Electric Picnic, Day 1 review: Zara Larsson, Lewis Capaldi, and female urinals among the stars 

More than 80,000 people have descended on Stradbally in Laois for this year’s Electric Picnic festival, thousands of whom arrived at the site on Thursday to be the first to nab a good spot to pitch their tents.

Thousands more arrived on site throughout the day on Friday, with a mixed bag of weather making for perfect tent-pitching conditions for some, and run-for-cover conditions for others.

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