Electric Picnic 2019: Four acts to catch on Friday night

One to arrive early for, one nobody knows about, and one everyone will stay up for

This week’s best rock gigs: all-star line ups from Cork to Malahide

Indoors and out - Gladys Knight, Pink, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Toto and George Ezra

Albums of 2019: A big year for recording acts of all sizes

Expect newies from Rihanna, Foals, Hozier, Chance the Rapper, Soak, Stormzy and MBV

Hozier releases new single with powerful video. Shame about the song

‘Movement’ is a comedown after the epic and raw comeback EP ‘Nina Cried Power’

Not at Electric Picnic? Massive Attack bring day two to a breathtaking close

Also on Saturday: Dua Lipa, Mavis Staples, Wolf Alice, Sigrid and Whenyoung, reviewed

Electric Picnic review: Mavis Staples – We’re watching music royalty

The Chicago blues legend’s deep, mellow voice drips with life and experience

Electric Picnic: A pop-up wedding, knitting for gin, and Hozier’s ‘secret gig’

50,000 people have arrived at the festival. Pace yourselves, everyone: Jomo, not Fomo

Shirley Manson: ‘I’m still a work in progress and a shambling mess’

The Garbage frontwoman on her Dublin cancer scare, imposter syndrome, and her first 25 years in the business

Björk is violently trippy, Morrissey hides from the news

The Icelandic wonder’s ‘healed chest wound transformed into a gate’, apparently

Gorillaz - Humanz: made with the groove in mind

Arcade Fire to play Malahide Castle in June

Belfast concert also announced, with tickets on sale on Friday

Prince live in Ireland: ‘We gotta go – I got too many hits’

Cork in 1990; Dublin in 2002; and again in 2011, after that no-show in 2008, Prince showed his live game was every note as sharp and groundbreaking as his studio work

Lucius emerge from the 1960s to embrace the darkness

Just when you thought you had the Brooklyn band pegged as cheerful throwback pop, their second album comes along and takes you by surprise

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