Cavan acts to play EP stage
Lisa O'Neill plays Body and Soul at 4pm; The Savage Hearts play Heart & Anchor stage at 5pm.
A number of Cavan acts will play this year's Electric Picnic later today, Saturday, September 3.
Ballyhaise born Lisa O'Neill will play the festival's Body and Soul stage, starting at 4.10pm.
The Heard a Long Gone Song singer-songwriter has only recently announced she will host UK tour later this month, with three dates planned- in Bristol with Mikey Keeney on September 16; Cambridge with Cormac Begley on September 17; and London's Southbank with Cormac Begley on September 18.
She has an Irish tour planned too this winter- in November where she will be- joined by support acts Kú, Brian Leach & The Silken Same. Tickets are on sale now https://lisaoneill.ie/home/tour/.
The Savage Hearts
The Savage Hearts meanwhile, a new band led to rise from the ashes of The Strypes and subsequent Zen Arcade, will play the Heart & Anchor stage at the Jerry Fish curated ‘Fish Town’ at 5pm.
It will be at least the twelfth time the band's founding member Evan Walsh has played the eclectic arts and music Stradbally based festival.
The event also marks the return of Electric Picnic for the first time in three years following the pandemic enforced hiatus.
The Savage Hearts are Evan (drums) with Danny Gallagher (lead vox/guitar); Brandon Carrig, guitarist with Emily 7; and ex-Mirror Talk bassist Ben Spelman.
“I knew them from the various bands and just playing around,” Evan recently told an interview with The Anglo-Celt. “I’d be chatting to them independently and it just sort of happened from there, lads up for a jam. I’d been writing songs in the background as well, not knowing if they’d end up as Zen Arcade or whatever.”
For influence Evan looks to contemporary punk and psyche rock acts like Australia’s King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, or any number of acts to emerge from American West Coast, like California’s Ty Segall.
After the break-up of The Strypes, Evan previously also played with Classic Yellow and also Lilac, recently renamed Spear Side.
Evan meanwhile is working with Joe Keenan and the Cavan Townhall on hosting a song-writing workshop alongside Cavan Big Band’s Daire Reilly and others. It will coincide too with The Savage Hearts EP launch and gig in the Townhall on October 2 (8pm), with tickets available from the venue website (€5 plus booking fee).
After Electric Picnic though the band will play Psychotic Reactions Presents, at Dublin’s Fibber Magee’s on September 10, Free, and starting off at 9pm.
The band recently played their first live show at Cavan’s Blessfest.