That line up with the likes of Dermot Kennedy Picture This etc was always going to attract the type that don’t know how to behave at a festival
Not surprising given the the kind of people who make up a huge cohort of the attendees. EP was great, then they turned it far too mainstream, and it now brings a shit crowd. Fair enough if that’s what you’re into, but there are better festivals with a sounder crowd.
Absolutely no excuse for this, first rule of camping is leave no trace, you take everything home with you, no exceptions. The difference here is that the camping was inconsequential, people went for a piss up and a gig, and decided it wasn’t worth their time or effort to pack up a wet tent and sleeping bag.
Shit like this (literally and figuratively) is why I can’t stand big festivals….
Things like all the tents and chairs wrecked and dumped really piss me off. It’s one thing to leave all that stuff behind – there are groups who’ll collect it and recycle it if you haven’t the wit to get it back in its bag – but to actively destroy it so it can’t be reused is just being a cunt.
Last time I was at EP there were slashed and broken tents, tents with holes burned, tents smeared with what looked suspiciously like shit and smashed and broken chairs fecked everywhere from the campsite to the carpark….
I attended most of them from the start, this one was different, the crowd was very young, the litter was insane, there were no bins, the walkways to car parks were disgusting to walk through. It’s got too big and too young in my opinion and it was always expensive for food I know, but 15 euro for a tray of Fish and Chips c’mon. Beer is fucking watered down as well, €7 for that and €6 for Heineken 0. Not going to another one.
It would be weird if the loos weren’t covered in shite
Roughly 70,000 people attended Electric Picnic. If you assume that only 1% of humans are assholes that would happily smear shit all over the portaloo, that’s still 700 people who are looking for opportunities to make the world a worse place for everyone else for their own amusement.
Once went to a festival where the organisers offered free drinks tokens in exchange for rubbish cups/cans. As you can imagine, there wasn’t much litter at the end. Often wonder why they don’t incentivise that stuff here.
When will ep employ a tent deposit scheme? Or will that also be a shit show.
Can’t wipe a bit of poo on the walls, sure what can you do nowadays?
> The organiser made sure those toilets were cleaned everyday
With 70,000 people attending and poor weather I should hope they’d be cleaned much more frequently.
Been at it when the clean up happens and it looks like this nearly every year for the last 4 or 5 of them at least. They just check all the tents for people and then use a dozer to clean it up, its that bad.
I was there and anyone acting surprised about the state of the place has never been to a festival (in Ireland). There’s about 2 large bins (still smaller than a skip) per campsite and they don’t bother emptying them from I can see. There was 8 portaloos for the lads in Charlie Chapman. The rain came every night and made shit of the place, you couldn’t even try and pack up some of the tents I saw. And anyone blaming it on Dermot Kennedy, Picture This or The Two Johnnys playing is just a bitter bollox (not a big fan of any of them myself).
The organisers of EP are 100% the problem. They just keep increasing the capacity and don’t bother with the facilities.
Is it not possible to have a good time and clean up after yourself anymore?
There were 8 toilets for men and 38 for women at each station.
The toilets were filthy. They were cleaned once a day as far as I could tell.
It was managed terribly.
The bins weren’t emptied from Thursday night till when I was leaving on Monday afternoon.
They had 15000 more attendees than the last time but with the same number of facilities.
A friend of mine was in the pre erected tents in pink moon – the tent was leaking. Their stuff got destroyed wet.
The prices were bad but it was to be expected.
They really need to address the toilet situation…..
Not like, uh, every other music festival in the history of the world, then.
It’s not just festivals, you should see the state some of the fucks in our office leave the toilets in at work.
Fairly standard behaviour I’d say.
The fuckers didn’t empty the bins once all weekend. A fucking cost of living crisis and they force people to drink in the campsite and get arsey about smuggling a can or two in. The toilets are a disgrace compared to other European festivals.
If they actually put some organisation into the facilities the place wouldn’t be a mess
I have never been to electric picnic and I’ve only been to one music festival in my whole life. Knockanstockan. Whenever I see the aftermath pictures after a festival I always think back to knockanstockan when a girl was so fucked up she passed out in the portaloo. The st johns ambulance people had to carry her out and she was covered head to toe in other peoples piss and shit. Yeah, no thanks. I would go to a festival no bother but I would have to have a hotel booked nearby so I could come and go.
So much for single use….
I work in construction and often have the unplesent experience of having to use a portaloo, it’s completely normal to see questionable brown shite smeared inside, especially on the flush handle. Most of the time it’s mud from someone using their muddy boots to lift the seat or flush, other times it is shit, don’t touch it just in case.
I was in the performers camp and the toilets were better than the main area but there were maybe 12 of them and at one point almost every one of them were blocked up and flooded.
Electric Picnic seems to have completed it’s metamorphosis into the new Oxygen
(I know tents always get left behind. I’m basing this off the other comments here by people who were there)
What’s new?
Doo doo on the wall
Ugh on two bleeding occasions, I’ve seen poo and snots on the walls. The cubicles are so narrow that you’re bound to touch the walls regardless of your size. Too many kids allowed to roam
Double the price of the ticket on the proviso that you get half back if the site is left reasonably clean. That might incentivuze pelee to make sure that when they leave they and the people around them tidy up their shit
In other news, the sky is blue.
None of these festivals give a fuck about providing adequate facilities, toilets and otherwise
Never seen so much trash and tents left before in my life in America festivals but definitely seen some HORRIFIC Porto potties. Like over filled, shit on the rim or smeared. One time I saw a shoe stuck on the top😂😂
Bit fucking rich
Campsite Toilets were some disgrace this year, Jimmy Hendrix ones especially! Inside the arena it wasn’t too bad thank god
honestly i love our laid back Irish culture always up for some good craic but come on like. I always thought a bit of German, Japanese discipline would be good for us this’s not just in festivals its everywhere we’re like that careless and all.
I’m probably weird but I just don’t enjoy music festivals. I went to a few over the years but it’s just too messy and too long. I found some of them got petty boring. You’re just wandering around a lot of the time.
I’ve been to a few Irish ones and it’s fine for the first few hours then it gets chaotic and boring.
I went to one up in Iceland and while the music was good it was just absolutely miserable weather. I just remember walking back to the accommodation in freezing, driving rain in the middle of the night (which was bright due to being mid summer) and just being sooo cold and soaked to the skin. I ended up going back to the room, having a very hot shower and going to bed. I just couldn’t hack it after a few hours.
I’m more a stay in a nice hotel and go to a gig type of person.
I read posts like this and think … a nice warm hotel with a shower & maybe even a jacuzzi bath …
They have no fucking excuse for the absolute state of the place. Every other European festival with even bigger crowds can handle it just fine. Infact toilets are always clean and fully stocked with reasonable waiting lines. Not to mention sinks and fkn showers. It’s a joke … And it all boils down to Ireland bein greedy fuckers as per usual. Not willing to put the money into it..also relying heavily on volunteers (which is fine) I’ve volunteered before. Had a great time . But we hadn’t a clue what we were doing and were barely told what to do. Just thrown into it. (I had a blast) but still vowed I would never go back unless I was in crew camping (which was still absolutely stinkin but the lesser of evils) or if I had a van with me..that year it didn’t rain..I cannot imagine the chaos this year.
Well that’s an Irish republican tradition isn’t it?
Electric Picnic lost its soul when Melvin Benn (Festival Republic) took it from John Reynolds. Its been a race to the bottom ever since. There wasn’t enough toilets, there wasn’t enough staff, there wasn’t even enough lights around the place.
On toilet cleaning, for reference, Glastonbury has over 2,500 toilets which, although the website says are cleaned at least once a day, it feels far more frequently. Everyone uses them too, nobody pees on the land.
Festival Republic runs Reading and Leeds Festival, as well as EP. Seeing the complaints that came from those festivals the week before, and the state they were left in, I’m not surprised how awful a state EP ended up.
It’s all about squeezing as much money as possible now.
I also heard they have different levels of “glamping” now too. Silver “glamping” got you a plot of land for something like €250 with some improved facilities. However you still had to bring your own tent.For me I see that as the festival genuinely recognising how shit general camping has become but rather than addressing it, they’ve used it as an opportunity to make more money from those who just want to be able to camp in a place that doesn’t feel like you’re living in your own filth.
The tickets for next year will be on sale in a month or two and be swiped up. People should rethink before purchasing if things were as bad as the comments suggest.
This shit started yr 4+ on all festivals in ireland, this is why we can’t have nice things..fucking shame
I haven’t been to festival in 20 years! Literally! Went to Witnness when I was 17, it was a miserable experience! And never had any desire to go to a festival since! Put me off festivals for life. Even when EP was in its hay day. Reading these comments bring back those memories ! Much better music though I will say
God I sound like a nanna
I’ve been there camping for the weekend, taken a bag of yokes, slept a handful of hours, smoked a block of hash, and drank whatever I could. I still got up on the Monday and put my rubbish in bags, cleaned my tent up and packed it away to bring home. There’s no excuse for leaving this shit for someone else to clean up.
I’ve been going since 2007 with a few exceptions and went this year. The event has scaled bigger and bigger in terms of attendance but clearly the facilities are lagging behind. The introduction of Pink Moon allowed the organisers to retain the older and lucrative customers initially but even that standard dropped so now it’s Harvest Moon which is the cash cow. I think they keep the main campsites in a state to attract the older crowd with money. This is my last year going though, getting too old. The idea you could wander around the site and happen upon a good gig or show is long gone. It’s too big, a lot of stuff has moved to the woods and you need a planner. All sense of spontaneity is kinda gone.
Re the shit on the walls of the portaloos, that’s not just people being manky. I saw that first in 2007 an hour after a row of them had been cleaned by the truck. The truck usually comes along and empties the shit tank by suction and then a hose is dropped in the roof of each one to spray clean it. Problem is if the tank isn’t emptied completely, the spray cleans out any residual shit all over the portaloo. Hey presto , shit stalactite.
Wouldn’t expect any different from “settled people”.
Festivals need to sort out the toilet situation, it’s one of the worst elements.
Not properly cleaned and only cleaned once a day, stinking out the place, lack of toilet roll and hand sanitizer by the end of the festivals (I know you can bring your own), flushing mechanisms not working properly leaving the toilets filling up.
I was at Rock in Rio in Lisbon a few months back and the toilets were like proper functioning toilets with flushing water, and stewards to make sure people weren’t all rushing in and passing wherever they wanted. On top of that the mens toilets had a mix of urinals and normal toilets. The normal toilets were in two block’s, when block A was open block B was closed and being cleaned and vice-versa.
But I think the biggest issue besides cleaning is that some people just don’t care and will happily piss all over them or leave shit all over them
I, for one, am shocked and appalled.
Dirty protest?
So, people and especially youths, complain about cost of living, but they can afford to dump their tents?
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That line up with the likes of Dermot Kennedy Picture This etc was always going to attract the type that don’t know how to behave at a festival
Not surprising given the the kind of people who make up a huge cohort of the attendees. EP was great, then they turned it far too mainstream, and it now brings a shit crowd. Fair enough if that’s what you’re into, but there are better festivals with a sounder crowd.
Absolutely no excuse for this, first rule of camping is leave no trace, you take everything home with you, no exceptions. The difference here is that the camping was inconsequential, people went for a piss up and a gig, and decided it wasn’t worth their time or effort to pack up a wet tent and sleeping bag.
Shit like this (literally and figuratively) is why I can’t stand big festivals….
Things like all the tents and chairs wrecked and dumped really piss me off. It’s one thing to leave all that stuff behind – there are groups who’ll collect it and recycle it if you haven’t the wit to get it back in its bag – but to actively destroy it so it can’t be reused is just being a cunt.
Last time I was at EP there were slashed and broken tents, tents with holes burned, tents smeared with what looked suspiciously like shit and smashed and broken chairs fecked everywhere from the campsite to the carpark….
I attended most of them from the start, this one was different, the crowd was very young, the litter was insane, there were no bins, the walkways to car parks were disgusting to walk through. It’s got too big and too young in my opinion and it was always expensive for food I know, but 15 euro for a tray of Fish and Chips c’mon. Beer is fucking watered down as well, €7 for that and €6 for Heineken 0. Not going to another one.
It would be weird if the loos weren’t covered in shite
Roughly 70,000 people attended Electric Picnic. If you assume that only 1% of humans are assholes that would happily smear shit all over the portaloo, that’s still 700 people who are looking for opportunities to make the world a worse place for everyone else for their own amusement.
Once went to a festival where the organisers offered free drinks tokens in exchange for rubbish cups/cans. As you can imagine, there wasn’t much litter at the end. Often wonder why they don’t incentivise that stuff here.
When will ep employ a tent deposit scheme? Or will that also be a shit show.
Can’t wipe a bit of poo on the walls, sure what can you do nowadays?
> The organiser made sure those toilets were cleaned everyday
With 70,000 people attending and poor weather I should hope they’d be cleaned much more frequently.
Been at it when the clean up happens and it looks like this nearly every year for the last 4 or 5 of them at least. They just check all the tents for people and then use a dozer to clean it up, its that bad.
I was there and anyone acting surprised about the state of the place has never been to a festival (in Ireland). There’s about 2 large bins (still smaller than a skip) per campsite and they don’t bother emptying them from I can see. There was 8 portaloos for the lads in Charlie Chapman. The rain came every night and made shit of the place, you couldn’t even try and pack up some of the tents I saw. And anyone blaming it on Dermot Kennedy, Picture This or The Two Johnnys playing is just a bitter bollox (not a big fan of any of them myself).
The organisers of EP are 100% the problem. They just keep increasing the capacity and don’t bother with the facilities.
Is it not possible to have a good time and clean up after yourself anymore?
There were 8 toilets for men and 38 for women at each station.
The toilets were filthy. They were cleaned once a day as far as I could tell.
It was managed terribly.
The bins weren’t emptied from Thursday night till when I was leaving on Monday afternoon.
They had 15000 more attendees than the last time but with the same number of facilities.
A friend of mine was in the pre erected tents in pink moon – the tent was leaking. Their stuff got destroyed wet.
The prices were bad but it was to be expected.
They really need to address the toilet situation…..
Not like, uh, every other music festival in the history of the world, then.
It’s not just festivals, you should see the state some of the fucks in our office leave the toilets in at work.
Fairly standard behaviour I’d say.
The fuckers didn’t empty the bins once all weekend. A fucking cost of living crisis and they force people to drink in the campsite and get arsey about smuggling a can or two in. The toilets are a disgrace compared to other European festivals.
If they actually put some organisation into the facilities the place wouldn’t be a mess
I have never been to electric picnic and I’ve only been to one music festival in my whole life. Knockanstockan. Whenever I see the aftermath pictures after a festival I always think back to knockanstockan when a girl was so fucked up she passed out in the portaloo. The st johns ambulance people had to carry her out and she was covered head to toe in other peoples piss and shit. Yeah, no thanks. I would go to a festival no bother but I would have to have a hotel booked nearby so I could come and go.
So much for single use….
I work in construction and often have the unplesent experience of having to use a portaloo, it’s completely normal to see questionable brown shite smeared inside, especially on the flush handle. Most of the time it’s mud from someone using their muddy boots to lift the seat or flush, other times it is shit, don’t touch it just in case.
I was in the performers camp and the toilets were better than the main area but there were maybe 12 of them and at one point almost every one of them were blocked up and flooded.
Electric Picnic seems to have completed it’s metamorphosis into the new Oxygen
(I know tents always get left behind. I’m basing this off the other comments here by people who were there)
What’s new?
Doo doo on the wall
Ugh on two bleeding occasions, I’ve seen poo and snots on the walls. The cubicles are so narrow that you’re bound to touch the walls regardless of your size. Too many kids allowed to roam
Double the price of the ticket on the proviso that you get half back if the site is left reasonably clean. That might incentivuze pelee to make sure that when they leave they and the people around them tidy up their shit
In other news, the sky is blue.
None of these festivals give a fuck about providing adequate facilities, toilets and otherwise
Never seen so much trash and tents left before in my life in America festivals but definitely seen some HORRIFIC Porto potties. Like over filled, shit on the rim or smeared. One time I saw a shoe stuck on the top😂😂
Bit fucking rich
Campsite Toilets were some disgrace this year, Jimmy Hendrix ones especially! Inside the arena it wasn’t too bad thank god
honestly i love our laid back Irish culture always up for some good craic but come on like. I always thought a bit of German, Japanese discipline would be good for us this’s not just in festivals its everywhere we’re like that careless and all.
I’m probably weird but I just don’t enjoy music festivals. I went to a few over the years but it’s just too messy and too long. I found some of them got petty boring. You’re just wandering around a lot of the time.
I’ve been to a few Irish ones and it’s fine for the first few hours then it gets chaotic and boring.
I went to one up in Iceland and while the music was good it was just absolutely miserable weather. I just remember walking back to the accommodation in freezing, driving rain in the middle of the night (which was bright due to being mid summer) and just being sooo cold and soaked to the skin. I ended up going back to the room, having a very hot shower and going to bed. I just couldn’t hack it after a few hours.
I’m more a stay in a nice hotel and go to a gig type of person.
I read posts like this and think … a nice warm hotel with a shower & maybe even a jacuzzi bath …
They have no fucking excuse for the absolute state of the place. Every other European festival with even bigger crowds can handle it just fine. Infact toilets are always clean and fully stocked with reasonable waiting lines. Not to mention sinks and fkn showers. It’s a joke … And it all boils down to Ireland bein greedy fuckers as per usual. Not willing to put the money into it..also relying heavily on volunteers (which is fine) I’ve volunteered before. Had a great time . But we hadn’t a clue what we were doing and were barely told what to do. Just thrown into it. (I had a blast) but still vowed I would never go back unless I was in crew camping (which was still absolutely stinkin but the lesser of evils) or if I had a van with me..that year it didn’t rain..I cannot imagine the chaos this year.
Well that’s an Irish republican tradition isn’t it?
Electric Picnic lost its soul when Melvin Benn (Festival Republic) took it from John Reynolds. Its been a race to the bottom ever since. There wasn’t enough toilets, there wasn’t enough staff, there wasn’t even enough lights around the place.
On toilet cleaning, for reference, Glastonbury has over 2,500 toilets which, although the website says are cleaned at least once a day, it feels far more frequently. Everyone uses them too, nobody pees on the land.
Festival Republic runs Reading and Leeds Festival, as well as EP. Seeing the complaints that came from those festivals the week before, and the state they were left in, I’m not surprised how awful a state EP ended up.
It’s all about squeezing as much money as possible now.
I also heard they have different levels of “glamping” now too. Silver “glamping” got you a plot of land for something like €250 with some improved facilities. However you still had to bring your own tent.For me I see that as the festival genuinely recognising how shit general camping has become but rather than addressing it, they’ve used it as an opportunity to make more money from those who just want to be able to camp in a place that doesn’t feel like you’re living in your own filth.
The tickets for next year will be on sale in a month or two and be swiped up. People should rethink before purchasing if things were as bad as the comments suggest.
This shit started yr 4+ on all festivals in ireland, this is why we can’t have nice things..fucking shame
I haven’t been to festival in 20 years! Literally! Went to Witnness when I was 17, it was a miserable experience! And never had any desire to go to a festival since! Put me off festivals for life. Even when EP was in its hay day. Reading these comments bring back those memories ! Much better music though I will say
God I sound like a nanna
I’ve been there camping for the weekend, taken a bag of yokes, slept a handful of hours, smoked a block of hash, and drank whatever I could. I still got up on the Monday and put my rubbish in bags, cleaned my tent up and packed it away to bring home. There’s no excuse for leaving this shit for someone else to clean up.
I’ve been going since 2007 with a few exceptions and went this year. The event has scaled bigger and bigger in terms of attendance but clearly the facilities are lagging behind. The introduction of Pink Moon allowed the organisers to retain the older and lucrative customers initially but even that standard dropped so now it’s Harvest Moon which is the cash cow. I think they keep the main campsites in a state to attract the older crowd with money. This is my last year going though, getting too old. The idea you could wander around the site and happen upon a good gig or show is long gone. It’s too big, a lot of stuff has moved to the woods and you need a planner. All sense of spontaneity is kinda gone.
Re the shit on the walls of the portaloos, that’s not just people being manky. I saw that first in 2007 an hour after a row of them had been cleaned by the truck. The truck usually comes along and empties the shit tank by suction and then a hose is dropped in the roof of each one to spray clean it. Problem is if the tank isn’t emptied completely, the spray cleans out any residual shit all over the portaloo. Hey presto , shit stalactite.
Wouldn’t expect any different from “settled people”.
Festivals need to sort out the toilet situation, it’s one of the worst elements.
Not properly cleaned and only cleaned once a day, stinking out the place, lack of toilet roll and hand sanitizer by the end of the festivals (I know you can bring your own), flushing mechanisms not working properly leaving the toilets filling up.
I was at Rock in Rio in Lisbon a few months back and the toilets were like proper functioning toilets with flushing water, and stewards to make sure people weren’t all rushing in and passing wherever they wanted. On top of that the mens toilets had a mix of urinals and normal toilets. The normal toilets were in two block’s, when block A was open block B was closed and being cleaned and vice-versa.
But I think the biggest issue besides cleaning is that some people just don’t care and will happily piss all over them or leave shit all over them
I, for one, am shocked and appalled.
Dirty protest?
So, people and especially youths, complain about cost of living, but they can afford to dump their tents?