More than 30,000 revellers will descend on Co Laois today for the Electric Picnic music festival.

IT sounds like a scene from Alice in Wonderland — people are playing with giant coloured skittles, gambling in a casino at Lost Vagueness, getting married in a bouncing castle church and sleeping in Podpads and Bus Beds.

Bjork is to make her long-awaited return to an Irish live stage during the country's only three-day music festival, it was announced today.