Electric Picnic 2021 - Cancelled :( **No Ticket Sales / Requests **

I think it's fair enough criticism for the councillors, I don't deny they're in a difficult position it will be the people of Laois re-electing them in 2024, not us. But equally this could backfire badly if FR decide to change venue.

They're small time local councillors voting on what is now a national issue, they should have passed this off to Government/national level.

And when I say "small time" read this article again and some of their comments, #bloodboil

Huh? We’re well into vaccinating the early 20s (and below) at this stage. We’re on course to have all over 16s fully vaccinated by the start of September.

Its absolutely spineless stuff not to let this go ahead and a reflection of the complete lack of ambition and ingenuity that our Government has shown with its reopening plan.

Ah sure leave it here so that we can speculate and moan for a while!

I hate to be negative but a Northern Irish pal of mine living in Cambridge took his three kids to Latitude as he does every year. His two daughters tested positive a few days after. They're possibly in the twenty cases referred to though I think it's far more likely that there are a hell of a lot more cases and this will be referred to in another article in a few weeks. People left the Latitude site nine days ago and cases will be coming through for another few days. Hopefully I'm wrong and it remains a small number.

All pretty irrelevant anyway given the news from Laois today.

Friday night of EP, 24 Sept. Nice space outside The Crane after they got rid of the car park. Any other Galwegian Picnic-heads welcome to join us.

At this stage I'd be happy for a big budget Oxegen style with loads of tarmac and no more than 5 stages!

Were non vaccinated people allowed to attend though? Like even with testing or whatever, they're not fully accurate so some may have fallen through the cracks....

More so the media and propaganda from the likes of RTE News, Prime Time and Clair Byrne Show and the press that instilled the paranoia. Same Station that made the laughable EP coverage with no lessons learnt from past music programmes We need some proper opposition to argue them down and a TV station to show that side and balance. We need a new Vincent Browne.

Well that's a pretty silly theory, given that they've continually loosened restrictions over the last few months, opened pubs for indoor drinking within the last fortnight, and there's a cabinet meeting in the next couple of weeks to agree on what further loosening of restrictions will happen in September.

There's loads of things we can do know that we couldn't do a month ago, or two months ago.

If they want to take our fun away, they're going a very strange way about it.

Unlike NPHET, I think we should have a clear timeline around the Boards.ie timeline😔, I'm a bit raw still and can't not promise anysort of bashing.

Stage 1: Raw anger, **** everyone in Government and Laois CC.

Stage 2: Denial it's not over, appeal or venue change, watch case numbers.

Stage3: RAW anger when hopes in Stage 2 fail.

Stage 4: Acceptance of no festival, scruff creates a new thread.

Stage 5: Standby and watch every other industry, soccer/rugby, etc come back in full swing around or just after EP.

Stage 6: No automatic issue of new EP dates for 2022, which will fuel speculation in the new thread. And on....

Very much so man.

+1 on your post. 😊

Heres the link for anyone interested. Guess they are deciding to go down the legal route. This could get messy

FFS

That's all I have to say on the matter.

So on the lunatic Twitter corner of the internet, electric picnic is trending again. Apparently they are convinced that it was never going to go ahead and the announcement of vaccinated only entry was just a stunt to get young people to get the jab. My god what do you do with these people with their batsh1t crazy theories. Like it's been sold out for two years but don't let that get in the way of your theory.