The first wave of acts have been announced for Electric Picnic 2015.

The Stradbally, Co. Laois festival takes place from September 4th - 6th.

Joining the previously-announced Belle & Sebastian, Roisin Murphy, Jon Hopkins, George Ezra and The War on Drugs are the following acts:

Florence + The Machine (she releases her new album 'How Big How Blue How Beautiful' on May 29th)
Underworld
Manic Street Preachers
Tame Impala
(the Aussie band are due to release their third album this year)
Hot Chip
(release new album 'Why Make Sense' on May 15th)
Future Islands
Jurassic 5 
Chvrches
(currently recording their second album)
Ride
(the reformed shoegazers are touring US and Europe this summer)
Battles
(third album due this year)
My Morning Jacket
(release new album 'The Waterfall' on May 1st)
Jessie Ware
Django Django
(release their second album 'Born Under Saturn' on May 1st)
Low
Pond
(Aussie psych-rockers have just released their latest album 'Man, It Feels Like Space Again)
Tourist
Metz
Girl Band
(Irish garage-rockers currently signed to Rough Trade)
Kwabs
Låpsley
(British electronic/folk wunderkind, released 'Understudy' EP in January)
Alvvays
Marika Hackman
(Young British folk singer-songwriter who has just released her debut 'We Slept At Last')
Jack Garratt
Wvyern Lingo
(hotly-tipped female folk trio from Bray)
Circa Waves
Hinds
Shura
(Mancunian electropo artist due to release her debut album this year)
Ben Khan
Curtis Harding
Aquilo
(UK electro-dream-pop duo)
Little May