Dylan Moran, Dawn O’Porter, and Blindboy are among the acts set to appear on Electric Picnic’s Mindfield Stage later this month as the event celebrates its 20th anniversary.
Cork-born CNN correspondent Donie O’Sullivan, Happy Mondays’ vocalist Rowetta, and Nicola Tallant’s Crime World Podcast will also take part in Minefield, the weekend’s annual arena of ideas, spoken word, and politics.
Dawn O’Porter
This year’s Mindfield, which was first held in 2006, will feature over 120 events across six stages and will also examine the US ‘broligarchy’. The Irish National Opera will perform, and RTÉ Radio One’s Brendan O’Connor Show will broadcast live from the event.
Electric Picnic takes place at Stradbally Hall, Co. Laois, from Friday 28th to Sunday 30th August and sees Fontaines D.C., Gorillaz, and Lewis Capaldi headline the music stages.
Game of Thrones actor and activist Liam Cunningham will also talk at this year’s Mindfield, while Athletics star and European gold medallist Ciara Mageean joins comedian and podcaster Jarlath Regan to speak on “life, love, loss and the persistence of craic in the face of adversity”.
Donie O’Sullivan joins director Colin Peppard to discuss My Friend Kev, winner of Best Short Documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh.
Blindboy
With Ireland holding the EU presidency, the ambassadors of Ukraine and Moldova join Barry Andrews MEP and journalist Shona Murray for Europe: Accession, while the ONE Campaign’s ‘Fair Play’ asks whether “a generous Ireland can persuade the rest of Europe to invest in a common global future.
Happy Mondays singer Rowetta will talk to Tom Dunne, Terry Christian takes the Manifesto stage back to its Teenage Kicks as part of Jan Brierton’s Wild Words strand, and the Beatles face cross-examination by actual barristers when legal podcast The Fifth Court takes on the most litigated band in history.
Minefield has previously featured appearances from Channel 4 News’s Jon Snow, Bob Geldof, David McWilliams, Shane MacGowan, and President Michael D Higgins.