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

I got quite a bit of that as well ! Happy to help people out. But, as a general rule, assume 95% of the staff, have no clue as to where things are, or what time arenas open, or what routes are open. I met a senior security person, one of the ones with a headset, and she told me i couldn’t get into Late Night Arena at 11.30 on Sunday, i said i had a ticketed event there at 12, she said no, i went back to next entrance and got in no problem, and got to Minefield.

I was wondering, I could see the black smoke while waiting to exit the green car park! Was really hoping it wasn’t tent burning! Unfortunate timing for the fire service.

On a side note, several crashes (minor rear ending) on the M7 today, absolutely sick for them!

When I’m driving Monday, I make sure to cut the pints mid Sunday and will always remove wrist bands in the car park, as well as getting everything into the car boot, so it’s not blatantly obvious I’ve just come from a festival!

Anyone know what price tickets well be on Saturday

The queues for booze were pretty bad and trying to navigate back with four beers was challenging.

6€ a can in the Salty dog was pretty steep. The Orchard Thieves stuff isn’t a great

Having missed this year I'm really torn as to whether to get tickets for next year or not.

Something that really struck me this weekend was how big of an event electric picnic has become. Every radio station was talking about it, it was on the front pages of the papers, being discussed on the news etc. It has become the social event of the year in Ireland and there is no getting away from that. At one point it maybe could have gone down the route to becoming the Irish equivalent of Glastonbury but it seems it has chosen another path.

The main question now is do the pros outway the cons? My most recent experience in 2019 and the reviews here from this weekend would suggest yes, although many have alluded to the problems the festival has. It's probably on a downward slope, but how quickly will it topple? There could be many more years of enjoyment there or it could happen very quickly (different thing altogether but Longitude transformed from a good day festival to essentially an underage festival in about two years).

I left on a real high in 2019, if that was my last time there I could have no complaints and it would always have that special place in my mind. Would love to go back again but I'd hate for those memories to be tarnished.

P.S - assuming it will be taking place on the weekend of 1st - 3rd September next year?

Yeah a lot of those teenagers are locals, including my two nephews I hasten to add. They both spent the entire weekend out there, walking in for free posing as the children of family ticket holders. It was their first year doing it but my older nieces and nephews did it as well when they were that age. I'd rather they weren't there but it's not my decision and I can't blame them for having the best weekend of their young lives.

As a quick aside, it's remarkable how many locals get it in for free. Whether it's the 5 foot 10 inch teenagers passing for under 12s or people being given an armband on a Sunday morning. Or people like myself who are handed a day ticket over a pint, by a friend of a friend, for free, simply because I said I was thinking of going.

Eh? No it wouldn't. In fact, that's the age limit for All Together Now.

As requested, this one is from Harvest on Friday. From left to right, Thundercats, Mucker46, DeskTidy, Seathrun66, Darzog with the beard, Stillill42, Rubick, Kepler21.

We walked in to Stradbally on Saturday morning for breakfast and to visit the shop, we walked back in along the road straight and in through the main entrance leading to the Red Car Park with no checks at all. There wasn't anyone at that entrance when we came back in.

Thundercats on the left, not Poorside. Get it right, Kepler.

Beautiful to be in your own bed alright. As anticipated though, I now can't seem to sleep without the Rave in the Woods going on in the background.

What a weekend! Arrived late on Friday to find nowhere to pitch in Poet's Corner, Joplin or Chaplin. Three stewards later, found out that the overflow campsite opened at Hendrix had already been filled. Given the incoming weather, I stayed in the car which granted me perfect sleep over the weekend.

Loved The Pixies on Friday, great vibes. Caught Mall Grab in Terminus after that, exceptional, before rendez-vousing at Transmission: sound crowd.

Saturday's highlight's were Annie Mac and chatting to a bunch of Londoners, one of whom grew up, you guessed it 10 minutes down the road from me!

Standout performance was the amazing Wolf Alice who were everything I expected and more. Ecstatic that they exceeded expectations.

Sunday was very chilled and I spent it wandering around with the missus, sitting down in the sun in the afternoon nearish to the Main Stage, stuffing our faces with food, crepes, ice-cream and basically ambling about the woods, Trailer Park, Salty Dog for the rest of the day before heading home as we were wrecked.

On a critical note, there seemed to be a lack of staff in general this year which was added to by walkouts over the weekend. Friday was slightly chaotic with camping space in gen pop, overflowing bins, portaloos and non-briefed staff. Chronic under-use of arenas like Terminus is unforgivable: you have the facility, use it! Could you find ten local Irish DJ's to rotate over the weekend to play there? Make it a competition on Today FM?

I found it easier getting around the Main Arena so cudos for the redesign. Ditto regarding food prices but I have to say, the quality was there. Could do with increases in portaloos in the Main Arena (wavin point idea by another poster is brilliant and pragmatic), and more bins. Definitely felt like a younger crowd or is it me pushing on but anyone I chatted with, gave directions to or "named that tune" for at 03:20 at the RITW were sound and seemed to be enjoying themselves so no issues there. Great to see people twenty years younger going as apesh1t as me to Da Hool's "Meet Her at the Love Parade."

The lineup will determine if I'm back next year but for now, I think I need another lie down...

Apparently Conor Oberst has been a mess for most of the current tour. Seemed grand in Vicar St on Thursday. Looks like I caught him on a good night.