Were definitely enjoying the rock aspect to oxegen this year with pop punk legends Blink 182 announcing they will join the Foo Fighters and Arctic Monkeys at Punchestown next year. We also approve of MCD giving fans the headline acts before the early bird sales allowing greater decision making to take place on the lineup before parting with cash We [...]

Electric Picnic 2010 is nearly here, 2 more sleeps and you’ll be waking up in a tent with a sore head and a smile from ear to ear from a quality night of music. It opens its door at 9am on Friday morning. Camper-vans alone will be granted access on Thursday at 4pm. With the full stage times this gives [...]

Electric Picnic is now just under a week away, Stradbally Estate is calling and thousands upon thousands will answer the call and make the annual pilgrimage to Electric Picnic for their 2010 instalment which like every other festival in Ireland this year is yet to sell out as the recession keeps wallets firmly in pockets. However we believe it’s not far off [...]

The Body and Soul area returns as you would expect with Electric Picnic (they arn’t going to throw away one of the best area’s of the festival) and they have lined up some great acts for this chilled out area for you to enjoy. Coming this year include Syrian musician Omar Souleyman who is promoting new work Jazeera Nights, Canadian [...]

Arcadia will be back at Electric Picnic this year bringing it’s Afterburner Structure to the festival and as the Sun descends on Stradbally, The Goldenplec flames will be ramped up to 8 metres high and will light up everything around. There will be performers and acrobats on hand to entertain on the 6 tentacles and a constant line-up of DJ’s. [...]

Each year there are a lot of festivals, each year there are only so many one can attend. At goldenplec we try to span our team to as many as we humanly can to get them all covered for you people and there are always a few high on the list we look to sort early. Castlepalooza is one of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Well ladies and gentlemen, it is that time of the year again. This weekend 0ver 80,000 punters descend upon Punchestown Racecourse to catch the some of the finest musical acts around for Oxegen 2010, and once again Goldenplec is here to give you the lowdown on the must see acts of this years festival With over 100 acts playing this [...]