We know a few particularly well-groomed Picnicers for whom professionally done hair and make-up is merely basic maintenance, but for the rest of us, the Pamper Palace is an excuse to really treat ourselves. Offering blow-dries, extensions,false eyelashes, make-up and body art, this campsite beauty emporium caters to everyone, from the girl who can’t survive a day without her hair straighteners to the guy who feels naked without a Paul Stanley-style star painted over his right eye.

The word surly wasn’t invented for Dylan Moran, but really, it might as well have been; the cynical, curmudgeonly comic genius who brought us Black Books and starred in such cult favourites as Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run has been a trusted source of sidesplitting sardonicism for over 20 years now, but he’ll be bringing a whole new list of gripes to Stradbally when he drops by for his Picnic debut. Having spent the first half of 2013 taking his Yeah, Yeah tour around North America, he’ll be sharing his take on smartphone apps, middle age, action movies, and, if we’re lucky, the fine folk at Electric Picnic.

We can’t imagine the Kaleidoscopic Electric Picnic site without the weird and wonderful art installations that grace its fields, so to make sure you take full advantage of its aesthetic splendour, a stroll along the specially-designed Arts Trail is a must. As always, the identity of the artists has been kept hush hush, but serial Picnicers will know to expect the unexpected. They’ll also know that, if it looks like there’s a piano hanging from that tree, it probably means there’s a piano hanging from a tree. For the full experience, get yourself a copy of the festival programme, which includes the all-important Arts Trail map.