September 6, 2010 1:31
The Horrors play new material at Electric Picnic festival The Horrors Tickets
Massive Attack, Mumford And Sons, The Fall also play Irish bash
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The Horrors played an unreleased track during their set at Ireland's Electric Picnic festival today (September 5).
Faris Badwan and co took to the Crawdaddy Stage at the Co. Laois bash late this afternoon, and initially focussed on playing material from their second and most recent album 'Primary Colours'. However, before set-closer 'Sea Within A Sea', they played new song 'Endless Blue'. The track, roughly six minutes in length, started off slowly before altering tempo halfway through, and also featured a section with just Badwan singing while drummer Joseph Spurgeon provided a simple beat.
Elsewhere at the festival today, Mumford and Sons drew a sizable crowd for their Main Stage show, which saw frontman Marcus Mumford give congratulations to Tipperary in reference to today's All-Ireland Hurling final, in which they beat Kilkenny. The band were also joined by their three-piece brass section.
Friendly Fires played the same stage before them, airing tracks including 'Kiss Of Life' and 'Paris', while fans for The Big Pink filled the Crawdaddy Stage for their mid-afternoon set. The biggest cheers for the band came when they played 'Dominos'.
Meanwhile, the Crosby Stage saw The Fall play tracks from across their career, including a number from new album 'Your Future, Our Clutter'. Frontman Mark E Smith spent sections of the set reading his lyrics from a sheet, and ended the evening by throwing his microphone into the audience.
Massive Attack had to contend with torrential rain during their Main Stage set, though the band's Robert '3D' Del Naja praised the audience for staying out to watch them.
"You're the most beautiful group of people to be having a picnic with tonight," he said ahead of playing 'Angel'.
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