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Fri 08 Aug 2007My first go on the rollercoasterElectric Picnic:Dining at the picnic last year, Róisín Ingleentered Ronan Keating's head, missed Duke Special, and lost her brotherI wolfed down my first picnic last year but emerged with only mild indigestion. It helped that as a guest of the Leviathan tent I scored an "artist" wristband. I flashed it at every opportunity around Stradbally but nobody else seemed bothered. The seasoned picnickers are a stylish lot, most of them looking like they could pass muster on the main stage - with or without a wristband. I, meanwhile, didn't look like I'd be having drinking competitions backstage with Karen O any time soon. I had a yoke on my wrist, though. Result.