Electric Picnic 2024 **No Ticket Sales / Requests** - Waiting in line, terrible time, over familiar

Paraphrasing?

They’re not playing and will be badly missed if they keep releasing stuff like this. Out yesterday, bits of the House of Love, a lot of The Cure’s Push and smatterings of every Scottish jangly guitar band you ever loved. Even @Mucker46 might enjoy this.

Enjoy the music and Grians voice not as grating as usual

I have no issue with his accent, any of them, just find that for me his voice doesn't work with the music and puts me off them even though a lot of their music is good

Why would it be fake? It’s his natural voice and I’d much prefer to hear that in their material than some transatlantic twang.

Spot on. It seems like a kinda pointless thing to focus on.

Ep just posted this on their socials, new area for campervans.

Early entry is included in the campervan pass anyway.

Wow Wednesday! Turning into a glasto! 😂

Allowing the campers come in early would mean a huge cross over in works and build, you’d have ppl trying to get in and setup their camper with teleporter/truck/trailer traffic and the like driving around.

I’m guessing they’re taking the camper vans off the traditional site and across the road possibly the back end of the green car park accessible from the N80. Punters likely coming in the paintball entrance? Probably less of a distance, but will need to enter and exit the festival to get to their camper?

Planning docs here.

Says early entry is now 25k, was 20k last year. I must say I’m sceptical about the 20k 😂 it feels much much more than that on Thursday, inc traffic, queues in and tent coverage!! They didn’t even scan my Thur ticket last year, just visually looked that I had them on the app.

For a festival as conventional/MOR as Isle of Wight there’s a hell of a lot of good stuff on. Coverage all weekend on Sky Arts - The Streets, Prodigy, Crowded House, Bootleg Beatles, Johnny Marr, Pretenders, Pet Shop Boys, Suede, Keane, Mary Wallopers, Simple Minds, Green Day, Toyah Wilcox, etc. Not innovative nor exciting but relative to EP……..

And it doesn’t smack of cheapness either.

Decent coverage I think, though less of those bloody presenters please……..😀

Streets performance was hilarious.

Acts wise this doesn’t feel like a festival with 15k less capacity than EP. Up to you to redeem yerselves soon FR.

if the Prodigy can be this good without Keith then there’s hope for Faithless sans Maxi in August.

Glasto opens on Wednesday. On that day you’re moving around the site but the music stages are all shut. You’ll find stuff to do but it’s a day for getting settled.
on Thursday more stuff opens up but there’s very little live music and none on the main 15-20 stages. South East Corner has stuff but it gets overwhelmed.

If it’s the music you’re going for the first two days can get pretty dull.

EP early ticket should be gratis but good luck persuading FR of that. I just take it as a chance to avoid the mayhem of Friday and get pitched early. I only met one couple (from Athy) who were pitching early and leaving. There’s really very few people doing that. Certainly none of the 8/9 tents around us that we were chatting with.

Was very good on the Thursday in 2022, mainly around the Salty Dog. Didn’t bother last year and had more of a delay on the Friday but got in easily enough. Definitely less stress to do the Thursday, better camping spots and it’s a great vibe around the place.

You been @Fatfrog , or heading in the near future? Not a festival to do yearly (unless you’re @desk tidy or @rubick) but if the weather holds out it’s pretty much peerless.
EP in its heyday wasn’t so far behind, and we’ve more or less lost one of the best festivals in Europe.

Same here. I was also there in 2014 and I’ve only gotten tickets on one occasion since. No idea how people like @rubick get tickets every year. Some form of nefariousness clearly.

Going every 4/5 years suits me. It’s an entire week of holiday, it ain’t cheap and it’s exhausting. Hopefully some fellow boardsies will share their secrets on securing tickets in the next year or two.

I have family weekend camping and a normal campervan pass, will this allow me to the family campervan camping??

Yeah, it’s more the plural bit I’m worried about, but likely nothing!