When are tickets on sale for Electric Picnic 2026 with secret headliners already booked?

Eager Electric Picnic fans will be able to get their hands on 2026 festival tickets as early as Monday with a presale with some secret headliners apparently already lined up.

The news emerged on the final day of the 2025 festival with Electric Picnic boss Melvin Benn revealing details of ticket sales for next year - as well as some possible changes for 2026.

He said: “I would expect most of the tickets to get snapped up and then we will do a bit of a sale towards Christmas time or something like that."

Mr Benn also revealed some headline acts have been booked for next year but he wouldn't reveal who was lined up. 

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Fans can redeem a presale code from the Three website here with the ticket sales going live for those with codes on Monday morning, September 1, at 9am. 

Mr Benn has also hinted at some changes to the 2026 festival but one thing is for certain; Electric Picnic will be staying in Stradbally for the foreseeable. 

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Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Mr Benn hinted at a four-day festival in 2026. The event always have some performances on Thursday evening as patrons arrive on site but he thinks this aspect of the festival could be greater in future years.

“The appetite is definitely there (for fourth day) and I will certainly put more into the Thursday evenings, but not with the opening of the Main Stages, but there will be one or two more stages on Thursday evening,” he said.

He also spoke about the backing of the Cosby family and confirmed that he is committed to Stradbally for the long haul.

"I had a conversation with Thomas Cosby. We are already in a long-term agreement, and we didn’t discuss a longer-term agreement. We did discuss the use of more land and how we are going to grow different things.

“Thomas is at the heart of Stradbally and the heart of the festival and has been incredibly collaborative. The Cosby family have been incredibly supportive of us from day one, when all those years ago John Reynolds and myself met up in Stradbally to go look at the site for the first time," he said.

His discussions with Mr Cosby do not involve an increase in capacity.

“I feel that we are at the right level at this stage, and I would like to settle it at 80,000 before I start thinking about making it bigger.

“I would like to make a few more changes in the campsite. I introduced the bespoke campsites this year and they have been well received and I think they will grow.

“The (license) preapplication is already in with Laois County Council and it is in for 80,000,” he said.

Giving his opinion on the 2025 entertainment, he said a local community choir were among his favourites. 

“I bumped into one of the fellas from the Timahoe Male Choir, and he was in tears. Not just about being on stage, but the journey that they had been on, where a few relatively lonely guys in the village got together and the difference it has made to their lives. They are buzzing that is a highlight of course,” he said. MORE BELOW PHOTO.

Other highlights included Chapell Roan and Hozier who he said were 'insanely good'. He also praised Kneecpap.

“It was a special moment for the Picnic and them as a band. It was easily the largest audience they have ever performed to. I don’t think there was anyone else at the Picnic except watching Kneecap.

“Most of the entire Picnic audience was there at the Main Stage, which was a fairly big statement of intent, not just of loving the music,” he said.

He was surprised by the tribute paid to him on stage by Kneecap.

“I was a little surprised that they referred to me. It is different in the UK. I have spent time in their dressing room reading them the riot act about what they can and can't say in England, but those restrictions are not here in Ireland,” he said.