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T in the Park is a major music festival that has been held annually in Scotland since 1994. 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.
[edit] 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 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.
[edit] 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:
[edit] Main Stage
| Saturday 10 July |
Sunday 11 July |
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[edit] NME Stage
| Saturday 10 July |
Sunday 11 July |
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[edit] King Tut's Tent
| Saturday 10 July |
Sunday 11 July |
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[edit] X-Tent
| Saturday 10 July |
Sunday 11 July |
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[edit] Slam Tent
| Saturday 10 July |
Sunday 11 July |
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[edit] T Break Stage
| Saturday 10 July |
Sunday 11 July |
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- Poor Old Ben
- Hiding Place
- Eastern Lane
- FB Collective
- We Rock Like Girls Don't
- Red Bee Society
- James Orr Complex
- Allergo
- Certain Death
- Cinematics
- The Star 69
- Ludovico
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[edit] 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.[citation needed]
The 2005 line-up was as follows:
[edit] Main Stage
| Saturday 9 July |
Sunday 10 July |
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[edit] Radio 1/NME Stage
| Saturday 9 July |
Sunday 10 July |
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[edit] King Tut's Tent
| Saturday 9 July |
Sunday 10 July |
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[edit] X-Tent
| Saturday 9 July |
Sunday 10 July |
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[edit] Slam Tent
| Saturday 9 July |
Sunday 10 July |
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[edit] Futures Stage
| Saturday 9 July |
Sunday 10 July |
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[edit] T Break Stage
| Saturday 9 July |
Sunday 10 July |
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[edit] 2006 festival
Tickets for T in the Park, 2006, sold out in under an hour[1]. 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[2], further emphasising the festival's growing popularity.
The 2006 line-up was as follows.
[edit] Main Stage
| Saturday 8 July |
Sunday 9 July |
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[edit] Radio 1/NME Stage
| Saturday 8 July |
Sunday 9 July |
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[edit] King Tut's Tent
| Saturday 8 July |
Sunday 9 July |
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[edit] Pet Sounds Arena
| Saturday 8 July |
Sunday 9 July |
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[edit] Slam Tent
| Saturday 8 July |
Sunday 9 July |
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[edit] Futures Stage
| Saturday 7 July |
Sunday 8 July |
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[edit] T-break Stage
| Saturday 7 July |
Sunday 8 July |
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[edit] 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. 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:
[edit] Main Stage
| Friday 6 July |
Saturday 7 July |
Sunday 8 July |
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[edit] Radio 1/NME Stage
| Saturday 7 July |
Sunday 8 July |
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[edit] King Tut's Tent
| Friday 6 July |
Saturday 7 July |
Sunday 8 July |
- Club Noir Burlesque Club
- Steve Tilley (DJ)
- Craig McGee (DJ)
- Horrorshow DJs
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[edit] Pet Sounds Arena
| Saturday 7 July |
Sunday 8 July |
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[edit] Slam Tent
| Saturday 7 July |
Sunday 8 July |
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[edit] Futures Stage
| Saturday 7 July |
Sunday 8 July |
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[edit] T-break Stage
| Friday 6 July |
Saturday 7 July |
Sunday 8 July |
- San Sebastian
- Kobai
- The Ads
- Flood of Red
- The Draymin
- The Cider Spiders
- Edgar Prais
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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!.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Main Stage
| Friday 11 July |
Saturday 12 July |
Sunday 13 July |
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[edit] Radio 1/NME Stage
| Friday 11 July |
Saturday 12 July |
Sunday 13 July |
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[edit] King Tut's Tent
| Friday 11 July |
Saturday 12 July |
Sunday 13 July |
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[edit] Slam Tent
| Friday 11 July |
Saturday 12 July |
Sunday 13 July |
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[edit] Pet Sounds Arena
| Friday 11 July |
Saturday 12 July |
Sunday 13 July |
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[edit] Futures Stage
| Friday 11 July |
Saturday 12 July |
Sunday 13 July |
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[edit] Relentless Stage
| Friday 11 July |
Saturday 12 July |
Sunday 13 July |
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The Relentless Stage, new to the 2008 version of the festival, was named after and sponsored by Relentless energy drink.
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