While people are feeling the fear after Electric Picnic over the weekend, festival organisers have revealed that tickets for next year’s event will go on sale THIS WEEK.
That’s right folks.. Tickets for Electric Picnic 2017 go on sale from next Friday September 9.
“They’re going to go on sale on Friday morning [September 9] at nine o’clock,” EP organiser Melvin Benn said, according to RTÉ Entertainment.
Only people who attended the festival this year will qualify for the special early bird tickets, and the price has increased by €5 since last year – but that’s the only change festival bosses want to make.
“We definitely don’t want to make it any bigger, absolutely staying exactly the same: 55,000 people.
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Melvin also said he was “really pleased this year. The traffic was brilliant… everybody that wanted to be in on Friday was in by seven o’clock. Last year they were still queuing at 11 o’clock at night.
The Electric Picnic boss also praised 2FM’s Jenny Greene and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra’s performance live on the Rankin’s Wood stage – and admitted that he hopes they will return for next year’s festivities.
“The RTÉ Orchestra! Jesus! That was unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable. I don’t know how many people saw that. That was just fantastic.
“RTÉ took a bit of a chance on it, nobody knew whether it would be the right thing or the wrong thing . . . it was definitely the right thing. It was amazing. Hopefully that’ll come back,” he added.
