Festival News: Electric Picnic 2012 Line-Up Announced.

Wheee, this is the big one, lads! Electric Picnic, the musical extravaganza, the beer-soaked behemoth, the weekend the whole country flows into a hollow in Laois for mud, sunburn, and vigorous boshing. We. Can’t. Wait. The line-up has just been announced and it’s as diverse as Ashley Banjo’s freestyle. At Culch, we’re getting the party started early with our own Lekky Pikky Playlist, so crank up the volume (or stick the headphones in if you’re at the office) and do the futhermucking Carlton. Full playlist and useless facts about every headliner after the jump. Ah do. Jump. Jump or we’ll push you.

will the picnic be electric…?

All the ‘youngsters’ will be back from Oxygen soon and this place is on the verge of being bombarded with pics and stories of how great the line - up was. I agree. If the line up was for The Picnic…. it’d have been a sell-out already. To the EP. I was there last year. I have my tickets booked for this year. Booked them a while ago now. But I’m mumbled in my mind at this moment… I dont’t know exactly why… ? Maybe it’s the fact that last year we had The Gossip, Franz Ferdinand and The Sex Pistols… At one point Christy Moore played while The Stunning were literally brewing up a storm. I of course chose The Stunning. But this year [so far....] its a little more… how should I say it…to quote a friend of mine… there’d be a lot of great acts for vicar street … There’s more