Mercury Music Award favourite added to Electric Picnic line-up

Florence and The Machine, the bookies’ favourite for the Mercury Music Award will return to the Electric Picnic festival this year, it was announced today.

Already the winner of the Critics Choice BRIT Award and BBC Sound of 2009, Florence Welch wowed fans with her extraordinary Glastonbury performance recently where she shimmied up a scaffolding in stilettos.

A number of Irish artists have also been added to the bill.

The Duckworth Lewis Method, consisting of Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy and Thomas Walsh of Pugwash, will be performing their whimsical cricket-inspired music to the assembled masses.

Fans will also get a chance to hear songs from Mick Flannery platinum selling album ‘White Lies’ which earned him a Choice Award nomination and a Meteor Award for Best Irish Male.

After reaching the dizzying heights of the US album top chart with ‘Let the Truth be Told’, Dublin soul star Laura Izibor has been listed as Rolling Stone Artist to Watch, Billboards Best Bet of 2009.

Two Door Cinema Club are sure to capture the Electric Picnic mood perfectly with one of the catchiest songs of the summer, ‘Something Good Can Work’.

Now back on Jazzanova’s label, Dublin DJ and producer Stee Downes is set to give tracks from his debut album ‘All in a Day’ an airing.

Among the international acts also added to the line-up are Nightmares on Wax Soundsystem, The Big Pink, Baaba Maal, Blitzen Trapper, Wave Machines, Peter Broderick and Cap Pas Cap.

Weekend tickets for the event are still available from Ticketmaster, priced at €240.

The festival will take place in Stradbally Hall, Stradbally, Co Laois from September 4–6.