The first acts for this year's Electric Picnic festival at Stradbally Estate, Co Laois have been announced.
Arcade Fire, Pulp, The Chemical Brothers, Interpol, PJ Harvey and Beirut will be performing at the festival, which runs from 2 to 4 September.
Also on the bill are: Sinéad O'Connor, OMD, Mogwai, Midlake, Jimmy Cliff, DJ Shadow, Toots & the Maytals, The Charlatans, Death in Vegas, Big Audio Dynamite, Lykke Li, The Go! Team, White Lies, Flying Lotus, Boys Noize, Paul Kalkbrenner and Twin Shadow.
The festival will be launched at an event in Dublin tonight.
There is no information at present on ticket prices.
