THE organisers of Electric Picnic have insisted the music festival will go ahead this year. Melvin Benn, the managing director of promoter Festival Republic, said he was “100% fully expecting the Electric Picnic to be going ahead on the basis 100% nobody has told me I won't be able to". Mr Benn told RTÉ’s News at One that everyone involved in the festival was working on the basis that the event was going ahead and were putting safety measures in place. Many people held onto their tickets when Electric Picnic was cancelled last year, but the remaining passes will go on sale at the end of the month when the line-up is finalised. We are two months away from it,” Mr Benn told RTÉ.

Source: Irish Independent August 02, 2021 14:07 UTC