Electric Picnic: Enthusiastic crowd greet emerging superstar Billie Eilish

The precocious 17-year-old LA songstress, whose March debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? made her the first ever artist born in the new millennium to have a number one album in the US album charts, has been catapulted to stardom and hailed as the voice of a new generation.

Fri, 30 Aug, 2019 - 21:58

Ellie O'Byrne

Dire weather warnings proved premature at the opening day of Electric Picnic 2019, as revellers at the 57,000-capacity festival in Co Laois pitched their tents in balmy weather all Friday afternoon.

Campsites having opened for the festival on Thursday evening, the name on everyone’s lips on Friday was Billie Eilish. The precocious 17-year-old LA songstress, whose March debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? made her the first ever artist born in the new millennium to have a number one album in the US album charts, has been catapulted to stardom and hailed as the voice of a new generation.