ELECTRIC PICNIC RETURNS next weekend and the final additions to the line-up have been announced.<\/p>\n
Crowds of 80,000 people are expected at the Co Laois festival in Stradbally Estate.<\/p>\n
The festival begins on Friday 28 August and runs until Sunday 30 August.<\/p>\n
Lewis Capaldi and sombr are the headline acts on Friday, while Gorillaz, CMAT and Zara Larsson are the main acts on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Fontaines D.C. and Amble meanwhile will close the festival on Sunday.<\/p>\n
In all, there will be some 800 performances across 50 stages in the 600-acre festival site,\u00a0with fan favourite stages like Trailer Park, Cro\u00ed, Salty Dog, Providencia, and Fish Town all returning.<\/p>\n
The finishing touches were put on the line-up today with Belters Only, Damien Dempsey, Hermitage Green, The Undertones, Mick Flannery and Darren Kiely being announced.<\/p>\n
But Electric Picnic is more than a music event, and Cork comic Kyla Cobbler joins the line-up.<\/p>\n
Other musical acts that will perform across the weekend include Van Morrison, Skepta, Duke Dumont, Geese, The Mary Wallopers and The Saw Doctors.<\/p>\n
Over on the comedy stage, Mario Rosenstock, Reggie Watts, Deirdre O\u2019Kane, Vittorio Angelone, David McSavage, Bernard O\u2019Shea and Mike Rice are among the comics.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Tinie Tempah will be taking to the main stage with four Irish artists.<\/p>\n
Last month, main stage sponsor Three Ireland opened auditions for up-and-coming musicians to join Tinie Tempah on the main stage.<\/p>\n
There were over 2,500 entries and the four winning acts were MIMI Lane, Rian McCauley,\u00a0Youngiz\u00a0and Imani Jade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ELECTRIC PICNIC RETURNS next weekend and the final additions to the line-up have been announced. Crowds of 80,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[274508,204105,18,11985,117,30861,30862,94410,19,17,11763,274509,274510],"class_list":["post-649474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-belters-only","tag-damien-dempsey","tag-eire","tag-electric-picnic","tag-entertainment","tag-ep","tag-ep-26","tag-hermitage-green","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-laois","tag-stradbally-estate","tag-the-undertones"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117134972967135258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}