EP's Salty Dog line-up revealed

"All rumours relating to the secret gigs on the Salty Dog late at night are true" says the disgraced and strawberry-nosed Captain of the Picnic's favourite shipwreck, a forlorn and decrepit vessel that hasn't seen seawater in a decade and a half.

Sprints, Bronagh Gallagher, Thumber and Overhead The Albatross, just some of those announced for Electric Picnic's Salty Dog stage.

The passing of time has made little difference to the gradual decomposition of this infamous trawler into the forest bed. The battered deck of the Salty Dog, wheezing under the strain of several years of wanton neglect, invaded by rot and rust, will be disguised with a lick of paint the day before the festival, and presented with a toothy grin by its bloodshot-eyed crew.

Others on the bill include The Eskies, Gurriers, Cathy Davy, Jink Lennon and Tebi Rex.

The new dockside holds in the collective belly of its patrons, and the turn-of-the-century harbour that provides a bosom for the decadent to weep into will once again come to life - if 'life' is the right word for the kind of riff-raff that frequent this miscreant port.

Lights are slung high in the sky and The Salty Dog is ready: hustlers, rustlers, duckers and divers move like critters around the port, feigning honesty with fixed grins, doing anything to turn a dime - Salty Dog - life at the bottom of the barrel.