The tickets reportedly sold out within four hours, setting a new record for the festival, which has begun to regularly sell out its tickets mere hours after they go on sale.

On top of the Early Bird tickets, loyalty tickets and tickets for family camping, family campervans and campervans also sold out after going on sale at 9am today.

This was only an initial batch of tickets, and the exact number released this morning has not been confirmed, so people will have more opportunities to buy tickets as they get released in the months to come. Tickets for the 2018 festival sold out officially back in March of this year, after the headliners of Kendrick Lamar, Massive Attack and NERD were announced.

Prices of EP 2019 tickets will remain the same as they did last year, and the festival will take place in Stradbally, Laois, from August 30 - September 1.

Humble beginnings

Electric Picnic began as a one day event back in 2004. Back then, the headliners were smaller - as were the attendee numbers - and while there was no official camping designated on the site, a few festival-goers set up their own DIY campsite in an adjacent carpark in the festival grounds.

This paved the way for EP 2005, where camping was established and the festival was granted several massive coups that year that make it a must-go weekender in the summer. Firstly, Arcade Fire gave a rousing performance at the festival just as they were on the cusp of their mainstream success (still talked about today; secondly, Kraftwerk gave their first live recorded performance in 12 years, which then went on to be part of the official Electric Picnic Documentary, an acclaimed work of journalism that brought the wonder of Electric Picnic to a wider audience.

Since then, the festival has gotten bigger, more commercial, and more in-demand, but it has managed to retain its inclusive nature and continued to support local artists as much as it has international ones. No wonder it sells out so fast then...