All Together Now 2024

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It appears that the Dublin bus service goes direct to the festival on Thursday, shuttle buses start Friday. Guess I'll stick to the bus 👍

seems like the other part of the app is saying free flow

the QR code

Ah they better not start this craic now. Not having to worry about sneaking cans into main arena, and just being able to freely have them in your backpack, is a huge selling point of the festival.

Apologies if this is obvious but im guessing Londis will have large water bottles, but maybe best to bring some in case they sell out?

Cheers 😎

The early EP’s weren’t necessarily free flow, but you could certainly get cans in. They weren’t setup like they were now with tables, marquees and good lighting, I vaguely remember the people doing the searches were 1 employed security with a weekend volunteer helper, the volunteers weren’t bothered and would often find cans but still let you through, this didn’t last long.

On the Fri things were extremely lax, but by Sun this progressed to Fort Knox type searches, the theory was if the takings from the bars didn’t meet expectations the “security” was cranked up. To me a couple of drug scares ref high strength MDMA were fabricated to justify heavier searches.

Leaving policy in the hands of a drink company is really anti festival!

This is completely my vibe too. Love having my bag of cans when I'm actually at a gig. Also love getting a lovely cold pint or cocktail.

If ATN doesn’t remain free flow our group will likely stop going. Really turned us off at other festivals. Not everyone likes what the sponsors sell, and as mentioned here already it would really change the vibe to people getting as much alcohol into them in the tents before heading out later in the day. As well as the stress of queuing to be searched every time you come and go. Has anyone here reached out to ATN to clarify?

I remember we used the decoy approach with getting booze in, which usually worked, but doubt that will work now 😄

Edited sorry. Open cans on entry

Drinks section on app saying cans must be open entering arena.

In all honesty though no security guard in their right mind would ask someone to "open them 4 cans before you go in...cheers"

Click “more”, click “need to know”, click “drinks”. It’s only there - so surely it’s a mistake 🤞 it doesn’t say one can it says “cans must be opened before entering the arena”