Electric Picnic organisers say the dates for the festival is changing in 2024 to accommodate artists.
It won't take place on the traditional first weekend of September and instead two weeks earlier in mid-August.
There had been speculation that the decision could've been made for weather reasons, or that Coldplay is to play in Croke Park on the traditional weekend in 2024.
Melvin Benn is the organiser - he says they're in talks with specific artists and that prompted the change:
"There was some artists that we wanted to talk to and were interested in playing, but could only make a couple of dates and I just wanted to explore it really to see whether it would work.
"Essentially some of the artists that we wanted to play next year could only play" two weeks earlier, Melvin Benn continued to say.
"We thought it was the right thing really."
Not everyone is happy over the date change for EP next year.
Laois farmers say there needs to be more discussion about moving the festival two weeks earlier.
The IFA branch in the county says because it's in the middle of the harvest season, it means there will be a lot of farm machinery on the roads.
It adds it's not realistic to move that amount of grain with 70,000 people piling into Stradbally next August.
