With Electric Picnic less than two months away, the festival – which returns to Stradbally, Co. Laois from September 1-3 – has announced the eagerly anticipated line-up for its beloved Trailer Park area, featuring some of the brightest, most eclectic, and most eccentric names on the Irish scene and beyond.

Anchored by the Trailer Park Stage, the area is a metropolis of "tiny venues, interactive cultural outposts, fun-clinics and oddball theatres" – hosted in re-functioned vans, caravans and campers. Across the weekend you can look forward to music from:

• The Tan & Sober Gentlemen
• Negro Impacto
• Clara Tracey
• White Horse Guitar Club
• Stomptown Brass
• Bootleg Beach Boys
• The Skatuesques
• Zaska
• Winnie Ama
• Melina Malone
• The Deadlians
• Scustin
• New Brass Kings
• Luna Boys
• Onion Boys
• Acid Granny
• William The Conqueror
• Post Punk Podge
• Darnell Cole
• Chief Keegan
• Montauk Hotel
• Shakalak
• The Pearly Whites
• Inbetween Honey
• Code of Behaviour

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The Trailer Park area will also be playing host to innovative installations and unique creative spaces, including:

• Yonder – a psychedelic bus. By day, "an immersive school", and by night, the "nonsense is taken seriously"
• Ellebanna – "an Ibiza-based dance intervention"
• Gangsta Granny – "a gaggle of razor sharp ladies knit a coat for a caravan, and then keep on going."
• Crazy Train – "spray paint to your hearts content, or try our rotating canvases, pendulum paint & subway art."
• Fashion of Swap – "a clothes exchange & repair clinic"
• Picnic Peaks – "Enter the Black Lodge for some DAMN fine experiences, surreal meetings, and coffee blacker than the moonless night."
• The Dreaming Summer House – "saturated in mystery, mystique and improvised musical"
• TG Ceathaire – "posing as a TV studio that is broadcasting live reality/game shows to a global audience – when it is, in fact, hosted from a bashed-up old caravan by a has-been presenter."
• Weather Karaoke - "out with the old and tired format of song-and-music to the exhilarating new world of weather presenting."
• Nun of That – "bring you back to the good auld days of Irish sex education where nuns rule the school."
• Lord Ganesh’s Larder – "a highly decorated Indian bus serving chai and offering a view from its first floor deck."
• The Snug – "dress up in old shawls and paddy caps, with pipes and newspapers and century old beer bottles – and then leave with a 6x4 print of the seisiún."
• Caravan Mambo – "hosts classic House and dance anthems DJs inspired by the Ibiza music scene – in a caravan"
• Terrible Terry – "The EP Open 2023, a nine-hole golf course run by a rag tag group of crap golfers."
• Caravanaoke – "will cram you all in, give you a song, and ensure chaos ensues."
• Quizivan – "returns with its infamous and glamorous TV quiz"
• Ceili Kitchen – "where ‘out the back’ trad is in full swing."
• Redneck Mobile Home – "the obnoxious occupants of the dirtiest mobile home in Trailer Park return."
• Salvage Yard – "a new piano bar – the full songbook as performed by the inescapably brilliant hands of pianist Stephen Ffrench Davis."
• My Lovely Horse Rescue – "welcomes Holly and Daphne the emotionally repaired pigs, a canine population of Charlie Watts, Betty Boo and Taylor Swift and others, and Matt Damon and Lola the Shetland among the horses."
• Craggy Island – "the Father Ted caravan experience, plus Joe Rooney’s Sunday Mass..."

All tickets for Electric Picnic 2023 are now sold out – see electricpicnic.ie for more information...