Forbidden Fruit 2016

flasher0030

lc180 wrote: »

There's one bastard that works all the events in Kilmainham and he gives a serious pat down. I got stopped with a hip flask right down the front of my jocks one year and i had to bin it. He had no hesitation to touch me in my special place lol.

If your gonna sneak in booze, zip lock bags are the way to go.

Why did you not just pour the drink out, and bring the empty hip flask with you.

RebelButtMunch

team_actimel wrote: »

Any chance of smuggling in a sneaky hip flask or would they pat everywhere?

Two bottles of water
BottleA: Open and pour away
BottleB: cut in half, mind your fingers. Place the half with the unopened top into jug of hot water. Wait 10mins and CAREFULLY twist the cap off while prying the little snap off thing attached to the cap upwards with the tip of a knife. Keep going slowly around the edge with a knife until the cap comes off. mind your fingers.
BottleA:Fill with gin and tonic and put on the cap from BottleB.
Drink BottleA (mind your fingers )

Reillyman

RebelButtMunch wrote: »

team_actimel wrote: »

Any chance of smuggling in a sneaky hip flask or would they pat everywhere?

Two bottles of water
BottleA: Open and pour away
BottleB: cut in half, mind your fingers. Place the half with the unopened top into jug of hot water. Wait 10mins and CAREFULLY twist the cap off while prying the little snap off thing attached to the cap upwards with the tip of a knife. Keep going slowly around the edge with a knife until the cap comes off. mind your fingers.
BottleA:Fill with gin and tonic and put on the cap from BottleB.
Drink BottleA (mind your fingers )

Why do you need to cut bottle B in half?

s8n

RebelButtMunch wrote: »

Two bottles of water
BottleA: Open and pour away
BottleB: cut in half, mind your fingers. Place the half with the unopened top into jug of hot water. Wait 10mins and CAREFULLY twist the cap off while prying the little snap off thing attached to the cap upwards with the tip of a knife. Keep going slowly around the edge with a knife until the cap comes off. mind your fingers.
BottleA:Fill with gin and tonic and put on the cap from BottleB.
Drink BottleA (mind your fingers )

I'm confused !! Are you drinking now ???

team_actimel

RebelButtMunch wrote: »

Two bottles of water
BottleA: Open and pour away
BottleB: cut in half, mind your fingers. Place the half with the unopened top into jug of hot water. Wait 10mins and CAREFULLY twist the cap off while prying the little snap off thing attached to the cap upwards with the tip of a knife. Keep going slowly around the edge with a knife until the cap comes off. mind your fingers.
BottleA:Fill with gin and tonic and put on the cap from BottleB.
Drink BottleA (mind your fingers )

Great thinking! Actually had to read your post 3 times to understand it fully! Would security actually let someone in with a bottle of "water", I wonder?

bigpink

Say they will make you bin it

liamtimdusty

RebelButtMunch

Reillyman wrote: »

Why do you need to cut bottle B in half?

While it's still full and unopened, take a knife and cut it straight across the middle (over the sink). Then take the half that still has the lid attached and heat it up in a bowl of hot water. Otherwise you'd never be able to warm the cap enough to get the lid off, 'uncracked'.

RebelButtMunch

team_actimel wrote: »

Great thinking! Actually had to read your post 3 times to understand it fully! Would security actually let someone in with a bottle of "water", I wonder?

I got into sea-sessions with it. He had a look and made sure the seal was intact.Which it was. I nearly slipped up though, the label said still water, but there was fizzy tonic water in it!

kevovek

They didn't do thorough searches or pat downs today at all seemed fairly relaxed they definitely don't ask for ID either half or maybe more than half the people in there today have to have been under 18.

cruhoortwunk

kevovek wrote: »

They didn't do thorough searches or pat downs today at all seemed fairly relaxed they definitely don't ask for ID either half or maybe more than half the people in there today have to have been under 18.

Hopefully the leaving certers aren't there tomorrow. I hope they don't have weekend tickets

Furious-Red

cruhoortwunk wrote: »

Hopefully the leaving certers aren't there tomorrow. I hope they don't have weekend tickets

Cant see them going for Tame Impala anyways so you should be grand. Raging im working all over the weekend but would have def went to see Tame Impala again after their set at EP

nmg_ire

They've changed the layout around a bit this year for the better. Good atmosphere last night and actually seen a good bunch of ones not let in because they were to young.

Clonmel is a great beer for a festival.

seanbmc

Kerri Chandler was very good . They were very strict wirh the curfew, wouldn't let him even play one extra track, after him pleading.

Very young crowd overall, probably leaving certs. Far too many of them far too off their heads, one girl being carted off by paramedics at about 7.

Great to see the weather holding up for it. Would have loved to be heading to Tame Impala.

nehe milner skudder

just home.

about to go on a rant. forgive me.

****ing knackers the lot of them. jersey shore, conor macgregor wannabees everywhere. tame impala was background music to vacuous selfies, void empty vessels of humanity draped in fake tan, michael kors and cheap cider.

maybe I'm getting old (31) maybe I'm posh (never thought i was) but i want nothing to do with this set any more. carpet bomb the place and start again.


i paid 120 quid for a weekend ticket just to see tame impala and they are wasted on that crowd . a ****ing disgrace.



ps : queue for toilets was ridiculous
queue for pints was worse
finished too early.
main stage was blocked out of view by sound tent.
layout was awful.




I'm out of touch, I'm old , I'm jaded and cynical but I've ****ing had it with this country ,its mediocre organisation ,event junkie fans and rip off culture.



stop the world . nehe wants to get off

Easy Rod

nehe milner skudder wrote: »

just home.

about to go on a rant. forgive me.

****ing knackers the lot of them. jersey shore, conor macgregor wannabees everywhere. tame impala was background music to vacuous selfies, void empty vessels of humanity draped in fake tan, michael kors and cheap cider.

maybe I'm getting old (31) maybe I'm posh (never thought i was) but i want nothing to do with this set any more. carpet bomb the place and start again.


i paid 120 quid for a weekend ticket just to see tame impala and they are wasted on that crowd . a ****ing disgrace.



ps : queue for toilets was ridiculous
queue for pints was worse
finished too early.
main stage was blocked out of view by sound tent.
layout was awful.




I'm out of touch, I'm old , I'm jaded and cynical but I've ****ing had it with this country ,its mediocre organisation ,event junkie fans and rip off culture.



stop the world . nehe wants to get off

It wasn't that bad but I feel your pain mate.

nehe milner skudder

Easy Rod wrote: »

It wasn't that bad but I feel your pain mate.

ive had it chief. I'm done . abroad from now on. maybe I'm sick of irishness or the ole ole'ers or whatever .but this society disgusts me.


i can genuinely say without equivocation that there are more arseholes then sound people in this country as we speak.

Mrs Shuttleworth

nehe milner skudder wrote: »

just home.

about to go on a rant. forgive me.

****ing knackers the lot of them. jersey shore, conor macgregor wannabees everywhere. tame impala was background music to vacuous selfies, void empty vessels of humanity draped in fake tan, michael kors and cheap cider.

maybe I'm getting old (31) maybe I'm posh (never thought i was) but i want nothing to do with this set any more. carpet bomb the place and start again.


i paid 120 quid for a weekend ticket just to see tame impala and they are wasted on that crowd . a ****ing disgrace.



ps : queue for toilets was ridiculous
queue for pints was worse
finished too early.
main stage was blocked out of view by sound tent.
layout was awful.




I'm out of touch, I'm old , I'm jaded and cynical but I've ****ing had it with this country ,its mediocre organisation ,event junkie fans and rip off culture.



stop the world . nehe wants to get off

I was trying to post down at the site but no coverage so only doing so now.

I'm 43 well more over the age than you but there were plenty of oldies around so here goes.

Forbidden Fail this year I'm afraid. Was great last year.

Far too many people in a relatively confined space. Massive queues for food/drink/toilet. Took me a full hour to get a Thai curry and double vino.

The pro was crowd relatively sedate given sardine style packing, hot weather and long day of alcohol. A lot of youngsters approached me to chat telling me they hated the vibe of the event.

Had a great vantage point for Jungle/Tame Impala.

Both indie pop darlings/doyennes, they are sound musically but frontmen in both cases are cultural Marxist drones. I don't blame anyone for taking selfies/wandering/chatting as Kevin Parker does not have the charisma or stage presence to command a large crowd.

Going to Parklife next weekend Manchester and Morris Day & The Time in London week after both of which should be joyous.

Pudsy33

How they haven't sorted out the drink situation in 4 years is beyond me. Loved Tame Impala though

ghostdancer

POD in shambles-of-organisation shocker...

Trimm Trabb

nehe milner skudder wrote: »

just home.

about to go on a rant. forgive me.

****ing knackers the lot of them. jersey shore, conor macgregor wannabees everywhere. tame impala was background music to vacuous selfies, void empty vessels of humanity draped in fake tan, michael kors and cheap cider.

maybe I'm getting old (31) maybe I'm posh (never thought i was) but i want nothing to do with this set any more. carpet bomb the place and start again.


i paid 120 quid for a weekend ticket just to see tame impala and they are wasted on that crowd . a ****ing disgrace.



ps : queue for toilets was ridiculous
queue for pints was worse
finished too early.
main stage was blocked out of view by sound tent.
layout was awful.




I'm out of touch, I'm old , I'm jaded and cynical but I've ****ing had it with this country ,its mediocre organisation ,event junkie fans and rip off culture.



stop the world . nehe wants to get off

Modern life is rubbish.

Having said that if you are finished with your wristband..

Conor Bourke

Trimm Trabb wrote: »

Modern life is rubbish.

Apt username

Johnny Jukebox

nehe milner skudder wrote: »

ive had it chief. I'm done . abroad from now on. maybe I'm sick of irishness or the ole ole'ers or whatever .but this society disgusts me.


i can genuinely say without equivocation that there are more arseholes then sound people in this country as we speak.

Feel your pain too. Thankfully the only people who would get me to a festival are now dead.

Easy Rod

I'd imagine today will be worse. G'luck folks!

Easy Rod

The person working in the marketing department of Elesse who has managed to convince 'millenials' that the brand is high end fashion and not a ****ty 90's sport brand is a genius.

Texas Jack

what the **** is a millenial?

Birneybau

Texas Jack wrote: »

what the **** is a millenial?

If you're asking, you are one.

Mrs Shuttleworth

Johnny Jukebox wrote: »

Feel your pain too. Thankfully the only people who would get me to a festival are now dead.

The crowd aren't entirely to blame. Any act that makes a genuine effort to engage with the crowd will get a good and attentive response.

Jungle and Tame Impala are not those acts.

I'm at a loss to understand why TI are being given such high billing at so many festivals this summer.

Underworld should put things right tonight.

Mr.Plough

Great weekend.

Caught the end of Bondax on Saturday who were impressive, before Tale of us and Kiasmos who were both fantastic. Followed by the Tale of Us afterparty in the Button Factory which was very enjoyable. Not too packed, decent crowd, good times.

Maya Jane Coles on Sunday was a highlight, followed by Underworld to round it off and they delivered as expected.

Overall a very enjoyable festival. Great weather all weekend and a good buzz about the place in general. Didn't see any trouble.

Only downsides for me were the queues for the Bars on Sunday, especially at the Bulmers Lounge which was a borderline crush hazard, as well the the lads jacks which had turned into a squelching piss pit by Sunday.

I'll now retreat into my cocoon to watch live Underworld performances.

Ferris_Bueller

Went on the Saturday and I really enjoyed it. I was expecting the crowd to be worse to be honest, I went for the weekend last year and thought the crowd was worse than it was this year (on the Saturday at least), it felt like there were two separate festivals going on though, over at the main stage/bulmers lounge side it felt quite calm and a mix of all ages just enjoying themselves without going too mad, but once you went over closer to the Undergrowth/Lighthouse stage side the crowd instantly felt a lot younger and messier, which was more reminiscent of last year. Maybe this was because it was Jungle & Tame Impala on the main stage while all of the DJs were over the other side, not sure how it would have been yesterday with DJs pretty much on every stage.

The queues for the bar were unbearable at times, got to the point where I think everyone was ordering two drinks as they didn't want to have to queue again in another half an hours time. Queues for the girls toilets seemed pretty bad too but this seems to be the case at most music festivals. Music was good but nothing outstanding, went to see Bondax, Jungle, Kiasmos, DJ Deece & Tame Impala and all of them were enjoyable, Bondax arguably the surprise highlight with a serious DJ set. It seems as if last year Forbidden Fruits organisers decided to change the type of acts they book for the festival (or maybe the organisers themselves changed?), when you look at line ups from 2014 and previous it was a great mix of bands and DJs and it felt like it was a city centre festival aimed at a mature enough audience, but last year and this year feel like they have focused almost solely on electronic music and attracting a much younger crowd, which has overall taken away from the festival IMO. It is sad to see in a way as I think it could still be a great festival if they had of kept it like before, but maybe that's nostalgia talking.

Mrs Shuttleworth

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Went on the Saturday and I really enjoyed it. I was expecting the crowd to be worse to be honest, I went for the weekend last year and thought the crowd was worse than it was this year (on the Saturday at least), it felt like there were two separate festivals going on though, over at the main stage/bulmers lounge side it felt quite calm and a mix of all ages just enjoying themselves without going too mad, but once you went over closer to the Undergrowth/Lighthouse stage side the crowd instantly felt a lot younger and messier, which was more reminiscent of last year. Maybe this was because it was Jungle & Tame Impala on the main stage while all of the DJs were over the other side, not sure how it would have been yesterday with DJs pretty much on every stage.

The queues for the bar were unbearable at times, got to the point where I think everyone was ordering two drinks as they didn't want to have to queue again in another half an hours time. Queues for the girls toilets seemed pretty bad too but this seems to be the case at most music festivals. Music was good but nothing outstanding, went to see Bondax, Jungle, Kiasmos, DJ Deece & Tame Impala and all of them were enjoyable, Bondax arguably the surprise highlight with a serious DJ set. It seems as if last year Forbidden Fruits organisers decided to change the type of acts they book for the festival (or maybe the organisers themselves changed?), when you look at line ups from 2014 and previous it was a great mix of bands and DJs and it felt like it was a city centre festival aimed at a mature enough audience, but last year and this year feel like they have focused almost solely on electronic music and attracting a much younger crowd, which has overall taken away from the festival IMO. It is sad to see in a way as I think it could still be a great festival if they had of kept it like before, but maybe that's nostalgia talking.

I'm double the age of most festival goers and it's either electronic/dance that gets me there or a big rock act.

Jamie XX was brilliant at FF last year and I'm sorry I missed Bondax now.

The main stage Saturday was an MOR waste of time.

Disgraceful the lack of food facilities for the amount of people there.

team_actimel

nehe milner skudder wrote: »

just home.

about to go on a rant. forgive me.

****ing knackers the lot of them. jersey shore, conor macgregor wannabees everywhere. tame impala was background music to vacuous selfies, void empty vessels of humanity draped in fake tan, michael kors and cheap cider.

maybe I'm getting old (31) maybe I'm posh (never thought i was) but i want nothing to do with this set any more. carpet bomb the place and start again.


i paid 120 quid for a weekend ticket just to see tame impala and they are wasted on that crowd . a ****ing disgrace.



ps : queue for toilets was ridiculous
queue for pints was worse
finished too early.
main stage was blocked out of view by sound tent.
layout was awful.




I'm out of touch, I'm old , I'm jaded and cynical but I've ****ing had it with this country ,its mediocre organisation ,event junkie fans and rip off culture.



stop the world . nehe wants to get off

That's this selfie narcissistic era, my friend. Definitely understand where you're coming from..most people taking selfies and no interest in Tame Impala, they were wasted on that crowd!

Considering Saturday looked like it had more of an alternative/underground line-up, most of the crowd were fake-tanned, shorts with cheeks out clones of each other. It's like the whole Coachella vibe is taking over every somewhat popular music festival who don't have a huge interest in the musical acts.

I felt quite old there and I'm 28! The queues were such a pain!! Despite my complaints I actually enjoyed the day, the music was brilliant!

cruhoortwunk

Smuggled in so much gin and whiskey that I only had to get 3 pints in there, so the queues didn't affect me as much.
Food stall selection was awful, kanum was the only decent one. There was a few generic chippers with fancy 'gourmet' looking signs, but they were serving up muck, frozen chips and burgers, awful stuff. No falafel, no paella, no decent pulled pork, no nice burgers.
The crowd would put me off going to this festival again.

Mr.Plough

team_actimel wrote: »

That's this selfie narcissistic era, my friend. Definitely understand where you're coming from..most people taking selfies and no interest in Tame Impala, they were wasted on that crowd!

Considering Saturday looked like it had more of an alternative/underground line-up, most of the crowd were fake-tanned, shorts with cheeks out clones of each other. It's like the whole Coachella vibe is taking over every somewhat popular music festival who don't have a huge interest in the musical acts.

I felt quite old there and I'm 28! The queues were such a pain!! Despite my complaints I actually enjoyed the day, the music was brilliant!

Let me know when you find a festival with no good looking women taking selfies, so I can avoid it.

RebelButtMunch

Mr.Plough wrote: »

Let me know when you find a festival with no good looking women taking selfies, so I can avoid it.

Castle pollard sheep shearing festival.

Texas Jack

Worst festival crowd I've ever seen

The youth of today are seriously f*cked

bodhrandude

Just flew into Dublin tonight and whilst going back to Galway on the Gobus passed an area with a large wall and green area, I recognised the Cosby Tent, was that at Forbidden Fruit, the red marquee with the swiggly yellow line.

Ciaran_B

Texas Jack wrote: »

Worst festival crowd I've ever seen

The youth of today are seriously f*cked

As said about literally every generation in history. They're no more fcked than your generation or whoever comes next.

team_actimel

Texas Jack wrote: »

Worst festival crowd I've ever seen

The youth of today are seriously f*cked

What do you mean by worst festival crowd you've seen? I didn't think the crowd were too bad, I didn't witness any fights just people high as kites having a good time - which I'm sure has been similar to the youth of the past few decades!

yourdeadwright

I gotta say taking into account most act's where dj's I thought the crowd was fine,
I didn't see any trouble at all,
Year ago going to creamfeilds and winter party and the likes the crowd was much worse,

vangoz

I honestly thought the crowd were goonna be worse. Didn't see any trouble, people seemed to be enjoying themselves for the most part.

My one big complaint was the sound quality in the UnderGrowth stage, Kiasmos were no where near as good as they should be. Fortunately they were part of the after party, done a fantastic boiler room type set downstairs in the Grand Social which made-up for it.

Mrs Shuttleworth

There was nothing wrong with the crowd at all, except the agitation to be expected from too many people on a long hot day trying to access too few facilities.

maximoose

Only went on Saturday, highlight - Battles. I could watch that drummer and the pedal-wizard guitarist all day.

Crowd didn't seem that bad to me, I'd take it over Longitude anyway.

Mens toilets were a sopping piss fest, would have hated to seen the ground around them on the Sunday.

It might be recency bias, but Tame Impala are probably up there as the most boring, dreary live performance I've witnessed. Left early to beat the crowds.

bodhrandude

Was the Cosby tent there can someone confirm.

team_actimel

maximoose wrote: »

Only went on Saturday, highlight - Battles. I could watch that drummer and the pedal-wizard guitarist all day.

Crowd didn't seem that bad to me, I'd take it over Longitude anyway.

Mens toilets were a sopping piss fest, would have hated to seen the ground around them on the Sunday.

It might be recency bias, but Tame Impala are probably up there as the most boring, dreary live performance I've witnessed. Left early to beat the crowds.

I enjoyed Tame Impala very much, I'm a huge fan of theirs! Although I was struggling to hear, maybe that was just me, but the speakers didn't seem loud enough.

Useful.Idiot

I only went to see Tame Impala and they didn't disappoint. Incredible gig and the crowd were really getting into it from what I saw.

lc180

I've heard zero mention of Dizzie Rascal?

Did anyone bother to go see him? I kinda thought he was a strange choice of headliner.

Maysa07

Sunday = very messy. Most people walking around with jaws like cash registers. even a after a few pints we felt very uncomfortable. we left before Underworld because the company i was with couldn't wait to leave

Annie_Oakes

Shambles of an event. 6 for a drink (after queuing 15-20 minutes) which wasn't even a pint, it was a 400ml cup which wasn't even filled to the brim. Didn't bother eating (saved money I suppose) because the food places were minging. Toilets disgusting, piss pit.

Arrived at 9:05 on Friday to collect my ticket from guestlist and the guest list Portakabin closed at 9 so couldn't get in and had to go home, even though the festival was still on for another 90 mins and the Ticketmaster van was still open.

Saturday was alright, didn't have too many issues.

Sunday was way overpacked, couldn't move and genuinely felt a bit concerned about not having anywhere to sit (for a few mins) comfortably.

I'm sure there are more but it was a PITA.

BaZmO*

Annie_Oakes wrote: »

Arrived at 9:05 on Friday to collect my ticket from guestlist and the guest list Portakabin closed at 9 so couldn't get in and had to go home, even though the festival was still on for another 90 mins and the Ticketmaster van was still open.

In fairness though, arriving that late to pick up your freebie and expecting it still to be open is kinda taking the p1ss.