Electric Picnic
Electric Picnic 2019: 20 acts not to miss at this year’s festival
From Billie Eilish, Florence and Jarvis Cocker to Freya Ridings and Mango x Mathman
Let’s Eat Grandma: ‘It’s easy to access young girls in the music industry’
The British pop savants on #MeToo, friendship and overcoming stereotypes
Electric Picnic 2018
Electric Picnic 2018: Highs and lows of the festival
Most riotous gig, most welcome encore, worst performance, best chat, tastiest food
Not at Electric Picnic? St Vincent perfectly judges the last-night mood
Also on Sunday: Garbage, Jessie Ware and Fontaines DC, reviewed
Electric Picnic review: St Vincent – Impressively out there
Annie Clark swings between euphoria and melancholy in a memorable performance
Electric Picnic review: Fontaines DC – Brilliant and bracing
The band deploy a potent Dublin state of mind that few of their contemporaries have
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A €200 Tesco voucher is up for grabs for the best shot. Enter by midnight on Monday
Electric Picnic review: Jessie Ware – Great songs but a flat performance
The singer manages to rouse a lethargic audience, but her gig still feels like a filler
Electric Picnic to expand for 2019, swelling capacity to 57,000
Main Stage arena to be enlarged after success of pop acts, says Festival Republic
Electric Picnic review: Garbage – 45 glorious minutes from Shirley Manson
They don’t make grunge-pop crossover like they used to. This is what we’ve been missing
Not at Electric Picnic? Massive Attack bring day two to a breathtaking close
Also on Saturday: Dua Lipa, Mavis Staples, Wolf Alice, Sigrid and Whenyoung, reviewed
Electric Picnic review: 4am anxiety attack as arena-ready dance music
Decades since they crawled out of Bristol’s DJ scene, theirs is still an extraordinary conceit
Electric Picnic 2018: Three acts to see on Sunday
For starters, get to the Main Stage at 2.30pm for Jamaican reggae legends Inner Circle
Electric Picnic review: Dua Lipa – Supercharged and preening like a pro
Scorching gig confirms her star wattage – and that pop at the Picnic is a great idea
Electric Picnic: The art that makes the festival magical
Horses in trees, a napping ogre, bubbles of colour and the wonderful Holomorph
Electric Picnic review: Whenyoung – A great pedigree, ripe to make their own
The Limerick trio’s sound still pays homage to The Cranberries. But that can change
Electric Picnic review: Wolf Alice – An imperious, gutsy performance
As soon as Ellie Rowsell’s band start to play the Electric Arena fills almost to capacity
Electric Picnic review: Sigrid – All music, no ego
The 21-year-old takes control of not one but two festival stages. That’s some achievement
Electric Picnic: The Irish hip-hop group your parents have never heard of
The Dublin duo Versatile could show Kendrick Lamar a thing or two
Electric Picnic: Three acts to see on Saturday
Don’t miss London-based Limerick trio Whenyoung on the Other Voices stage at 7pm
Electric Picnic: 10 things to do at the festival on Saturday
There’s music, including N.E.R.D, but don’t forget the Lake, Hazel Wood and Mindfield
Not at Electric Picnic? You missed Kendrick Lamar’s incredible gig
Also on Friday: Chvrches, Paddy Hanna, Ash and The Murder Capital, reviewed
‘No, I don’t want to do Electric Picnic. I’m middle aged’
In a horrible vision, Patrick Freyne is visited by the Ghost of Electric Picnic Future
Electric Picnic review: Chvrches – There’s no roof, but they blow it off anyway
The electropop head-hangers conquer the festival’s main stage
Electric Picnic: A pop-up wedding, knitting for gin, and Hozier’s ‘secret gig’
50,000 people have arrived at the festival. Pace yourselves, everyone: Jomo, not Fomo
Electric Picnic review: Ash – A proper punk-pop gig
Older hits, such as Girl from Mars, fuse easily with the veteran band’s newer tunes
Electric Picnic review: Paddy Hanna – An indie-rock showman
Dublin troubadour reaches out and finds an audience ready to take him by the hand
