Spike Island is an elevated swamp-hut that squats in the marshlands, cloven from drift-wood, with a defensive shell of hedgehog spines camouflaged by pond-weed, ditch-vines, elephant grass and soupy leech-sludge \u2013 and the only way into this shack-on-stilts is the raised walkway across the bog land.<\/p>\n
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Inside is for huddling around the music \u2013 folk, trad, a little americana, slip-jigs, Delta blues chants, beardy men playing paradiddle on a piccolo snare, and the odd stray bit of electronica. Those fond of a jig may jig; those who just want to lean in closer to the smell of the mandolin-man can do so too. Dublin\u2019s infamous Cobblestone Pub brings the very best of folk trad and roots music \u2013 along with that hallmark Mulligan Family hospitality \u2013 to Electric Picnic.<\/p>\n
ISP\u00cdN\u00cd NA H\u00c9IREANN \u2013 MEGATRAD \u2013 CAOIMH\u00cdN \u2013 CIARAN MORAN \u2013 KK LEWIS \u2013 BURNCHURCH \u2013 THE LABOURERS \u2013 SALTAIRE \u2013 AL BAKER \u2013\u00a0 THE LEN COLLECTIVE \u2013 FADA \u2013 FRIENDS OF THE RELICS \u2013 HELLO LEN \u2013 ISP\u00cdN\u00cd AGUS C\u00c1IS \u2013 KETTLEBOILERS \u2013 LAURA JO \u2013 M\u00c9ABH & EVA- N\u00d3IN\u00cdN\u00cd \u2013 SHRUNK JUMPER \u2013 THE LINES \u2013 THE SPUDGUNS \u2013 TRAD FOLKIN RAPS \u2013 TULUA<\/p>\n
After dark, you\u2019ll likely find Old Boy Meaney setting a match to the barrel-fires outside, and starting a bit of a song, and, inside, the best of Irish trad musicians drop in for a seisi\u00fan, anchored by a handful of players with a fondness for spontaneity.<\/p>\n
THE COBBLESTONE SESSION \u2013 THE DUDLEY\u2019S PUB SESSION<\/p>\n
THE DARKEY KELLYS SESSION<\/p>\n
Spike Island: Escape from all the bleeping noise back to a time when wonky-eyed neighbours chicken-danced across old floorboards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spike Island is an elevated swamp-hut that squats in the marshlands, cloven from drift-wood, with a defensive shell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-519636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}