Electric Picnic: Sunday a day of rest? No way

Today’s unmissables are . . .

Lily Allen: flawlessly fun. Photograph: Ian West/PA Wire
Lily Allen: flawlessly fun. Photograph: Ian West/PA Wire

JUNGLE
Rankins Wood, 6.45pm
Don't tell us we didn't warn you, Jungle are one of the slickest live acts around. Their debut album has a slow-burning momentum, but live, they outdo expectations with perfectly smooth jams such as one of the tunes of the year, Busy Earning.
Jim Carroll

ST VINCENT
Electric Arena, 7pm
Last time Annie hit Stradbally, she had David Byrne in tow for one of the best sets the Picnic has ever seen. Be there to bear digital witness to a brilliantly cool, clever and enigmatic performer who lights up the stage with her awesome and complex tunes.
Jim Carroll

LILY ALLEN
Main Stage, 7pm
Allen is a flawlessly fun performer, one of those acts that no matter how indifferent you might be to her music, you can't help humming along to her catalogue of hits. Will she bring her giant baby bottle stage set with her?
Jim Carroll

SOMERVILLE
Earthship Stage, Body & Soul, 4.30pm
Maria is on the up. Check out her atmospheric downtempo tracks that have a moody, eerie depth, and brag about seeing her on a small stage as her reputation gets bigger.
Una Mullally

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LAURA MVULA
Electric Arena, 4.15pm
The former teacher's debut album Sing to the Moon was one joyous package of songs. Here's someone with the voice, songs and gumption to cover all musical bases, from soul to pop to jazz and back again. Prepare to be wowed by her superb way with classical chants, gospel and jazzy inflections.
Una Mullally

MIREL WAGNER
Other Voices, 5.20pm
Chances are this will be your first encounter with the Ethiopian-born, Finnish-raised Wagner but we think she's going to be one of the stars of Sunday. Her latest album When the Cellar Children See the Light of Day is full of stark, striking, strangely beguiling folk blues.
Una Mullally

MALCOLM LONDON
Word Stage, 3.45pm
The young activist-poet Malcolm London has flown in from Chicago, via Ferguson, Missouri. Lyrical, and passionate, he'll stir rage and love. Hopefully he'll recite some of his poetry on kids' experience of the Chicago education system where "oceans of adolescence" come to school "but never learn to swim".
Kitty Holland

A PICTURE OF US: A (SORT OF) MUSICAL
Theatre Tent, Mindfield 3pm
Competing with music at Electric Picnic is a tricky proposition. This break-up-inreverse story from The Cup Theatre comes with its own live soundtrack, where two charismatic leads, Lennon and Nora, sing from the bitter end of love through to its origins, in harmony and discord.
Peter Crawley

PONDLING
Theatre Tent, Mindfield 4pm
That pretty petite girl in the tent next to you? With a smile as intense as a grimace? Almost certainly a psychopath. Here is Genevieve Hulme-Beaman's multi-award winning solo show, an anatomy of a style-conscious Irish farm girl and nutjob.
Peter Crawley

TRAILER PARK
Whenever The mangle of Americana in Trailer Park is hit and miss but it has developed a relaxed amphitheatre with rollicking tunes and eccentric caravans: check out Science Gallery's Make Shop and the wine (and pun) connoisseur, Car-au-vin.
Peter Crawley