All Together Now 2023

Would boots do or is it too far gone?

No woodchip at all , very muddy in spots.

Day 2 let's gooooooooo!!!!

Serious amount of mud on site, and nothing done to make it easier for people.

Anyone have any tips on keeping a handcart/wagon wheels free from getting stuck/overloaded with mud?

Not sure if the same applies to wagon but if I was in the sand/mud with a jeep I'd be letting some pressure out of the tyres.

Best of luck!!

It dried up a bit throughout the day, but not a huge amount. Wet mud just became slightly less wet mud.

Strange that the organisers made zero attempt to make it any easier for festival goers.

We have a hand truck that we've been pulling the little ones and it is fairly horrific in the mud. So would love to know if it's a bit more passable in the arena today.

There's never been a lack of kind people helping us through the sludge though! So thank you to anyone for their aid or well wishes!

A load of whingers 😂 Sunday will be a snowflake free zone today thankfully.

Car park good n dry though so should make for easy exits

Has anyone else found the sound has been awful for a few acts? Lankum in particular in the tent were very hard to hear if you weren't basically up front. I was about halfway back and couldn't even recognise some of the songs they were playing. Heard The Scratch were very muffled in there too.

Sugababes too sounded awful, their mics were glitching like mad and if you were at the back, you couldn't hear anything. Could barely hear Sorcha Richardson too when she was on main.

In contrast then, I thought the Lovely Days stage had really good sound.

The mud situation yesterday was a lawsuit waiting to happen. Can't believe how unprepared the organisers seem to have been, especially since they were putting out messages to festival goers in advance to come prepared for bad weather. They didn't even woodchip especially hilly and slippery areas, no staff around to help people who had fallen. I'm shocked I didn't hear of someone getting really hurt.

Very enjoyable weekend nonetheless, just wish the mud had been managed and prepared for a lot better than it was. And they could do with fine tuning issues with their main stage.

I was right of main stage for Caribou and the sound was terrible, and lots of people just talking over them as well. But I moved further back, and centre, and it sounded much better then.

I would probably go back next year, if I liked the acts, but I'd definitely bring a camper van.

This was my first ATN, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Started the weekend with Thee UFO and finished it with Iggy, and saw some great acts in between.

The food options were great. It was nice to have a pint of Guinness at a festival, and very handy to have pints of Guinness 0% yesterday as i drove home last night.

My general feeling was it felt like how EP used to be, with some lovely installations, a lack of teenagers, and a nice vibe to the place.

I saw a lot of older people, some people on crutches, and a good few 'unsteady' people really struggle with the ground conditions. I was chatting with a medic who said that there were 2 leg breaks over the weekend. I didn't see it myself but another person told me the same.

There were more discarded vape yokes on the ground than woodchipping, and not a single bit of straw. The terrain is quite hilly overall and uneven on the stoney trails, so the mud really made things dangerous imo and it was tiring at times.

I found Sunday a bit light on acts i wanted to see, especially early in the day. I would return though.

Had a great weekend, loved Lovely Days stage and the Last city was good craic.

Certainly a lot of tweaks to be made yet but can see it becoming an absolutely brilliant festival the setting is fantastic, lot of hills which weren't great for the legs but made the viewing of the stages really good.

Iggy was unreal and topped off the weekend for me perfectly.

Time to give the washing machine a bit of a workout

Unbelievable weekend! My prediction for the ground was slightly off the mark though 😄

Agree re food areas, all near high traffic areas for obvious reasons but would be great to have a few nice food vans and seating/chilled music down on the front lawn of house, and that would have been near kids area too. Saw lots of parents having to trek up to main arena area for food to bring back.