Electric Picnic 2010

Genre	Indie
Dates	3–5 September 2010
Location(s)	Stradbally Hall, Stradbally, County Laois, Ireland
Website	www.electricpicnic.ie

Electric Picnic 2010 was the seventh edition of the Electric Picnic festival to take place. The three-day event took take place on the weekend of Friday 3, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 September at Stradbally Hall in Stradbally, County Laois, Ireland. The festival was launched on 24 March 2010.

Among the headliners were Roxy Music, performing in 2010 for the first time in five years and making their Irish festival debut, and Leftfield, who gave live performances for the first time in more than a decade. Public Image Ltd. (PiL) made their Irish debut at the festival while The Frames appeared in their twentieth anniversary year. Massive Attack also return after performing at the 2006 festival.

Jim Carroll of The Irish Times named several Electric Picnic 2010-bound acts in his "20 hottest acts playing this summer" on 28 May 2010: these were The National, Villagers, LCD Soundsystem and Public Image Ltd.

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