Electric Picnic

Increase in size is response to ‘unsatiated demand’, says promoter Melvin Benn

Brands and agencies need to realise that less is more as advertising hurts atmosphere

Organisers estimate ‘30 per cent more tents’ were taken home from campsites this year

Reviews: Florence, Billie, Charli and Christine, plus Hozier and Richard Ashcroft

From Charli XCX and Billie Eilish to a sea of plastic cups and a big geographical fail

Review: The festival’s closing set leaves the audience stirred and gasping for more

Review: The music’s a little lacklustre, but the audience sing along to their hearts’ content

Review: The singer harks unashamedly back to The Verve’s glory days in a big-hearted set

It’s Sunday. Opt for an early feed of chips, or get in touch with body and soul?

Review: The Kilkenny four-piece carry off their set with no small panache

Review: ‘We’re the greatest rock band in the world and we’re not even a rock band’

A glittering rainbow signalled the rain’s end, bathing the field in the colours of tolerance

Review: The tent fills with unconditional love for Bonnie Tyler and her trademark huskiness

A Kilkenny teen band, a bewitching sonic machine, and the original pirate materialist

Review: ‘Stay freaky, my friends,’ urges the intense, sultry and captivating Chris

Review: Charli XCX has the Electric Arena crowd in the palm of her hand from the off

Review: Inhaler are casting off the U2 association and marking their own territory

Review: the Californian singer brings a balmy West Coast vibe to Body & Soul

Review: Dublin-Tullamore crew Scary Éire played the Salty Dog stage in the woods at 1am

Expressive Irish hip-hop, a seductive singer-songwriter and the best act of the festival

Review: ‘I can’t put a name on being in front of a home crowd,’ says an emotional Hozier

Review: Welcome to the evening the festival finally achieves peak Irish troubadour

Review: A crowd-pleasing show? No. An inside look at a maverick’s progress? Definitely

Review: The 17-year-old force of nature performs a knockout set

If you care about us, God, would you replace the drizzle with an Indian summer?

Review: The singer takes to his biggest stage yet. Money or hype can’t buy what he has

Jonathan McCrea and Ivan Varian show a blindfolded audience how to eat smartly

Flood alerts issued and matches cancelled up to 50mm of rain falls in some counties

From the Archive: ‘Despite the promises, the beer and toilet queues proved as frustrating as always’

Park in red, sleep in Oscar, photocopy the site map, and don’t download apps

One to arrive early for, one nobody knows about, and one everyone will stay up for

Running orders for Florence + the Machine, Hozier, The Strokes, Billie Eilish and more

From traffic, how to get there, the weather to camping, here’s your go-to guide

Exclusive: Plus line-ups for Jerry Fish Electric Sideshow, Trailer Park and Trenchtown

Event grows to record high of 57,500 attendees for 2019, up 2,500 from 2018

Exclusive: Running orders for Jarvis Cocker, James Blake, Johnny Marr and more
Electric Picnic 2018

Most riotous gig, most welcome encore, worst performance, best chat, tastiest food

Also on Sunday: Garbage, Jessie Ware and Fontaines DC, reviewed

Annie Clark swings between euphoria and melancholy in a memorable performance

The band deploy a potent Dublin state of mind that few of their contemporaries have

A €200 Tesco voucher is up for grabs for the best shot. Enter by midnight on Monday

The singer manages to rouse a lethargic audience, but her gig still feels like a filler

Main Stage arena to be enlarged after success of pop acts, says Festival Republic

They don’t make grunge-pop crossover like they used to. This is what we’ve been missing

Also on Saturday: Dua Lipa, Mavis Staples, Wolf Alice, Sigrid and Whenyoung, reviewed

Decades since they crawled out of Bristol’s DJ scene, theirs is still an extraordinary conceit

For starters, get to the Main Stage at 2.30pm for Jamaican reggae legends Inner Circle

Scorching gig confirms her star wattage – and that pop at the Picnic is a great idea

Horses in trees, a napping ogre, bubbles of colour and the wonderful Holomorph

The Limerick trio’s sound still pays homage to The Cranberries. But that can change

As soon as Ellie Rowsell’s band start to play the Electric Arena fills almost to capacity

The 21-year-old takes control of not one but two festival stages. That’s some achievement

The Dublin duo Versatile could show Kendrick Lamar a thing or two

Don’t miss London-based Limerick trio Whenyoung on the Other Voices stage at 7pm

There’s music, including N.E.R.D, but don’t forget the Lake, Hazel Wood and Mindfield

Also on Friday: Chvrches, Paddy Hanna, Ash and The Murder Capital, reviewed

In a horrible vision, Patrick Freyne is visited by the Ghost of Electric Picnic Future

The electropop head-hangers conquer the festival’s main stage

50,000 people have arrived at the festival. Pace yourselves, everyone: Jomo, not Fomo

Older hits, such as Girl from Mars, fuse easily with the veteran band’s newer tunes

Dublin troubadour reaches out and finds an audience ready to take him by the hand