Electric Picnic tickets for 2026 sell out in less than two hours
Tickets have already been snapped up, but what do we know about next year’s festival?
Melvin Benn
Electric Picnic food: Is it really overpriced or is there more to it?
A three-day festival, 75,000 hungry souls, and eye-watering prices – TikTokers-turned-critics didn’t just critique, they condemned
Electric Picnic promoter hints at expansion of festival beyond 75,000
Melvin Benn says festival is one of the biggest in Europe and there is demand for more tickets for it
Electric Picnic 2024: Fans complain about ‘awful’ experience after being directed to overflow campsites
This year’s event at Stradbally in Co Laois will be the biggest in its 20-year history, with 75,000 people on site for the weekend
Electric Picnic tickets sell out in half an hour
Festival returns after two year Covid-19 hiatus with Dermot Kennedy, Arctic Monkeys, Tame Impala
Caveat: Are we in grip of Nphet-imposed ‘culture of fear’?
Live events industry wants leadership thinking to evolve but danger still lurks
Electric Picnic 2021: Staging a Covid-free festival is possible. Insuring it mightn’t be
Hugh Linehan: Pilot events in UK are promising but will Government underwrite the risk?
Cancellation of Dublin Horse Show casts doubt on large-scale summer events
RDS says there is too much uncertainty around to plan ahead for the event
Electric Picnic hopes vaccination programme will allow festival proceed
Event licences for most outdoor festivals in the State were rolled over from last year
Cultural landscape on the other side of the pandemic will be very different
So many festivals and gigs have been cancelled, while the future for theatres, music venues, galleries and cinemas is uncertain
Electric Picnic capacity to be expanded to 70,000 next year
Increase in size is response to ‘unsatiated demand’, says promoter Melvin Benn
Electric Picnic aftermath: Campers leave fewer tents, but plenty of chairs and gazebos
Organisers estimate ‘30 per cent more tents’ were taken home from campsites this year
Electric Picnic promoter calls for an end to abandoned tents
Melvin Benn says persuasion, not coercion, will get people to ‘do the right thing’
Electric Picnic to expand for 2019, swelling capacity to 57,000
Main Stage arena to be enlarged after success of pop acts, says Festival Republic
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