Scene + Heard: Entertainment news round-up
We’re still a couple months away from the first music festival of the summer, but that’s what the wet and windy first couple months of the year are for: Constantly refreshing the Electric Picnic website, scanning Twitter for additions to Body & Soul, looking at your bank balance and weeping because you might not be able to scrape together the cash for Castlepalooza.
So how do the lineups stack up against each other. The daddy of the Irish festival circuit, Electric Picnic, is easily the most expensive at over €230, plus Ticketmaster fees. The initial lineup is a little ho-hum, with headliners LCD Soundsystem predicted by everyone and their mum (who probably saw James Murphy at the second Picnic in 2005) — though ‘All My Friends’ will probably be the moment of the weekend.
