{"id":662978,"date":"2026-08-30T01:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T01:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/662978\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T01:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T01:37:25","slug":"rain-fails-to-dampen-spirits-as-zara-larsson-and-lewis-capaldi-thrill-electric-picnic-revellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/662978\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain fails to dampen spirits as Zara Larsson and Lewis Capaldi thrill Electric Picnic revellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather did not spoil the party as 80,000 fans descended on Stradbally, Co Laois with <strong>Zara Larsson<\/strong> and <strong>Lewis Capaldi<\/strong> thrilling fans on the main stage at <strong>Electric Picnic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Many had braved the bad weather on Thursday for early access with the rest of the revellers arriving on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"636\" width=\"953\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rain-fails-to-dampen-spirits-as-zara-larsson-and-lewis-capaldi-thrill-electric-picnic-revellers.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1945756 aligncenter fixed-width-container\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Festivalgoers during the Electric Picnic festival at Stradbally in Co Laois. Photo: Evan Treacy\/PA Images<\/p>\n<p>The downpours saw Jade&#8217;s performance delayed while American musician Sombr was cut off by organisers as he went over his alloted performance time.<\/p>\n<p>Swedish superstar Larsson engaged with fans and brought out all her signature dance moves for hits such as Lush Life, Symphony and Midnight Sun.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"636\" width=\"953\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788053845_316_rain-fails-to-dampen-spirits-as-zara-larsson-and-lewis-capaldi-thrill-electric-picnic-revellers.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1945757 aligncenter fixed-width-container\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Festivalgoers during the Electric Picnic festival at Stradbally in Co Laois. Photo: Evan Treacy\/PA Images<\/p>\n<p>Capaldi did not disappoint with his powerful ballads such as Grace, Bruises and Forget Me, with a fireworks display included to bring down the curtain on the first day of the festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The weather did not spoil the party as 80,000 fans descended on Stradbally, Co Laois with Zara Larsson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17],"class_list":["post-662978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117181904542518173","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662978","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=662978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}