Electric Picnic tickets sell out in less than three hours

Tickets for next year's Electric Picnic festival have already sold out — all 70,000 tickets were snapped up in just three hours.

The line-up for the festival won't be revealed until next year.

The capacity for the 2020 festival will increase from 55,000 to 70,000. It is one of a number of changes in what is shaping up to be the biggest overhaul of the festival in some time.

The 2019 edition of the festival saw Billie Eilish, Hozier and the Strokes perform. The first festival took place in 2004. It was a one-day event with just 10,000 attendees.

This year, a number of new areas were added to the festival, with more changes planned for 2020.

The main arena is set to increase in size to accommodate larger crowds and there will be a new section called FishTown which will feature singer Jerry Fish and his Electric Sideshow.

Body & Soul will also end its 16-year association with Electric Picnic to focus on its own independent festival. A new area — Mind & Body — will take the place of Body & Soul, which had carved out a reputation as an oasis of calm in the middle of the festival.

Avril Stanley, founder of Body & Soul, said: "After 10 years as an independent festival, we have decided to step back from our presence and 16-year partnership with Electric Picnic so that we can refocus all of our attention to what the central idea behind Body & Soul is all about: creating an intimate and collaborative festival of the future; one that can embrace social change in a hugely positive way while celebrating an important and ancient Irish feast in our own unique, stand-alone style."

Body & Soul's standalone festival will go ahead from June 19 to 21, 2020 in Westmeath, while they are also establishing a new winter festival: Ériu, which will take place in December 2020.