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Katie Gallagher & David Kent

Electric Picnic: Top act added to line-up just days before festival as organisers confirm stage time release

The organisers of Electric Picnic always have a few late additions to the lineup hidden up their sleeves, and that's proven to be the case just days before the 2022 festival.

Disclosure will make their return to Stradbally to entertain over 70,000 people at Ireland's biggest festival.

It's the first time the electronic music duo will appear at Electric Picnic since 2013.

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They join the likes of Megan Thee Stallion, Arctic Monkeys, Tame Impala, The Kooks and Dermot Kennedy on the stacked line-up

Organisers also revealed that the full lineup and stage times will be published in the EP app on Tuesday morning.

Fans were delighted to see the late addition of Disclosure, with one tweeting: "This is just beautiful thank you very much thank you I appreciate this thank you" and another going "ah lads, look at this".

Electric Picnic makes its long-awaited return to Stradbally Hall, Co Laois on September 2-4 2022, with Dermot Kennedy, Tame Impala, Arctic Monkeys, Megan Thee Stallion, Picture This, and Snow Patrol set to perform over the sold-out weekend for 70,000 fans.

Festival boss, Melvin Benn of Festival Republic, said it will be bigger and better than ever with some changes to the usual layout.

He told Irish Daily Mirror: “I am looking forward to it[EP], it is the last but one of my festivals of the summer and I’m definitely looking forward to it.

“There’s almost nothing that hasn’t been said about it, it is extraordinary, and we have an incredible line-up and for me the Arctic Monkeys as a Yorkshireman is an act that is irresistible, they are incredible.

“And I can’t wait for that. It will sort of be one of those things that we have just been desperate for it to come back.”

Detailing some changes to come, he went on: “But we have made quite a few changes at the picnics, tweeks.

“We have repositioned the main stage a little bit, people may not notice but I notice, and Gerry Fish has his entire own area we are calling Fishtown, which is in the wooded area, and we are making Freetown a little bit bigger.

“We have created a slightly different area for the kids too. And we have moved a couple of the entrances.

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