Mark Almond, The former Soft Cell man is going to be at Electric Picnic this year after the release of the ThisIsPopBaby lineup was released. Himself along with a whole host of previously announced or new acts will feature on the stage over the course of the weekend hosted by Neil Watkins including….. Our Lady J Johnny Woo Bourgeois and Maurice [...]

MindField Rocks the Art of Conversation, It’s the break from Music into literary items and debate for those who have interests in politics and current affairs brought to you in association with RTE Radio one. It’s three day, seven venue conversation for the nation with seven elegantly decorated tented locations in the Mindfield arena at electric picnic, located behind the [...]

More great news for people heading down to Stradbally this September, We have a list of more acts hitting Electric Picnic including Two Door Cinema Club and Laura Marling both who played Oxegen, which is unusual to see but excellent news as both are absolutely class acts. Marling is now Mercury Music Prize Nominated too. The Antlers who were in [...]

One of our favourite festival additions every year is the Silent Disco, there is nothing quite like it, one of those unique things you describe you friends and they don’t quite understand because they wern’t there. Kicking off as the main acts are finishing up. running from 11pm to 2am each night, thousands will flood the Silent Disco tents with [...]

POD / Festival Republic / Heineken Music are the lovely guys behind this great chance for bands to win a slot at this years Electric Picnic. There will be a series of showcase nights, featuring 16 acts in total, Judges from King Kong Club, O2 and Heineken Music will make the tough calls and ultimately select the act who gets [...]

With Oxegen now over our mind now switches to the more boutique festivals. The festivals catering for specific tastes like Indiependence, Castlepalooza and of course Electric Picnic. The Comedy tent is one of my favourite additions at a festival and i always get a few hours of laughs in over the weekend, it truly does turn around any kind of [...]

More additions to the Electric Picnic 2010 festival lineup today as the heat builds on Festival season. Last time here they had a few sellout gigs, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip are on the lineup, Brendan Perry and Heathers add to the mounting Irish talent and Wolf Parade and Japanese popstars are bound to be popular additions. Check the [...]

Were quite pleased to see two of our favourite things rolled into one giant effort with the announcement that 2Wheels “Tour De Picnic” has been organised in conjunction with Electric Picnic to raise money for one of our favourite charities, Temple Street Childrens Hospital. Only long term GP readers will remember the charity gigs we ran for them back in [...]

According to the tight source of musical information over at On The Record ran by Jim Carroll it appears the Electric Picnic lineup just got quite a bit tastier with the addition of 13 new acts to the lineup. Assuming this information is spot on (and it usually is coming from Jim) * Electric Picnic just confirmed them now too* [...]

LEFTFIELD have announced two dates in Ireland in June as a pre Electric Picnic taster. They are back in business after a 10 year hiatus from Ireland and now its 3 lovely chances to see them live in three different locations in Ireland. If your not into waiting then the Electric Picnic option on September 4th isnt going to suit [...]