Electric Picnic 2012

Dubhthamlacht

Jimi Lee's Juke Joint stage line up at EP

Crow Black Chicken
Radioactive Grandma
The Bambir
Bamboo Party
Rufus Coates ad The Blackened Trees
Red Sail
Twin Headed Wolf
Factions
Kerouac
Darragh Cullen
Black Gold Gamble
Slidin PK
Ben Sheridan
Colour/Sound
Garrett Baker and the Random Nouns
Rez 13
Sounds of System Breakdown
Rubix
The Forbidden Itch
Scribble Sound System
Sigma4ce
Myles Manley and The Little People
Klara McDonnell
Russell Hogg
Lights Over Phoenix
The Velvetones
Darragh and Jay
Conor Linnie
Wilbury

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=176932855765326&set=a.176932839098661.18521.145168938941718&type=1&theater

No sign of day by day breakdown or stage times for this stage as yet.

electrobanana

http://www.halfords.ie/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_11101_catalogId_15551_productId_836867_langId_-1_categoryId_236917
Halfords have some great offers atm the one in the link is a 2 man but can get 3 or 4 man aswell.

maximoose

Mr.S wrote: »

Any good deals around for tents? Would love a 2 /3 man pop up tent

I'd stay away from pop up tents, the majority of them seem to be single skinned and it appears we are in for a wet one. I got one last year and would have been swimming in it if I hadn't brought a sheet of taurpalin to be safe!

maximoose

Quechua, that's what I used! It managed ok for quite a while, but any kind of sustained rain it gets saturated and leaks. Accuweather is saying a lot of rain

Captain Graphite

ED E wrote: »

Looking for a small bandoleer for EP to stash valuables, anyone got any suggestions?

You could rent a locker for the weekend, if you don't wanna have your valuables on you all the time? They don't have the details up on the site yet though.

littleredspot

Mr.S wrote: »

Any good deals around for tents? Would love a 2 /3 man pop up tent

It took me years to discover this, but buy a tent that's much bigger than you need. Eg if you're on your own get at least a 3 man, if you are a couple go for 4 or 5 man.
It's only a bit more weight and even if it rains you'll have plenty of room for your wet gear/changing and you won't be paranoid about lying up against the sides (letting in water)

Captain Graphite

What time do most people arrive at the campsite? For the past two years I got there early-ish in the morning but I'm probably not gonna be there 'til around midday this time. That's still not too late, right? Like I'm not gonna end up camping way at the back or anything now, yeah?

Stupid Irish Rail not having any Mallow-Portlaoise trains between 5.05 and 9.30 :mad:

Toast

Don't get a tent with a HH or Hyrdostatic Head rating of less than 1500mm. See that Halfords tent... 1000mm. Wouldn't risk it personally. Also anything which doesn't list the HH can be best avoided too.

Should be quickly obvious you aren't getting a waterproof tent for less than 30 euro. That's not a hard fast figure but I'd have serious questions as to why something was cheaper than that and I wouldn't be surprised to find the answer being: "because it leaks!"

After that make sure you don't overload the tent so there are things touching the sides (as mentioned above). Setup your tent right so it is taut and water isn't pooling on it. Also if it is a new tent do give it a check... seen people get burned by broken/missing pieces more often than you'd think with new tents.

Captain Graphite wrote: »

What time do most people arrive at the campsite?

Midday you'll be fine. Dunno the exact figures but I think it goes in 3 waves. The hardcore first thing in the morning crew from 9 to 11. A second wave of people who were just too lazy to get moving from 12 to 3 and the final big wave from 5 onwards of the workers who forgot to book the Friday off work.

ED E

run_Forrest_run wrote: »

don't bring valuables

failing that maybe check out some army surplus store ( I had to google what you were looking for, seems like you're off to 'Nam).

Talking phone(camera)/wallet/shades/anything the gf needs hoofed about. I'm an airsofter myself, but I'm looking for something more minimal than an ammo sling.

Toast wrote: »

I'm guessing he just didn't want to say manbag.

I've plenty of satchels if thats what I was after

maximoose wrote: »

I'd stay away from pop up tents, the majority of them seem to be single skinned and it appears we are in for a wet one. I got one last year and would have been swimming in it if I hadn't brought a sheet of taurpalin to be safe!

Mr.S wrote: »

I've stayed in the Quicha (spelling?) tents before in the wind/rain and they where just as good as a normal tent.

Its Quecha IIRC, and I have one(long live Decathalon). They're fine, used one in the middle of winter in storm weather in north county dublin, was perfectly fine. Also used at oxegen twice, no problems. Just dont get the cheap knockoff ones. They also rock as when drunk falls on your camp they just pop up rather than snap.

Captain Graphite wrote: »

You could rent a locker for the weekend, if you don't wanna have your valuables on you all the time? They don't have the details up on the site yet though.

As above, its stuff I need to carry

tack365

Anyone know what facilities are at the campervan place. I suppose electric hook up is out of the question!!!!

Mountainlad

tack365 wrote: »

Anyone know what facilities are at the campervan place. I suppose electric hook up is out of the question!!!!

Kind of ironic if it's not there.

ghostdancer

almost certain there's no electric hookups. never brought a campervan myself, but went over to a friend's one 2 years ago and from what i could tell it was just a field with campervans in it and a few toilets.

ED E

Oxegen had no powerpoints anyways.

Toast

EP had them in the past and I think they were in the region of a 100 euro extra. Not sure if they still do them.

edit: FAQ says there is none.

run_Forrest_run

maximoose wrote: »

Accuweather is saying a lot of rain

given our summer I think we should all expect a fair amount of rain. Even worse it could be warm so sweatin under a poncho

Tree Scape

run_Forrest_run wrote: »

given our summer I think we should all expect a fair amount of rain. Even worse it could be warm so sweatin under a poncho

More showers from what I can see

http://www.accuweather.com/en/ie/stradbally/210204/daily-weather-forecast/210204?day=11

Toast

Until about 5 days out any weather forecast is based on seasonal trends so it isn't hopeless yet but I reckon the mix of sun / rain it is saying is probably likely.

ghostdancer

the day breakdown (and seemingly running order, first down to last) for the Casa Bacardi is up on the EP site now too:

http://electricpicnic.ie/casabacard
Friday 31st August
Stevie G
Steve Manning
Crazy P (Dj)
Francois K

Saturday 01st September
Big Dish Go
The Drifter
Tu-Ki
The Revenge
Darshan Jesrani (Metro Area)
Prins Thomas
A-Skillz

Sunday 2nd September
Mother
John Mahon
Discotekken DJ’s
Optimo
The 2 Bears
Todd Terje

gracielooks

run_Forrest_run wrote: »

given our summer I think we should all expect a fair amount of rain. Even worse it could be warm so sweatin under a poncho

Ugh can't stand being all sweaty in a raincoat like that

bodhrandude

At least its warmer than last year, was freezing on Sunday night last year wandering about Body & Soul.

grudgehugger

Anyone got any tips for any acts playing the Picnic that have a particularly good stage show / visuals?

Have seen some YouTube vids of Orbital... looks like lots of fancy lights etc. but somewhat generic... I imagine I'll be very impressed by it all around 2am Saturday week though.

DJ Shadow's cue ball (or whatever) was class last year - anyone know of anything similarly innovative we should expect this year?

Toast

Sigur Ros had one of the best shows I'd seen for the Takk tour. Last one wasn't a patch on it but considering the latest album has reverted to their older style I think we can expect something similar to the older shows again.

ghostdancer

Squarepusher had pretty good visuals when i saw him

bodhrandude

Will Squarepusher be playing the Electric Arena, I reckon the Little Big Tent would be too small for his type of visual show, Id say he could fairly pack out the Electric Arena quite easy. It would be nice if Richie Hawtin was doing the Plastikman show too, the last time he performed it was March this year at the Glasgow Barrowlands venue.

ghostdancer

well he was announced seperate to the Little Big Tent announcement, so i'd imagine he won't be on there.

i know Le Galaxie are on at 2am on Sat night in the LBT, with FourTet/Caribou on before them (presumably about midnight), and HudMo, Rustie and Junior Boys are all on that night too, so i doubt Squarepusher will be on there...

ghostdancer

Woods stage lineup, looks like no psy-trance this year anyway, and seems as though it will be more than just a stage and some speakers in a clearing

Friday: 10 2 1

16.00-21.00 James Kirwan
21.00-22.00 Cian Little Byrne
22.00-23.00 Nathen Jones
23.00-00.00 Lorcan Mak
00.00-01.00 Monto
01.00-02.00 Clu
02.00-03.00 Frank Sweeney
03.00-.04.00 Steven Neligan


Saturday: T3

16.00-17.00 John Rainey
17.00-18.00 Jika Jika DJs
18.00-19.00 Republik DJs
19.00-20.00 Bunga Bunga DJs
20.00-21.00 Alex Zander
21.00-22.00 Simon Helsin
22.00-23.00 Phil Galvin Jnr
23.00-00.00 Doug Cooney
00.00-02.00 Paul Woolford Vs Psycatron
02.00-04.00 Loco & Jam


Sunday: Bodytonic

16.00-17.00 - Conor L & Ro Flynn
17.00-18.00 - Frankie G & Bingo
18.00-19.00 - Tonie Walsh & Aoife Ni Canna
19.00-20.00 - Tom Beary & Kormac
20.00-21.00 - Chewy
21.00-22.00 - Steve Flynn & Simon Resoul
22.00-23.00 - Tr-One
23.00-00.00 - Mike Black & Steve Egri
00.00-02.00 - Bodytonic Sound System
02.00-03.00 - Barry Redsetta
03.00-04.00 - Nic James

Mountainlad

What's the story with the shuttle buses from Portlaoise? Does anyone know how much they were and where in Porlaoise they went from last year (like how far is it from the bus/railway station?)

And can anyone give a list of campsites and their proximity to the entrance and main areas? Maybe even a review of campsites you've stayed in? Appreciate any answers.

red face dave

ghostdancer wrote: »

well he was announced seperate to the Little Big Tent announcement, so i'd imagine he won't be on there.

i know are on at 2am on Sat night in the LBT, with FourTet/Caribou on before them (presumably about midnight), and HudMo, Rustie and Junior Boys are all on that night too, so i doubt Squarepusher will be on there...

Is 2am start for Le Galaxie not very late for the LBT. I taught it always finished at 2.

ghostdancer

red face dave wrote: »

Is 2am start for Le Galaxie not very late for the LBT. I taught it always finished at 2.

went on until 4 last year:
http://www.electricpicnic.ie/downloads/timetable.pdf

red face dave

Cheers. didn't even notice that last year. That just shows you what the picnic can do to you.