RATM To Headline Huge Ireland Festival With Snow Patrol And The Chemical Brothers

Though Rage Against The Machine's upcoming touring plans have been altered slightly due to the postponement of Coachella, the band's slot at Electric Picnic in Ireland has just been bolstered by the announcement of the festival's full line-up.

Joining the newly-reunited rap-metal titans atop the bill are Snow Patrol and The Chemical Brothers, with Lewis Capaldi, Foals, Run The Jewels, Denzel Curry and more also joining them on the line-up. Electric Picnic takes place from September 4-6 at County Laois, with tickets for the huge event already sold out.

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Given the worrying number of tour cancellations due to coronavirus at the moment, Festival Republic MD Melvin Benn told the Irish Times of Electric Picnic: “I’m not worried about it at all. I’m full steam ahead unless the governments here and in the UK say we can’t go ahead…

“I’m 100 per cent of the belief that by June we will all be over the hump and we will all have forgotten about it, quite frankly, and all you buggers [the media] will find something else to write about it.

“At this point in time I have got nothing in my head other than planning for this festival to take place at the time it will take place. When you put it in perspective about the number of people that could be seriously hurt, I think it has been whipped up a little bit, but it’s a great news story.

“The reality is that, for me, I’m about providing entertainment outdoors until somebody forces me to stop.”

Catch Rage Against The Machine at the following dates this year:

March

26 El Paso, TX @ Don Haskins Center
28 Las Cruces, NM @ Pan American Center
30 Glendale, AZ @ Gila River Arena

April

1 Glendale, AZ @ Gila River Arena
21 Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena
25 Portland, OR @ Moda Center
28 Tacoma, WA @ Tacoma Dome

May

1 Vancouver, BC @ Pacific Coliseum at the PNE
3 Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place
5 Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome
7 Winnipeg, MB @ Bell MTS Place
9 Sioux Falls, SD @ Denny Sanford Premier Center
11 Minneapolis, MN @ Target Center
14 Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center
16 St. Louis, MO @ Enterprise Center
19 Chicago, IL @ United Center
23 Boston, MA @ Boston Calling

June

19 Dover, DE @ Firefly

July

10 East Troy, WI @ Alpine Valley Music Theatre
11 East Troy, WI @ Alpine Valley Music Theatre
13 Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
17 Ottawa, ON @ Ottawa Bluesfest
18 Festival d’Été de Québec @ Festival d’Été de Québec
21 Hamilton, ON @ FirstOntario Centre
23 Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
27 Buffalo, NY @ KeyBank Center
29 Cleveland, OH @ Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse
31 Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena

August

2 Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena
4 Washington DC @ Capital One Arena
7 Camden, NJ @ BB&T Pavilion
10 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
11 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
14 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
17 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
28 Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival
30 Reading, UK @ Reading Festival

September

1 Paris, France @ Rock En Seine Festival
4 Stradbally Laois, Ireland @ Electric Picnic Festival
6 Berlin, Germany @ Lollapalooza Berlin Festival
8 Prague, Czech Republic @ O2 Arena
10 Krakow, Poland @ Tauron Arena

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