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Cormac O'Shea

Electric Picnic 2020: How to get your money back now that EP has been cancelled

Electric Picnic 2020 is the latest big music event to be cancelled this year because of COVID-19.

The festival in Stradbally was scheduled to take place in the first weekend of September but has now been pulled from the event calendar.

Optimistic ticket holders had hoped with the mass gathering ban of 5,000 people or more ending in August that the show could go on.

However bosses announced on Monday afternoon that they had no option but to cancel the festival.

Here's how you can get yourself a full refund or transfer your ticket over to next year:

Refunds

Refunds are available online with customers asked to contact Ticketmaster in the next 30 days.

The spokesperson added: "Your ticket refund is available from Ticketmaster or other original point of purchase. Please contact them over the next 30 days.

"If you prefer, for ease, you can retain your ticket and carry it over to next year; you don’t have to do anything."

Cancelling festival 'unavoidable'

A spokesperson said: "Cancelling our festival has become unavoidable, and we fully support the Irish Government’s ongoing measures to help fight the spread of Covid-19 and protect lives at this time.

"Whilst the entire Electric Picnic team are terribly disappointed, we have a responsibility to all our fans, artists, crews, suppliers, sponsors, partners and our entire Electric Picnic family including the wonderful people of Stradbally who have welcomed us into their community each year.

"We would like to thank each and every one of them for their fantastic support and outstanding contribution towards making the festival such an amazing event and look forward to welcoming everyone back in 2021 for lots more fun, music, extravagance and magical moments."

Rage Against the Machine, Snow Patrol and The Chemical Brothers were already announced as the headliners for Electric Picnic 2020.

Irish band Picture This and Scottish superstar Lewis Capaldi were also in the line-up.

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