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Electric Picnic 2018 **Discussion Only // No Ticket Sales** [Part 1]
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Lisdoonvarna 1981 was my first festival; great lineup, completely loved it. I remember the last night it chucked down rain all evening, and I got back to my tent to learn a valuable lesson: never put your tent on a hill with the entrance at the top. i think my sleep bag was floating.
I love the process of discovering new music through EP; keeps me younger. There is something in me that comes alive at EP, that I don't see the rest of the year.0 -
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ghostdancer wrote: »but there's no field there
i'm talking about the field with all these newly planted baby trees, where the Eco campsite and hundreds of tents are going to be....
Ok, this seems to be going around in circles. There is an area where they have planted young trees. They have shown a photograph of it and said that part of where the eco camping will be there this year. I recognise that area from passing by it last year. It was more or less directly opposite the rave in the woods. You can see it clearly on the aerial photo of the festival.
If you remember something different from being there, or that the field is in a different part of the festival site, then that's fine. I'm open to correction if you recognise it from another part of the estate. However, if you remember there being a swirling vortex of empty nothingness with a complete absence of fields directly opposite the rave in the woods, then there is a possible alternative explanation that you might want to consider.0 -
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Loving the different stories.
I'm 38, and have attended all EP's since 2006 with the exception of 2007 and 2013. Unfortunately Australia in 07 & getting married in 13 got in the way of a great weekend those years :-). Witnness , and then Oxegen for many years before I ended up at EP. Ive camped in the Oscar Wilde campsite for a good few years, campervan once (walk is a killer), and last year ended up in the Eco Site which was brilliant. This year we are trying out the Pink Moon as there is a big gang of 18 attending. Probably, my last one this year, but i've said that before.
One of my first gigs was below....
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johnnyskeleton wrote: »Ok, this seems to be going around in circles. There is an area where they have planted young trees. They have shown a photograph of it and said that part of where the eco camping will be there this year. I recognise that area from passing by it last year. It was more or less directly opposite the rave in the woods. You can see it clearly on the aerial photo of the festival.
If you remember something different from being there, or that the field is in a different part of the festival site, then that's fine. I'm open to correction if you recognise it from another part of the estate. However, if you remember there being a swirling vortex of empty nothingness with a complete absence of fields directly opposite the rave in the woods, then there is a possible alternative explanation that you might want to consider.
I just didn't know where you were talking about, there's no empty area marked on the map, and I didn't see any such area last year. "directly opposite" the rave in the woods isn't very descriptive as the directly opposite the stage is more woodland, and "directly opposite" the area could have been any direction, again with no empty space on the map.
having checked a few aerial photographs now, I can see it, thanks. a large sliver of land between Chaplin and the woods, seems larger than the current Eco campsite space.
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This was my very first festival when Donnington was non camping back in 1984, after going to a spate of metal gigs during the early eighties this was the first proper rock n roll festival event.
My next festival excursion was Acid Daze at Leeds Queens Hall in 1987 and the lineup for that was this:
1: Hawkwind
2: Doctor And The Medics
3: The Enid
4: Suicide
5: Pink Fairies
6: Robert Calvert And The Starfighters
7: Spacemen 3
8: Tubular Dog.
The following year I went to see David Gilmour's Pink Floyd at Manchester Maine Road Stadium.
First proper two day festival, well I went on day 2 was Fleadh Mor which has been already mentioned from 1993 and T the Park the following year in Scotland. It wouldn't be for another 11 years till I braved a festival again the 2005 Electric Picnic, missing 2006 but been to every other one since, plus 5 Lifes and 6 Body & Souls and various other events. I think the missing ten years was due to me learning the bodhran and going to a mad amount of trad and folk festivals, fleadhs and the All Ireland Fleadhs which I still go to occasionally.
If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)
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I started off my gig obsession at The Winter Party in Mosney in 2000. Sasha and Digweed. Amazing!! Spent a few years going to all the Creams/ Winter Parties etc in The Point before my first camping festival which was Witnness 2003 and that blew my mind. I was hooked!! Went to Oxegen then up until 2009 then started on the smaller festivals. I try to go to at least 5 each year now, the smaller ones are as good as the big ones in my opinion but made it to Glastonbury last year and my mind was blown again.
Will be trying out Beatherder In the UK this year and can't miss Vantastival. Also very excited about ATN. Roll on festival season!!
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Rigor Mortis wrote: »They were somewhat simpler times. I lived the weekend on burgers and two two litres of Linden Village.
Spent quite a few weekends in the Village at that age myself 0 -
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PinkCamper wrote: »Blur 2015 was unexpectedly magical. Huge happy wave of nostalgia.
Damon Albarn was bang on form. Great crowd too, remember handing over my tobacco to a young lad beside us after he offered to roll for us in exchange for a few 0 -
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