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everlast75

stephen.87 wrote: »

Yay to less rain :-)

Never takes away from the fact that I'm the worst packet ever. Can anyone recommend essentials to bring? Will be my fourth year but I'm still the worst at knowing what to take :-/

Plus phone etc

BaZmO*

everlast75 wrote: »

Plus phone etc

Eye cover? You going as a pirate?

dixiechick88

On the drink front I spotted 12 cans for €9.99 in Aldi over the weekend! Its a beer called Galahad Premium, there's also another beer Sainte Etienne Premium Lager 12 cans for €12.69, 8 cans of bud €12, 8 cans of carslberg €12 & 8 cans of heineken €13!

Has anyone tried and tested the first 2 beers mentioned above? Great value, but I don't want to be drinking piss either

Queen-Mise

dixiechick88 wrote: »

I dont think iv ever been to picnic in the rain..iv been very lucky! Seriously hoping and praying for the weather to behave, wouldn't mind a couple of showers..no work being done this week anyway folks, the countdown is officially ON

Ah there is nothing like being in one of the big tents when it's packed and watching steam coming of people

dixiechick88

Queen-Mise wrote: »

Ah there is nothing like being in one of the big tents when it's packed and watching steam coming of people

Either way im gonna go and have the time of my life as i usually do

iamanengine

dixiechick88 wrote: »

On the drink front I spotted 12 cans for €9.99 in Aldi over the weekend! Its a beer called Galahad Premium, there's also another beer Sainte Etienne Premium Lager 12 cans for €12.69, 8 cans of bud €12, 8 cans of carslberg €12 & 8 cans of heineken €13!

Has anyone tried and tested the first 2 beers mentioned above? Great value, but I don't want to be drinking piss either

Galahad is absolutely rotten. Sainte Etienne is drinkable imo but I've never had more then a few of them at one time.

everlast75

BaZmO* wrote: »

Eye cover? You going as a pirate?

Aye captain - I go purely to loot and pillage all the land lubbers for their pieces of eight!




(Eye cover to block out the light - tying to get kip when it's bright out is a b*tch)

Dubhthamlacht

I think the weather before 2011's EP was worse than this years. In the 4 days before 2011's EP, there was torrential rain each day and somehow it managed to avoid stradbally on the Friday and it was largely a very dry pleasant weekend.

If you look at Met Eireann's 5 day forceast, it shows the southern corner of Laois avoiding the majority of the deluge. I guess we won't know for sure until Thursday's forecast.

Lester Freamon

Dubhthamlacht wrote: »

I think the weather before 2011's EP was worse than this years. In the 4 days before 2011's EP, there was torrential rain each day and somehow it managed to avoid stradbally on the Friday and it was largely a very dry pleasant weekend.

If you look at Met Eireann's 5 day forceast, it shows the southern corner of Laois avoiding the majority of the deluge. I guess we won't know for sure until Thursday's forecast.

Yes this seems very like 2011. The run up to 2009 also had huge amounts of rain for a number of weeks leading up to it and I remember the ground being very soft/muddy in places (even early on the Friday). I think I survived fine in hiking boots in 2009 though.

As festivals go, I don't think EP is the worst in terms of turning very muddy quickly. The wellies will always be in the boot of the car but I'm hoping the hiking boots will do again this year if there is some heavy rain.

robk84

The map is out via the Ticket on Irishtimes.com
I dont have enough posts to share

ghostdancer

yeah, the soil/drainage in Stradbally seems good, can never remember it being as bad as Oxegen often was.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

robk84 wrote: »

The map is out via the Ticket on Irishtimes.com
I dont have enough posts to share

Here's a link to the pdf from there

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1279512/electric-picnic-2014-sitemap.pdf

ghostdancer

and an image:

beansybeansy

My other half works high up in one of the sponsors. He managed to get this list of the day breakdown. Apparently they saw it for "brand" approval.



Beck - Fri (tentatively)
Foals - Fri
Pet Shop Boys - Fri
Omar Souleyman - Fri
Young Fathers - Fri
Blondie - Fri
Twin Shadow - Fri
Bicep - Fri
Tune-Yards - Fri
Girl Band - Fri
Wild Beasts - Fri or Sat
Mogwai - Fri or Sun
The Strypes - Fri or Sun

Portishead - Sat
Metronomy - Sat
Sohn - Sat
Paolo Nutini - Sat
John Wizards - Sat
Annie Mac - Sat
Clean Bandit - Sat
Bombay Bicycle Club - Sat
Kaytranada - Sat
SBTRKT - Sat
St Vincent - Sat
Hozier - Sat
The Stranglers - Sat
White Denim - Sat
Meltybrains? - Sat
Moodoid - Sat
Simple Minds - Sat or Sun
The 1975 - Sat or Sun

Outkast - Sun (tentatively)
Sinead O'Connor - Sun
Lily Allen - Sun
Laura Mvula - Sun
Temples - Sun
Drenge - Sun
Duke Dumont - Sun
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sun
Wolf Alice - Sun
Glass Animals - Sun
Nightbox - Sun
Kelis - Sun
The Horrors - Sun
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Sun
Nick Mulvey - Sun
Asgeir - Sun
Jungle - Sun
Neneh Cherry - Sun
Hercules and Love Affair - Sun
The Wailers - Sun
Perfume Genius - Sun
Francois & The Atlas Mountains - Sun
Glass Animals - Sun

larrymiller

What's Charlie Chaplin campsite?

ghostdancer

from that Irish Times link:

Tomorrow, we’ll bring you the first glimpse at the Main Stage lineup and the set times, and we’ll be releasing the remaining stage times and lineups as the week goes on, before any other media.

ghostdancer

beansybeansy wrote: »

My other half works high up in one of the sponsors. He managed to get this list of the day breakdown. Apparently they saw it for "brand" approval.

this is just the list that was on here rounded up from band's websites. a number of them are definitely wrong.
Twin Shadow has said on fb that he's on Saturday. the Irish Times said that Beck is on Sunday.

beansybeansy

ghostdancer wrote: »

and an image:

Thank god, looks like the funfair was moved out of the campsite back where its used to be

johnpatrick81

Going by the IT preview Beck was listed as Sunday.

PadraigOK

beansybeansy wrote: »

My other half works high up in one of the sponsors. He managed to get this list of the day breakdown. Apparently they saw it for "brand" approval.



Beck - Fri (tentatively)
Foals - Fri
Pet Shop Boys - Fri
Omar Souleyman - Fri
Young Fathers - Fri
Blondie - Fri
Twin Shadow - Fri
Bicep - Fri
Tune-Yards - Fri
Girl Band - Fri
Wild Beasts - Fri or Sat
Mogwai - Fri or Sun
The Strypes - Fri or Sun

Portishead - Sat
Metronomy - Sat
Sohn - Sat
Paolo Nutini - Sat
John Wizards - Sat
Annie Mac - Sat
Clean Bandit - Sat
Bombay Bicycle Club - Sat
Kaytranada - Sat
SBTRKT - Sat
St Vincent - Sat
Hozier - Sat
The Stranglers - Sat
White Denim - Sat
Meltybrains? - Sat
Moodoid - Sat
Simple Minds - Sat or Sun
The 1975 - Sat or Sun

Outkast - Sun (tentatively)
Sinead O'Connor - Sun
Lily Allen - Sun
Laura Mvula - Sun
Temples - Sun
Drenge - Sun
Duke Dumont - Sun
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sun
Wolf Alice - Sun
Glass Animals - Sun
Nightbox - Sun
Kelis - Sun
The Horrors - Sun
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Sun
Nick Mulvey - Sun
Asgeir - Sun
Jungle - Sun
Neneh Cherry - Sun
Hercules and Love Affair - Sun
The Wailers - Sun
Perfume Genius - Sun
Francois & The Atlas Mountains - Sun
Glass Animals - Sun

That's the breakdown I put together!!!

iamanengine

Beck on before Outkast maybe? Would have preferred him on the Friday but oh well.

Can anyone tell from the map is the area where you can exchange your cans for cold ones still there?

beansybeansy

ghostdancer wrote: »

this is just the list that was on here rounded up from band's websites. a number of them are definitely wrong.
Twin Shadow has said on fb that he's on Saturday. the Irish Times said that Beck is on Sunday.

He just forwarded me the mail from someone in marketing. It was on a mock up of the lanyards. Perhaps thats all it was, a mock up just to get sponsor approval for logos etc? They were shown it today at a meeting

Lester Freamon

larrymiller wrote: »

What's Charlie Chaplin campsite?

Pretty sure they had that camp-site at past festivals. May have been the so-called 'quiet camping' area.

beansybeansy

PadraigOK wrote: »

That's the breakdown I put together!!!

:mad:

That's gas! Must have robbed it for the mockups! EP organisers must be paranoid about leaks

johnpatrick81

Seems a bit odd to me having Outkast and Beck both on Sunday as both were marketed as headliners. If it is the case I would hope Beck gets top billing and is on when it's darker as he seems to put on more of a show.

nanoro

Anyone know what 'Beer Frontier' is on the map? A bar for craft beers perhaps?

PadraigOK

And as pointed out, Beck is supposedly set to play the Sunday. Mogwai have confirmed that they are Sunday too. St Vincent surprisingly has Sat down on her FB page yet she's due to play the EA on Sunday.

dixiechick88

Appears to be a red bull bar in the main arena? Serving vodka perhaps?

iamanengine

Any idea what Every Can Counts is?

maximoose

nanoro wrote: »

Anyone know what 'Beer Frontier' is on the map? A bar for craft beers perhaps?

It looks like the bar to the side of the B&S main stage - which last year sold Tiger, Paulaner, and something else I can't remember that the main bars didn't sell.

Maybe putting a bit more into it this year.