Electric Picnic
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Electric Picnic tents given to homeless migrants in Calais
- Social Affairs
- September 6, 2018, 21:22
Hundreds of discarded tents from this year’s Electric Picnic have been delivered to homeless migrants in Calais. English homelessness charity Emmaus (...)

Electric Picnic: Ten kilos of rubbish per person left at site
- Music
- September 3, 2018, 16:32
Ten kilograms of waste per visitor – equivalent to a full aircraft hand-luggage travel case – is expected to to be collected from the Electric Picnic (...)

Not at Electric Picnic? St Vincent perfectly judges the last-night mood
- Music
- September 3, 2018, 06:00
ST VINCENT Electric Arena The final curtain beckons at Electric Picnic 2018, but there’s still time for an impressively out-there performance from An(...)

Electric Picnic review: St Vincent – Impressively out there
- Music
- September 2, 2018, 23:05
ST VINCENT Electric Arena The final curtain beckons at Electric Picnic 2018, but there’s still time for an impressively out-there performance from An(...)

Electric Picnic review: Fontaines DC – Brilliant and bracing
- Music
- September 2, 2018, 22:25
FONTAINES DC Body & Soul “The revolution will not be televised, baby. It will be live.” Gil Scott-Heron’s words intuitively prefaced the appearan(...)

Packing up at Electric Picnic? Take a look at your entries for our €200 photo prize
- Culture
- September 2, 2018, 21:35
Don’t leave Stradbally without entering your best shot from this year’s festival weekend in our photo competition. If you spotted something weird or w(...)

Electric Picnic review: Jessie Ware – Great songs but a flat performance
- Music
- September 2, 2018, 20:40
JESSIE WARE Electric Arena Too many pop stars document generic emotions for maximum empathy, but the British singer-songwriter Jessie Ware goes a few(...)

Electric Picnic to expand for 2019, swelling capacity to 57,000
- Culture
- September 2, 2018, 20:35
Electric Picnic is to expand for 2019, the organisers of this year’s sold-out music and arts festival say. An extra 2,500 people will be allowed into (...)

Electric Picnic review: Garbage – 45 glorious minutes from Shirley Manson
- Music
- September 2, 2018, 20:20
GARBAGE Main Stage It’s almost too perfect that the skies above Stradbally open as Shirley Manson sings the opening lines of Only Happy When It Rains(...)

Electric Picnic 2018: Highs and lows of the festival
- Culture
- September 2, 2018
Most riotous gig Versatile, at Electric Arena on Friday evening. Gigs don’t get any more explosive. Most curious audience The crowd for Inhaler, at(...)