Electric Picnic 2023 **No Ticket Sales / Requests ** - It'll be grand

What a waste of time and money, stopping people from having a joint. Meanwhile go to any outdoor gig in Dublin and weed is predominantly what you smell (was at Noel G at the weekend and I may as well have been smoking myself, there was so much around).

It’s a more general discussion, but really, in 2023 haven’t they more important stuff to be dealing with? Clearly a headline stating that 75 arrests were made at the Electric Picnic implies that the drug squad have some sort of effectiveness and allows them to take the following fortnight off.

I welcome their intervention when a dangerous batch of pills is identified but otherwise…….

Someone put up 360° photo on FB, am I seeing things or gave they have rotated the main stage around? There's a tree right in front if it!

It was moved further back down the hill and shifted position as of last year's event.

There's a huge amount of space in front of the tree/sounddesk, it's just not apparent in that image.

Can't manage to share or send a link to the drone 360° photo but it's on the Facebook electric picnic Banter page posted 1 hour ago by an Alan OReilly. It's well worth a look!

That was my photo and 360 degree can make it appear differently. Tree is to left as you look at front of stage.

Spare Pink Moon band?

Hi all, after ducking out months ago I'm getting serious FOMO now, a friend has taken my Pink Moon spot though, I'm toying with the idea of trying to get a spare pink moon band and just sleeping in the "lobby" of my group's tent, would anyone have a spare pass, e.g. you have a four man but there's only three going, so basically i'm just trying to get pink moon access, i don't want to sleep in your tent! i can pay you a few bob for your trouble! cheers

I’m going to throw a little love out there for deeply quirky Icelandic band GRÓA. Playing Freetown Providencia at 23:15 on Friday. Bit of an overlap with Havvk & Pixie Cut RO…but hoping to catch some of their set.

Will help a slight bit with bookings but not going to be life altering. August is generally the weaker month for international acts touring across Europe.

The feeling locally is that there was no consultation, people taken by surprise with the date change. Wonder how much consultation was had with the county council (who previously were not afraid to stand up to EP announcing dates).

Other than EP, Stradballys other claim to fame is their August Bank Holiday Steam Rally. It takes place in the same Cosby estate, and has been running for around 60 years. Very popular, it draws a large crowd every year, many visitors come every year, etc.

It ends on Monday 5 August 2024, with EP starting 10 days later (Thursday 15 August) - this puts enormous pressure now on the Steam Rally committee to clear their site ASAP, I expect they may also have other challenges, like having restricted space inside the estate, having more people around (working on EP), perhaps additional security, etc.

Local farmers are also rightly pissed off. Roads will be fully closed for 5 days just as they are harvesting. They plan around the first weekend in September being fixed in stone.

Haven't heard local town residents as yet, but I expect they may not be delighted with it moving to a school holiday timeframe, albeit they have been getting acclimatised to younger festival goers over a few years now.

So does anyone remember that all the later night areas werent commodified and you could bring cans and meet others outside of ur camp...like the old salty dog...is there anywhere u can bring ur cans?

Have set up a WhatsApp below for anyone interested for the weekend. Handy for quick updates

https://chat.whatsapp.com/Fg7U40971LgI5o7EuoFjs1

Tis indeed, the Murphys is very welcome to the party.

I possibly might, not 100% sure yet as someone might need it if they can't get a campervan ticket.