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Electric Picnic Music & Arts Festival

Stradbally Hall, Co. Laois
2nd, 3rd, 4th September 2011
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Wherever your tastes lie, be it rocking in front of the main stage or stumbling upon a hidden art installation or joining in on a fiery debate, we’re certain that the confluence of artists descending on Stradbally this September will arouse one sense or another. If you don’t find it – it will find you.  Electric Picnic has won several awards since last September, including a Best Mid-Sized European Festival, Best Irish Festival, Greenest Festival & an IMRO Best Festival Award and.

To get the lowdown follow our blog right here or head over to www.electricpicnic.ie

• How Was It For You?

  08.9.11

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• An Electric Picnic Minute

  05.9.11

  Coutesy of Vodafone

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• Timetable and Do's & Don't's

  01.9.11

  With only days remaining, here are some do's and don'ts to read over. We also stuck in some Q&A's at the bottom that we are getting asked a lot. There is also some bus information and links to various timetables.

  TimeTable: The edited timetable is now available to download here.. Note that Arcade Fire are now playing for 1 hour and 30 mins. Star Slinger has been moved to Saturday night (3am-4am)

  
  

  DO'S & DON'TS
  

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  • Note that tickets are still available will be on sale at the event.
  • Adhere to opening and closing times – campsite opening 9am ...

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• Today FM at Electric Picnic

  31.8.11

  Yes folks, your favourite radio station will be taking over a small area of the Stradbally Hall grounds to bring you coverage of all that Electric Picnic has to offer this weekend.

   

  Kicking off the festival weekend, The Ray Foley Show will be broadcasting from the campsite on Friday 2nd September, as music fans stream into the venue and set up camp for a weekend of fun and frolics.

  Later that same day, The Last Word with Matt Cooper will be in situ in the Spoken Word area of Electric Picnic, bringing you a flavour of the non-music side ...

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• Global Green @ EP'11

  25.8.11

   

  ‘Surfing the Waves of Change’
  Re-charge * Re-think * Re-engag

  THE GLOBAL GREEN returns for a 5th year at the Electric Picnic as the place to slow down, to celebrate cultural transformation, and to imagine a future that works for all.

  Global Green is the colourful and enchanting festival oasis where revelers go to Re-Charge, Re-Think, and Re-Engage away from the bright lights of the big arenas. ‘Surfing the Waves of Change’ is this year’s theme for 3 days of energizing and thought provoking entertainment and discussion. Food, film, music and debate are all on the menu, along with ...

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• The Salty Dog at EP

  22.8.11

   

  That flea-ridden pub-tanned charmer of the Electric Picnic, the Salty Dog, heaves itself up and smiles as another day dawns.

  The faded red shipwreck, once a proud vessel of the seas, now lies in the woods at Stradbally in decadent retirement, lowering the tone and living the life of a strawberry-nosed ex-pat with a few bob, but not quite enough.

  Round the beginning of September each year, a large, raised stage—cut from the mid-section of the wreck—comes alive. Rum-fuelled sea shanties, rasping washed-up folksters, desert island sounds, and gravelly maritime yarns find their home here… the infamous Salty ...

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• MindField, Theatre, Science, Robots and more...

  21.8.11

   

  Another year older, but are we any wiser? Old questions, new arguments, inspired talk, brilliant ideas, great company, ways forward, hope and renewed energy and all of it terrific fun. Highlights of this year’s MindField spoken word arena at Electric Picnic include Bob Geldof in full flow in the Leviathan tent; Booker Prize winners John Banville and Roddy Doyle on the Arts Council Literary Stage, Nobel Laureate Jerry White on surviving landmines; an edgy Theatre Stage programme created by incoming Dublin Theatre Festival director, Willie White; the MindField News Quiz hosted by RTÉ’s Sean O’Rourke; performances by fiery ...

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• Body & Soul Details Announced

  17.8.11

  The creative team at Body & Soul bring back their unique, magical touch to Electric Picnic this year with fresh strings of inspiration added to their bow.

  

  Often described as the colourful “heartbeat” of Electric Picnic, The Body & Soul Village is dotted with curious, colourful corners bolstered by rare, outlandish and cutting-edge art and performances by a long list of Body & Soulesque artists and contributors.

  Look out for the likes of The Jimmy Rig Slip Jig, Those Fire Guys and Mrs. Mountiebonk and her Bandwagon of Charlatans to name but a few.

  The Zen Gardens and Earth ...

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• Jape, The Vaccines and more going to the Picnic!

  15.8.11

  THE VACCINES; JAPE; AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR; CRY BEFORE DAWN; OH LAND; GORDON GANO AND THE RYANS; THE JEZABELS; ESBEN AND THE WITCH; JAMES CHANCE AND LES CONTORTIONS; THE MINUTES; SOMADRONE; BITCHES WITH WOLVES; DAKOTA 66; SHOUTING AT PLANES; NIGHTBOX

   

  London based 4 piece, THE VACCINES have been tipped for greatness since their inception last summer. Zane Lowe declared their first single If You Wanna as the “hottest record in the world”, the band went on to earn nominations for MTV Best New Band 2011 and BBC Sound of 2011, and an appearance on Later with ...

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• Little Big Tent adds even more excitement

  15.8.11

  The Electric Picnic additions just keep on coming with more exciting acts being added to the line up, this time to it’s the turn of the Little Big Tent at the festival.

  Headliners for the tent already include FLYING LOTUS, BOYS NOIZE, PAUL KALKBRENNER, DAVE CLARKE and ADAM BEYER. The Little Big tent is the most dance-based of the stages at Electric Picnic and over the weekend will see world-renowned DJs, producers and mixers bring the beats to the Picnic that will keep you dancing into the early hours of the morning.

  JACQUES LU CONT; TENSNAKE; CRAZY P; ZINC; THE 2 ...

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• Bacardi Get Together line-up confirmed

  15.8.11

  BACARDI is delighted to announce the line-up for The BACARDI Get Together arena for Electric Picnic this year. The now legendary arena will provide surroundings perfectly encompassing both a new place to soak up the festival atmosphere together over a BACARDI cocktail and the ultimate place to party. With an eclectic spread of DJs over the course of the three days in Stradbally, it is set to bring a bit of Latin spirit to all who attend the festival.

  

  The BACARDI Get Together will bring to life a series of online ‘likes’ as chosen by Irish BACARDI fans. Throughout July ...

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• Today FM @ Electric Picnic

  04.8.11

  Today FM will be visiting Stradbally Hall en masse this year as we broadcast several shows live from Electric Picnic 2011. 

  Not content with having brought you live broadcasts from Sea Sessions, Oxegen and Indiependence so far this year, we’re going to round out the summer in style with Paul McLoone, The Ray Foley Show, and The Last Word with Matt Cooper all coming to you live over the weekend of 2nd-4th September from Ireland’s finest music and arts festival. 

  Paul will be covering the musical end of things, while Foley will be tapping into the fun and frolics ...

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• Even more acts added!

  04.8.11

  The Electric Picnic additions just keep on coming with more exciting acts being added to the line up, this time to it’s the turn of the Little Big Tent at the festival. Headliners for the tent already include FLYING LOTUS, BOYS NOIZE, PAUL KALKBRENNER, DAVE CLARKE and ADAM BEYER.

  The Little Big tent is the most dance-based of the stages at Electric Picnic and over the weekend will see world-renowned DJs, producers and mixers bring the beats to the Picnic that will keep you dancing into the early hours of the morning.

  JACQUES LU CONT; TENSNAKE; CRAZY P; ZINC; ...

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• Laughs Aplenty

  27.7.11

  Abandomam, Anyone For Tennis, Ardal O Hanlon, Barry Murphy, Bernard O Shea, Colm O'Regan, Danny Dowling, David O Doherty, Dead Cat Bounce, Dermot Whelan, Edwin Sammon, Eric Lalor, Foil Arms and Hog, Fred Cooke, Gearoid Farrelly, Jarlath Regan, Joe Rooney, John Colleary, John Lynn, John Moloney, Johnny Candon, Karl Spain, Keith Farnan, Kevin Gildea, Mark Hynes, Omid Djalili, Paddy Courtney, Roisin Conaty & The Nualas

  The Comedy Tent is one of the biggest draws of the Electric Picnic weekend, a festival within a festival if you will, and this year we have left no stone unturned in our quest to ...

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• Craftitecture Winner Announced

  27.7.11

  The Crafts Council of Ireland, (CCoI), and the Irish Architecture Foundation are delighted to announce the winners of Craftitecture, a competition to design a pavilion for the Electric Picnic.

  The winning team are Bucholz McEvoy Architects and Jim Horgan, master boat builder with the Galway School of Boat Building. Their innovative design features a dynamic space constructed using the form of Currachs which will move on horizontal and vertical axes to form an open space when in use and a closed sculptural form in the evening.

  

  Nathalie Weadick, Director of the Irish Architecture Foundation commented, “The winning team, ...

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