Festival-goers at sunny Electric Picnic have less than a year to wait for the 2024 event

After enjoying scorching sets in summer sunshine, revellers are asking who the headliner will be at next year's earlier festival

Festival-goers in Stradbally Co Laois this weekend enjoyed Electric Picnic in balmy sunshine. Met Éireann predicts the late burst of summer weather will continue for the next few days. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

Revellers at this year’s Electric Picnic will be donning the aftersun this morning and checking the 2024 calendar after confirmation that the festival will switch to mid-August for one year only — and all to capture one special and as yet unnamed guest.

This year’s festival — the 20th iteration of the event since it began in 2004 — unfolded under beaming sunshine and scorching temperatures as the weather gods favoured the 70,000 attendees at Stradbally in Co Laois, wrapping up the summer just as the weather reverted to June sunshine.