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
Melvin Benn
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
Electric Picnic: First look inside the festival site
50,000 people will descend on Stradbally this weekend for the end-of-summer festival
Busting out: art at Electric Picnic 2018
This year’s festival will include the work of more than 70 artists and art groups
Harassment at festivals: ‘He started thrusting . . . I froze’
Sexual misconduct has long been part of gigs and festivals. Tackling it is everybody’s job
Electric Picnic 2018 line-up revealed
Kendrick Lamar, St Vincent, N.E.R.D, Dua Lipa and Massive Attack among acts announced
Electric Picnic: Arrests down as ‘friendly’ festival ends smoothly
Security at Stradbally opus stepped up this year, but the impact appeared to be minimal
With Orchestra collaborations, 2FM give the people what they want
Double bill with Jenny Greene and DJ Mo K among biggest hits of EP2017 so far
Smooth start to Electric Picnic despite increased security
Heightened security ‘observing and profiling’ and designed to be low-key, say organisers
Electric Picnic to stay in Stradbally for at least a decade
‘Ten years is the minimum,’ says organiser as site set-up for this year is revealed
Salty Dog: Stradbally’s original pirate music ship
How Music Works: A boatload of scurvy musicians is a big port of call at Electric Picnic
Longitude organisers apologise for problems at festival entrance
Festival attendees left ‘extremely distressed’ over pushing and congestion in Friday queues
Melvin Benn would ‘absolutely welcome any regulation’ of secondary ticketing market
Comments come after Electric Picnic sells out in less than five minutes, ahead of lineup announcement
What has Electric Picnic to do to maintain its popularity?
While you could envisage the site taking another couple of thousand punters, the less-is-more approach probably makes sense in the long run.
Lana Del Rey announced for Electric Picnic
Other acts include LCD Soundsystem, New Order and The Chemical Brothers
Electric Picnic in tune
Accounts filed for company behind music festival show profits of €650,000 for 2014
Electric Picnic: Crowd to exceed 50,000 at sold-out festival
Blur and Grace Jones among star attractions at Ireland’s biggest music festival
Electric Picnic: Blur confirmed as headliners for Stradbally
Britpop stalwarts will be joined by Sam Smith, Grace Jones and Interpol
Electric Picnic festival may have capacity of 47,000 this year
Florence and the Machine and Underworld confirmed as headliners
As positive Picnic packs up, next year’s tickets go on sale
Exotic food, belted ballads, word play – but atmosphere takes centre stage
Gates open for the biggest Electric Picnic festival
Some 40,000 music fans expected to attend sold-out event this weekend
Electric Picnic gives first glimpse of weekend’s fare
Line-up includes Beck, Portishead, Outkast, Chic and Pet Shop Boys, with weather set to improve as weekend progresses
Reynolds secures orders on Electric Picnic ticket discounts
Promoter claims he lost out as a result of being excluded from volume discounting arrangement
Electric Picnic sells out for first time since recession started
Aggressive ticket pricing discounting has paid off for the promoters
Electric Picnic was in doubt over poor 2012 sales - promoter
Just 22,000 fans turned up last year - well short of the target to break even
Arctic Monkeys, Fatboy Slim, Bjork for Picnic
Music festival to take place from August 30th to September 1st
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