After various adventures over the last two years in Derry, Dingle and London, Banter is delighted to join\u00a0Other Voices<\/a>\u00a0as they head into the woods at Stradbally Hall on their first ever visit to Co Laois and the\u00a0Electric Picnic<\/a>. By comparison, this is the third Picnic in a row for Banter, though we’re swapping our usual digs with Naoise Nunn and Mindfield for Other Voices’ bijou tent in the woods.<\/p>\n
On Saturday afternoon (4pm, Other Voices tent),\u00a0Melvin Benn<\/strong>\u00a0(Festival Republic<\/a>) and\u00a0Philip King<\/a>\u00a0(Other Voices) will join me to talk about the yin and yang of the modern festival. We\u2019ll look at the long-term history of these musical feasts, how festivals have changed over the past decade or so, the new eclecticism which reigns at the better events, the differences in festival culture between countries and the future for these events.<\/p>\n