Electric Picnic bosses have announced Dermot Kennedy, Picture This, Snow Patrol, Arctic Monkeys, Megan Thee Stallion and Tame Impala will headline this year's festival.
The weekend festival returns to Stadbally in Co Laois this year on September 2 until September 4 after a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The first round of acts has just been released – with Megan Thee Stallion, Dermot Kennedy, Picture This and Snow Patrol also among the headliners.
Tame Impala, Anne-Marie, Fontaines D.C. and Glass Animals are also on the bill.
As many as 70,000 revellers will descend on the annual festival and organisers have promised there is plenty in store.
The main stage area has been increased in size.
By cleverly reconfiguring the position of the stage in the newly created larger arena, this area will increase in size by 60% giving picnickers unrivalled views of the stage.
And of course, easy access to see your favourite headliner is key, so the Jimi Hendrix arena entrance has doubled in size.
Re-locating to a new home on the Picnic site and now nestled adjacent to Mind & Body, MindField will also be sporting a vibrant new look.
The Leviathan stage will amplify grassroots political activism and critical thinking with entertaining and informative debates and workshops on issues vital to this young generation.
There will be a new Human Lab stage, which will bring science and technology back to the heart of MindField with a bang and a fizz; while Manifesto will present some of the very best talent writing for print and screen.
The hugely popular Ah, Hear! Podcast stage returns with new stars and old favourites and a greatly increased capacity; and The Hip Hop, Beats and Rhymes stage will present the best of slam poetry, grime, hip hop and performance with some of the acts that have made the Irish scene one of the world’s most exciting.
An Puball Gaeilge will also be ar ais arís with a colourful clár of podchraoladh beo, díospóreachtaí, ceoil, caint agus craic: the best of intelligent Irish language entertainment.
Fish Town, Electric Picnic's carnival town also returns but will be moving into the woods in Stradbally this year. It includes The Jerry Fish Electric Sideshow Circus Tent, pop-up sideshow stages, a cafe, and a bar, building on the community of mayhem-loving misfits that frequent Fish Town.
Alongside a new harbour enclosure for Salty Dog, a bumper-sized Trailer Park and even-harder-to-get-into Berlinhaus, the night-time arena of Freetown is preparing for a population explosion this year.
Other features at the festival include an industrial dance-cathedral Terminus, which includes swamp-hut Spike Island, fiesta-centric latin quarter Providencia, a surveillance-heavy Lower 7th, Our Lady of the Consumption, which is a field hospital for the festivally insane.
Hazel Wood is back and growing and organisers will launch Art Trail in the next few weeks, which will see budding and established artists showcase their work at the festival.
Remaining tickets go on sale on Friday, March 11 at 9am.
