DUBLIN singer/songwriter Dermot Kennedy, Tame Impala and the Arctic Monkeys will headline the bill at this year's Electric Picnic.
The Republic's largest music event will return in September for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began.
The festival, at Stradbally in Co Laois, will run from September 2-4. Tickets went on sale this morning at 9am and sold out within 30 minutes.
Other highlights across the weekend include Megan Thee Stallion, Picture This, Snow Patrol, Anne-Marie, Annie Mac and Fontaines D.C.
Melvin Benn, Director of the Electric Picnic festival, said: "I think it’s been a long wait really and obviously during a two year sort of hiatus you lose acts, you gain acts, we are not immune from that but Dermot Kennedy, Tame Impala, and of course Arctic Monkeys, it’s pretty much a dream come through for us really ...
"...and if you start to add people like Snow Patrol I think you are getting an incredible array and full description of what the Electric Picnic is really," he said.
"We live in an incredibly troubled world but we have to remind ourselves that life has to go on, we have to have our diversions - we have to support people that are in need and need our support but we have to have our diversions and our amazing cultural lives that we have and Electric Picnic is at the top of that and so being at Stradbally in September is something that I just can’t wait for to be honest, it’s very special."
Tickets for Electric Picnic go on sale today at 9am from ticketmaster.ie
