All you need to know for Electric Picnic: Stage times, new campsites, early entry passes

Mon, 25 Aug, 2025 - 15:30

Eva Osborne

Electric Picnic will return to Stradbally this weekend from August 29th - August 31st with a star-studded line-up including Chappell Roan, Fatboy Slim, and Kneecap.

If you're lucky enough to be making the trek to Co Laois this weekend, keep reading to find out everything you need to know before the festival, including stage times, information on the new campsites, and early entry guidelines.

Stage times

Friday

Hozier and Chappell Roan are headlining Electric Picnic on Friday. Preceding them on the main stage will be Conan Gray.

Main Stage - Friday

6pm - 7pm: Conan Gray
8pm - 9:30pm: Chappell Roan
10:30pm - 12am: Hozier

Electric Arena - Friday

6:30pm - 7pm: Luvcat
7:30pm - 8:30pm: The Academic
9pm - 10pm: The Saw Doctors
10:45pm - 12am: Barry Can’t Swim (live)

3Music Stage - Friday

6pm - 6:30pm: Alessi Rose
7pm - 7:45pm: Suki Waterhouse
8:15pm - 9:15pm: Self Esteem
10pm - 11pm: Confidence Man

Terminus - Friday

6:30pm - 7:30pm: Kirk
7:30pm - 9pm: Mark Blair
9pm - 10:30pm: Holy Priest
10:30pm - 12am Azyr

Saturday

Main Stage - Saturday

2:15pm - 2:45pm: Aaron Rowe
3:30pm - 4:30pm: Kneecap
5pm - 6pm: Amble
6:30pm - 7:15pm: Inhaler
7:45pm - 8:45pm: Nile Rodgers + Chic
9:30pm - 11pm: Sam Fender
11:30pm - 1am: Fatboy Slim

Electric Arena - Saturday

2:15pm - 2:45pm: Blair Davie
3:15pm - 4pm: Just Mustard
4:30pm - 5:15pm: KhakiKid
5:45pm - 6:30pm: Maverick Sabre
7:15pm - 8pm: Tommy Cash
8:30pm - 9:15pm: The 2 Johnnies
10pm - 11pm: Mark McCabe
11:30pm - 12:30am: The Coronas

3Music Stage - Saturday

2:30pm - 3pm: Nofun!
3:30pm - 4:15pm Hilltop Hoods
4:45pm - 5:45pm: Joost
6:15pm - 7pm: Black Country, New Road
7:30pm - 8:30pm: For Those I Love
9pm - 10pm: Lord Huron
10:30pm - 11:30pm: Maribou State

Comedy Arena - Saturday

1:45pm - 2pm: Karl Spain
2pm - 2:25pm: Danny O’Brien
2:25pm - 2:35pm; Darragh Bourke
2:35pm - 2:50pm: Steve Spade
2:50pm - 3:10pm: Ryan Carrick
3:10pm - 3:25pm: Emer Maguire
3:30pm - 4:05pm: Dara Ó Briain
4:10pm - 4:30pm: Aideen McQueen
4:35pm - 5pm: Peter Flanagan
5:05pm - 5:30pm Glen Wool
5:35pm - 6pm: Rachel Galvo
6pm - 6:25pm: Tony Cantwell
6:30pm - 6:50pm: Aoife Dunne
6:50pm - 7:15pm: Andrew Maxwell
7:15pm - 7:40pm: Kyla Cobbler
7:45pm - 8:10pm: Chris Kent
8:15pm - 9pm: Jarlath Regan

Terminus - Saturday

6:30pm - 7:30pm: Puzzy Wrangler
7:30pm - 8:30pm: Juicy Romance
8:30pm - 10pm: Pretty Girl
10pm - 11:30pm: Sim0ne
11:30pm - 1am: Horsegiirl

Sunday

Main Stage - Sunday

1:30pm - 2:30pm: Timahoe Choir
3:30pm - 4:30pm: Noel and Mike Hogan (The Cranberries) with the RTÉ Orchestra
5:15pm - 6:15pm: David Gray
7:00pm - 8:00pm: Kingfishr
8:45pm - 9:45pm: Becky Hill
10:30pm - 12am: Kings of Leon

Electric Arena - Sunday

2:15pm - 2:45pm: Esmeralda Road
3:15pm - 4:00pm: Biig Piig
4:30pm - 5:30pm: I’m Grand Mam
6:00pm - 7:00pm: King Kong Company
7:30pm - 8:30pm: Jazzy
9:00pm - 10:00pm: The Kooks
10:30pm - 12am: Ewan McVicar

3Music Stage - Sunday

2:00pm - 2:30pm: Sunday (1994)
3:00pm - 3:45pm: Mundy
4:15pm - 5:00pm: Arthur Hill
5:30pm - 6:15pm: Orla Gartland
6:45pm - 7:30pm: Montell Fish
8:00pm - 9:00pm: Marc Rebillet
9:30pm - 10:30pm: Viagra Boys
11:00pm - 12am: Bell X1

Comedy Arena - Sunday

1:40pm - 1:50pm: Karl Spain
1:50pm - 2:10pm: Martin Angolo
2:10pm - 2:30pm: Fiona Frawley
2:30pm - 2:50pm: Eddie Mullarkey
2:50pm - 3:05pm: Síomha Hennessy
3:05pm - 3:25pm: Bernard O’Shea
3:25pm - 3:40pm: Bronagh Diamond
3:40pm - 4:05pm: Eric Lalor
4:05pm - 4:30pm: John Colleary
4:35pm - 5:00pm: Killian Sundermann
5:00pm - 5:25pm: Michael Rice
5:25pm - 5:50pm: Shane Daniel Byrne
5:55pm - 6:20pm: Katie Boyle
6:20pm - 6:45pm: Vittorio Angelone
6:50pm - 7:15pm: Emma Doran
7:20pm - 7:45pm: Gearóid Farrelly
7:45pm - 8:10pm: Shane Todd
8:15pm - 9:00pm: Foil Arms and Hog

Terminus - Sunday

6:30pm - 7:45pm: Tara Casey
7:45pm - 9:00pm: Girls Don’t Sync
9:00pm - 10:30pm: DJ Heartstring

Campsites - Old and New

Electric Picnic's original legendary campsites in Jimi Hendrix, Samuel Beckett, Andy Warhol, Ériu, and Janis Joplin will be there this year as well as new, ticketed campsites.

Facilities in the festival’s campsites, including the accessible campsite, will be brought up a notch with more showers, toilets and Get Ready With Me (GRWM) stations which will include mirrors, straighteners, and hairdryers.

The new campsites, which needed to be pre-booked at no extra cost, include the Glitterball Campsite added to the reformatted Poets Camp and the existing Eco and An Láthair Ghaeltachta.

Reservations for the pre-booked campsites are one booking per person – not per tent, so everyone staying there will need to have their own booking.

All of the campsites that require pre-booking are now sold out.

Jimi Hendrix, Samuel Beckett, Andy Warhol, Ériu, and Janis Joplin require no reservation.

Early entry

Some festival goers can arrive at Electric Picnic the day before the main event if they purchased early entry passes.

The passes, which were sold via Ticketmaster for €40, are sold out.

Early entry passes are only valid with a weekend ticket. They allow access into the campsite from 2pm Thursday, for those wishing to set up camp early.

You will not be admitted entry to the general campsites on Thursday if you do not have an early entry pass and weekend camping ticket.

How do I get there?

You can get to Electric Picnic via car, bus, or train.

Drivers are urged to plan out their route before starting their journey to the festival.

An Garda Síochána will prioritise the official event routing. To avoid delays, festival goers are urged to not rely on Sat-Nav or Google Maps as there are road closures and diversions in place around the event site that will affect their route to the event.

Keep an eye out for the white event direction signs from the moment you leave the motorway, they’ll guide you the whole way.

All customers are to follow the same routing as families. Closer to the event site, accessibility specific event signs will direct customers where to go.

Vehicle passes and directions will be sent to Accessible customers in advance of the event.

From Dublin/North - M7 Motorway southbound:

Exit the M9 at Junction 3 and join the N78 to Athy.
Before reaching Athy, at the roundabout take first left onto the new Athy Distributor Road.
Follow this road until meeting the N78 towards Kilkenny via Ballylinan.
Continue on the N78 until it meets the N80.
At the junction between N78 and N80, turn right towards Stradbally.
Continue straight on the N80 for 11km to Court Square and turn left onto the Timahoe Road.
Follow event signs for Accessibility down the Timahoe Road and into the car park.

From Limerick/Cork - M7/M8 Motorway northbound

Exit the M7 motorway at Junction 16 onto R445.
Turn left towards Rathbrennan and travel to Bloomfield roundabout.
At the Bloomfield roundabout, take the first exit onto the N80.
Continue on the N80 to Stradbally.
At Court Square, turn right onto Timahoe Road.
Follow event signs for Accessibility down the Timahoe Road and into the car park.

N80 From the West

Travel on the N80 through Mountmellick towards Portlaoise.
Continue on N80 to Lucy Franks roundabout at Fairgreen. Take second exit onto the
Portlaoise Ring Road.
Continue for 3km towards Mountrath Road/R445. At the roundabout take the third exit and continue uphill to the next roundabout.
At this roundabout, take the first exit onto the Fr Brown Avenue/Old Knockmay Road.
At Fr Brown roundabout continue straight to the Portlaoise South Circular Ringroad.
At the O’Doran roundabout, continue straight and turn right onto the N80.
Continue on the N80 through Bloomfield roundabout (second exit) towards Stradbally.
At Court Square, turn right onto Timahoe Road.
Follow event signs for Accessibility down the Timahoe Road and into the car park.

N80 From the South East/Carlow/Athy

Continue on N80 to Stradbally.
At Court Square, turn right onto the Timahoe Road.
Follow event signs for Accessibility down the Timahoe Road and into the car park.

Parking at Electric Picnic is free.

Car parks will be open for early entry ticket holders from 2pm on Thursday, and then for general ticket holders from 9am on Friday until 4pm. The car park is staffed 24 hours a day during this period.

Festival goers are urged to follow the event signage and directions from the gardaí when arriving to the festival, not the sat nav.

There are different routes into the festival depending on the direction you are coming from and whether you are being dropped off, a weekend ticket holder, a family ticket holder or bringing campervan/caravans.

All attendees travelling to the event by car are required to park within the car parks they are directed to by the gardaí and event staff.

By bus:

Marathon Coaches are operating hourly services from North Wall Quay, Bus stop number 7623, from Thursday to Sunday.

Irish Concert Travel are operating a service from Galway City Cathedral to Electric Picnic on August 29th. A return service is available from Electric Picnic on September 1st.

There are many shuttle bus services operating too, have a look for ones in your local area.

By train:

Portlaoise is the closest train station to the festival.

There will be a shuttle bus service running from the Portlaoise Train Station to Electric Picnic.