The Electric Picnic 2011

The best news all week surely has to be the announcement of the line up for Ireland's finest music and arts festival which returns this September. Its a pretty impressive choice of artistes so far and there will be more added later in the year. We will be seeing a return from Arcade Fire, Micah P. Hinson, P.J Harvey, Toots And The Maytals and Mogwai.
It will be an E.P first for Midlake, Gavin friday, Lykee Li, OMD and dozens more and again it promises to be another amazing weekend. This is the full line up so far.....

ARCADE FIRE; PULP; THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS; INTERPOL; PJ HARVEY; BEIRUT; DEATH IN VEGAS; MOGWAI; JIMMY CLIFF; DJ SHADOW; WHITE LIES; OMD; MIDLAKE; THE CHARLATANS; LYKKE LI; BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE; THE GO! TEAM; BOYS NOIZE; TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS; FLYING LOTUS; PAUL KALKBRENNER; TWIN SHADOW; WILLY MASON; SINEAD O’CONNOR; GAVIN FRIDAY; HEALTH;TRENTEMØLLER (LIVE); KILLING JOKE; MUNDY; SHARON SHANNON AND HER BIG BAND; ADEBISI SHANK; O EMPEROR; THE WALKMEN; ADAM BEYER; CAST OF CHEERS; MICAH P HINSON; IVAN ST JOHN; CODES DAVE CLARKE; BRITISH INDIA; CAITLIN ROSE; R.S.A.G.; THE DANGER IS; POTBELLEEZ