THIS year’s MindField at Electric Picnic looks to the future of this State in the context of the 1916 centenary commemorations.
Expect tough questions, inspiring answers, heated debate and huge laughs from Limerick’s Blindboy Boatclub of the Rubberbandits, comedian Al Porter and David McWilliams.
The Twenty One Sixteen Parliament will be chaired by Ceann Comhairle Blindboy Boatclub with speakers including Prof Luke O’Neill of TCD, Dr. Rhona Mahony, Master of the National Maternity Hospital and Rosaleen McDonagh, a playwright from the Traveller community.
Blindboy will also present ‘What the F**k is Culture Anyway?’ with a panel of so called “gasc*ntists” who will try to get a handle on what culture means to Irish people and what Irish culture means to the world.
For the first time Mindfield features daily live satirical news broadcasts from Waterford Whispers News. The hugely popular Soundings: Podcast is hosted by award winning comedy writer Sharon Horgan, and Dylan Haskins with Aisling Bea and special guests.
Mindfield happens at Electric Picnic, Stradbally on September 2-4.
