This is our fifth year playing the Picnic. It is probably of favourite festival to play anywhere. It has the best buzz, and doing things like the Hot Press Chatroom is always great craic. Whenever you wander through EP, it's always on the smaller stages that you discover the most interesting stuff.
For our appearance on Saturday we are hoping to mix some old and some new material into our set. We've started working on the third album, so there's plenty of new stuff knocking around that we're thinking of throwing into the set. We'll keep it varied with a few raucous, bluesy covers, and play a mixture of stuff from the first two albums, 'Snapshot' and 'Little Victories'.
Myself and bassist, Peter O'Hanlon, are playing with two acts this year. We are performing with my sister's garage-rock band, The Outer Limits, on the Jerry Fish stage, on the same day.
We are really looking forward to seeing Toots and the Maytals and Noel Gallagher, I've never seen him live before.
Last year, we were on the Jerry Fish Stage and the set up was fantastic. They'd a great selection of bands playing. We were on at midnight and the crowd were so up for it, people were moshing from the first song to the last, it was mayhem. Peter went crowd-surfing for the last song and when he got back, he dashed off on stage with no bass, we looked up, and the bass guitar was making it's way out of the tent floating on the audience's fingertips.

The Strypes play the Jerry Fish Electric Sideshow Stage:

Saturday 3 September, 23:00 - 00:00