A first look at Electric Picnic's festival site

‘The Daily Ticket’ will be spreading the news around Stradbally next Saturday and Sunday

Electric Picnic opens it's gates ahead of this weekend. Final Preperations are nearly done for the sold out festival and its new added areas. Video: Daniel O'Connor

This year, The Ticket will be once again be rolling into the Electric Picnic, with full coverage on- and off-site.

Our team of writers, including Jim Carroll, Una Mullally, Patrick Freyne, Peter Crawley and Laurence Mackin, will be onsite for the duration, to produce our daily editions of The Ticket from our luxurious shed. On Saturday and Sunday we will be exclusively distributing the Daily Ticket onsite, with all the best news, previews and EP happenings.

Our video team will also be roaming the hills and woods of Stradbally, Co Laois, while our Live Blog, with Hugh Linehan and Sorcha Pollak, will be keeping you up-to-date on the latest news, tweets, reviews and anything else that grabs our attention at the last great party of the summer.

All this week we’ll be bringing you exclusive Electric Picnic news, starting today with the first look at the official site map, above.

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Tomorrow, we’ll bring you the first glimpse at the Main Stage lineup and the set times, and we’ll be releasing the remaining stage times and lineups as the week goes on, before any other media.

For more, see irishtimes.com/electricpicnic