Electric Picnic 2022 - Here we go again! - **No Ticket Sales / Requests **

I think this is right but could be getting the names mixed up!

Anachronica - rave in the woods near the campsite.

Transmission - spaceship style stage somewhere around the Trenchtown-ish area.

Terminus - new stage in 2019, huge tent similar to Rankins Wood/Electric Arena, located in new Freetown area which is where Oscar Wilde campsite used to be.

In terms of music I would say all similar enough techno-y music. Terminus would have the biggest names and Transmission mainly local djs, rave in the woods has been a bit of a mix but mainly bigger Irish djs.

I’ve seen Mall grab a good few times and he’s good

terminus was really under-utilised when it started at the last ep, looks like the same this year with that little line up

Re. number of acts at this Terminus. According to 2019 Clashfinder there were 11 slots at Terminus that year, with only two slots on the Friday. So numbers-wise, it looks like this year stacks up. Wouldn’t have a clue if there is a gulf in quality/popularity between 2019 and this year though, as I wouldn’t be interested in that carry on myself

God, I feel old...my tolerance for repetitive beats has very much waned over the years and was never a big dance head but I've only heard of one act on that bill! Give me Mother tent for my late night dance fix all day!

It seems strange they have one hip hop act in that Terminus line up, Eve and all the rest is either house or techno, you'd think there would be a bit more of balance I remember Kneecap playing Terminus in 2019, did they have other vocal or rap acts that year.

12 acts, 4 acts each day, 90 mins - 2 hours each. Looking at 8 hours of music each day so that’s 6pm -2am

You'd think they would be clear about that, have a disclaimer saying its not Eve the rap act but a bunch of females, yeah I think Eve played Forbidden Fruit in 2017, the DJs one.

Would be delighted with them!

RE: Terminus schedule - am I misremembering or did the last DJs in there finish at 11pm in 2019? It seemed like such a missed opportunity, and there were logistical issues getting from there to Anachronica. One way system and huge numbers. Will be a really big missed opportunity if Terminus doesn't at least finish at 2am - in fact why wouldn't they have it open until 4am like the RITW? It's 8k heads away from the other late night dance areas. I remember my friend and I trying to navigate through the crowd at Paul Woolford in the RITW a few years back, took us an hour to get in there and and hour to get back out.

Yeah so that's a midnight finish in 2019 more or less. That was odd.

Saw Dylan Moran at the Paddy Power comedy festival recently and it was borderline uncomfortable. He was pissed and talking about getting divorced. Not a laugh to be had. Just a warning for anyone, like me, who is expecting great stuff.

Hopefully he was just having an off night

Possibly. Wellies were needed though as i was wading through a large expanse of mud when my legs kept moving but my welly did not. I had to balance precariously on one leg and hope my mate managed to grab me in time (he did!). This was from B&S towards what would now be Trailer Park/Salty Dog direction.

What's on the menu today lads? Salty Dog? Mind and body?

I had completely forgotten about spike island and free town! Guess they might be pushed out to next week. Mind and body or Jerry fish today hopefully.

Hope that Argentinian food place is back in Freetown, that was a quality steak sandwich. Can't remember the name of it. This year we've been taking photos of all the food vendor signage so we don't forget. Little Dumpling at BTP and ATN are essential kit, hope they'll be at EP.