Lisa heads up Cavan's musical delights at this year's Electric Picnic

Seamus Enright

Ballyhaise singer-songwriter Lisa O’Neill has got the Cavan's representaion at this year's Electric Picnic underway in real style tonight.

Having earned a reputation built on the release of her independently released, 2009 debut album, the aptly titled “Has an Album”, she took to the Main Stage in the Body and Soul area on the Friday night at 9pm. Lisa's set was dominated by her upcoming album, ‘Same Cloth or Not’, due for release in mid-October.

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While Lisa’s star continues to rise, the bright spark in the sky that is The Strypes has blown to supernova proportions. Last year playing a number of the festival’s smaller venues and, though the line-ups have not yet been confirmed, Ross, Josh, Evan and Pete look set to play a much grander stage on the Sunday evening.
Signed to Elton John’s Rocket Management, to Mercury Records, several sold-out Irish, UK and European tours, a Glastonbury show-stopping performance and a new album on the way, what a difference a year has made for local four-piece.
But if you mistakenly thought that Sunday would be a day of rest, sharing the headlines no doubt will be local eight-piece and Johnny Cash Tribute, Get Rhythm who are to play the Trailer Park stage, at 7.30pm.
Substituting the hard walls of the country’s prisons for a mucky field and the quaint surrounds of the festivals Trailer Park stage, Get Rhythm lead singer, Paul McCann from Belturbet told The Anglo-Celt it has been incredible the reception their show has received since its inception as a simple idea of just a handful of friends getting together to do a few Johnny Cash tribute shows.
For local fans, the band will play in the Ramor Theatre in Virginia on Saturday, September 28.
Other familiar faces to take to the EP stages include local favourites The Hot Sprockets, and The Raglans, both of whom have played numerous gigs in the area, most recently at Blessfest in Cavan Town.