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Fri, Aug 31, 2012, 01:00

First published: Fri, Aug 31, 2012, 01:00

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Where do you start after a six-year absence? If you're Grandaddy, you start with the hits.

The Californian indie-rock quintet have made Electric Picnic one of the stops on their month-long reunion lap, but rather than forcing new material on an expectant audience, this was a complete exercise in crowd-pleasing.

Opening with El Camino's in the West, Jason Lytle and Co may not say a whole lot to the crowd, but with tunes like a Now It's On, AM 180 and The Crystal Lake in your canon, why waste time with niceties?

Aaron Burtch amusingly puffs away on a cigarette hands-free as he drums, and Lytle swigs from a bottle of wine between songs; they're having fun and it's like they've never been away. How about you stick around a little longer, guys?

Verdict: ****

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