Live Report: Fionn Regan puts spellbinding Croí display at Electric Picnic 2025

After the doors at the Pink Pony Club close, festival-goers drift into the snug glow of the Croí stage. A natural amphitheatre of sorts, it’s one of Electric Picnic’s most magical spots for music each year.

Bray songwriter Fionn Regan continues that tradition with a set that is a total contrast to Chappell Roan’s maximalism.

His voice carries a Neil Young quiver and his lyrics slip into Dylan-esque streams of consciousness. On ‘The Bunkhouse’, his writing shines with painterly detail, showing him as a songwriter who notices the world closely:

“Put the chair against the handle / In the window light a candle / When you're smoking up / The chimney slowly,” he croons.

Fionn Regan at Electric Picnic 2025. Phot:Abigail Ring.

The driving 'Babushka Yai-ya' pushes things into a rowdier gear. Pulsating guitar and minimalist drums give it a pulse, as Regan’s words stay stripped-back and poetic. The same goes for the fragmented storytelling of ‘Put a Penny in the Slot’.

'The Hunter’s Map' is a dreamy serenade of cascading fingerpicking, with the imagery of foxes in traps fitting the stage's woodland feel.

Regan doesn’t just lean on introspection. On ‘ISLANDS’, from his 2024 opus O AVALANCHE, his guitar bursts into upbeat rhythms. “We danced all night in the Spanish sand and the stereo played loud," he sings, as a reminder that joy also runs through his catalogue.

Fionn Regan’s set is proof that the simplest tools can summon entire worlds.