While clearly no announcement is in the immediate offing, POD Concerts supremo John Reynolds, who was Festival Director since the inception of Electric Picnic, was positive, if somewhat cryptic, this morning, when quizzed on RTÉ Radio 1’s Marian Finucane Show as to whether there will be an Electric Picnic this year.
“Hopefully,” he said. “I hope it happens. I believe it will happen."
Tickets for the festival would normally have been on sale by this stage of the year – but not in 2013 as of yet.
"Let’s just say at the moment there’s probably too many chefs going to spoil the broth," he added, before repeating: "Let’s hope it will happen, yes.”
In the course of a wide-ranging interview, Reynolds acknowledged that Picnic decision-making is no longer solely down to him.
“Through a number of investments and also other music festivals that didn’t work for me, I had to sell a majority share of it,” he told Marian Finucane. “There are other parties. So, yeah, we’ve got to work through and make sure it happens this year.”
Partners in Electric Picnic include the UK-based Festival Republic and Ireland's MCD, who are co-owners of Festival Republic with Live Nation.