Spirits on Saturday are, if anything, conspicuously higher than on Friday. Most people have settled in: the car is parked, the tent up, the long drive home a faint cloud on the horizon.
Who and what the “Laois boys” are is not forthcoming — apparently they are in the vicinity and we must track them down. Seán — is this his real name? possibly not — dispenses a conciliatory fist bump and vanishes into the campsite.
“Will you lie back — you’re a BAD child,” says the friend. “I’m Becky Hill!” declares the woman in the pram. “I’m going on stage in a minute” This is the biggest Electric Picnic ever and is a weekend of contrasts. For instance, The Trailer Park area — a sort of Southern Gothic party zone — has a harder political edge than previously.
Electric Picnic 2022 is also the festival version of the old science fiction movie Logan’s Run. In that film, citizens are ritualistically disintegrated upon turning 30. Similarly, there was a time Stradbally was thronged with oldies on the first weekend in September. This year, they’re thinner on the ground.
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