92.5km in electronic cabling
19km in festoon lighting using 3,800 light bulbs
1,116 light fittings installed 11.7MW
Power Generation: Here’s the science bit. 1MW = 1,000 homes, so 11,700 homes, with an average of three people per house, means 35,100 people. Or a town similar in size to Longford For setting up power alone, it takes 450 wo/man days on site
Seven hundred acts play over the weekend
The total number of performers over the weekend: 2,000
1,315: number of portaloos on site for the weekend 54 extra toilets in trailer units
Four: the number of “revellers” found in Ticket copy, despite the ban put in place ineffectively by the Ticket Editor
40km of fencing around the festival site I
t takes 9,600 man hours of crew work to get the site ready for Picnickers
All in all, about 5,000 people will have being employed to make the festival happen
55,000: the amount of people trying to squeeze into the Newstalk tent to watch the hurling
The number of your friends at LCD Soundsystem: all of them
Packets of crisps consumed in the Ticket tent: 372
One: number of stage invaders we saw over the weekend (he was wearing a Repeal jumper)
90 seconds: the length of time said stage invader had to stand there awkwardly, before being gently ushered off by very nice security
Zero: number of doses we encountered on site. Maybe it was just us, but staff and Picnicers all seemed to be delightfully sound all weekend
