'People made it political': The Wolfe Tones on 60 years and their final gig in Cork

A diamond anniversary is rare in music but Eoghan O’Sullivan talks to a folk trio still on the one road

Brian Warfield and The Wolfe Tones.

The most memorable image of festival season 2023 was the aerial shot of the thousands of people gathered around Electric Picnic’s second stage, Electric Arena, under the early evening Sunday sunshine, teeming for a look at The Wolfe Tones. Yes, the hottest band of the summer, the biggest hit with the millennial crowd who sell out Electric Picnic every year, was a folk trio with a collective age of nearly 240.

Some nine months on from the show, Brian Warfield, who co-founded The Wolfe Tones in the early 1960s, says the Electric Picnic gig is up there as one of their favourite shows of all time.