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electric picnic 2008

Giveamanakick

giveamanakick are Steve and Keith. Having spent the past 2 years playing with various rock luminaries and music press darlings such as The Icarus Line, Ex-Girl, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Electric Eel Shock, Isis, The Soledad Brothers, Unsane, Melt Banana, Electric 6, Liars, Black Eyes, The Undertones, Presidents of the United States Of America and Rocket From the Crypt, as well as peddling their debut album "Is It Ok To Be Loud, Jesus?" to anybody who'd listen, giveamanakick rested.

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Robert Hood

Robert Hood makes minimal Detroit techno with an emphasis on soul and experimentation over flash and popularity. Having recorded for Metroplex, as well as the Austrian Cheap label and Jeff Mills' Axis label, Hood also owns and operates the M-Plant imprint (including the two sub-labels Drama and Duet) through which he has released the bulk of his solo material.
Hood was a founding member, along with Jeff Mills and Mike Banks, of the Underground Resistance label...

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Jenny Lindfors

Singer-songwriter, based in Ireland. Her first album, 'When the night time comes' was released March 2007 to nationwide critical acclaim. The first single was '2x1' and it received airplay on RTÉ Radio 1, Phantom FM and Dan Hegartys 'Alternative to sleep' programme on 2FM. Jenny has supported acts such as Ben Taylor, Angus & Julia Stone, My Brightest Diamond and Rodrigo y Gabriela in the past, prior to her album release and will be supporting Angus & Julia Stone again on the Irish dates in May...

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Dublin Gospel Choir

The Dublin Gospel Choir are an Irish Gospel Choir that have been performing contemporary and traditional gospel music in Ireland for 10 years. Some highlights for the choir include: * Headlining Ireland's first ever Gospel Music Festival
* Participating in the closing ceremony of the Special Olympics
* Recording and releasing three albums:
* "Nights of Soul"
* "DGC Live"
* "Moving On"

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Crash Ensemble

Crash Ensemble was founded in 1997 by composer Donnacha Dennehy; conductor and pianist Andrew Synott; and clarinetist Michael Seaver. Since its first sold-out concert in Dublin in the autumn of 1997, the group has attracted enthusiastic audiences for its particular blend of music, video and electronics.The group is interdisciplinary in outlook, and considers its sound engineers, technicians and video makers as much a part of the enterprise as the musicians.

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NEeMa

Born of Egyptian and Lebanese decent, canadian singer NEeMA’s presence on and off stage is powerful and charismatic, and her voice is honest and unique. Since the successful independent release of NEeMA’s debut album

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Rumpistol

Born in 1978, Jens Berents Christiansen is the man behind Rumpistol. He likes to work in the crossfield between melody based pop music and experimental sounds, but always maintains his characteristic warm sound. With great influences from dub he delivers an interesting take on electronica, click-hop and downbeat. Rumpistol's self-titled debut album was released in 2003 on Rump Recordings, and he has played many concerts in Denmark and abroad since then.

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Shuffle

Thrillingly unpredictable hip hop/jazz/punk/rock n' roll, this is a new London band who won the Diesel-U-Music 2005 award (previous winners include Tom Vek and Mylo). There is also japanese skinhead band named Shuffle.

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