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AS WELL as boasting a terrific line-up of music, Electric Picnic will also play host to art exhibits, writers, talks, and poetry readings.

THIS YEAR’S Electric Picnic boasts an impressive and mouth-watering line up of acts such as Roxy Music, The National, and LCD Soundsystem, and now Galway band Lost Chord have joined the list.

Ballinlough Castle welcomes Body & Soul solstice gathering this June

Rising star, petite and quirky Vyvienne Long first achieved celebrity as a cellist in collaboration with singer-songwriter Damien Rice, producing the soaring melodies and distinctive sound associated with his albums O and 9. International tours followed during which she instantly charmed fans with her unique cello song and quirky take on the White Stripes’ ‘Seven Nation Army’. She soon began writing her own vocal material and formed a core band which typically includes three cellos, piano, drums and bass. Vyvienne released her EP Birdtalk in 06.

The biggest hit at the Comedy Tent at this year’s Electric Picnic was Limerick’s Karl Spain. Following that triumphant performance, he plays The Comedy Club at Cuba* on Sunday.

PHIL HARTNOLL, one half of Orbital alongside his brother Paul, will be spinning the decks at the GPO, Eglinton Street, tonight at 11pm.

HOT CHIP will be raiding their record boxes and CD collections this week in preparation for the DJ set they will unleash in Cuba*, Eyre Square, on Saturday.

There is plenty of Arts festival events taking place over the weekend for visitors and locals alike. There are many art exhibitions and lots of music and literary events still available.

Finbar Hoban Proudly presents… one of Ireland’s up and coming groups to Castlebar Bar Ritz (Mulroys Bar) next Saturday night June 13, instrumental rock group Adebisi Shank. Adebisi Shank is an electric, energetic loud band from Wexford. Taking their cue from acts such as Battles, Oxes and Lite, their debut LP This is the album of a band called Adebisi Shank shines through with rays of inventiveness that would teach a few of their contemporaries a thing or two in the art of writing, without ever leaning into the self indulgent persuasions many have fallen ill to when attempting this sort of art noise.

The Aftermath DJs return to Mullingar this Bank Holiday weekend for the first time this year.