Leccy Piccy ’11: The Line-up

Continuing the round of festival-related news in these parts, the leccy piccy line-up announcement at POD yesterday. Here’s the festival booking manager talking about the music weekend that put Stradbally on the map:

Electric Picnic’s patronising tone of recent years - charging exorborant ticket prices and consistently repelling arguments about lack of musical quality by repeating the now-formulaic ‘it’s all about the atmosphere’ and listing out the festival awards won that year - has come to an end. There can be no complaints this year. Headliners Arcade Fire, Interpol, PJ Harvey, Chemical Brothers and the massive coup that is Pulp, are worthy of a ticket prices alone.Garnish these off with sheer quality mid-afternoon “dragging your friend out of a ditch” background music of Midlake, Beriut and The Walkmen.

In an unprecdeneted turn for this festival, which in recent years has had no problems in dredging world music for some truly cheap and horrifying acts, DJ Shadow, Sinead O’Connor, Flying Lotus and Death in Vegas which would in any other year be headlining, are gladly relegated to mid bill behind the band people want to see but end up too comfortable in a chair in a field to be arsed going to. EP was sadly becoming a very expensive weekend in a field watching hippies. This year will hopefull start a trend that will see the continuation of good music and value for money and once again the main reason to go is that its not Ireland’s once-a-year mini Fallujah - that is Oxegen.

Full line-up and deets are here: http://www.electricpicnic.ie/line-up/