Melvin Benn says festival is one of the biggest in Europe and there is demand for more tickets for it
Electric Picnic organisers intend to talk to Laois County Council about the possibility of further expanding the numbers that can attend. Photograph: Alan Betsonin Stradbally, Co Laois selling out quickly despite an increase in capacity of 5,000 on the previous year. He ruled out the possibility of the festival ever reaching a capacity of 100,000.
“It’s up the council to see if there is more room,” he said, adding that local goodwill towards the event is grounded in co-operation with the community over the last 20 years.Electric Picnic 2024: Weather, main stage times, access map, ticket information and moreTickets for next year’s festival go on sale on Wednesday and it will revert to its usual slot of the last weekend in August.
Many festivalgoers complained on Friday evening about there being nowhere for them to pitch their tents and having to walk for prolonged period to find a space. Mr Benn said it was normal practice for attendees to be directed to overflow camping sites when the designated ones are full. The HSE has a drugs bin on site which allows festival goers to surrender drugs without any consequences and there is a laboratory off the main campus used to analyse the drugs.
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