Body & Soul line-up announced for Electric Picnic

Canadian 3-piece Austra, James Vincent McMorrow, Redinho, and Brandt Brauer Frick lead the latest up-and-coming Irish and international performers confirmed for the Body & Soul Village at Ireland's Electric Picnic.

Other acts confirmed are John Talabot, Tieranniesaur, CW Stoneking, Ghostpoet, and Black Devil Disco Club. Also confirmed are Irish acts including The BaRLey Mob, The Gorgeous Colours, Grew, Halves, Patrick Kelleher And His Cold dead Hands, Solar Bears, Donal Dineen, The Dying Seconds, James Walsh, Spilly Walker, Si Schroeder, Katie Kim, Rocketnumbernine, Paddy Keenan, Jon Hicks, Moths, Henrietta Game, Goodtime, Disconauts, and Torann drummers.

Other homegrown acts include Angkor Wat, Bear Bones, Boy Lights Fire, Deviant, Earthship, EleventyFour, freezerRoom, Great Lakes Mystery, John Talabot, Laser Tom & The Blast Crew, Low Sea, Magic Pockets, M*O*O*N, Nightflight DJs, Catscars, Paul Melia, Raw Chocolate, Tin Charm, Toby Kaar, Visionair, You Can Call Me Frances, and Rollers/Sparkers,.

Also confirmed for The Body&Soul Village over the weekend from Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th September at Stradbally Hall Estate, Co Laois are The Jimmy Rig Slip Jig, Those Fire Guys and Mrs. Mountiebonk and her Bandwagon of Charlatans, Natasha's Living Food Emporium, The Sushi Yurt, Tiny Tea Tent, Coyote Moon and the Hurly Burly Crew.

The Zen Gardens and Earth Spirit will offer bathing Hot Tubs, Herbis, Hortisculpture, Shamanic Healing, Indian Head Massage, Workshops, Warm Chai and Laughter Yoga across the cocooned expanse of The Village landscape.

Added to the Body&Soul Main Stage, The Peace Pagoda and Burning Man artist Shrine's Love Letter Stage, is Christy Collards new 'Earth Ship' Stage. Inspired by the New Mexico self-sustainable desert dwellings of the same name, the stage is built from environmentally friendly, found and recycled materials and clad in electrical waste.

The line-up includes Arcade Fire, Pulp, The Chemical Brothers, Interpol, P J Harvey, Beirut, Jimmy Cliff, DJ Shadow, White Lies, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Midlake, The Charlatans, Big Audio Dynamite, Public Enemy, The Drums, Blonde Redhead, Zola Jesus, Santigold, The Undertones, The Rapture, Warpaint, James Blake, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Unthanks, John Grant, Gemma Hayes, The Japanese Popstars, The Lost Brothers, and more. For the line-up details, and day splits, as available please click here.

The festival will also feature Comedy & Spoken Word, Arts & Theatrics, the Arcadia area, Fosset's Circus, Art Trail, the Body & Soul area, Global Green & Greencrafts, the Eco Picnic, and Amnesty Ireland.

Tickets are priced at 240 euros for an adult weekend ticket. There will be no single day tickets, family camping tickets (240 euros per adult payable in easy installments) and campervan tickets are also available priced at 60 euros, Sunday day tickets 99.50 euros.

To buy tickets, click here.

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