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Electric Picnic

Little Green Cars on the road to Stradbally Electric Picnic adds a clatter of new acts to the bill

Factory Floor, John Grant, Little Green Cars and Robert Plant the pick of the new Electric Picnic additions

Oxegen-2013 Guest post – Joey Cullen-Tinley – Oxegen’s 180 degree turn

The view on Oxegen’s line-up from one of those teens who is supposed to be the festival’s target audience.

bjork Electric Picnic 2013 line-up

As predicted by OTR, it’s Stradbally ahoy for Bjork, Arctic Monkeys and Fatboy Slim

The Oxegen nation show their appreciation for Jacob Plant 10 things we’ve learned about Oxegen

What last night’s Oxegen announcement tells us about the Punchestown event – and the rest of the Irish festival sector

The Killers: unwanted guests at the Electric Picnic Irish festivals 2013 round-up: from the fields to the courtrooms

The state of play with festivals like the Electric Picnic, Longitude, Slane, Oxegen and many more players in what’s going to be a very busy summer

So what is going on with the Electric Picnic?

Many OTR readers will have seen one or other – or, indeed, both – of this paper’s news stories over the last few days about the Electric Picnic. On Friday, Gordon Deegan and myself reported on the festival’s €2.1 million …

Electric Picnic 2012: the pointyheaded overview

We begin where we left off last September. A year ago, looking back at another late summer weekend in Co Laois I ended the piece with the line “2012 will be interesting”. The Electric Picnic has had a starry history, …

Electric Picnic 2012 – your shout

It’s over. It’s all over. It really is. All over – bar your shouting. You’ll find ALL the reviews from Lauren Murphy, Una Mullally, Shane Hegarty and myself from the weekend’s gigs here. These include the reviews which featured in …