Electric Picnic bosses have revealed the final festival line-up with over 50 new acts added to the bill.
After a two year hiatus, the three-day festival will return to Stradbally, County Laois from September 2nd to 4th.
And with just weeks to go, The Coronas and Becky Hill have been confirmed to join the long list of performers set to perform next month.
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Also included are The Academic, Hudson Taylor, James Vincent McMorrow, Le Boom, Kneecap and Gemma Dunleavy.
Additions to the comedy line-up include popular podcast pals Vogue Williams and Joanne McNally of the award winning My Therapist Ghosted Me podcast, and RTE presenters and podcasting pair, The 2 Johnnies.
Announcing the news, organisers said in a statement: "It’s been a wait but we are almost there!!
“The countdown is on, with less than three weeks to go until Stradbally Estate swings open the gates and welcomes back Picnickers to Electric Picnic 2022.
“And now after weeks of waiting and speculation, Electric Picnic at last reveals the final line-up of over fifty additional acts that will perform at this year’s three-day festival.
“Time to dust down that tent and start planning for what promises to be the festival event of the year!”
They will join headline acts including Dermot Kennedy, Snow Patrol, Arctic Monkeys, Tame Impala, Picture This and Megan Thee Stallion.
70,000 revellers are set to make their way to Stradbally in September for the highly anticipated gigs.
And festival boss, Melvin Benn of Festival Republic, said it will be bigger and better than ever with some changes to the usual layout.
He told Irish Daily Mirror: “I am looking forward to it[EP], it is the last but one of my festivals of the summer and I’m definitely looking forward to it.
“There’s almost nothing that hasn’t been said about it, it is extraordinary, and we have an incredible line-up and for me the Arctic Monkeys as a Yorkshireman is an act that is irresistible, they are incredible.
“And I can’t wait for that. It will sort of be one of those things that we have just been desperate for it to come back.”
Detailing some changes to come, he went on: “But we have made quite a few changes at the picnics, tweeks.
“We have repositioned the main stage a little bit, people may not notice but I notice, and Gerry Fish has his entire own area we are calling Fishtown, which is in the wooded area, and we are making Freetown a little bit bigger.
“We have created a slightly different area for the kids too. And we have moved a couple of the entrances.
“We have made the arena much bigger too and the arena entrance because there was a little bit of concern about the demand to get to the arena entrance quickly when Billie Eilish was playing in 2019 is you remember, so we have responded to some of those sorts of things and made what we think will be really lovely changes.”
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