Revisited: Creating The Spark: the kids behind 2024’s surprise summer hit

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🗓️ 25 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Rory Carroll and Helen Pidd meet the Kabin Crew and the Lisdoonvarna Crew – creators of a song that has notched up more than a billion plays on TikTok – as they perform at the Electric Picnic music festival. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:08.4	Hi, it's Helen here.
0:10.4	We at Today in Focus are on our Christmas break,
0:13.1	and so to keep you going in our absence,
0:15.4	we're running a selection of some of our favourite episodes from the year.
0:19.0	We're going to be celebrating amazing people who've really
0:21.6	inspired us, and today we are bringing you the story of The Spark and the Irish kids who made
0:27.6	the summer banger of 2024. Since we made this episode, the cabin crew have been longlisted for two
0:34.2	Grammy Awards and had over two billion streams online.
0:38.8	This episode was so much fun to make
0:40.8	and I really hope that you enjoy it.
0:43.0	We'll be back with new episodes on January the 2nd.
0:49.7	Electrospection maximum. Thank you. Electric Picnicning Maximus!
0:57.0	When they ran out on stage, it was just brilliant.
1:02.8	The crowd erupted.
1:05.4	It was the end of summer, and Rory Carroll, the Guardian's Island correspondent,
1:09.3	was at Electric Picnic, Ireland's biggest music festival.
1:13.1	He was there, alongside thousands of others, watching one of the breakout acts of the summer.
1:24.4	And then they just kind of launch into their act straight away.
1:26.7	There's no kind of like
1:27.6	chit-chat with the, with the audience. He didn't need that. I mean, there's already an instant
1:31.4	connection. Can you try this for me? It's not 30 like that. Crampy on in the garden.
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