There'll be a lot of people cursing their luck throughout the country tonight as it's been officially announced that Electric Picnic 2016 has been sold out. 

It's a record for the festival which only announced its first line-up 9 days ago. Although the festival has sold out the past two years, tickets have never sold out so far in advance since its inception.

With only 27 acts announced so far there's still plenty more acts and activities to be announced in the coming five months.

The acts announced thus far are: 

LCD Soundsystem | Lana Del Rey | The Chemical Brothers | New Order
HAIM | Super Furry Animals | Years & Years | Todd Terje
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Animal Collective | Gavin James | Wolf Alice
The Avett Brothers | Wild Beasts | Glass Animals | Jack Garratt | Savages
Pantha Du Prince presents The Triad | Phosphorescent | Broken Social Scene | Ezra Furman
Mount Kimbie DJ Set | Daniel Avery | Blossoms | Aurora
NAO | Girls Names | Meilyr Jones

The boom is back lads!