InBetween Honey's Sunday set at Electric Picnic
John Donohoe
Gibbstown-based band InBetween Honey is looking forward to appearing on the Trailer Park Stage at Electric Picnic. The new indie rock group consists of five school friends who met in O’Carolan College, Nobber. The similarly-minded music heads jammed together in the music room at lunch breaks and they even appeared in some of the annual talent shows before all finally graduating by 2017.
The group is Dylan Hickey, brothers JohnPaul and Matthew Melady, Ciara McManus and Blayne Moran, and influences include the Killers, Hard-Fi, The Cure and Blossoms. Based in Gibbstown, the band officially formed in June 2019 and have grown momentum over the past few months with a headline show in Whelan’s Upstairs. The lead singer, Dylan Hickey, pulled the band’s name from a song he loves by The Bleachers. With the release of their much awaited debut single ‘Beg, Steal & Borrow’ on 23rd August, the indie outfit is only going from strength to strength.
InBetween Honey will play the Trailer Park Stage at this years Electric Picnic playing a set at 12.20pm on the Sunday of the festival, 1st September.
Returning to Picnic for the seventh year, celebrating “unity through diversity” Jerry Fish’s majestic, magnificent and at moments chilling Electric Sideshow delivers all manner of musical pleasures and awes. This unique area promises everything from circus, cabaret, burlesque and sideshow performers, to some of the hottest acts around. Including the fairest ringmaster of them all, Jerry Fish himself who is renowned for his extraordinary performances.
This year’s line-up includes The Academic, The Frank and Walters, An Emotional Fish, Sack, PowPig, Kid Karate, Ajo Arkestra, San Patricio Mariachi, Somebody’s Child, Classic Yellow, Join Me In The Pines, The Pale, Jack O’Rourke, Crow Black Chicken, Black Bank Folk, Lilac, Odd Morris, Underscore Orchestra, Clare Sands, Home Brew (Picnic Crew Party) Martian Subculture, Sparkle, Breath with The Beat (House of Yoga) plus very LOUD special surprise guests. As well as the coolest underground nite club in picnic town “Sideshow Disco” from midnight to 4am with Mother Club DJs, The Kilo 1977, Se7en Inch Collective, Will De Burca, DJ Mattie B, Bon Voyage feat. Shamon Cassette and Arveene and much more.
The Electric Sideshow wouldn’t be complete without its dandy concoction of carnival sideshow theatre, so expect unearthly performances from Sideshow Sweetheart Foxy P Cox, pole-dancing extraordinaire and fire queen Terri Fierce, The Pony Girls, The King of Cabaret Desmond O’Connor (UK) Magician Steve Spade, Wobbly Circus and many more.
The Jerry Fish Electric Sideshow promises once again to be a highlight of this year’s Picnic, delivering three debauched days and nights of mind blowing, soul bending entertainment.
Fish is one of Ireland’s most enigmatic and entertaining performers to the point where the Electric Picnic have now afforded him his own stage.
An indie legend and ringmaster of exceptional renown, Fish has evolved into a showman extraordinaire, capturing the hearts and minds of audiences all over with his now legendary live shows, a unique live theatrical experience that dissolves all boundaries between performer and audience. Jerry Fish blasted onto the music scene in the 1990s touring the globe as frontman of alternative rock outfit An Emotional Fish, the band who gave us the indie rock anthem ‘Celebrate’. These days the name Jerry Fish is synonymous with festivals, carnival sideshow, circus and theatre.
Fish’s genre bending and idiosyncratic style of entertainment has made him a household name within the Irish music industry. With two platinum selling solo albums, an MTV award and IRMA Music Award, and a reputation as a supreme and spectacular showman.
In the comedy corner at the Picnic, Kells man Fred Cooke is leaving his twinkle toes behind him following his success on ‘Dancing With The Stars’ and is ready to unleash his new comical brand of musical madness. Cooke’s guitar plucking panache enables him to paint comical situations, before delivering unexpected killer punchlines that leave the audiences rolling with laughter in the aisles.
There are just two weeks to go till Stadbally Estate opens its gates to 600 acres of music, arts and wonderment, and last week Kodaline was announced as special guests.