Just returned from this today.First time at this festival and apart from the horrific traffic jams trying to enter the site on Friday evening (to give you an idea,we left Dublin for the normally one hour drive at 4.30pm and didnt get there til 10.45pm!!)it was a great set up with loads of different stages and heaps of other stuff going on too.We didnt get from the car parks to the campsite for another half hour and then had to erect the tent in the dark.We got this done at midnight,just as the last act on mainstage were finishing!LCD Soundsystem it was and they SOUNDED great at least as we could hear it wafting across the fields.Among other acts yesterday we saw Magic Numbers,Camera Obscura,Ladytron,Erasure and bit of the Beastie Boys as we left their stage early to make sure we got back to the main stage for the Chems who were due on at midnight.Beasties finished at midnight and by the time the Chems came on at 12.20 it seemed that the entire festival crowd was there about 30,000.For the first time all weekend I could see that all the food and beer stalls had nobody que ing and all the walkways around the main area were deserted.EVERYONE was waiting at the main stage and there was a great sense of expectation.Anyway the Bros came on,did fairly same set for this tour and the crowd lapped it up.Only slight changes I detected from the Amsterdam show anyway was that it was a bit of a different rendition of Do It Again,they did a lovely minute and a half or so of A Modern Midnight Conversation which was quite different to how it sounds on the album and in fact was only really the intro to the next piece,The Golden Path which was awesome.Biggest difference for me from my previous show on this tour was that Block Rockin Beats was back!They did it as an encore and led in to it after a few building rumbles of "The Brothers Gonna Work It Out".After BRB's it was Sunshine Underground to finish.Great great show.Outdoor the screen looked bigger somehow,maybe it was?Personal highlights would have to be the whole Saturate/Believe segment.I know some of you expressed doubts about how well it mixes but the visuals produced roars of approval from the crowd.The exploding paint balls and the religious buildings and sheer power of Believe.Again the crowd were screaming at them,almost pleading for the release to happen after the big build towards the end of Believe so that they could all freak out again!Tom and Ed were loving it and they came out from behind the equiptment to wave and take the plaudits during the show way more often than they usually do.My only disappointment was that again,they didnt do Das Spiegel but I aint complaining.It was a fabulous show,gorgeous moonlit evening (a rarity this summer in Ireland!)and the fact that its a festival which attracts the whole gamut of age groups from toddlers to 40 somethings only added to it.Anyway,those of you who are still waiting for the tour to hit your area I can only tell you that they'll definitely be worth the wait.Enjoy.

Ta for that...a bit of set tweakin'...excellent! (Keeps every bit of me crossed for London...!!!) Did they play Burst Generator then? And keep Fight The Control in as well? When you say it was a slightly different Do It Again, was it a bit harder and faster than Glasto? All these questions...I am just too excited...and impatient...understandably!!!

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=f5xb2U3uQ40

rate it or hate it, the chems new video is fookin odd!

No if anything Do It Again was slightly mellower than I'd seen them do in Amsterdam in June.Burst Generator came in straight after Galvanize as previous shows.Fight The Control was in there too.

Niiiiiiiiiiiice!! Everyone waiting at the main stage... that right there just freaks me out in a good way. Thanks BUFFETT!

Yeah Whirly the build up and the fact that they were kinda late coming on actually added to the excitement.Even non Chems fans at it knew that something special was approaching.I lost count of the number of people who told me during the day on Saturday that although they werent there specifically for the Chems they knew they HAD to be at the mainstage at midnight!We met a couple of teenage girls in the crowd who I thought were gonna pass out with the excitement beforehand and when we told them we'd already seen the show and they were in for a real treat that nearly sent them over the edge.Although fans it was their first Chemical Experience (although they werent ON anything,unlike us!)and they were speechless afterwards.It was kinda funny,they just kept looking at us afterwards and shaking their heads,blown away.Magic show.Best Golden Path I've seen them do.

Fuckin' hell, dude.

What you wrote about those fans, how it was their first experience - damn. That already adds to the gear-up for whehn I get to see them!

Yeah Hold Tight California,not long now!!!

Oh yeah!! Tasty picnic indeed.

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incredible doesn't clearly describe chems at electric picnic. just back from it earlier. it was immense. chems playing on my birthday wasn't a bad way to celebrate it.

Oh my god.. Saturday Night was fuckin immense. My story is a bit of a longwinder but a real experience to say the least, the whole day I couldn't stop thinkin about The Chemical Brothers guys, like ''in 6hrs im gonna be going apeshit mad'' kinda thing.

I ended up getting really really drunk and then going to the Beastie Boys, being sick about 10times [eeesh] Seen beasties for a while then went outside for some air, and just crashed out and boked some more. I lost about an hour or 2 of my night, it was bad cause - that totally sucked, but good cause it shortened the time to the chems. I asked a nice lady for the time and she said 12 and i went from being a big fat disgrace liein there like a big hobo loser, to little fanboy fox running as fast as I could to the mainstage, cause they were supposed to come on at 12, I made my way right up to the front and was at the very front the whole time.

Cut a long story short - I went apeshit to everything and what seemed like 20minutes was actually a mindblowing 1hr 30mins set. I couldnt believe it.. I was buzzin afterwards like... just a complete glow..

Highlights were Burst Generator - Star Guitar - Believe - Get Yourself High/Do It Again - Under the influence.. basically the whole set :P

The bros. really did look like they were havin a sweet time up there...

One negative factor was I heard someone had a heart attack and had to be lifted out by the paramedics.. people were saying he had died.. That had me trippin balls like - I was a bit freaked out and I felt really bad.. I hope he didnt die :(

Anyway apart from that I got my Trafalgar Sq Ticks and Ill be there this Sunday :D :D

I'm sorry to keep being a thread stalker and butting my head in here, but these reviews are positively glowing!!

Happy belated irishfan! Who could ask for a better birthday present than a spectacular, immense and mind blowing Chems gig. :mrgreen:

Foxy, I'm glad you recovered from your, eh hem, illness to catch up with the Chems. Front row trooper! And that waiting game, the whole "in 6 hours I'm gonna see the Chems." hahaha, I know exactly how you feel!

I do hope that guy who went away with the paramedics will be all right.

Thank you guys, so much - reading these reviews are a perfect way to start my week.

major down note on the chems performance was that a 23 yr old guy died while at the chems at electric picnic.

I met this canadian at the front too, who had been traveling and souly just went to EP just to see the chemicals too. She was sooooo stoked about seein them cause She had never seen them before and ya know the whole US/Canada Chems Gig Drought.

So I was really happy for her.

Does anyone know what happened to the guy?

Thats so terrible like.

^ Feelin' the love of first time Chems giggers!

That poor guy, only 23 years old... That is such a shame and so, so sad.

Wtf ?! Really irish ?! Where did you get that info from !?

That is horrible....really really horrible.

My god.

I am really shocked :|

People seen it happen, I didnt see it like but everyone was talking about it. I didnt think he had actually died..

from rte news

Post mortem for Electric Picnic death

A post mortem examination is due to be carried out at the Midlands Regional Hospital in Portlaoise today on the body of a man who died at the Electric Picnic festival over the weekend.

The 23-year-old from County Cork collapsed at the festival late on Saturday night and died at the hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning.

He has been named as John Fitzgerald of Healy's Bridge, Carrigrohane, Co Cork.

AdvertisementGardaí have said they do not suspect foul play.

Over 30,000 people attended the three-day music festival at Stradbally Hall in County Laois.

The promoters of Electric Picnic have extended their sympathies to the man's family.

I know, that guy dying - during a time when he should be having the time of his life... Was really hoping the same as Foxy that he was going to be all right. A brief search and it's all over the Irish newswire. Was it really during the Chems? I just lightly scanned the articles. Cause of death hasn't been confirmed but foul play is ruled out. God...