Indie-pendence 2009 line up Announced

Honestly not being able to bring your own drink into arenas is standard terms and conditions for practically everything in this country. A few places are more lax in enforcing it on the day than others is all.

Folks, as I mentioned already, I'm only one of the crew on the weekend, I don't call a lot of shots other that what sh*t get's dragged where and when to drag it. It may well be the case that you can bring drink on site though since there's a drinks sponsor I doubt it.

I'm pretty sure there's no BBQs allowed on the camping site, safety officer won't allow it.

My advice to anyone camping is to get ther early and if you have your tickets already got head for Mitchelstown GAA pitch out the Limerick road. In the last two days tickets have absolutely flown out the door and if getting a good spot to camp is your thing then get there early and make a proper weekend of it.

P.S. The festival is in a field, and the sites looking well at the moment. The Cyprus Avenue tent looks class and there's a real country feel to the whole place. So bring wellies!

Hope this festival turns out to be a great success, and that it keeps getting bigger and better every year, like Feile did, and Electric Picnic has.

At least we can say were there at the beginning , for the very first Indiependance festival. I'm not including all the years I stood in the square in Mitchelstown watching bands perform on the back of a lorry, cos its not quite the same thing,even though I have many happy drunken memories of those times.

Forget Fatboy Slim, Mitchelstown's where it's at this weekend. Woop!!

Ps- Weather report from my gaff (I live about 20mins drive away from the festival site)....It's like November, Lads + Ladies, grey skies, chilly with rain showers. Hopefully it's going to clear up by this evening, but bring your wellies and waterproofs, we're going to need them. x

rainbowdrop wrote: »

Ps- Weather report from my gaff (I live about 20mins drive away from the festival site)....It's like November, Lads + Ladies, grey skies, chilly with rain showers. Hopefully it's going to clear up by this evening, but bring your wellies and waterproofs, we're going to need them. x

I got sunburnt today:D

Enjoy the weekend folks! I will be.

Went both days, great atmosphere!

Highlights for me were the Franks, Messiah J and the Expert, Blizzards, Delorentos, Director, and watching mud splattered people dance like they hadn't a care in the world.

I'm looking forward to next years already.

Samurai wrote: »

blizzards were awwwesome, most definitely going back next year :pac:


edit: whomever handed my passport + wallet(still with money inside!) to the security I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOU

:D:D

We found them cleaning up the site on Sunday morning and they were in two different places. You are haunted you got your wallet back, it was plastered in ****. I hope we looked after all the punters. We got great feedback from the campsite with regards facilities for people out there etc.

If I remember right there was €90 in it. Should buy you your ticket for next year. And bring some friends.

Another local here. Couldn't give a crap about indie music, but I went along for the craic anyway.

All I can say is that I'm definitely there next year again, and gonna piss off as many of my mates into going too. Can't believe something like this was pulled off in mitchelstown. 10/10 to the organisers.

I went on Saturday afternoon and saw most of Messiah J & The Expert (really entertaining), Mundy (better than I expected) and Fight Like Apes (great show). Left for the pub during OCS. Weather was crap on sunday so went to the pub instead.

HaydensMom wrote: »

Festival on the whole was mighty, had the best laugh Saturday jumping around in the muck to OCS, after about 20 cans of Kopperbergs. However, speaking for all the ladies who spent the weekend camping on a slope in a wet GAA pitch, I have to point out that the toilet facilities were DISGUSTING by Saturday morning and got progressively worse as the weekend went on. Please sort this out for next year! They really were grim. Plus there was nowhere to put rubbish and it was absolutely everywhere. Oh yeah, to the boys who climbed up and wrote "cuntypiss" on the match scoreboard at about 5am Sat night, that was inspired!

I totally understand that, and our sincerest apologies. The main problem with that was on Thursday at 3PM we didn't have a campsite in place as the original site fell through. We had a meeting with Mitchelstown GAA who very kindly allowed us to use their facilities. As it happened so fast, we barely had time to get portaloos out there and barrier up the whole place. If we'd had some extra time to sort that out we'd have had it just as organised as we hope everything else was.

As it's our first year taking it on the road so to speak we were bound to make a few mistakes. Lessons have more than been learned and we already have big ideas for next year. We're down a few bob, but nothing we can't rectify but that money was ploughed in in the last week to try and get the site ready. If you think it was mucky before you guys got there, believe me we were every bit as dirty as any participant before the event itself. We have one or two more days left on site and hopefully we can finish up & start planning for next year.

So again, apolgies for that. Next year should see this side of things improve greatly and hopefully also see at least shuttle buses from the site to the venue as well.

maybe make a 2010 thread:)

look forward to it, was a great weekend last year!

I've heard off a friend who lives there and supposedly knows the guy organising it that White Lies will be there. Will see tomo if thats true