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

Beef supreme to start?

I know we supposed to be all positive vibes here on the festival’s eve, and I mostly am, but I also can’t avoid the Lydon question about ever having the feeling you’ve been cheated. We pay €34 to go in a night early and next to nothing is put on. Certainly nothing significant.

End of the Road this weekend (max capacity 15k, less than are likely to be on the Picnic site on the Thur night alone) have several decent acts, at least three of whom I’d love to see. You don’t pay for early entry there (see also Latitude, Glasto and every other fest I’ve been to. Make some effort FR. Khruangbin alone would have been with the early ticket.

Apologies for the negativity, but surely 20k people (if that's the number) paying €34 each adding up to €680k merits some entertainment.

Had to post this from the EP Banter Facebook page. It's a reply by Theodore Baracas to a query on what each campsite is like!

Theodore Baracas stand up and take a bow! This man shud be in the comedy tent!

Hendrix.= spotless clean . Full of gaeilge speaking folk in aran jumpers who have a warm cup of cocoa every night at 10pm.and head to sleep around 11pm. Very quiet and tranquil. You'd eat your dinner of the toilets they are that clean. Kid friendly 

Warhol = if you didn't hear the music in the distance you'd think you were in a beautiful campsite in the French countryside. This goes on a bit later till about 11.30 pm and the odd time you'd hear someone opening a can of beer. Emo and Kid friendly .

Wilde = bit noisier. You'd know you were at a festival in this one . You hear people laughing in this one till 1 am . Over the years we've even had reports of someone smoking cannabis. There was someone arrested in 2013 for disturbing the peace .

Janis joplin = bit more rowdy . The noise can go on till the early hours . Plenty of Dubs jerseys on display if they are wearing clothes . Safe times to leave the campsite without getting murdered or buried will be during megan the stallions set ,. Toilets rough ,think of the trevi fountain and put it in a chocolate factory. 

Family camping = hell on earth . Tents flattened, parents strung out on all types of drugs , feral kids everywhere foraging for foot . Pimps , drug dealers , prostitutes on every corner . Security guards going around with tranquilliser guns neutralising any threat they encounter . Party goes on till 11am the following day and only stops when people head to the charging point to charge the amp they've been blaring all night . Not Kid friendly 

Pink moon = Ireland answer to chernobyl. If you survive 3 days in this the chances are you are now infertile and possess super powers. If going bring a bodyguard and kevlar vest and a dubs jersey , it could save your life .

Hope this helps . I'll be giving tips on hair hygiene tomorrow

Yeah, he's good craic on that page, he used to dress up as Mr T at the picnic, met him before,

Bit of hope on the weather front. Met have the rain pushing back more and more. No rain expected until Sat afternoon now

Hendrix campsite, ground looks dry as be damned

Going to be fun setting up tents without mallets.

Beyond gutted, spent half the day in A&E , now can't go to EP. 😭😭😭

3 **** years waiting 😭😭😭

Wishing you all a great time , have a can for me please,

At least i got pixies and Fontaines DC in EA correct !

To repeat some of a previous post try to see some of the above 2, THUMPER, TOUTS, Wolf Alice, Sprints, The Scratch, Silverbacks, Pogueology, TCM, KKC, The Pale, Gurriers, Rebuke, Jeff Mills, just Mustard , Sleaford Mods, kneecap, naked lungs...

Ah that's a shocker, Duck. Sorry to hear that.

Let's do it for Duck, lads.

Sorry to hear that fafy we will be your buddies if needed

Is there a meet up at some stage, we were both hoping to meet some of yee anyway.

Similar again this year for Thursday in Hazelwood:

I suggest that we organise a couple early Friday at salty or fishtown and then the usual tcm.