Sea Sessions 2013

Bowlardo

the_doctor199 wrote: »

Not sure if your work will block it but try this:

thanks but can't see it ah it's nearly home time

Bowlardo

anyone what the weather is meant to be like there for the weekend?

danniemcq

Bowlardo wrote: »

anyone what the weather is meant to be like there for the weekend?

cloudy with showers is the word with temps of just under 20. With wind though it may feel colder.

http://www.accuweather.com/en/ie/bundoran/793/weekend-weather/793

although its Donegal so that can change very quickly.

danniemcq

Anyone know the story with cans?

Guessing like all other gigs no cans in arena till after bar closes but what about just in general on beach or in and around town?

Bowlardo

danniemcq wrote: »

Anyone know the story with cans?

Guessing like all other gigs no cans in arena till after bar closes but what about just in general on beach or in and around town?

I'd imagine it will be fairly relaxed in fairness. I am going to presuem you can drink on the beach until instructed otherwise by people in authority:)

Yeah I'm hoping there'll be plenty of bins on the beach!

UsedToWait

Anyone like to report back on this?

Heard the wind closed a couple of tents for a time?

Furious-Red

UsedToWait wrote: »

Anyone like to report back on this?

Heard the wind closed a couple of tents for a time?

Yea heard that aswell . The Minutes had to cancel their headline slot on the Vodafone Stage on the Sat night due to the wind

Morpheus

Before I begin, I really enjoyed sat and sun...

However, On Friday It was full of young drinkers who were completely ****ed up and plainly couldn't handle themselves, yes there were drunken older fans as bad there too but the sheer amount of under agers and young adults puking or falling over and being annoying at best was insane. People we snapping in the crowd and some fights broke out.

The atmosphere was tense at times compared to other yrs... Bastille eventually ruined by crowd surfing fighting and moshing in front of the main stage. 2 dumbass scroats called to our accom on Fri nite after 4am asking if we had any yokes then tried to force their way in. Ill go again next yr but hope it is better policed.

I'm not some old fart. I was pretty drunk too but there's drunk and theres stomach pumpingly retardedly wasted. I wouldnt be surprised if a lot of folks don't remember Fri night at all.

Bottom line is its no longer as chilled as before and I pray it goes back to that next yr. Thank god out was a music AND surf festival

Undercover

Definitely a younger crowd profile on the Friday night which seemed to even out over the weekend. Loved the beats and the location, weather could have been better, that breeze made it seem a lot colder than it was. Wasn't impressed on the Sunday when I went in at 4.30 on my own to see Norman Jay and the tent was closed. Hung around for an hour and half with no one able to tell me anything so I decide to head back to the tent. Of course, once there I see a photo of him up on twitter playing in the beer tent. Communications should have been better, could have used twitter to let us know when things were being moved about.

That said, I had a top weekend...

Space Shanty

Would agree the crowd seemed noticeably younger on Friday night. A lot of them were hammered by the time we landed down around 7pm, so it was no wonder some clown was throwing things at Beardyman just before the end of his set.
I thought that might set the tone for a frustrating weekend of young people acting the dick but after that it was all good. Loved the craic in the Desperados Dome and heard some genuinely outstanding sets in there - Greg Wilson, Dead Prezidents, Aeroplane, Mr Scruff etc.
Surprised how much I enjoyed Fat Freddy's Drop, who were fantastic, and Xavier Rudd, who just seemed so right at that time on Sunday evening. To be honest, all the music I heard was really good... nobody seemed to just go through the motions.
We weren't camping so I imagine things were a lot tougher for those needing to get through the storms, especially on Sunday morning when it was awful. But it didn't seem to dampen the spirits from what I could see.
All in all, a hugely enjoyable weekend and I hope it's back next year.

Joekers

Best festival ive ever been to, weather wasnt great but the atmosphere and friendliness was just electric all weekend. Campsite was well run with lots of security on site and no trouble at all that we seen, the main arena was excellent but was also disappointed not to see the minutes or nobody really known why they wernt playing (only found out after coming home was due to high winds) but other that that all the acts we seen were fantastic and really put on a good show.

Highlights of the weekend were The Strypes Dj Yoda and Le Galaxie closing on the Sunday were excellent.

After the music finished each night we hit the main st and all the pubs were just buzzing till closing.

Cant wait for Sea Sessions 2014

danniemcq

Been at a few other festivals and this has so much promise but just didn't quite make it imo.

heard nasty reports about campsite on Friday night and some people left Saturday morning due to it. Security was apparently useless in that situation. I didn't see any of it myself as i wasn't camping but heard it on good authority.

Security on way into the arena was wayyyyy to tight. I have never been so thoroughly searched before and that included the gig the day after the stabbings last year, and what really pissed me off is the weapons search guys getting so happy and passing cans to each other when they were found. If you are taking cans off people throw them out don't act like dicks in front of people and if you aren't allowed cans please ensure you can actually get drink inside. EP does this perfect, when bars are closed take in cans. here they didn't even serve Kopperberg till after 6 in the afternoon.

Weather - not much you can do

Bands - Very good selection for the price and had a great time

redstarmark

Nice little highlight video for those who went or want to see what it was like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhafJ4KoOGQ&feature=youtu.be

captainkeg

Thought it was pretty bad form how uncommunicative they were about closing down tents, I really wanted to see the minutes. They could have posted something up on Twitter or facebook, they were doing enough pimping on it all weekend. I havent seen an apology anywhere, that was not exceptional weather for a seaside town in Ireland in June. A few people posted politely looking for info on their facebook page and they were ignored
Aside from that, enjoyed some of the music, but not the general ambience around the town, festival site. Im prob too old for it anyway (30). Too much drunken messiness

guest124

danniemcq wrote: »

Been at a few other festivals and this has so much promise but just didn't quite make it imo.

heard nasty reports about campsite on Friday night and some people left Saturday morning due to it. Security was apparently useless in that situation. I didn't see any of it myself as i wasn't camping but heard it on good authority.

Security on way into the arena was wayyyyy to tight. I have never been so thoroughly searched before

I seen nothing bad at campsite on the Friday night but I was at top half of it, maybe it was down the back.

Completely agree about the security! The frisking was way too thorough! She pretty much got to 2nd base.

jossys_giants

Not long to go now to the old Sea Sessions :-)

Will be in for the Friday / Saturday (the old bones couldnt take the 3 days).

Band wise, on Friday, I'm really looking forward to The Vincents and The Dandy Warhols. Sat, Funeral Suits, FF and the Minutes. Anyone recommend any bands worth checking out on the Fri / Sat.

Hopefully the weather is a bit better this year, as a few early beers on the beach would be nice. Anyways, might see ye's in Brennan's for a stout or 2

Keep 'er lit and pray to the sun gods

RebelButtMunch

Can I have a lend of your time machine?

bodhrandude

Thought this was the 2014 thread, looked at the timetable and seen Mr Scruff was playing, was thinking to myself he played last year didn't he, then I saw it was the bloody timetable for 2013, feck it, I thought he was playing again.:(