An hour is no longer enough time to devote to Lankum’s music. The catalogue is so extensive, and the live arrangements so sprawling, that this feels like a taster
Radie Peat of the band Lankum performing on the Electric Arena stage at Electric Picnic in Stradbally, Co Laois. She learned her version of Go Dig My Grave from a 1963 Jean Ritchie recording. Photograph: Alan Betson
Peat raises her right hand above her head, potentially gesturing towards a sound engineer, but the crowd takes it as a teacher’s signal to quiet down. It gets quieter still when she starts to sing.AC/DC at Croke Park: A band defying the tyranny of time as Angus Young is Gandalf with a guitar For one thing, an hour is no longer enough time to devote to their music. The catalogue is so extensive, and the live arrangements so sprawling, that this feels like a taster.
Festival crowds are funny things. There are the usual keen observers who have seen Lankum several times over, as well as those who have been tipped off without knowing too much about the music. The latter throw themselves in, flailing their arms and stomping their feet, eager to understand the hype.
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