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Stillill42

fourmations wrote: »

The mod has posted that the main arena entrance is being moved to freetown, don't know source but she seems fairly sure

That's rough for the Salty Dog regulars. I stay off site though and I'm not going to lie, I won't miss traipsing back and forth through the queues for my Salty Dog music. I'll buy ye all a pint at TCM.

Fics

But how about FreeFlow? even if it is limited to a certain amount per trip?

Seathrun66

Stillill42 wrote: »

That's rough for the Salty Dog regulars. I stay off site though and I'm not going to lie, I won't miss traipsing back and forth through the queues for my Salty Dog music. I'll buy ye all a pint at TCM.

Same here re the queues. But it'd still be an enormously unpopular move with little gain for FR. Heineken may make a little more cash but not greatly so. Makes little sense to irritate people in a Summer where ATN have brought all that negative focus on themselves. It's EP's chance to show how smoothly they can run stuff.

sydthebeat

if salty dog, trenchtown etc are within the main arena then they will need a large bar area between freetown and where ever the new wilde will be.

looking at it on the satellite map i cant see where wilde can move to, other then just getting a lot smaller

bodhrandude

Fics wrote: »

But how about FreeFlow? even if it is limited to a certain amount per trip?

I doubt it somehow, the Heineken overlords have the Tennents lager tough crew from Scotland in their yellow t shirts, these lads will remove yer booze or tell you to drink it all before entry. A kinda dumb rule as some people get absolutely bolloxed from doing this and creates messy situations. Look at me on Sunday 2016, my two cans of Guinness and my Spanish absinthe discovered, I was supposed to hand them over, I said feck off and walked out again and drank the lot, plus it was Sunday and the closing day but blotto I was for New Order.

haitens

fourmations wrote: »

FB group is saying that salty is now in the arena

Ah this won't be a popular move if true. Unless it's just a wristband check going into Freetown and nothing else??

Seathrun66

bodhrandude wrote: »

I doubt it somehow, the Heineken overlords have the Tennents lager tough crew from Scotland in their yellow t shirts, these lads will remove yer booze or tell you to drink it all before entry. A kinda dumb rule as some people get absolutely bolloxed from doing this and creates messy situations. Look at me on Sunday 2016, my two cans of Guinness and my Spanish absinthe discovered, I was supposed to hand them over, I said feck off and walked out again and drank the lot, plus it was Sunday and the closing day but blotto I was for New Order.

And I'd always thought it was just an apéritif.

Mucker46

Fics wrote: »

Also, talk on that thread that the map will be released this week? Here's hoping

Tweeted this yesterday
@EPfestival: @AherneJnr Oscar Wilde is still here - just moved ever so slightly. The map will be available later this week! 🗺️☺️

Fatfrog

All this talk on FB of arena gate moving to the entrance of Wilde is nonsense I think. Wilde is cut diagonally in two by the path. From what I can gather Freetown on the arena side and tents will be main entrance side. So impossible to have and entrance here?

I think we were expecting too much from Freetown, but it's really a late night replacement for the rave in the woods.

bodhrandude

Fatfrog wrote: »

All this talk on FB of arena gate moving to the entrance of Wilde is nonsense I think. Wilde is cut diagonally in two by the path. From what I can gather Freetown on the arena side and tents will be main entrance side. So impossible to have and entrance here?

I think we were expecting too much from Freetown, but it's really a late night replacement for the rave in the woods.

Anachronica is still listed though in the poster.

Nugget89

bodhrandude wrote: »

Anachronica is still listed though in the poster.

It may just be to split the late night crowd. The rave was dangerously full last year.

Korvanica

Nugget89 wrote: »

It may just be to split the late night crowd. The rave was dangerously full last year.

Yea. There was a massive crush there too one of the nights. Really dangerous bottleneck there by the eco campsite.

Ferris_Bueller

Lots of rumours floating around that EP banter page but I would take most of them with a pinch of salt, nobody seems to know really. I reckon it would be very difficult for them to have the Salty Dog as part of the arena, if the Salty Dog is open the Thursday does that mean that people would have access to the full arena? Also they would hardly have a security check in the middle of the woods between Trenchtown and the Salty Dog. I could be wrong but don't see how it would work.

Just saw this posted on that group page too, doesn't look familiar to me, would it be a part of Freetown too I wonder?

Furious-Red

Is that not where you get your wristbands when you are coming in the Paintball Entrance?

Stillill42

Furious-Red wrote: »

Is that not where you get your wristbands when you are coming in the Paintball Entrance?

I think you're right there.

Fatfrog

One for Rfrip.. (I went down an early EP- youtube worm hole)


https://youtu.be/NEmpcQg8h5w

Rfrip

Fatfrog wrote: »

One for Rfrip.. (I went down an early EP- youtube worm hole)


https://youtu.be/NEmpcQg8h5w

Thanks ff! I missed that year. My best friend got married on the Saturday and I was bridesmaid

I’ve never forgiven her

thebusher

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Lots of rumours floating around that EP banter page but I would take most of them with a pinch of salt, nobody seems to know really. I reckon it would be very difficult for them to have the Salty Dog as part of the arena, if the Salty Dog is open the Thursday does that mean that people would have access to the full arena? Also they would hardly have a security check in the middle of the woods between Trenchtown and the Salty Dog. I could be wrong but don't see how it would work.

Just saw this posted on that group page too, doesn't look familiar to me, would it be a part of Freetown too I wonder?

That looks like a wristbannd issuing area. Is it as you head down between Rave in the woods and Eco?

whelzer

Just over a week to go and this thread is 7 or 8 down the list here at Gigs...what has become of this place?:eek:

mimimcmc

whelzer wrote: »

Just over a week to go and this thread is 7 or 8 down the list here at Gigs...what has become of this place?:eek:

It's strangely quiet isn't it?

The EP Banter Page is hopping though

Beechwoodspark

Just as a casual observer seems to be way less of a hype about EP these days

Has that new one all together now in Waterford taken the crown from elec pic I wonder?

Rigor Mortis

I think the age profile on here contributes to that a bit.
Also, for some reason, I think EP themselves have rowed back a bit on the hype this year.

Reded

fafy wrote: »

Booked in for the Sunday Drunch in Theatre Of Food, sounds like a laugh and you get fed, and by day 3 we all need something substantial.

https://www.giv2go.com/ticket-events/epic-irish-sunday-brunch-82

#FACT! A Fine feast and definitely a laugh! Plenty bloody Mary’s too

Rfrip

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Just as a casual observer seems to be way less of a hype about EP these days

Has that new one all together now in Waterford taken the crown from elec pic I wonder?

wait till you see the mayhem here when the maps released....:p

GhostMutt30

Some great recommendations been made here I'm really enjoying Mitski, White Reaper, Sasami, Autre Monde, am starting to get a wee bit excira

scruff monkey

Mr.S wrote: »

I have heard nada about this years festival, and for the first time since it began I don’t know anyone going. Maybe I’m old now

All the cool kids are probably just discussing it on fakebuke and the like now.

ghostdancer

Mr.S wrote: »

I have heard nada about this years festival, and for the first time since it began I don’t know anyone going. Maybe I’m old now

Pretty much all of our long-time festival crew in our early/mid 30s have stopped going in the last few years.
Plenty went to ATN (and/or Body&Soul), but everyone seems to have given up on EP.


In contrast though, quite a few from work (30s and 40s), that would never really have gone to festivals before, are now going to EP in the last couple of years. Unlike here, they were all delighted with Gavin James and Kodaline being announced last week.

LowOdour

Mother of sweet Jesus, but this rain in the west is catmalojan. Anyone in the Stradbally/Laois area, are ye getting hit badly with rain? Wonder what state Stradbally will be in if there is no let up in it

Reggie noble

The EP app has loads of acts missing off it . Presume it won’t have full list until timetables out ?

LimboSlice

LowOdour wrote: »

Mother of sweet Jesus, but this rain in the west is catmalojan. Anyone in the Stradbally/Laois area, are ye getting hit badly with rain? Wonder what state Stradbally will be in if there is no let up in it

Hopefully the good weather promised for this weekend dries it up a bit! Can see it being a year for the wellies though.