Electric Picnic 2008, a MySpace Tour - Friday

A linkathon for all the confirmed acts for Friday of this years picnic. So you can stand back when your mates want to go the Pistols and say, ‘Na mate, there’s this fantastic new wave afro beat band starting over at the Big Tree…’

Also- I’m fairly sure this is the first site map to go up on the web, over one the bodytonic site.

ps, the Bodytonic acts are not in the list below- they may get their own post, depending on timings.

FRIDAY 29th

At First Light; Irish traditional music.

Booka Shade; Berlin based dj- and all that implies: paired back euro dance.

Carbon Silicon; a sub Billy Bragg, bit Adam and the Ants, post-punk type nonsense.

Dawn Landes; superb Beth Orton-esque singer

Digitalism; German dj, bleepie house.

Fovea Hex; Dublin based aural landscapests, eerily beautiful

Giveamanakick; rocking twosome from Limerick, prone to bouts of noise and commercialism.

Christy Moore; boozy hero of Irish folk

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J-X0TBZ0sM]

Dobet Gnahore; exciting, relatively new, afro-beat singer, a little easy listening for my tastes.

Goldfrapp; sweet little Alison Goldfrapp, making music, all electro folk and vibrators.

Gomez; brilliant band who never quite seem to make it, despite being utterly fantastic. Terrifying old man voice.

Jape; third album just out but still known for that one song Jack White keeps covering. Brilliant live, sometimes, and consistently fantastic in the studio.

Joan As Policewoman; Very excited about this one.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMdzQB8qWS8&feature=related]

Kíla; always stunning live, Kíla mix traditional Irish music with African rhythms.

Kissy Sellout; owners of the best myspace background since kinsky, remix artists, similar but not as good as Gril Talk or Kleptones.

Late of the Pier; standard indie band with guitars and pretensions and annoying electro bits.

Little Green Cars; young Irish band, strong vocal lead, guitars and synthes, as is de riguer these days.

Lou Rhodes; distinctive vocals, breathy and beautiful from the Lamb former singer.

Miles Electric; cannot be found- please link through in the comments if you can undo my tower of ignorance.

New Young Pony Club; Trashy nu-rave gibberish beloved of neon crowd. Latest offerings are a mix of Winehouse and MGMT-esque bandwagon jumping shit.

Pinky; Potentially fantastic Dublin band, big hummable tunes and a friendly monkeys vibe. Playing in Crawdaddy soon, so you can get a preview.

Presets; spent too long listening to Duran Duran and early nineties housepop. Good, though.

Sigur Rós; I’ve never heard of this small time Icelandic act. Soundscapes, or something.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ5Grncdjlc&feature=related]

Terry Callier; English Jazz.

The Gutter Twins; Hard touring, super ambitious indie duo. Sound uninspired.

The Stunning; Weak, late nighties sub-Beautiful South lameness. Brilliant name, tho’.

Think of One’s- Camping Shaabi ; Thinking of One are a Belgian collective, and Camping Shaabi is project based around Moroccan music. There’s a film about it here, but its in foreign. Here’s some of their music.

Tiga; superb dj producer, from Canada. Think Felix the Housecat and Miss Kitten, then compare. He wins.

Tinariwen; Best of the bands to emerge from the Sub-Saharan desert and the shadow of Ali Farka Toure. Inspired and enchanting.

Wallis Bird Singer-song-writer, Dublin. Likes Nora Jones from the sound of it. Fair play to her, she might make it.

Yard Dogs Brilliant burlesque group- lots of Tom Waits-like touches. Actually, nearly a tribute act. Fun and theatrical.

Friday. Saturday. Sunday.