Spirit of Electric Picnic
ELECTRIC Picnic is not about the headline acts. It’s about the setting and the ambience, particularly in the Body & Soul village, which opened in 2006, two years after Electric Picnic began. Body & Soul, with its amphitheatre and art installations, its hand-carved stages, leaves, vines and corners of calm, represents what is great about the main event.
Body & Soul is the brainchild of Avril Stanley. “I really wanted to build a permanent stage within the Body & Soul village at the Electric Picnic festival,” says Ms Stanley, “because a big part of what inspires Body & Soul is that we build our own stages and infrastructure, as much as possible, so that you’re watching a band on a beautifully bespoke main stage as opposed to a big, ugly metal orbit.
