‘Mature’ audience to keep festival trouble-free

Organisers of Electric Picnic 2012 have said their mature and respectful audience should mean a trouble-free festival later this month.

Promoter John Reynolds said the event had a “pretty flawless” record of public order as well as drug incidents over the past nine years.

Speaking at a Garda press conference in advance of the three-day music festival which sees The Cure, The Killers, and Sigur Rós among others perform for 30,000 people in picturesque Stradbally in Co Laois, he emphasised the Picnic’s special dynamic.