Everything about T In The Park totally explained
T in the Park is a major
music festival that has been held annually in
Scotland since
1994. Carnage is normally caused and this year will be no different, flying butter eggs and barbecue sauce is all on the agenda, watch out. It is named after its main sponsor, the brewing company
Tennents. It was originally held at
Strathclyde Park, but since
1997 has been held at a disused airfield in
Balado,
Kinross-shire. T in the Park is roughly twinned with the
Oxegen festival held each year on
Punchestown Racecourse in
Ireland, although in
2007 T in the Park was a day longer. This matter has since been rectified as in
2008 both festivals will take place over a full weekend, as ever sharing many acts.
The early years
Acts appearing in the opening year included
Primal Scream,
Oasis,
Crash Test Dummies,
Blur,
The Manic Street Preachers,
Rage Against the Machine and
Cypress Hill. The following year the festival sold out and featured
Kylie Minogue,
The Prodigy,
Alanis Morissette,
Black Grape and
Supergrass playing in blazing sunshine and high temperatures. In 1996,
Radiohead,
Pulp and
No Doubt played, and in 1997 the event moved to its present site of
Balado,
Kinross-shire, when local developers wanted to use Strathclyde Park for other purposes.
Since moving, the festival has expanded in size with a mix of bands such as
Travis,
Texas,
Green Day,
Foo Fighters,
Garbage,
Moby,
Iggy Pop,
Stereophonics,
REM,
The Proclaimers,
The Darkness,
Idlewild,
Muse,
The Polyphonic Spree, and
The Chemical Brothers.
In recent years, the festival has shared much of its lineup with
Oxegen, a festival that takes place on the same weekend in
County Kildare,
Ireland. Acts usually play T in the Park one day and Oxegen the next, or vice versa.
2004 festival
The 2004 edition attracted approximately 60,000 people on both the Saturday and Sunday. The two biggest stages being the Main Stage and the
NME Stage, along with four tents which included the Slam Tent and the
King Tut's Tent.
Originally
David Bowie was supposed to headline the main stage on the Saturday evening, but had to pull out due to illness.
The Darkness were promoted to headline the main stage and played to a small crowd. Many music fans went to see
Muse on the NME stage instead.
The Strokes closed the festival, headlining the main stage on the Sunday night.
The 2004 line-up was as follows:
Main Stage
NME Stage
King Tut's Tent
X-Tent
Slam Tent
T Break Stage
2005 festival
Tickets for the 2005 event sold out in record time, just four days after going on sale, five months in advance of the festival. The event saw around 69,000 people a day watching more than 170 bands over 10 stages. It was named best festival in that year's
UK Festival Awards, beating the
Glastonbury Festival for the first time.
Some of the bands performing included
Green Day, who headlined Sunday night,
Travis,
The Killers,
Keane,
El Presidente,
The Prodigy,
New Order,
Fightstar,
James Brown,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Two Lone Swordsmen,
DJ Sneak,
Richie Hawtin &
Ricardo Villalobos,
Sucioperro,
Audioslave,
Jimmy Eat World,
Death From Above 1979,
Eagles of Death Metal,
Mylo,
Athlete,
Snoop Dogg,
Queens of the Stone Age and
Ian Brown. Saturday saw the return of the
Foo Fighters, who came back to Scotland in dramatic style, headlining the main stage.
This was also the year where a notable "riot" occurred. On Sunday night a huge line of festival goers walked through the campsite paths in a group singing songs of bands which appeared at the festival. At one point upon reaching the entrance to the festival main arena, some members of the crowd of people "invaded" the festival grounds and filled the
Ceilidh Tent. There were also reports of people managing to make it up on to the Main Stage until local authorities and festival security managed to control the event. This was, however, considered quite tame compared to other Festival "riots" throughout
Britain.
The 2005 line-up was as follows:
Main Stage
Radio 1/NME Stage
King Tut's Tent
X-Tent
Slam Tent
Futures Stage
T Break Stage
2006 festival
Tickets for T in the Park, 2006, sold out in under an hour
(External Link
). It is believed that the unprecedented speed of these sales was largely due to the absence of the
Glastonbury Festival that year, as well as ticket
touts' increasing use of internet auction sites such as
eBay.
An extra 12,000 tickets were put on sale on the internet and by phone on
3 June,
2006, at 9:00am, which sold out in just under ten minutes
(External Link), further emphasising the festival's growing popularity.
The 2006 line-up was as follows.
Main Stage
Radio 1/NME Stage
King Tut's Tent
Pet Sounds Arena
Slam Tent
Futures Stage
T-break Stage
2007 festival
The 2007 festival took place on the 6th, 7th and 8th of July, 2007 - the first time the festival had been held over three days. The first 35,000 tickets went on sale shortly after the 2006 festival and were sold within 70 minutes. The final batch of tickets, released on the 9th of March, sold out in less than 20 minutes.
The first day was marred by traffic chaos with up to 13 hours of delays and 12 miles of tailbacks on the southbound
M90 motorway. Thousands were turned away when the festival organisers took the decision to close the waterlogged car parks to all vehicles at 10:30pm. Before this they treated fans with no respect, with organisers and police telling people to drive down a road they already knew was blocked with cars that people had just left. There were no announcements on radio stations while thousands of people queued on the dual carriageway, and to this day no one has apologised to the fans, most of whom missed the entire Friday night line-up.
The organisers are now considering expanding the festival's capacity so that it can seriously challenge
Glastonbury Festival.
The 2007 line-up was as follows:
Main Stage
Radio 1/NME Stage
King Tut's Tent
Pet Sounds Arena
Slam Tent
Futures Stage
T-break Stage
Now over three days, Friday's music was only available to those with T in the Park 2007 camping passes.
Amy Winehouse and
Gogol Bordello pulled out at the last minute due to "exhaustion" and to duet with
Madonna at
Live Earth, respectively.
Also,
Tokyo Police Club failed to turn up for unknown reasons, as did
You Say Party! We Say Die!.
2008 festival
The 2008 festival takes place on the 11th, 12th and 13th of July, 2008. It has also been announced that the campsite will open on
10 July 2008 to avoid a repeat of last year's traffic problems. The first batch of "early bird" tickets (approximately 40,000) were released at 9:00am on the
10 July 2007, selling out in less than 70 minutes with the line up yet to be announced. The next batch of tickets went on sale on
16 February 2008 at 9am. Although tickets sold out in less than an hour, there may however still be a chance to purchase tickets on the TicketMaster exchange.
The bands headlining the 2008 event are
Rage Against the Machine,
The Verve and
R.E.M.. The official website states that more acts are still to be announced.
Main Stage
Radio 1/NME Stage
King Tut's Tent
Slam Tent
Pet Sounds Areana
Futures Stage
It has been announced that this year will see the inclusion of a new stage at T in the Park. The Relentless Stage, named after Relentless energy drink, the stage will be open all three days of the weekend and will play host to a wide array of bands, such as Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, Blood Red Shoes, Bombay Bycicle Club, Cancer Bats, Fucked Up, Ghost of a Thousand and Fighting With Wire. The arena will also host the Vans BMX and Skateboard tour.
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