Tag: Johnny Marr

There is little doubt that today’s Electric Picnic announcement has been the talk of the town since word filtered out and I couldn’t be more excited to hear the news.

This year’s 10th anniversary of Electric Picnic will be headlined by the Arctic Monkeys, Bjork and Fatboy Slim.

My Bloody Valentine, Franz Ferdinand, David Byrne and St Vincent, Eels, Noah & the Whale, Johnny Marr, Mick Flannery, Disclosure, Ocean Colour Scene, Hurts, The Walkmen, Baauer, Tiga, Warpaint, Savages, The Strypes, Policia, Chvrches, Parquet Courts, Clinic, Deap Valley and Soak also on the bill.

Dublin cousins Mark and Shane have been playing together since they were nippers – all Fisher Price guitars and Chad Valley backlines.

The two of them only got serious with the addition of Tom sometime in the late noughties, consequently mapping out a star chart using Johnny Marr, Lenny Kaye’s ‘Nuggets’ album and Thin Lizzy as the principal sources of illumination and inspiration.

‘Black Keys’ will be the band’s debut British release and sees the trio taking on the UK in fine style, channeling the primal surge of rampant garage rock ‘n’ roll with their own take of the blues – think Jon Spencer Blues Explosion colliding head on with Dr Feelgood and you’re halfway there.