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Oh.

Mike Scott playing The Reeds, a traditional instrument from Spiddal, on the Mad Stage.

Basket weaving in the Mindfield area of the Electric Picnic in Stradbally, Co Laois, within the last hour.

He managed to make a four-person picnic basket during Sigur Rós.

Meanwhile, Yikes – carnie folk:

Stop that.

Please.

(Pics: Malachy Geelan)

Meanwhile, last night: always one.

Via Ciara O’Brien Thanks Aaron McAllorum

Electric boogaloo.

Or the Somme with music.

YOU decide.

In the meantime:

Barbara McCarthy (every Picnic since 2004) writes:

The good

Weather: Say what you want, but a sunny day is what makes or breaks a festival so if it’s going to be the way it was in 2004 and 2005, it will rock. The weather has gone downhill year on year ever since and last year was my least favourite Picnic, because I was hypothermic. According to most weather reports its going be 22 or more degrees in the shade. The miserable summer of discontent and pure crap still has a chance of a U-turn.

The Line Up: It is good as ever. I’ve never left saying the music was terrible, simply because I’ve never got a chance to see everything. I usually just go with the flow, so as long as I get to catch Donal Dineen, James Murphy and Pat Mahoney in Body & Soul, Orbital and the The Cure at the main stage I’m happy. You also can’t beat the Dublin Gospel Choir on a sunny Sunday Morning.

The Bacardi Bar played far and away the best tunes last year

The general craic. You can’t beat it. It always takes a few hours to adapt, but once you’re in full swing…It’s best just to go down without a plan. Just bring a toothbrush in your handbag, throat-spray, loads of electrolytes and Alka-Seltzer and loads of other stuff that you end up losing..

The Bad

Thieves: Last year there just seemed to be an air of scumbaggedness around the place. I know lots of people who were robbed and I generally didn’t feel as safe there as I did before. That’s crap and can ruin a festival. The trick is for the security to focus on the potential scumbags, and not wreck the entire event for everyone else by imposing strict rules on us and treating us like 14 year olds. The people who stabbed people at The Swedish House Mafia are c***ts, but they are the minority.

Security: Don’t operate zero tolerance just because of the above! Last year we were sitting together in a nice cosy big tent thing on the Sunday and then about 30 cops dragged people out into the freezing cold for no reason. We know how to behave. Thanks. I hope this year they won’t just shut everything down at 2am or something, due to bullshit elsewhere.

Which leads me to the next issue. Is it the End of All night raves? Remember them? They were fun. Clearly restrictions have been put in place and in recent years when there’s word of a rave somewhere, you get there only to find four people sitting over a cigarette in the cold, who much to my chagrin last year, didn’t have anything funny to say for themselves.

Teens: They’re loud and generally end up in a field covered in fake tan and vomit with their legs over their heads. I know we were all young once, but we wore more clothes. No? I think it would be nice for the young kids aged 17 to 18 or whatever to do something else and start going to the Picnic at a later age, when they’ve experienced life. The more kids you have at an event the more policed it is and that’s no fun. By the way I’m not too big a fan of young kids at festivals either. I’m always afraid they’ll pick up something of the ground or injure themselves or something, just cos their trendy parents want to have them on their shoulders at a festival. No one cares if you’re a trendy parent. They just want you to remove the child from your shoulders so they can see the band you are blocking their view from.

The buses: I got a bus one-way last year because I only went down on the day.  Cost €30 quid. Rip off.Continue reading →

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Delorentos – Care For.

Sez the band:

From our new album Little Sparks – the song is about trying to live your life without inhibition. The Video was made by up and coming Irish filmmakers Tusk Productions, and is all about preparing and starting things that you care for.

 

Delorentos play the Crawdaddy Stage at Electric Picnic on Saturday at 3.30pm.

Thanks Buzz

Set list: Plainsong; Pictures of You; Closedown; Kyoto Song; A Night Like This; Just Like Heaven; Last Dance; Fascination St; Lovesong; Charlotte Sometimes; The Walk; A Forest In Between Days; Same Deep Water As You; Prayers For Rain; Disintegration; Lullaby; Close To Me; Let’s Go To Bed; Why Can’t I Be You; Hot Hot Hot; A Strange Day; Three Imaginary Boys; Boys Don’t Cry; Homesick Faith

“By the time we left for the RDS the conditions were extremely hot and sticky. We walked up Sandymount Avenue and almost wilted. Black-clad, mascara-streaked and hairspray-soaked temples. Then we reached the top of the road and gasped. The Curehead army was marching through Ballsbridge. Our time had come; this was our day. We may have been marginalised in our respective hometowns but this was truly a gathering of the tribe. A number 18 bus swung around onto the main road; its occupants stared at us with a mixture of shock and probably pity.”

 

When The Cureheads Invaded Ballsbridge (Nlgbbbblth, Where’sGrandad.com)