Several local acts join stellar Electric Picnic line-up for 10th edition

LONDONDERRY outfit Little Bear will play the biggest gig of their careers when they join Bjork, My Bloody Valentine and Giorgio Moroder at the Electric Picnic festival in Laois.
By The Newsroom
Published 30th Aug 2013, 12:08 BST
Bronagh Gallagher, Soak, Ryan Vail, Little Bear and Daithí all play the Electric Picnic this year.Bronagh Gallagher, Soak, Ryan Vail, Little Bear and Daithí all play the Electric Picnic this year.
Bronagh Gallagher, Soak, Ryan Vail, Little Bear and Daithí all play the Electric Picnic this year.

Other North West acts on the bill include Bronagh Gallagher, Soak and Ryan Vail.The boutique festival, which takes place over the weekend (August 30 to September 1), has already sold out.

This tenth anniversary edition in County Laois is headlined by Bjork, Fatboy Slim and the Artic Monkeys.

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Other acts our local representatives will share the billing with include The Knife, David Byrne, Warpaint, Black Uhuru, Savages, Disclosure, Mount Kimbie, Tiga, John Grant, Two Door Cinema Club, Carl Cox, Wu Tang Clan, Billy Bragg, Robert Plant, Kodaline, Eels, Palma Violets, The 1975, Deap Valley, The Strypes, Miles Kane and Clinic amongst many more.

Whilst Galagher has been a household name for decades - thanks in no small part to her acting roles in films as diverse as Hush a Bye Baby, The Commitments, Star Wars and Pulp Fiction, both Little Bear and Soak’s career trajectory has shot upwards over the past nine months.

Both artists starred in RTÉ’s Other Voices series last winter allowing them showcase there work to a much wider audience than previously. This weekend promises the same.

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