SALTY DOG @ ELECTRIC PICNIC 2011

That flea-ridden pub-tanned charmer of the Electric Picnic, the Salty Dog, heaves itself up and smiles as another day dawns.

The faded red shipwreck, once a proud vessel of the seas, now lies in the woods at Stradbally in decadent retirement, lowering the tone and living the life of a strawberry-nosed ex-pat with a few bob, but not quite enough.

Round the beginning of September each year, a large, raised stage—cut from the mid-section of the wreck—comes alive. Rum-fuelled sea shanties, rasping washed-up folksters, desert island sounds, and gravelly maritime yarns find their home here… the infamous Salty Dog Saloon emerges out of the fallen masts and rigging when the sun dips below the yard arm.

The Rubberbandits will tie their horse up to the bows, with a ‘Dirt Rave’ featuring MC Daddy Earl; Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros bring their 11-strong band over from California, Phelim Drew brings his new band of renegades The Undertakers for a day out, Salty Dog resident The Mighty Stef can’t stay away, The Cajun Kings dust off their banjos, a very special guest joins Jerry Fish for a bit of seedy cabaret, Prison Love get day-leave, Marner Brown sail from Blighty, and Maria Doyle Kennedy will be playing the mermaid, BP Fallon the merman...

Plymouth-based sea dogs Black Friday return to Ireland for the first time in four years. Not to mention the bands who will limp over for a more informal session after their main stage set, sidle on stage when the girlfriend’s not looking.

The Salty Dog…… Dock up, get a tat, and stay portside for the weekend.


FULL LINE UP:
Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros
Cajun Kings
Blind Yackety
Anna and The Infidels
Ham Sandwich
Ange Boxall & Troubadour Rose
BP Fallon
Cujo Family
Hot Sprockets
Fling
Candidates
Huey and the Hobgoblins
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Marner Brown
ROBIN JAMES HURT AND THE BAND OF MOONLIGHT LOVE
The Dark Jokes
Sweet Jane
The Mighty Stef
Oddsocks Revival
Phelim Drew and the Undertakers
Prison Love
The Rubberbandits: Dirty Rave
Rural Savage
Molar
The Riptide Movement
Timber Tramps
The Transformation Blues Band
Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club
The Three-O Can-Can Troupe
Sick n Indigent Sea Shanty Collective
Black Friday



FRIDAY
14.00-15.45 Will Softly (DJ)
16.00-17.15 Anna and The Infidels
17.30-18.30 Huey and the Hobgoblins
18.45-19.45 ROBIN JAMES HURT AND THE BAND OF MOONLIGHT LOVE
20.00-21.00 Rural Savage
21.30-22.30 Hot Sprockets
23.00-24.15 Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club
24.45-01.45 Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros
01.50-02.30 BP Fallon (DJ)
02.40-04.00 Black Friday


SATURDAY
11.00-12.20 Julian Lloyd's Love Breakfast (DJ)
12.30-14.00 Jazzberries
14.30-15.30 Skazz
16.00-17.00 Ange Boxall & Troubadour Rose
17.15-18.15 The Timber Tramps
18.30-19.30 Mola
19.45-20.45 The Transformation Blues Band
21.00-22.00 The Riptide Movement
22.15-23.15 Ham Sandwich
23.30-24.30 Cajun Kings
24.45-01.45 Prison Love
02.15-04.00 Rubberbandits: Dirty Rave


SUNDAY
11.00-12.40 Will Dempsey DJ
13.00-14.15 Maria Doyle Kennedy
14.30-5.45 Fling
16.00-17.15 Blind Yackety
17.15-18.15 The Dark Jokes
18.30-19.30 Oddsocks Revival
19.45--20.00 Phelim Drew and the Undertakers
21.00-22.00 Sweet Jane
22.15-23.30 Marner Brown
23.45-24.45 Candidates
01.00.02.00 Cujo Family
02.15-0.3.30 Mighty Stef