Hot to go: New batch of Electric Picnic tickets sell out within minutes

Limited number of festival tickets were on sale from noon

Electric Picnic: Singer Chappell Roan plays the Stradbally main stage on Friday, August 29th
Electric Picnic: Singer Chappell Roan plays the Stradbally main stage on Friday, August 29th

What are likely to be almost the last batch of tickets for Electric Picnic 2025 sold out in a matter of minutes this afternoon.

Most tickets for the festival have now been snapped up despite the fact that only five acts have been confirmed.

Tickets for the 2025 event went on sale on August 21st last year, selling out within hours even though no acts had been announced at the time.

A final cohort of tickets will be released as part of a promotion by Three phone and broadband company once the final lineup is announced.

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Wicklow singer and sweet whiskey drinker Hozier and Hot To Go singer Chappell Roan are set to perform at the three-day festival. Also confirmed are Kings of Leon, Sam Fender and Fatboy Slim.

Hozier and Chappell Roan will be on the Stradbally main stage on Friday, August 29th, while Fender and Fatboy Slim will play on the Saturday. Kings of Leon will be among the closers on the Sunday.

Electric Picnic this year is set to be the biggest event in the music festival’s 22-year history.

EP Republic Ltd, the company behind the annual three-day festival, has confirmed it intends to seek permission to increase the numbers attending each day to 80,000.

This is 5,000 above the 75,000 tickets that were sold for the 2024 event.

Conor Pope

Conor Pope

Conor Pope is Consumer Affairs Correspondent, Pricewatch Editor