Otherkin to headline the Salty Dog
These musicians - press-ganged, poorly paid, drenched in bootleg rum, and barked at by the strawberry-nosed stump-toothed captain for leaving guitar picks lying around - find themselves wondering why they are standing on the battered deck of a shipwreck wheezing under the strain of several years of wanton neglect, invaded by rot and rust, disguised with a lick of paint the day before the festival.
Why? Because the Salty Dog is where your parents never wanted you to end up, and that's why you are all there. Including your parents.
The turn-of-the-century harbour that provides a bosom to the gloriously decadent Salty Dog once again comes to life - if 'life' is the right word for the kind of riff-raff that frequent this miscreant port.
The scurvy-riddled crew barter for washed up buoys and stolen lobster pots with a man in a van near Bunclody, and scavenge for anchors and sails from a ship yard in the dead of night.
Lights are slung high in the sky and The Salty Dog is ready: hustlers, rustlers, duckers and divers move like critters around the port, lowering the tone with toothy grins, doing anything at all to turn a dime - blood spatters from the crude dentist shop, tattooed giants arm-wrestle girls for ale, grime-covered merchants hawk smoked fish and contraband oysters, warty ladies mend fishing nets and croak shanties at each other, and unqualified doctors offer guidance for unsavoury medical complaints.
And top of the bill with be Otherkin, fronted by Beauparc man Luke Reilly. Following their full frontal assault on music festival last year promotion ok otherkin are back with their highly acclaimed second album and along with many other recognised names such as Cathy Davey, Pillow Queens, Kormac and Moxie they are set to storm the Stalty Dog stage once again and if it's half as good as their performance last year then the EPers are in for a tasty treat.
Not only that, otherkin have also revealed this morning that they'll be playing TWO GIGS at the Picnic - twice the fun!!!!