Each time I go I tell myself: this is it, my LAST Electric Picnic. This year was no different. 41,000 punters (biggest crowd ever) made for a lot of queuing - a very unpopular activity. Mindfield, for the second year in a row was without the usual packed line-up of novelists and poets. Two things that should be enough to keep me away.
In the comedy tent, David McSavage was as frightening as ever, his mimicry of Gerry Adams, in particular, raising the roof.
A selection of bands from my formative years kept me in the front row of the Main Stage.
Seventies punk-rock band, The Stranglers, thrilled with classics such as 'No More Heroes' and 'Golden Brown' and particularly wonderful was their billing slot - 2pm - allowing this punter to enjoy them at a respectably early time!
I dropped in to see the anarchic Rubberbandits whose madcap set had a sort of unnerving aura - their song 'Spoiling Ivan' made me a tad uncomfortable - the desired affect, I suppose.
As always, just being at EP is fun in itself:
especially when you spot a lampshade in a colour you were looking out for in ages,
The tickets for 2015 go on sale today.
As they say where I come from: 'No Comment'.
4 comments:
I take it you enjoyed it then! And not too much doing on the Literary front? some of my friends were reading on Saturday- Phil Lynch and Anne Tannam. I'd like to have a look around it before anyone else got there just to get a sense of the place- my daughter came home with lots of blisters from all the walking, but they thats right up your alley! Eileen K
It was brilliant, Eileen, unexpectedly so, as I was telling myself as I queued in, that it was definitely my last year!
The walking is the challenge but as you say, that's fine with me.
Disappointing how few writers are appearing at EP now, maybe there are too many other better venues/events for them to read at?
See you soon.
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