On the road with the Wolfe Tones: How the divisive trio have been selling out gigs for the Electric Picnic generation

Backstage at sold-out shows in Dundalk, Dublin and London

The Wolfe Tones (l-r) Tommy Byrne, Noel Nagle and Brian Warfield ahead of their concert in the Olympia Theatre Dublin Picture; Gerry Mooney

Barry Egan

Like sheep filtering into a pen, a vast crowd of millennials drained from the other arenas at Electric Picnic last September and flocked into a single tent.

About to take the stage was a band whose members were perhaps three times the age of the average festivalgoer – the Wolfe Tones.