Ep #4: Playing Electric Picnic and cycling to Stradbally for a good cause - 24/08/18

On this week’s Unlaoised it’s all about the Electric Picnic!! This week we chat to Mr Picnic himself Stradbally’s music guru Richard Sappo Dunne, Richards been to every picnic and has raised thousands of euro for charity taking part in the annual tour de picnic every year since its inception. What he doesn’t know about the Electric Picnic isn’t worth knowing!! Alongside Richard is a man who knows what it’s like to perform to the masses at the picnic and who last year made international headlines when the stage he was preforming in fell through , its Perfect Skins and Pogology front man, Portarlington’s own Brian O'Mahoney . Up for the discussion today, a brief history of the picnic, secrets form the festival backstage, the trials and tribulations of the tour de picnic, Unmissable acts at Picnic 2018 and just why isn’t there a local tent for Laois based acts ?? All this plus much more! Unlaoised is brought to you by our podcast sponsors Finline furniture For nearly 40 years Finline Furniture has been making the highest quality sofas & chairs in Emo, Finline have exported their products to over 50 countries but you can visit their factory showrooms in Emo right here in County Laois,