This Thursday, the first 'picnickers' will pitch their tents at the 22nd Electric Picnic in Stradbally, Co Laois, with their 'early access' tickets safely stored in their phone wallets.
"It's only three days until this opens, but a large number of people are coming on an early entry on Thursday because they want to get the best places to camp, and they want to be ready and raring to go," festival director Melvin Benn said.
The 'early entrants' will be the first group of the overall 80,000 people expected to call the 600-acre site at Stradbally their home for the duration of the festival.
Now a fixture on the Irish music calendar, Electric Picnic takes pride in its status as the largest music and arts festival in the country.
Started in 2004, Melvin Benn told RTÉ News that the festival's growth over the years has been really encouraging for him and his team, as they are seeing Irish performers such as Hozier grow and get bigger and bigger slots in the line-up.
This year, Hozier will take to the main stage on Friday night.
Mr Benn said that he has been "privileged" to see Hozier twice at Reading and Leeds over the last weekends and "he is sounding so good, and his band is so tight, and to see performers from here growing and growing is just wonderful".
Kneecap is another band that is sure to draw the crowds.
Melvin Benn said that the invitation to the band to come to perform on Saturday afternoon felt "appropriate after all the furore, and we thought it was a strong statement to make," adding that it is their performances "as artists that matters as much too".
"Kneecap is a great band and they're amazing live performers, and we had them back here in 2018 when they headlined the Hazelwood stage - and now look how they have grown," he commented.
Everywhere around the site today, hundreds of crew members were hard at work putting finishing touches to the stages across the site.
Apart from the main stage, which will also host artists including Chappell Roan, Fatboy Slim, and Kings of Leon, other popular areas at EP include Croí, which is a hub offering music and movement with the Ceilí Mór, meditation, and more across six stages there.
Taking centre stage today in the preview tour was the new piano stage at Croí, which is called Electric Keys.
The name was chosen by festival goers in a vote in conjunction with the Electoral Commission who will be on site this weekend to encourage festival goers to sign up to the voting register.
As ever, the festival aims to bring new additions to the event; this year sees the roll-out of new areas, including Freetown.
This site, hosting areas including Metro where DJs will entertain the crowd, is described as the place where people can expect mayhem and excitement.
The area is filled with a post-apocalyptic decoration that includes a full-size train carriage that has run into a wall and a bus decorated to set an anarchic mood.
For the musicians too, they are building up for the festival performances, and for The Cranberries, this EP marks a milestone.
Brothers Noel and Mike Hogan will take to the stage on Sunday afternoon with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in a first.
"We last played together on stage at the London Palladium in 2017, and since then we have had lots of invitations to play together, but we were reluctant to do so," Noel Hogan told RTÉ News.
"Then our family said, 'Why not?', and our kids pointed out that they had never seen us perform as adults and they said, 'Why not?', so here we are with the orchestra. And it should be something special, we hope," Mr Hogan said.
He played an acoustic version of Zombie today as a sneak preview of what crowds can expect on Sunday accompanied by Niall O'Sullivan in full tuxedo as a sign of the unexpected sights organisers hope visitors will enjoy over the weekend.
The weather forecast looks mixed, though - ranging from sunscreen to raincoats.
Alan O'Reilly from Carlow Weather said there "will be showers and spells of rain, some of it will be heavy, but there will also be a lot of sunny spells in between those showers".
He added that he was hoping the worst of the rain Friday night and Saturday will stay "south of Stradbally, but I would prepare for some rain".
Podcaster Doireann Ni Ghlacáin, who will be on site with her How to Gael pals on Friday evening, is a firm fan of EP, explaining that this is her 10th year attending, saying that "there's loads of really great acts, Irish acts that I really want to go see".
She added that having "the likes of Chappell Roan on stage in Ireland, where would you get it only in County Laois?"
