T in the Park
| T in the Park | |
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| Genre | Rock, Alternative rock, Indie rock, Hard rock, Punk rock, Techno, House, Electronic, Ceilidh, Jazz, Acoustic Music, Pop |
| Dates | Second weekend of July (3 days) |
| Location(s) | Strathclyde Park, Lanarkshire (1994-1996) Balado, Kinross-shire, Scotland (1997-2013) |
| Years active | 1994 - present |
| Website | www.tinthepark.com |
T in the Park Festival is a major Scottish music festival that has been held annually since 1994. It is named after its main sponsor, the brewing company Tennents. It was originally held at Strathclyde Park, Lanarkshire but since 1997 has been held at the disused Balado airfield, Kinross-shire. T in the Park was originally a two-day festival but since 2007 has taken place over three days, and introduced in 2008 was the chance to upgrade a weekend camping ticket to allow camping access on the Thursday - the day before any musicians perform. The festival is promoted by DF Concerts.
History
The festival is the second largest greenfield festival in the United Kingdom, and the fifth largest in the world in terms of attendance, with approximately 85,000 people on site everyday.[1] As well as the seven main music stages, there are large camping areas to cater for the majority of festival-goers who stay for the duration of the event. There are also various concession stalls and shops provided, as well as other attractions, such as a large funfair, complete with Big Wheel. The festival is known for attracting many neds. Many people feel that the festival has become over-run by neds who get too drunk and too disruptive as the weekend goes on.[2]
The 2013 festival will take place on 11–14 July 2013. It will be the twentieth time the festival has been held. The Killers, Rihanna and Mumford and Sons have been announced to headline in 2013.
Facts
- During the festival, T in the Park becomes Scotland’s fifth largest town.[3]
- The Longest Queue at the signing tent was for Kylie Minogue in 1995.
- The Longest Ovation in the festival’s history was for The Pixies in 2004.[3]
- T in the Park is the only UK festival to have two stages dedicated to supporting homegrown talent in the T Break Stage and Ceilidh Tent
- The Dance Tent was introduced in 1995 and became the Slam Tent in 1997, and celebrated its 10th year in 2006 by seeing a staggering 12,000 pairs of arms in the air each day.
- The X Tent was introduced to celebrate T’s 10th birthday. It became the Futures Stage in 2005.
- Tennent’s Lager is brewed just 36 hours before T in the Park at the Wellpark Brewery, 44 miles from Balado. Nearly all the lager is brewed specifically for the weekend,
- The cup recycling initiative introduced in 2006 and developed in 2007 has seen T in the Parkers return over 75% of cups to designated recycling points, which includes a 10p for every cup returned.
Early years
Acts appearing in the opening year included Primal Scream, Oasis, Crash Test Dummies, Blur, Manic Street Preachers, Rage Against the Machine and Cypress Hill. The following year the festival featured Kylie Minogue, The Prodigy, Alanis Morissette, Black Grape, M People and Supergrass playing in blazing sunshine and high temperatures. In 1996, Radiohead, Beck, Pulp, The Foo Fighters, Teenage Fanclub (who played the Beatles 'Rain' just as it cleared), Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Barenaked Ladies, The Delgados 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 The Killers, Kings of Leon, Travis, Texas, Green Day, Foo Fighters, Garbage, Moby, Iggy Pop, Stereophonics, R.E.M., The Proclaimers, The Darkness, Idlewild, Muse, Razorlight, Maxïmo Park, The Polyphonic Spree, The Specials, The Chemical Brothers and Kasabian.
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.
1998 festival
1999 festival
2000 festival
It was held on Saturday 8 July 2000 and Sunday 9 July 2000. It was Travis first appeasrise, as an unsigned band closed the Main Stage. It was All Saints last Scottish appearance. The line up included:
A, Aereogramme, All Saints, At the Drive-In, Badly Drawn Boy, Beth Orton, Blackalicious, Boho Sub Band, Bootleg Beatles, Carl Cox, Clint Boon Experience, Coldplay, Crashland, Dara, Dark Star, David Gray, David Holmes, Day One, Death in Vegas, Doves, Dum Dums, Embrace, Feeder, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Gomez, Groove Armada, Hobotalk, Idlewild, Iggy Pop, It's Jo & Danny, JJ72, Justin Lewis Orchestra, King Adora, Leftfield, Looper, LSK, Lulu, Lynden David Hall, Macy Gray, Manchild, Moby, Moloko, Morcheeba, Muse, My Vitriol, Ocean Colour Scene, Soulwax, Supergrass, The Bluetones, The Flaming Lips, The Wannadies, Toploader, Travis and Urusei Yatsura.
2001 festival
T in the park 2001 was held between Saturday 7th to Sunday 8th July 2001, with approximately 50,000 people attending. The event went ahead unlike a number of other festival during the foot and mouth outbreak [4]
Stereophonics headlined the main stage on 8 July, while Texas were the headline act on the Sunday.[5] The 2001 line-up was as follows:
Main stage
| Saturday 7 July | Sunday 8 July |
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NME Stage
| Saturday 7 July | Sunday 8 July |
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Slam Tent
| Saturday 7 July | Sunday 8 July |
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King Tut's Tent
| Saturday 7 July | Sunday 8 July |
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2002 festival
The 2002 line-up was as follows:
Main Stage
| Saturday 13 July | Sunday 14 July |
BBC Radio 1/NME Stage
| Saturday 13 July | Sunday 14 July |
King Tuts Wah Wah Tent
| Saturday 13 July | Sunday 14 July |
Slam Tent
| Saturday 13 July | Sunday 14 July |
T Break Tent
| Saturday 13 July | Sunday 14 July |
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2003 festival
The 2003 line-up was as follows:
Main Stage
| Saturday 12 July | Sunday 13 July |
BBC Radio 1/NME Stage
| Saturday 12 July | Sunday 13 July |
King Tut's Wah Wah Tent
| Saturday 12 July | Sunday 13 July |
X Tent
| Saturday 12 July | Sunday 13 July |
Slam Tent
| Saturday 12 July | Sunday 13 July |
2004 festival
- Main Article: T in the Park 2004
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.
2005 festival
- Main Article: T in the Park 2005
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.
2006 festival
- Main Article: T in the Park 2006
Tickets for the 2006 festival went on sale at 9am on 17 February 2006. The event sold out in under an hour, a record time for the festival.[7] An additional 12,000 day tickets were placed on sale on 3 June 2006, which sold out in ten minutes.[8] Approximately 69,000 tickets were sold for each day.[9] Following the sellout, weekend camping tickets appeared on internet auction sites for as much as £700.[7]
2007 festival
- Main Article: T in the Park 2007
The 2007 festival took place on the 6, 7 and 8 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 event was overshadowed by Traffic chaos at T in the Park, due to the closure of the main car park due to heavy rain.
2008 festival
- Main Article: T in the Park 2008
The 2008 festival took place on the 11th, 12th and 13 July 2008. It was announced that the campsite would open on 10 July 2008 to avoid a repeat of the previous year's traffic problems. The bands headlining the 2008 event were Rage Against the Machine, The Verve and R.E.M. on the Main Stage and The Chemical Brothers, Kaiser Chiefs and The Prodigy on the Radio 1 / NME Stage.
2009 festival
- Main Article: T in the Park 2009
The 2009 festival took place over three days between the 10 and 12 July, with over 180 acts performing to a crowd of 85,000 people. As with the 2008 festival, the campsite opened on the Thursday evening to prevent traffic queues forming on the Friday. The first batch of "early bird" tickets sold out in ten hours on 15 July 2008 and on 27 February 2009, NME announced that camping tickets for the event had already sold out.[10]
2010 festival
Tickets for the 2010 event were made available on 26 February 2010,[11] selling out in 90 minutes.[12] The event was headlined by Muse, Eminem and Kasabian.[13]
2011 festival
The 2011 festival took place between 7–11 July 2011. Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay, Foo Fighters and Beyoncé were the headliners for the weekend. It is the eighteenth festival to take place. The Strokes played on the Radio 1 NME stage on the Saturday. Blink-182 cancelled as they were unable to produce their new album in time for their European tour.[14] On 5 May, Beyoncé was added to the line-up, and played on Saturday the 9th.[15] Other artists such as Deadmau5 and Pendulum played at T in the Park 2011.
2012 festival
The 2012 festival took place between 6–8 July 2012. As usual presale tickets went on sale shortly after the conclusion of the 2011 event, on 12 July 2011, with another allocation of "early bird" tickets going on sale to the general public two days later, on 14 July 2011. The Stone Roses were announced as the first headline act on 8 November, three weeks before the second release tickets went on sale.[16] On the 30 November, Vodafone customers who were signed up to the "Vodafone VIP" site were granted access to a pre-sale. The next day, T-Lady subscribers and past festival goers were also given access to the pre-sale. The second release tickets, equivalent to half of the venues capacity, went on sale to the general public on 2 December at 9am, hours later allocation was exhausted. [17] Festival director, Geoff Ellis said that he was "delighted by the response from fans" and also noted that he "can’t wait to see everyone at Balado next year."
Later he said: “The response to The Stone Roses announcement has been fantastic and the rest of the bill is shaping up nicely - we can’t wait until February to share it with the best audience in the world.” [18] On 10 December 2011, Geoff Ellis stated that “There will probably be an announcement on the headliners early in the new year.” In an interview by Express.co.uk, he confirmed that there would be an announcement coming soon as they had just managed to increase the festival's first day capacity by 10,000 - which brings Friday inline with the capacity allowed on Saturday and Sunday, he noted this would increase the festivals opportunity to draw a bigger headliner for the Friday night. [19] Early in 2012, it was announced the third and final ticket release would go on sale on 29 February 2012. On 21 February 2012, one week before the final release of tickets, 9 acts were revealed via the T in the Park official Twitter account. The acts announced were: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Florence + The Machine, The Maccabees, The Horrors, Simple Minds, Miles Kane, The Vaccines, Maverick Sabre, Frank Turner and Two Door Cinema Club.[20] Another announcement on 23 February revealed the remaining two headlining acts, Snow Patrol and Kasabian. Other acts revealed at the same time included Jessie J, David Guetta, The Enemy, Kaiser Chiefs,Amy Macdonald Nicki Minaj, The Darkness, Calvin Harris, Skrillex and Elbow.
2013 festival
The 2013 festival took place between 11–14 July 2013. 'Early Bird' tickets went on sale Friday 13 July 2012 at 9am on the Ticketmaster website.[21] The Killers, Rihanna and Mumford and Sons headlined in 2013, alongside other large acts including Emeli Sandé, The Script, Jake Bugg, Alt-J, Of Monsters and Men Two Door Cinema Club and Azealia Banks. The second batch of tickets went on sale on 7 December at 9am. The final batch went on sale on 22 February at 9 am. On 13 February 2013, German electronic band Kraftwerk were added to the line-up.[22]
References
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- ^ Fulton, Rick (4 July 2009). "DJ Edith Bowman on taking her baby son to T in the Park". Daily Record. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
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- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1248060.stm
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- ^ "T in the Park '03". efestivals.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
- ^ a b "T tickets sell out in record time". BBC News Online. 2006-02-17. p. 1. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
- ^ Johnston, Lisette (2006-06-04). "Last T in the Park tickets sell out in 10 minutes". The Scotsman. p. 1. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
- ^ Vallely, Joanna (2006-02-17). "You'll have had your T! Tickets for festival sell out in morning". The Scotsman. p. 1. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
- ^ "T In The Park tents sell out". NME. 27 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
- ^ "Eminem and Muse to headline T In The Park festival 2010". NME. 2010-02-23. Retrieved 2010-03-11.
- ^ "T In The Park festival 2010 sells out within 90 minutes". NME. 2010-02-27. Retrieved 2010-03-11.
- ^ "T In The Park Line-Up Announced". Xfm. 2010-02-23. Retrieved 2010-03-11.
- ^ http://www.blink182.com/blog/default.aspx?nid=35198
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/13285614
- ^ http://www.tinthepark.com/content/default.asp?page=s14_1&newsid=2061&back=home
- ^ http://www.pinthedark.co.uk/blog/t-in-the-park-2012-tickets-on-sale-tomorrow
- ^ http://entertainment.stv.tv/music/284555-t-in-the-park-2012-christmas-early-bird-tickets-sell-out
- ^ http://www.pinthedark.co.uk/blog/geoff-confirms-next-announcement-will-be-early-2012
- ^ http://tinthepark.com/content/default.asp?page=s14_1&newsid=2069&back=home
- ^ http://www.virtualfestivals.com/latest/news/13055
- ^ www.tinthepark.com
External links
- T in The Park - official website
- Organiser Geoff Ellis confirms the future of the festival
- T in the Park site on Virtual Festivals
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