Well worth a look if anyone is there.
Oh Flatty, why donāt you have some sense?
I see myself as a Washington down kind of lad.
At Peggy Seeger in Monroeās in Galway here. Very very good show so far. She has a wicked sense of humour.
Iām excited to go see Robert Plant tonight. The Four of Us are supporting, cc @flattythehurdler.
Donāt miss them.
And report back
They were enjoyable flatty, lovely guys.
Wow! It changed your life in ways you never thought possible.
10 whole feet
Was there the Sunday. Orbital played after the Stone Roses were cracking.
The Kelly Family
It wasnāt as good as last year is the general consensus. Heard about the traffic so I skipped the Garda directions went across the toll bridge at Waterford and in the back/red gate, no traffic and no bother. A friend was stuck in Carrick on suir for three and a half hours. A complete shit show of organisation for traffic control. The blue gate and campsite was the way everyone was directed to for general camping, thatās where the traffic was and the campsite was also a shit show, packed and not enough showers or toilets or bins. I camped in the red one after coming in the other side and it was grand. In general not enough toilets or bins and neither were serviced enough so it was fair dirty by sunday. Slightly fewer art installations and performers and a younger crowd than last year that made it less family friendly and in general diminished the nice atmosphere that was there last year. All that seems to be the general consensus and theyāre getting ate on Twitter and Instagram for it apparently.
In saying that, I had a good weekend. Fontaines DC that I barely got in in time for were great, and Kiasmos was the other surprise highlight. Absolutely class.
I left on Sunday Eve as Iāve a rake to do this week so wanted to get recovered a day early but sure we didnāt get back to Dublin til midnight and stayed up til 8 am drinking bottles of wine which is pretty much what Iād have done at the festival if Iād stayed there anyway. Iām still not right.
Theyāll either have to make a big effort next year to steer it back towards the 2018 atmosphere or itāll go the way of oxegen/EP and become a shit show next year. John Reynolds one of the organisers that died during the year would have been the guy who curated a lot of it so was clearly a big loss.
Yeah heard all that too.
Next year is make or break for them. There is a market there for the older EP 30+ crowd if they get things right. But they did a lot of damage this year it seems. Many wonāt be going back or will sit out next year
Word is they lost a shit load of cash on it the first year so they doubled the capacity while also cutting back on the facilities. It wonāt be going back to the 2018 atmosphere.
They planned to make it the kind of thing EP started out as and hit that last year. Either they try very hard to bring it back to that or itāll end up a scaldy session fest like every nearly other festival around. Be a pity if thatās the way it goes.
If they get the basics right (traffic, toilets, bins, good food, enough space in arena, variety of stages, random chill out spots etc) and keep a line up that doesnāt interest 18 year olds then it is achievable.
Whether they can make a profit is another story. Bands can only make income by touring these days so the margins are tight Iād imagine and it sounds like they definatley canāt increase the capacity any more or any time soon.
Also they most definitely canāt increase ticket prices or it will probably back fire on them massively