Overcast but sizzling.
Sophie Devere writes:
“I work for a movie editing app called Shotclip, Thought you might like to post up a video we made at the Big Grill festival this weekend in Herbert Park, Dublin. It was deadly, here’s some footage anyway if you feel like sharing :)”
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well, it’s answered the question of how many ar@eholes can fit into Herbet Park.
did you enjoy your time there Anna?
BOOM! Headshot!
Who are the arseh@les, Anna?
It looks like the most normal crowd I’ve ever seen at a festival. Loads of families too. Who do you think is an arseh@le and please tell us why. Thanks
if you don’t know, i really can’t help you. have a nice life.
Great comeback there. Always a sure way to prove a point, the old ‘don’t answer. trick.
I’m already having a nice life really. It’s nice here in the non-judgmental, positive, non-pass remarkable world. Sometimes I go a whole day without calling people I don’t know arseh@les. Believe it or not it makes me feel good about my own self knowing that I can just let people be. The world is made up of all sorts of people. Some wear different clothes and like different stuff to what I do but hey, that’s life!
Wishing you a nice life too, Anna!
Sorry rotide don’t recall the name of the post but it was about WW1 commemorations. Find it if you can. There’s a great bit where yer man ‘Helen’ loses it and accidentally posts as ‘Breda’. Fupping hilarious it was.
€15 just to get into a section of a Dublin city council park seemed a bit steep.
Especially when it was so badly organised. Oversold, understocked and publicised with misleading PR – considering they were literally organising a piss-up in a park, hard to see how they could do it so badly.
Everybody in Ireland is an event organising expert and comments sections are the new Joe Duffy…..
It didn’t do badly.
“It didn’t do badly” – if you mean this in a “it sold well” sense, that’s of no meaning in terms of event quality given it mostly sold in advance. If you mean it in a “They did OK” sense, you should really raise your standards for what good event planning is.
Has it occurred to you that the reason so many events like this in Ireland end up being panned whenever they’re talked about is that the standard of large-scale event planning in Ireland is woefully poor?
I agree. You pay in to spend more money… these types of events seem to do well in Ireland. At least at the Craft Beer festival next month you’ll get a complimentary glass.
I saw one workshop at the Big Grill on Saturday and it was very mediocre in terms of the persons ability to teach in an open forum like that. And this person runs a cookery school as a business, which surprised me. Out of their comfort zone maybe.
By the time I was leaving the place was full of toddlers and buggies. Great for the people with kids and toddlers I guess.
It was.
And people with friends.
I had a great time.
Was the food free on entry with that price?
No, nothing complimentary. You bought tokens inside and used those to buy food and drink. 20 tokens for 20 EUR.
If you hung out at the demo area you could get a mouthful of some food at the end of a workshop. Or signed up for one of the eating competitions.
If the price in is 10 EUR next year, I might go again. But it won’t be, they sold out on the Saturday.
Thanks Sheila.
Interesting Sheila. I too would have thought the admission fee entitled you to a burger or a hot-dog, or 5 tokens at least.
The thing is, free Dublin CC and CoCo events usually bring these frying foodsters to the party anyhow (e.g. Docklands Festival, Culture Night). Looked fun all the same.
The real problem for me was that the posters/FB pages sold it as “Beer/Cider €2.50-5, Food €4-10” when in reality even the 350ml cans of beer were selling at €5 a pop and the only food you could get for near to €4 was chips; most stands were selling things at €10 (for just a burger), and at least a few were €12 for just one thing.
Paying in on the promise of an affordable selection only to pay inflated prices for everything is a bit of a stinger.
To be fair Nially, €5 for pints of a decent selection of craft beers is as good or better than you’ll get in most pubs. The cans were punk IPA for one, which is expensive in off license! Fiver’s not that bad.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it was great value. Food was pricy, but there were burgers and hot dogs for a fiver too if you were looking for relatively “affordable”. I guess it was as I expected…
The €15 is so all the Stepford couples can avoid seeing any tracksuit wearing people or hearing accents other than their own carefully cultivated SoCoDu accents (even if they’re from Roscommon originally).
Yawn
Yes they are tiresomely samey people, all so afraid of being different from other.
Yeah.
You’re dead right.
I’m sure you had a great time on Saturday and Sunday, gracefully spreading every penny you have to the virtuous underclasses.
Power to the people, Wolfy.
I went on the Sunday, I paid €15 + booking fee! I was especially peeved as so many places seemed to have sold out of the options they’d had on the Friday and Saturday, so I paid full whack with less choice than those who went the previous two days,
The food options were very limited and so overpriced. The craft beer was also very limited, I can’t drink beer or wine, so was looking forward to trying some craft ciders, there was only a single option as they had sold out of their alternatives. As the place got busier the queue was huge for the single cider stand, so I just had the bottle of water I’d brought in. A friend was also looking for gluten free options which didn’t seem to exist.
The main redeeming factor was that I was there with some good friends, but overall it was a disappointing and expensive day out. Although, I did enjoy the music,
Will just pack my own picnic and drinks and spend a day in the park, next time :)
Thing is with these things, people who want to come and sell come and sell.
Dan Kellys were the only Cider maker there.
They sold out then got more.
One would hope that the positiver sales experience might attract Tempted?, Stonewells or one of the other Cider makers to come along next year. But it was really down to who wanted to sell there and only Dan Kelly took the punt.
I did like the Dan Kelly cider I tried, but they only had one type, as they’d sold out of others on the Saturday, which is obviously great for them, but I would have liked to try another variety, even from same vendor. Felt a little aggrieved as the advertising all said craft beer AND cider, I thought I’d be better catered for.
Yeah.
Again, I know the intention was to have more Cider vendors there, but you can’t make them come.
I really don’t understand how people can’t do gluten free barbecue though.
“I know the intention was…” – man, if you’re shilling for your mates’s event here, the honest thing to do would be to be straight-up about it.
And “They’re limited by who wants to come and sell” is horsecrap when you sell yourself as offering a range of craft beers/ciders. If you’re organising the event you’re responsible for getting people there; if you can’t get more than one cider stall, don’t sell tickets by hyping your cider range.
I was expecting Orpens Cider there as it was on The Big Grills flyers, posters and website. I was a tad disappointed not to find it as do prefer it to Dan Kellys.
Come on Medium Size C, who do you know in Big Grill HQ? ;)
Anyhow, back to the actual point of the posting, my 11 yr old can shoot and edit better video than that tripe in that piece. Video of people taking photos? I thought it was a food festival. All I saw was a lot of circular shots of people’s backs. Take away the backing soundtrack and watch it and you get the real impact of the video – none.
Anyone used Shotclip…. is it easy to use …before I go messin’ with it?