Whether ‘too cool for Kylie’ or waiting to climb aboard the Locomotion, music fans in Stradbally just can’t get her out of their heads. Australian pop queen Kylie Minogue ’s top billing at Electric Picnic – so coveted by organisers, that the entire festival was moved to suit her schedule – was the talk of the campsites. Alison Doyle told the Irish Mail on Sunday she and her friends are ‘dying to see’ the singer tonight.
‘We used to get up on the wall and dance up and down to Locomotion,’ remembered Ms Doyle from Co. Kildare but living near the festival site in Stradbally, Co. Laois.
‘I’m certainly not “too cool for Kylie”,’ she laughed. Nicola Raggett and husband Ken brought their five children, aged six to 12, up from Cork for a second Picnic. ‘The kids had such a good time last year, so that’s why we came again,’ Ms Raggett told the MoS.
And Reijane Cuddy from Brazil was also enjoying the Picnic. She told the MoS she has ‘never had a bad experience’ at an Irish festival’. ‘It’s always nice people and you meet many people.
It’s amazing,’ she said. Former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will miss the show, as he is on holiday, but spoke of his love for Kylie this week. He told the Irish Independent: ‘For five decades she’s been producing global hits.
Just when you think she might be fading away, she comes back with something new and is bigger than ever.’.