Electric Picnic 2023

Electric Picnic boss Melvin Benn has confirmed the festival will return again next year - but he won't be increasing its capacity.

So overall, it is hard to believe that it was three years ago that we sat here but it was three years ago. “Freetown I think is extraordinary and I’m certainly looking to make that bigger and better. “One of the things I’m really keen to do is bring mains electricity to the site. “For the first time ever, there won’t be the ability to queue at a Ticketmaster outlet to buy a ticket so that’s always been the case in the past. I think I’m pretty certain about is that - and I am saying this and putting this on record - that I’m certain Covid is not going to come back and disrupt us again, we’ll be back next year.” All the cups can be collected and reused and recycled. I think the low is that it is going to finish… All our cups and everything, you know all the plastic bottles that we sell are recycled plastics. A little bit bigger, hard to make it any better. Ticketmaster has closed all their retail outlets so for the first time ever we’re fully digital. So important to be Laois. Monday we’ll have to pack it all up and we’ll have to wait for another year.

Speaking on Sunday (September 4) at the festival, Melvin Benn described the return of the festival in Laois as "glorious". ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING ...

They make the picnic what it is," Mr Benn said. "I don't think there's a better main stage festival arena in the world better than that one now and with the screens and stage presence it's glorious, it's unbelievable. So many creative people help make the picnic what it is. "It is going fully digital. He said, "[There were] lots of highs actually, lots of highs. The two collide and it's an amazing thing, the spirit, the craic.