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Electric Picnic 2024: Sunday stage times for all the top areas, weather forecast and more
When and where to catch Kylie Minogue, Raye, The Wolfe Tones, CMAT and more
Electric Picnic 2024: Saturday stage times for top areas, weather forecast and more
When and where to catch Calvin Harris, Kodaline, Lankum, Kneecap, Blindboy and more
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Beth Ditto: ‘The NME cover with the naked shoot, I was only 25. I look at my niece who’s 25 and I’m, like, wow’
The Gossip singer remembers that part of her life as a blur. But, as the band prepare to play Dublin, she has no regrets, she says
Sampa the Great: ‘For the first time, we’re not asked to add more English. I can just sing in my language’
Africa’s biggest stars are filling stadiums, winning Grammys and forging collaborations across the world. It’s finally putting them in control of their stories
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 2024 in pictures: 75,000 fans arrive in Stradbally for the summer’s biggest music festival
The first festivalgoers pitched their tents on Thursday. Tens of thousands more have been reaching the festival site, in Co Laois, today
Electric Picnic off to a 'rocky' start with new world record
Around 3,700 Electric Picnic attendees have set a new world record, in aid of charity, for the largest ever Rock the Boat. Video: Alan Betson
Electric Picnic 2024: Friday stage times for all the top areas, weather forecast and more
When and where to catch Noah Kahan, Gerry Cinnamon, Jazzy, Kojaque and more
The anxious camper’s first music festival experience: I brought ear plugs, a sleep mask and a book
Stepping outside your comfort zone and into a tent at a music festival isn’t for the faint of heart
Talos: To listen to Eoin French’s music was to be transported to a hauntingly beautiful parallel dimension
As they mourn his death, fans of Talos will take solace in the extraordinary body of work left behind: music that pulsates with wonder and is illuminated by French’s humanity
Ticket exchange website Toutless grows again after attack by professional scammers
‘People want to pass on tickets they’re not able to use without anyone being ripped off’: Website heads into busiest period with music fans on the hunt for sold out Electric Picnic tickets
Electric Picnic 2024: Weather, main stage times, access map, ticket information and more
Everything you need to know about Ireland’s largest music festival taking place from August 16th-18th
The Music Quiz: Which of AC/DC’s early 1990s songs is all about Donald Trump?
In honour of the mighty metalheads Saturday concert at Croke Park, an electrifying query into all things AC/DC
Powered by renewable energy, Electric Picnic gets under way two weeks earlier than normal on Friday
Promoter Melvin Benn says he cannot speculate on the artist who prompted moving the festival – headlined by Kylie Minogue – two weeks forward
Cork musician Eoin French, known as Talos, dies aged 36
Electronic artist died in his native Cork following a ‘short illness’, a social media statement said
AC/DC in Dublin: Croke Park concert setlist, weather forecast, ticket information and more
Everything you need to know about the band’s Dublin concert on Saturday, August 17th
Electric Picnic 2024 stage times for all the main areas
Heading to Stradbally? Whether you want to see Kylie or Kneecap, CMAT or Calvin Harris, here are when and where they’re playing