The Good
The food - Not just a bloke in a burger van. Gourmet burgers, homemade pies, burritos, chunky chips, crepes, roast pork buns, falafels, chicken teriyaki, yum!
Secret toilets - flushable loos! With HOT water and mirrors and soap and CLEAN! Down beside the comedy tent if you missed them. We only found them on Saturday night.
The music - too much choice!
Body and Soul - what a fantastic area
The Atmosphere - chilled and friendly and safe. Lots of people wandering by themselves to various gigs, but no-one was really alone if you know what I mean. People didn’t look askance at you if you started a conversation or butted in to theirs. Lots of chatting with random strangers.

The bad
Toilets - the porta-loos in the festival area were only pumped out ONCE a day. By 6pm they were mingin’. As for the ‘troughs’ in the campsites they were virtually unusable for the entire weekend. There isn’t a word to describe how disgusting they were. This REALLY needs to be sorted out for next year.
Parking lot - traffic control after the festival was awful. There were only two tractors available to pull people out of the mud and everyone was being directed to ONE exit. Resulted in people sitting in cars for 2 or 3 hours not moving an inch. We heard of another exit that was ‘quagmire’ but took the chance and made it out to the main road in 2 hours.
Stewards - Not sure what happened, but the stewards were only given maps of the layout the night before electric picnic. Half the time you asked them something they apologised and were unable to provide any info. Would appear that organization and planning fell down somewhere along the way.
Rain - although we got lucky and it only rained the once. But that was enough as it BELTED down. I’d imagine a lot of people who had camped in the lower areas of fields ended up in their cars that night as there were a few tents that appeared to be floating.

But I don’t want to leave it on a bad note. Electric Picnic is a great festival, the bad things are all down to planning (except the rain) and if they fix it for next year it’ll be even better. I had such a fantastic time. There is stuff there for everyone, lots of music, lots of shows. Lots of places to chill out, or dance your socks off, or drink cocktails, or smoke from a hookah, or knit, or get a massage, or play dress-up, or take a yoga class, or learn the charleston, or watch a burlesque show, or make a yurt, or, or, or…