Kevin Shields, the mercurial leader of the Irish-British shoegaze quartet, was spotted having a carvery lunch with his parents in Portlaoise the afternoon MBV headlined Electric Picnic. The dinner must have blown away the cobwebs as their concert was rafter-shaking and beautifully uncompromising. It was memorable for other reasons, too: 2008 was the last year of Electric Picnic’s early incarnation as a collaboration between John Reynolds’ Pod group and Aiken Promotions.
The Fall’s 2010 set at the Picnic is not widely remembered. Mark E Smith’s response to encountering Mumford and Sons backstage, however, has gone down in the annals. “There was this other group warming up in the next sort of chalet and they were terrible,” he recalled. “I said, ‘Shut them c**ts up,’ and they were still warming up so I threw a bottle at them. The band said, ‘That’s the Sons of Mumford or something.
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