As the curtain comes down on this year's Electric Picnic, organisers have announced that tickets for next year's festival will go on sale this Friday, September 7, at 9am - and capacity at Stradbally Hall, Co Laois will be increased by an extra 2,500 tickets in 2019.
Announcing his plans for 2019, Festival Director Melvin Benn said that ticket prices would remain unchanged.
"Electric Picnic is about being amazing and I want to continue to bring incredible culture and value to the Picnic, which is why we've got Seamus Heaney poems going on in Mindfield; why we've got an Irish language day and an all-female comedy night in Hazel Wood and the incredible Kendrick Lamar in Stradbally," he continued.
Benn said he was "overwhelmed about how good the Picnic has been and incredibly enthused about the future".
"I am going to open up more space and incorporate another field into the arena; thankfully the estate has all the space that we need," he added.
