGHS:

Foals !!

Gomez
Crystal Castles
Grinderman
The Gossip
The Floating act at the O2 Blueroom
Hearing 'The New York Fund' and 'Yacht' for the first time.
Seeing the band in the Bubble Jukebox thing near the Chapel
Band called Fracas.
The rave in the Woods

LOWS:

Sinéad O' Connor
Main Stage not having Screens

Needed more Water Top up Areas
Thought I was going to keel over and die Saturday Morning - so Hungover

Pretty disappointed with 'The Kills' and I had been really looking forward to them

Brilliant Weekend

MikeHoncho · 01-09-2008 06:56PM

Too tired to do a proper review now but highlights:

Santogold
Cut Copy
Digitalism
Modeselektor
Grinderman
ATrack
Catching some guy robbing peoples cups from outside their tents early on Saturday morning. Chasing him off whilecalling him a krusty c*nt.
Japanese Popstars in the rain last night. Stood there in only a T Shirt getting drowned but it was well worth it.

Toilets in Warhol and Hendrix were horriffic. Sort that out for next year and your laughing.

Evenescent · 01-09-2008 07:09PM

quarryman wrote: »

My favourite year so far.

Highlights:
Silent Disco - Why is this my first year going into this? Amazing stuff

What was it like ?

Like is it not bizarre looking about and everyone is dancing at different times ?

Clearly i have never been

hiphopopotamus · 01-09-2008 07:51PM

Music wise it was not a good year at the picnic there where a few exceptions of course the Roots where great so to where Wilco and Hayseed dixie were great fun. I was disappointed with Sigur Ros im a huge fan but i felt that on a main stage they just were not as good as seing them in a tent or similar small venue for instance when they played oxygen two years ago it was one of the best gigs i was ever at. The higlights for me at this years picnic came from the comedy tent with David O'Doherty and Jarleth Regan being the standouts. This is my fourth electric picnic and as with previous years you cant but not have a good time the atmosphere and the friendly crowd make up for any shortfalls in the line-up. My major complaints however are that the toilets especially in the campsites were a disgrace. Not enough of them and no urinals for the men. The car parks need to be looked at to I was lucky and left early on monday morning but i just about got out they need to lay gravel tracks or temporary roads along all the headlands and then their would would be no problem whatever the weather.

quarryman · 01-09-2008 07:58PM

Evenescent wrote: »

What was it like ?

Like is it not bizarre looking about and everyone is dancing at different times ?

Clearly i have never been

here ya go: Silent Disco. The sound in the video doesn't do it enough justice, you take off the earphones and its just people singing really badly!

Also:
Dan Deacon

enjoy!

Toast · 01-09-2008 08:16PM

Really enjoyed it but I think they need to consolidate a bit. There are far too many stages and things to see and some of them are of only passing novelty value at best. Either that or add another day. Impossible to see everything even with a weak lineup preventing too much distraction from the music stages.

Toilet layout needed looking at... not as bad as 2006 but seemed to be worse than 2007. I feel that they are trying to force people into using posh camping by reducing the quality of the regular camping setup. The heading into the Arena trick only worked until the point that the Arena filled up.

Other than that was a great festival that was over far too soon.

Peteee · 01-09-2008 08:46PM

First EP (First festival in fact) but it was mighty good craic!

Sigur Ros were epic and played most of my favourite songs, so I was very happy with that. Franz Ferdinand played too many new songs off their upcoming album I thought, still sounded good but ya couldnt bop along to it really.

Comedy tent was pretty awesome. Some short Irish guy (Ian Coppinger I think) was an absolute hoot. Colin Murphy was strangely bad (Seen him twice before and he was excellent)

Brought way too much booze, the 'latrines' and general toiletry was a disgrace, WASPS!, but everything else was awesome.

Kudos to everyone who had funny tshirts too

Evenescent · 01-09-2008 08:59PM

quarryman wrote: »

here ya go: Silent Disco. The sound in the video doesn't do it enough justice, you take off the earphones and its just people singing really badly!

Also:
Dan Deacon

enjoy!

Bah ha aha ha : Thanks for that.

May try it out at some stage

eth0_ · 01-09-2008 09:19PM

scoot on wrote: »

No??

Wtf are comfy crappers?

They are eco-loo's that you pay to use. They're always clean.

scoot on · 01-09-2008 09:33PM

eth0_ wrote: »

They are eco-loo's that you pay to use. They're always clean.

Where were they??

Was there much of a queue?

nlgbbbblth · 01-09-2008 09:34PM

highlights
- The weather
- Taking a shortcut down that was reasonably effective
- Silver Apples. Yeah.
- Twinkranes in the Bernard Shaw. Krautastic. Was too leaden footed to see much of Andy Votel's DJ set though.
- Large Mound rockin' the Little Big Tent
- Faust's chainsaw massacre.
- Super Extra Bonus Party.
- That Petrol Emotion making it seem like Feile 1990.
- That German hot dog place. Bratwurst mmmm.
- Ice cream.
- Actually finding someone handing out Saturday and Sunday copies of The Ticket
- Meeting loads of people I knew and good conversations with strangers.
- My Bloody Valentine. No earplugs necessary and having room to dance. Still glad I went to Manchester. Totally different experience at EP.

lowlights
- Getting lost in the Body and Soul arena on Friday night having spilled drink all over me during Rollers / Sparkers. Kept going round in circles.
- Little Big Tent not being marked on map. Several people I know missed bands because of this.
- Inconsistent seizing of alcohol by security
- Toilets in Charlie Chaplin. Portaloos on Saturday evening too little too late.
- Realising I have outgrown my tent.
- The hellish walk from the car park to the campsite. Never gets easy.
- Frustrating 'walk the long way around' incidents when the place you want is just over the fence.
- Sound quality during the Sex Pistols.
- Hearing someone lament the dropping of their phone in the latrines, Charlie Chaplin.

Grace Jones started well but I left for the Silver Apples. Hope someone gave her the spliff she craved.

Left at around 11.30pm last night. Did the Pistols do Frigging In The Rigging?

Orb any good? Would have liked to stay but a good feeling to be back home and in bed by 12.15am.

Extraplus · 01-09-2008 10:15PM

Irjudge1 wrote: »

Highlights:

Bands I know now: Herbaliser, Kormac, Booka Shade

Kormac rocked it! Completely sorted my head out on Saturday morning after a bop to these guys.

honru · 01-09-2008 10:28PM

BarryCreed wrote: »

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

Yea, it was nice looking up at the sky with the lights beaming from Stradbally Hall.

chris d wrote:

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

Definetly concur there. I think the festival has grown to the point where it could really do with screens on the two big stages. Graspop in Belgium had two massive screens on the two sides of the main marquee which were fantastic.

scoot on wrote:

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.

Toilets did look a complete disaster, horrendous looking queues. I did take my one designated festival **** and the toilet I landed upon was far better than jacks I've had to endure at previous festivals. So no complaints from myself anyway, but there definetly didn't seem to be enough portaloos to go around for the whole weekend. I can't recall it being that bad last year.

Toast wrote:

Really enjoyed it but I think they need to consolidate a bit. There are far too many stages and things to see and some of them are of only passing novelty value at best. Either that or add another day. Impossible to see everything even with a weak lineup preventing too much distraction from the music stages.

Yea, was a little too bloated, seemed like the site had doubled the amount of things on offer from the previous year. Let alone the fact that vast majorty of big guns music-wise were on during the later hours, it was slightly disappointing that I didn't get to touch on even half of the going-ons.

Maybe next year I shouldn't drink so much. :pac:

FX Meister · 01-09-2008 10:30PM

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

- My Bloody Valentine. No earplugs necessary and having room to dance. Still glad I went to Manchester. Totally different experience at EP.

I thought the Manchester gig was a lot better myself. Sound quality ar EP wasn't great.

Piste · 01-09-2008 10:35PM

Sigur Ros totally wrecked our buzz on the Friday, they made us too chilled and sleepy so we just headed back to the tent, drank a bit and fell asleep.

Today I realised how much stuff I really wanted to see but missed, can't believe I never went to the silent disco

On Friday the queue was too long, on Saturday I was passed out and on Sunday it was lashing rain and we were all wrecked

honru · 01-09-2008 10:37PM

nlgbbbblth wrote:

- Little Big Tent not being marked on map. Several people I know missed bands because of this.

Speaking of the music tents, did anyone else encounter problems recognising the different stages? They all looked very similar, and being clumped in one general area didn't help.

I miss that kooky-looking Nokia tent from last year.

stakey · 01-09-2008 10:56PM

Great time!

Highlights:
Grinderman
Crystal Castles (boo at clashing with Underworld)
* the end of Underworld
Faust (wow!)
Super Extra Bonus Party
Silver apples
Hayseed Dixies
Goldfrapp

Body and Soul and the bizarre little cottage with sing alongs!
Laughing at that washed up bunch known as the Pistols
The 'Rocket and Relish' Gourmet Burger people, nom!
Diep feeding me all day Sunday

The circus! Haven't been in 15 years! ha!
Great crowd (gratz all!)

Lows:
Spending 5 hours comatose in the tent on Saturday
General sound issues in the tents
The Pistols
Piss poor signage for car parks
Shockingly low quotient of loo's!
10 o clock closing time in the bar!

Fontaine · 01-09-2008 11:48PM

Great festival. needed a few more days there to take it all in

Highs-
Grinderman aka Nick Cave & Co. - what a performance!
My bloody valentine -great, played it like they should!
Digitalism and The Stunning on friday.
Cut Copy
Born Slippy from Underworld, missed most of the rest of the gig but that was brilliant. Visuals as well were cool!
The Comedy Tent.
Elbow, lead singer is a legend.
The free cups of tea and flakes! Nice touch!
Hayseed Dixie, just for the lead singers jokes! or were they jokes!
meeting friends hadnt seen in a while.
Lows
The lack of network coverage which meant when you lost your friends that was it!
CSS

Edit:
Dan Deacon - great gig. crazy american

seanironmaiden · 02-09-2008 12:07AM

anyone catch The Breeders on Saturday? wasnt at the festival myself as I was just flying back from Scotland saturday afternoon. I stopped inside the airport to help a woman who's bags had fallen off her trolley and looked up to find I was being thanked by none other than Kim Deal ( Pixies, Breeders ). Had a nice chat with her as we were both walking out towards the busses. They were heading straight to EP. So pissed off I couldnt go down she kept saying I should come down which made it worse.. She was real nice. Would love to hear what their set was like and what stage / time they were on

Fontaine · 02-09-2008 12:14AM

i seen them. they were on in the electric arena (could be wrong) on sat eve at about 5 pm. Ya they were really good as well. I dont know much of their music but i thought it was good anyways. And they played that classic song which everyone knows..!

Sonnenblumen · 02-09-2008 12:29AM

Highs

Body and Soul

Lows

For me, much of what Ireland is about, ie hypocritical, drunk and dirty.

02-09-2008 10:10AM

Sonnenblumen wrote: »

For me, much of what Ireland is about, ie hypocritical, drunk and dirty.

As a matter of interest, how can a festival be hypocritical?

Sajan · 02-09-2008 10:13AM

Highlights were.. Digitalism, Dan Deacon, The Roots, Hercules and Love Affair. AND....

Michale Franti in the Body and Soul was one of, if not the best musical experiences of my life. It was a true moment and for me what the Electric Picnic is all about.

Electric Picnic : Aftermath

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