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

Great gig, Hazey Haze has some pipes

Only went for the Saturday, as was playing another festival on Sunday. Unfortunately when we got there we were told the performer's car park was full and were ushered into the red car park. It was 2km+ walk from there to accreditation, which we had to do carrying all our gear.

We arrived at the Providencia stage 2 hours after parking, dropped our stuff off and were able to have a wander around. Caught a bit of the Bootleg Beach Boys who sounded great. Had a wander around the main area for a bit without stopping anywhere in particular. Took a while to decide on food given some of the mad prices, but settled on some loaded chips for €8, which wasn't too bad. A pint of Lagunitas for less than €8 was also unexpected

We played a 45 min set to a great crowd and then were free to roam again for another few hours. Caught some Inhaler, Hamsandwich, Paolo Nutini and Kila. I enjoyed the new (?) Freetown area, some of the lanes and hidden locations were so cool! I'm sure there is a lot that I missed there.

All the "foresty" areas were really good, and as the weather was so decent it was nice not walking in mud for the whole time. Particularly liked the Spike Island area, sort of had a Mad Max vibe.

Let around 10:30 and had to do the long trek back to the car once more, again carrying all our gear. We walked through a few camping grounds to get to the cars, and they seemed fairly civilised. It was even more hassle doing it in the dark - even though I had dropped a pin for the car it still was way harder to navigate without any proper lighting.

Eventually got to the car, and getting out after that was no problem. Home by 1am.

Apart from the major issue of the car parking it was a good day. It seemed busier than previous years, but it was a well mannered and happy crowd. Would certainly have loved to have a bit more time to explore it some more and check out more bands.

Steps: 28,593, Distance walked: 21.89km, Distance Driven: 218km

thought they were great to be honest. Ya Sofa King is abit cheesy but the jangly guitar sound is great

I understand the frustration of not getting in to arena but I was on site for the week leading up to picnic and to be fair to all the construction workers, who were working flat to the mat - the heavy rain on Thursday night/Fri morning caused a lot of problems - some of the structures got flooded overnight and the ground was in a bad way - they had to bring in serious amounts of bark mid day to cover areas that would normally not need it. I know it’s annoying when arena doesn’t open as scheduled but health and safety trumps everything! Thankfully we had an amazing weather weekend which helped the ground significantly! Glad you had a great weekend!

Excellent review @Stillill42, you’ve brought the place alive. Wilco for me would trump any act at EP and EOTR is a major consideration for the future. Never seen a bad lineup for that weekend. Enjoy your recovery week.

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Thanks, Reded. I completely ignored your advice and followed the advice of the lads. Throw it in the check in bag and forget about it. It all turned out OK. And yeah, absolutely check it out. Fantastic festival.

moat people ignore my advice 🤣 glad it all worked out!

I was probably to blame for one of those isolated incidents absolutely creamed a girl after tying my lacer on Sunday at the Bacardi stage, fell backwards...she took a full frontal 17 stone to the face... security swarmed around....made me buy her a drink as a sorry as it was a complete accident...still I'd say she's a pair of lovely shiners today...

Top weekend, regretting going hammer and thongs at it Sunday...Bik knocked it out of the park..

Could hear the crews working all of Thursday night/Friday morning, much appreciated! I can’t imagine the Microsoft project management file 🥵 without the luxury being able to delay the start, you can’t exactly tell ppl to come one day later.

Trojan work - I would love someone to properly document a festival build and the army of cleaners caterers etc behind the scenes might make some clean up their act! On an otherwise fun weekend, That was the single thing that p****d me off - the escalation in campsite trashing!!! Seemed way worse this yr / used to be mostly confined to hendrix now it’s widespread and the feckless abandonment of tents, chairs, cooler boxes etc! “Sure someone else will clean up my mess!” Can never understand why they can’t make more sites ECO?!

Full report coming but a big shout to Mother in the woods, my wife and I and our friends went there on Friday night and met the loveliest people and hung out with them in mother every night of the weekend from around midnight to the death, absolute blast every night!

Great reading all the reviews and mostly positive feedback. Just one thing about crowd congestion and crushes that I think needs to be flagged. There was a potentially bad crush unfolding after The Script at the womens toilets to the left of the main stage. My wife was caught in it and it got pretty bad with a surge into the entrance area. It was so intense that arms were pinned and people couldnt move and there was a lot of screaming and panic with people pinned up against cubicle doors as well but the Guards were on it very quickly and started roaring at people to stop moving towards the toilets. Stewards in the area just stood and stared. A potentially dangerous situation handled very quickly and well by the Guards.

My wife is no shrinking violet and she was pretty shaken by it on her return. I believe the toilets there were shut down to relieve the congestion then. Thankfully no one hurt.

Fantastic band, never seen them live, would love if they came to EP some time. Mad jealous now.

My pals who’ve gone (mainly English) love it. It’s clearly for serious music fans and very well curated. I’ll get there sometime.