The excitement is mounting as Team Hot Press heads to Stradbally for this year’s Electric Picnic.

The Hot Press Chatroom will be back in MindField, which is now part of the brand new Mind & Body oasis.

Kicking things off tonight are:

5.30pm Girl In Red
7.30pm Q

Saturday is going to be pretty darn epic as the Hot Press Chatroom welcomes a brilliant line-up:

2.30pm Susan O’Neill
3.30pm The Scratch
4pm Saint Sister
4.30pm Declan McKenna
5pm CVC
5.30pm The Riptide Movement chat plus tunes!
6pm Hermitage Green
7pm Wolf Alice

Sunday finds our well-travelled (very comfy, we assure you) sofas being graced by:

1pm Paul Linehan from The Frank & Walters joins us for a Picnic special edition of Up Close & Personal, the series of interviews celebrating classic albums, which ran last autumn in the Grand Social, Dublin. Under the microscope this time: the Franks’ Trains, Boats & Planes.
2pm Belters Only
3pm Does Being A Musician Drive You Mad? Panel discussion featuring The Blizzards’ Bressie and Louize Carroll and other guests in association with Minding Creative Minds.
4pm The Coronas
4.30pm Mimi Webb
4.45pm Tolu Makay
5pm Lyra
6pm Kynsy

Festivals being an imprecise science, those times are subject to change with lots more exciting additions to be found over the course of the weekend on hotpress.com and our socials.

If you’re Picnic-bound, make sure to follow us on social media now – and come and say ‘hello!’