Jim Carroll

• Electric Picnic
• July 25, 2012, 14:00

Here’s a bunch of acts heading to Stadbally to shake a leg at the Electric Picnic’s Little Big Tent. We hear that there’s a ton of other acts on the TBC and TBA lists so more announcements due in the …

• Electric Picnic
• June 27, 2012, 11:28

Latest names on the Electric Picnic hamper are as follows Dexys (yes!) Grimes (yes yes!) Villagers (yes yes yes!) Explosions In the Sky (good news for anyone who wanted to see their cancelled Dublin show) Ben Howard Bombay Bicyle Club …

• Electric Picnic
• April 19, 2012, 12:14

You’ll find the following bunch of folks heading to Stradbally, Co Laois for Electric Picnic 2012 between August 31 and September 2: Patti Smith Richard Hawley Crystal Castles SBTRKT Grandaddy Squarepusher The Maccabees Gavin Friday Van Dyke Parks Michael Kiwanuka …

• Electric Picnic
• March 1, 2012, 12:11

Here’s the first set of runners and riders for this year’s Electric Picnic, which takes place at its usual digs in the middle of Stradbally, Co Laois from Friday August 31 to Sunday September 2: The Cure (as predicted by …

• Electric Picnic Festivals
• November 11, 2011, 10:34

While we wait for Oxegen to announce something (anything – venue, dates, line-up and ticket prices are still TBC as MCD scratch their hoops), the Electric Picnic are already out of the traps with dates and early bird ticket details. …

• Electric Picnic
• September 6, 2011, 10:40

Leaving aside this bad experience and occasional squalls and sheets of rain, it was a very good weekend in Stradbally. As we can see the recollections already in the bag by us and you, the eighth Electric Picnic – and …

• Electric Picnic
• September 5, 2011, 04:14

This blog post was written in the Gramphone Disco at the crack of dawn, a first for me and them. We’ve done the Picnic. We’ve survived the Picnic. The fat lady has sung (and the old dame was as out …

• Electric Picnic
• September 4, 2011, 11:48

It’s Sunday morning and we’re still at it. We’ve produced two superb editions of The Daily Ticket from our blue tin-can office (we would like to deny that (a) it’s one of the containers from the second series of The …