Exclusive: Electric Picnic 2015 main stage times

Blur headline Saturday; Underworld and Grace Jones get a Friday feeling; and you’ll have to stick around until Sunday to catch FloMac


Here’s the first batch of Electric Picnic stage times for Main Stage, Body & Soul and Rankin Woods, exclusive to The Irish Times. Saturday night is already looking like an absolute belter, and you’ll find us propping up the Body and Soul stage for Shamir come 3am.

On Wednesday, we'll have the full line-ups for every stage and act, exclusively on irishtimes.com/culture

Friday  

This video from Electric Picnic 2014 shows a view from above as Hozier is welcomed home by the biggest crowd of the weekend. Video: Sky Tec Ireland

Main Stage  

18:00-18:45: Ham Sandwich

For the first time in its 11-year history, the Electric Picnic will have more than 50,000 people on site at Stradbally, Co Laois. We have a tour of the site before it opens on Friday morning.

19:15-20:15: The Coronas 

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20:45-22:00: Grace Jones 

22:30-00:00: Underworld

Body and Soul  

16:15-16:45: Damsel

17:15-17:45: Joni 

18:15-19:00: New Valley Wolves 

19:30-20:15: Daithi 

20:45-21:15: Simi Crowns

21:40-22:30: CLU

23:00-23:45: Bleeding Heart Pigeons

00:15-01:00: Ho99o9 

01:30-02:15: Vaudou Game 

02:45-03:30: LA Priest 

Saturday  

Main Stage  

13:00-14:00: Yurodny

14:30-15:00: Bry 

15:45-16:45: The Riptide Movement 

17:15-18:15: Future Islands 

19:00-20:00: George Ezra 

20:30-21:30: Hot Chip

22:00-23:00: Sam Smith 

23:30-01:30: Blur 

Body and Soul  

12:00-12:30: Big Jelly

13:00-13:30: Frankenstein Bolts 

14:00-14:30: Formidable Veg Sound System 

15:00-15:30: Silences 

16:00-16:30: GIRO 

17:00-17:45: Bitch Falcon

18:15-19:00: I'm Your Vinyl 

19:30-20:10: The Hard Ground 

20:40-21:15: Everything Shook 

21:45-22:45: Meltybrains?

23:15-00:15: Natalie Prass 

00:45-01:30: Tanya Tagaq 

01:50-02:30: EMBRZ 

03:00-03:45: Shamir 

Rankin's Wood  

14:15-15:00: We Cut Corners

15:30-16:00: Declan McKenna 

16:45-17:30: SOAK 

18:00-19:00: The Staves

19:30-20:30: Battles 

21:30-22:15: Yasiin Bey

23:00-00:00: Jon Hopkins 

Sunday  

Main Stage  

13:00-14:00: Dublin Gospel Choir

14:30-15:15: Legend

15:45-16:45: Jurassic 5  

17:30-18:30: The Boomtown Rats 

19:00-20:00: Interpol

20:45-22:00: Manic Street Preachers 

22:30-00:00: Florence and the Machine 

Body and Soul  

12:00-12:30: The Inishowen Gospel Choir

13:00-13:30: Shookrah 

14:00-14:30: Rosie Carney 

15:00-15:45: Iron Mountain 

16:15-16:45: Dear Desert 

17:15-18:00: My Tribe Your Tribe 

18:30-19:15: Hayes & Leslie

19:45-20:30: Plutonic Dust 

21:00-21:45: Buffalo Woman 

22:15-23:00: Young Wonder 

23:45-00:45: Hundred Waters 

01:30-02:30: Puts Marie 

03:00-03:45: Hare Squead 

Rankin Woods  

14:30-15:15: Here We Go Magic

15:45-16:30: Thomston 

17:00-17:45: MS MR 

18:15-19:00: Gavin James 

19:30-20:30: MK 

21:00-22:30: Paul Kalkbrenner 

23:00-00:00: Le Galaxie