Electric Picnic 2022 is go
After a three-year hiatus and two postponed summer time weekenders, pageant promoters and organisers have revealed the primary wave of bulletins for this September’s Electric Picnic pageant, working from Friday September 2 to Sunday September 4.
Among the large names confirmed for this yr’s installment of the season-closing weekend pageant are Sheffield indie titans Arctic Monkeys, Australian psych-rockers Tame Impala, Northern indie legends Snow Patrol, US rapper Megan Thee Stallion, and Irish radio favourites Picture This and Dermot Kennedy; in addition to Dublin post-punks Fontaines D.C. and US alt-rock legends Pixies.
Homegrown expertise is greater than represented within the first wave of bulletins, together with performances from Cork singer Lyra; Limerick rapper Denise Chaila; nation queen CMAT; Dundalk shoegazers Just Mustard; ‘atmosfolk duo’ Saint Sister; and poet/producer For Those I Love.
Other names introduced for the pageant embody cult noise-rap favorite JPEGMAFIA, Japanese/American rocker Rina Sawayama, rapper Little Simz and post-punk grouches Sleaford Mods, amongst a full line-up to be introduced.
The nature of the lineup had been topic to hypothesis in latest days, owing to a purported leak through ticket-listings and artist companies web site Bandsintown.
The announcement comes after the affirmation by organisers {that a} licence for a vastly-expanded pageant campsite had been utilized for to Laois County Council, with organisers hoping to host as much as 70,000 festival-goers over the course of the pageant – topic to the representations of native stakeholders and councillors.
New levels embody the Mind and Body and Mindfield levels, changing the Body and Soul space; and Jerry Fish’s Fishtown complicated; whereas the familar Hazel Wood and Freetown areas make a return, every with themed levels and bespoke lineups.
The 2020 occasion was cancelled comparatively early that yr because of the newly-imposed Covid-19 restrictions, however final yr’s pageant had been mired in controversy with the organisers initially suspending the occasion by three weeks, after native councillors voted in opposition to granting the licence regardless of business requires it to go forward.
This yr’s utility stated campsite, area entrances, and area layouts have been reviewed and amended accordingly to accommodate the extra capability.
Ticketholders for the cancelled 2020 and 2021 instalments of the pageant which have held onto their passes may have them honoured, whereas new tickets might be made obtainable through Ticketmaster.
Refunds had been made obtainable after the 2020 and 2021 cancellations, issued to these unable to take the pageant up on their provide.
- Electric Picnic 2022 runs from Friday September 2 to Sunday September 4, at Stradbally Hall Estate, Co. Laois. Weekend and day tickets might be obtainable at 9am on Friday March 11 through Ticketmaster.ie.
- Lineup is topic to alter, the pageant is topic to licence, and public well being recommendation could change earlier than the date.
