Salty Dog Saloon Stage

Last year, only a few thousand of you found the Salty Dog Saloon at the Electric Picnic. It was probably best that way.

An old ship wreck, once a proud fishing vessel, now lies forlorn in the woods at Stradbally, lowering the tone and sitting falling into disrepair as the seasons pass.

At the start of September each year, a large, raised stage, cut from the mid-section of the wreck, comes alive. Rum-fuelled sea shanties, rasping washed-up bluegrass folksters, Port-au-Prince Caribbean dread-heads, and gravelly maritime Rockabilly song-dogs find their home here… the infamous Salty Dog Saloon emerges out of the fallen masts and rigging when the sun dips below the yard arm.

Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club, Rum Shibeen, The Sick and Indigent Song Club, The Rye, The Unwanted, The Mighty Stef, The Bionic Rats, Túcan, Dakota 66 and a host of bands who just don’t want to be mentioned will finish up their gigs in the main arena and limp over for a more informal session… The lost, the infirm, the tattooed, those on the run, those with gold teeth, and those who sleep in hammocks with one eye open will be there.

It's up to you to find it. It’s in the woods and it opens at dusk.

Bands on deck until 4am

Friday 4th September
6.30pm Will Softly (Dusk DJ slot)
8.00pm Ray and Ian’s Sea Shanties
9.15pm Bionic Rats
10.30pm The Cujo Family
11.45pm The Sick and Indigent Song Club featuring The Pirate Pussies
1.00am Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club
2.15am The Rye
3.30am BP Fallon (Poop Deck DJ)

Saturday 5th September
5.30pm Ben Gross (Dusk DJ slot)
7.15pm Rapscallion
8.30pm Jukebox Gypsy
10pm Dakota 66
11.15pm Túcan
12.30am The Mighty Stef
2.15am Rum Shebeen
3.30am Lester Lloyd (Poop Deck DJ)

Sunday 6th September
6.30pm Barra Cassidy (Dusk DJ slot)
7.15pm Henrietta Game
8.30pm The Mighty Atomics
9.45pm The Unwanted
11.00pm Black Friday
12.30am The Sick and Indigent Song Club featuring N.C. Lawlor
2.00am The Rye
3.15am DJ Poppy (Poop Deck DJ)

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