31-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Electric Picnic: Miriam O'Callaghan, Rosie O'Donnell and Nicola Tallant among those added to festival line-up for ‘Mindfield' stages
The 'arena of ideas' at Ireland's largest festival hosts, podcasting and comedy, will also feature Dara Ó Briain, David McWilliams and Nicola Tallant.
The David McWilliams Podcast and Miriam O'Callaghan's Picnic Brunch will be on the line-up, alongside legendary music producer William Orbit in conversation, Róisín Ingle's The Women's Podcast and Nicola Tallant's Cocaine Cowboys.
The six stages, which include Leviathan: Political Cabaret, Manifesto, Ah, Hear Podcast, The Theatre, The Word and An Puball Gaeilge, will host debating, podcasting, poetry and music throughout the weekend.
Current affairs will be covered by The Group Chat from Virgin Media News, with Deirdre O'Kane and Emma Doran's Keep it Tight also on the line-up with Jenny Keane's Orgasm.
In the hugely popular Seed Talks series, there will be talks on The History of Witchcraft with Lora O'Brien, the Science of Psychedelics with Dr David Luke and the Science of Intergenerational Trauma with Dr Jane Mulcahy.
Other events on the programme include speed debating, a talk on the legacy of Éamon de Valera, a performance by Professor Luke O'Neill and his band The Metabollix and a voter registration drive by An Coimisiún Toghcháin, Ireland's Electoral Commission.
The Ah, Hear Podcast stage brings Unscripted with Niamh O'Connor, Guide to Parenting, Nicola Tallant's Cocaine Cowboys, Off The Ball and A Few Scoops hosted by Colm O'Regan and Aoife Grace Moore.
Baleia Baleia Baleia from Portugal will be performing, along with musical acts like bbft, Scally and the Ballyboyz, Dimplestillskin and The Cranberries tribute act Zombie.
Headliners like Hozier, Chappell Roan and Fatboy Slim are already on the festival line-up, with the largest festival in the country, which already sold out months in advance, taking place in Stradbally, Co Laois, from August 29 to 31.
Top international acts like Becky Hill, Confidence Man, The Kooks and Lord Huron have been added to the line-up, while Eurovision fans who rated Estonia's entry 'Espresso Macchiato' will be able to see Tommy Cash on stage this summer, joined by last year's Dutch entry Joost.
Other acts who will be taking to the stage include Conan Gray and Irish stars like Amble, Kingfishr, Bell X1, Maverick Sabre, The Academic and Aaron Rowe.
Around 80,000 people are expected to descend on the 600-acre Stradbally Estate this summer, with a new wave of acts like Suki Waterhouse, Biig Piig, Maribou State, Montell and Barry Can't Swim to join them.
Tickets for the 2025 festival completely sold out last August, just days after the 2024 event which featured Kylie Minogue, Noah Kahan, Calvin Harris, The Wolfe Tones, who drew a record-breaking crowd to the Electric Tent the year prior, and Kneecap.
