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

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    #4622
    Furious-Red
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 14,934 Mod ✭✭✭✭Furious-Red


    Not gonna lie those few pics are getting me excited, even though the line up is pretty pants but currently blasting out The Scratch in bed so all is good 😂



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    #4623
    Navan Man01
    Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭Navan Man01


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119527635#Comment_119527635

    Can’t beat a good Scratch in d leaba Mr. Red!



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    #4624
    Seathrun66
    Registered Users Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭Seathrun66


    Last gig pre-Picnic, Mr. Willy Mason in good form in Galway. Onwards and upwards to the big stuff next week. That Fri night is looking mighty fine.



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    #4625
    Navan Man01
    Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭Navan Man01


    Is there a meet happening on Friday? I know TCM isn’t til Saturday apparently! Someone said Harvest early Friday evening??



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    #4626
    Mucker46
    Registered Users Posts: 1,624 ✭✭✭Mucker46


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119527740#Comment_119527740

    Defo up for a meet up great to see people and then run into them across the weekend. When schedule comes out should pick something early Friday



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    #4627
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,548 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Other Voices Electric Picnic special on RTE 2 now. :)

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #4628
    Mucker46
    Registered Users Posts: 1,624 ✭✭✭Mucker46


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119527785#Comment_119527785

    Go to bed bodhran you have a busy week ahead



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    #4629
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,548 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119527807#Comment_119527807

    Never haha

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #4630
    Emmeb
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭Emmeb


    With a heavy heart I made the decision last week to sell on our pair of tickets and camper van pass . Onto toutless and job done at face value.

    whilst wishing all going a great EP I really do think a wrong message is being sent to Festival republic about our total acceptance of any oul shite that he cares to serve us up.

    I do accept we are starved of EP since 2019 and wandering is always great crack but Jesus this lineup is a joke when compared to some of the wonderful lineups over the years. .

    genuinely looks like he could have got any donkeys ,put them up on a stage and music Ireland would turn up for the crack.


    We have been going to EP for over a decade but watching Trainwreck about Woodstock 99 made up our minds When corporate greed combines with a shite lineup a good festival is not to be had

    We need to wake up from our servile acceptance state - this lineup would not draw 10000 plus anywhere else across Europe

    yet 70000 are sending a message that we will

    please excuse the tone of the message

    I am just beyond annoyed at how awful he has turned what once was a great festival



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    #4631
    Stillill42
    Registered Users Posts: 3,682 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119528013#Comment_119528013

    While I agree regarding the line up and completely understand you getting rid, there's more to the Picnic than the poster. You've lumped the 70,000 of us together as if there's only one experience of the Picnic to be had and we'll all be up the front for Picture This. We all have our own stuff we like about it and while everyone on this thread has their reservations this year, we'll make our own minds up about it.



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    #4632
    Navan Man01
    Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭Navan Man01


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119528094#Comment_119528094

    Well said Stillill👍🏻👍🏻



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    #4633
    HarryTheSpider
    Registered Users Posts: 287 ✭✭HarryTheSpider


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119528013#Comment_119528013

    2022 is going to be a different year for a lot reasons as a lot of things have changed since 2019 both inside EP and outside. This could hopefully be one bad year and things might get back to the better days.

    It is true that we are not going to be as spoiled for choice as previous years. But there is still a lot of good stuff going on.

    It is in Festival Republics interest to put on the best festival they can. The best/worst advertising for next years festival is this years festival, how much or how little the punters enjoy it and how it is reported on in mainstream media and also social media.

    It is hard to know the direction the festival may take over the next few years. Hopefully I am not wrong, but I think we are still a few years away from turning in to the likes of Oxygen and still looking to the likes of Glastonbury for inspiration.



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    #4634
    Beechwoodspark
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    It does seem like it is heading towards a oxygen type of festival

    going by the lineup

    and the scaling back of the likes of salty dog, mindfield, body and soul stages



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    #4635
    EP2022
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭EP2022


    Not sure about the tickets but I also bought Pink Moon from a reseller, they just gave me a printout of their order with their name on it and the 5 digit order number.

    You can email Pink Moon at info@pinkmooncamping.co.uk with the name and the 5 digit order number to confirm its a real ticket.



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    #4636
    fafy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,240 ✭✭✭fafy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119528094#Comment_119528094

    100 % agree, lineup only part of it for me, overall experience more important, meeting people- thats the gold here, and several dollops of the many non music events that seem to be totally ignored by the vast majority, but to me, are a key part.



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    #4637
    HarryTheSpider
    Registered Users Posts: 287 ✭✭HarryTheSpider


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119528206#Comment_119528206

    True. But only time will tell.

    If they are going that way, then so be it. That will be the end of a great festival. People will (eventually) vote with their feet/ticket purchases.

    The only problem is that for every Salty Dog, Mindfield, Body and Soul fan that decides they are not going and sells their ticket/doesn't buy one, there will be someone else who does want to go and snaps that ticket up. Once they keep selling all the tickets (and they most likely will), Festival Republic will be happy. They don't care if you have bought a ticket and sell it on, they have sold the ticket and that is all that counts to them

    I really don't know the finer points of running a festival, but maybe if there is demand for it, then there should be Oxygen and Electric Picnic.

    BTW. I am not on their side and I am not happy with the way things seem to be going either. As I said before, hopefully this is just one bad year and we will be back to better days in the future.



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    #4638
    EP2022
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭EP2022


    Not sure about the tickets but I also bought Pink Moon from a reseller, they just gave me a printout of their order with their name on it and the 5 digit order number.

    You can email Pink Moon at info@pinkmooncamping.co.uk with the name and the 5 digit order number to confirm its a real ticket.



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    #4639
    Seathrun66
    Registered Users Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭Seathrun66


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119528013#Comment_119528013

    I can understand your displeasure with the lineup. I share that. However stating that this bunch of acts wouldn't get 10k attendees elsewhere is a little inaccurate. The Arctic Monkeys will likely headline Glastonbury (again) next June and can draw 70k on their own to most European festivals. Tame Impala are Glasto sub-headliners and have been the main act at several US and continental fests in 2022. None of the other top six acts I care about but they all sell tickets in enormous numbers on these shores. Same when you get to the undercard though many not to my taste. Similar to many on this thread most of my time is spent at the smaller stages where I catch young Irish and overseas acts on the up. This continues and, if the weather holds out, you'll hear great reports from this weekend.



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    #4640
    Furious-Red
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    Global Green line up is out



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    #4641
    Dreamweapon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭Dreamweapon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119528013#Comment_119528013

    Pretty much sums up how i've been feeling this week. A few weeks ago i said it would be a grim state of affairs if we were pinning all our hopes on Jerry Fish, a stage i've had little reason to visit in previous years. This year it's the best on offer and that to me is unacceptable. I'm sure i'll have a good time but flitting from one Irish act to the other, all of whom i've seen multiple times and will be able to do so again post-festival, really doesn't get the juices flowing.

    Anyways, we'll make the best of it and see what next year brings. Onwards and upwards...

    Big on the all mouth and trousers scene



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    #4642
    Stillill42
    Registered Users Posts: 3,682 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    I'm not sure the Oxegen comparisons are valid lads. Sure, the main arena lineup is gearing itself more towards the yoof but they're actively expanding the areas outside the main arena. The forest is bursting at the seams with stuff that might not make the headlines a huge main stage performer does but is massively interesting and exciting to me. Read that Freetown announcement yesterday. I mean that sounds like great craic, no? I'm on the fence like lots of you but the all that stuff, is still the magic dust for me. It's an entirely different animal from Oxegen still.



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    #4643
    Stillill42
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    Not to suggest that the music isn't massively important to me. It is.



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    #4644
    endainoz
    Registered Users Posts: 4,924 ✭✭✭endainoz


    I think it's more time to get excited and hyped for the week ahead rather that reflecting on the lineup again. All the grieving was done a couple of weeks ago, time to make do with what we've got. I still find it hard to believe it'll be three years since we've set foot in the place.



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    #4645
    Mucker46
    Registered Users Posts: 1,624 ✭✭✭Mucker46


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119528744#Comment_119528744

    I am with you had Neil Young on in the car thinking of harvest in trailer park drink in hand. Put a big smile on my face



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    #4646
    Fatfrog
    Registered Users Posts: 2,355 ✭✭✭Fatfrog


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119528744#Comment_119528744

    Completely agree it’s like bringing up a death again😂 we’re one week out!

    Any comparison to Oxygen ref commercialism I’d agree with, but definitely not true when it comes to the line up, look at Ep vs the last years of Oxygen 😢



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    #4647
    HBC08
    Registered Users Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭HBC08


    Can anyone help with this,EP first timer here....

    I'm about 3 hours drive from stradbally,I can leave any time after 11 on fri morn.

    I'm staying in my friend's campervan so I guess he has camervan tickets,he will be arriving about 7 or 8pm on the fri.We are travelling separately as I need to get back for work,he's doing the 3 nights.

    I wondering what's the best way to work this,Can I park in the car park then walk back of the car park to somehow arrange to meet up with him on the road so we travel in together in the van?

    Do I need my ticket to park in car park?

    Any suggestions welcome!



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    #4648
    Stillill42
    Registered Users Posts: 3,682 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119529236#Comment_119529236

    So he has your ticket? You can park in the carpark no problem, just doesn't seem much point getting there way ahead of him if you can't get on site. No way of getting your ticket off him before then? But sure, you can park, leave, then meet him wherever before he goes in.



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    #4649
    grudgehugger
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    @HBC08 If he has your festival ticket, my suggestion would be to get your ticket from your mate beforehand OR travel down around same time as him as you won’t be able to get onto the festival site without a ticket and hanging around the car park / Stradbally will likely get boring pretty quick (especially if it’s ☔️ - if I talk enough about bad weather hopefully it’ll be dry!)



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    #4650
    HBC08
    Registered Users Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭HBC08


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119529363#Comment_119529363

    Perfect,great info and thanks.

    I can get my ticket off him,my main worry is if I go in on my own through a different entrance I won't be able to get into the campervan area.This might be completely stupid and irrational but I just don't know the lay of the land there.



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    #4651
    HarryTheSpider
    Registered Users Posts: 287 ✭✭HarryTheSpider


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119529469#Comment_119529469

    It might be a good idea for you to leave all/most of your stuff with him in the campervan. If you arrive early, your choices will be to leave your stuff in the car and have to go back out or else lug it around with you.



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