Grandaddy, Electric Arena, Friday
Where do you start after a six-year absence? If you're Grandaddy, you start with the hits.
The Californian indie-rock quintet have made Electric Picnic one of the stops on their month-long reunion lap, but rather than forcing new material on an expectant audience, this was a complete exercise in crowd-pleasing.
Opening with El Camino's in the West, Jason Lytle and Co may not say a whole lot to the crowd, but with tunes like a Now It's On, AM 180 and The Crystal Lake in your canon, why waste time with niceties?
Aaron Burtch amusingly puffs away on a cigarette hands-free as he drums, and Lytle swigs from a bottle of wine between songs; they're having fun and it's like they've never been away. How about you stick around a little longer, guys?
Verdict: ****
