The largest Electric Picnic in the event’s 11-year history came to a close last night with a massive thumbs-up from most of the 40,000 punters who attended the three-day event in Stradbally, Co Laois.

Tickets for Electric Picnic 2015 go on sale tomorrow, after what organisers called a "fantastic festival" this weekend.

Appropriately for a music festival that veers in tone from eccentric to sublime and all the way back again, on the first day of Electric Picnic the weather couldn’t make up its mind.

Motorists making their way to Electric Picnic today are being advised to allow plenty of time for their journey and to avoid using sat navs.

PICNIC PARTICULARS: The programmers at Electric Picnic have been doing their stuff for quite a few years, so hopefully the mellow tones of Portishead won’t jar with the exuberance of the Saturday mainstage crowd at 10.30pm.

Electric Picnic has sold out in record time.

Organisers of the Electric Picnic have added 23 new acts to the bill of the three-day arts and music festival.

Once in a generation, there's a voice so distinctive, you recognise it instantly.

Blondie and Sinead O'Connor are among the 21 new acts which have been added to the Electric Picnic line-up today.

NEIL YOUNG CORK:

The line-up for one of the country’s leading music festivals has finally been announced with headline acts appealing, not only to the young, but also the young at heart.

Electric Picnic have announced their line-up for this year's festival in Stradbally, Co. Laois.

MUSIC NEWS:

OutKast have announced a 40-date world festival tour.

Ed Power's essential musical menu for the Electric Picnic weekend

Celebrity Big Brother' bosses aim to get stars warring from the start with a shock triple twist in tonight's show launch.

Andre 3000's music career is "up in the air."

Kate Bush is set to collaborate with Outkast's Big Boi.

A biopic about Jimi Hendrix will not include any songs written by the legendary rocker.

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Gorillaz are releasing a new single with Andre3000.

Little Mix and Marcus Collins will go head to head tonight in a bid to scoop the 'X Factor' crown.

Big Boi from Outkast has avoided jail time for drugs charges.

Beyonce's 'Single Ladies' has been voted the best music video of the decade.

Beyonce Knowles’ song ‘Crazy In Love’ has been voted the best song of the decade.

The Strokes' debut album 'Is This It' has been judged as the greatest album of the decade.

Elbow rounded off a breakthrough year today with their album topping an annual “poll of polls” list.

Outkast rapper Andre 3000 is heading into the studio to record his debut solo album.

Chrysalis today said a string of upcoming releases from artists David Gray, Gnarls Barkley and Feeder would help offset a “weak” first half for the music group.

A 22-year-old north London rapper followed in the footsteps of his older sister, Ms Dynamite, by bagging a Mobo award.

R&B superstar Beyonce Knowles leads the nominations for the UK's Music Of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards with mentions in four categories.

Singer Corinne Bailey Rae has been nominated for three Mobo Awards.

Hip-hop duo Outkast have reportedly snubbed the chance to promote their upcoming film and album on The Oprah Winfrey Show, because of the chat show host's perceived negative opinion of rap music.

Outkast star Andre '3000' Benjamin fears he'll never settle down and marry because long relationships hinder music-making.

African-American civil rights icon Rosa Parks has died. She was 92.

NEARLY 50 years ago, Rosa Parks made a simple decision that sparked a revolution. When a white man demanded she give up her seat on an Alabama, bus, the then 42-year-old seamstress said no.

Outkast star Andre '3000' Benjamin has become an unlikely hero among American troops in Iraq because they use his tune BOB (Bombs Over Baghdad) as a morning wake-up call.

Madonna has enlisted the talents of Andre 3000 on her new album, after meeting the Outkast star on the set of her husband Guy Ritchie's forthcoming movie Revolver.

Coldplay singer Chris Martin and Carrie Underwood, who won the American Idol crown in May, shared the title the World’s Sexiest Vegetarian in animal rights group PETA’s annual online poll.

Michael Jackson’s not guilty verdict could spark a career comeback, industry experts predicted today.

Graham Norton will host the American leg of charity concert Live 8.

The Thrills will chat online and play computer games with and against fans in a special St Patrick's Day event.

Michael Jackson’s Thriller has been voted favourite pop video of all time on a poll on Channel 4.