T in the park
 T in the Park Festival 2010 |
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Strathclyde Park, Lanarkshire (1994–1996) Strathallan Castle , Strathallan , Perthshire , Scotland , United Kingdom (from 2015) |
| genre | Rock , alternative rock , indie rock , hard rock , punk rock , grime , trance , rap , techno , house , electronic , céilí , jazz , acoustic music |
| Website | tinthepark.com |
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The T in the Park Festival is the largest Scottish music festival and took place annually from 1994 to 2016. It is named after its main sponsor, Tennent's Lager . It was originally conducted at Strathclyde Park, Lanarkshire , and from 1997 to 2014 it took place at the disused airfield Balado , Kinross-shire . Due to an oil pipeline at the previous location, it took place in 2015 and 2016 near Strathallan Castle in Perthshire . In the following years the festival was suspended.
T in the Park was initially a two-day festival, but has been held over three days since moving to Balado in 2007; Since 2008 it has been possible to use a weekend camping ticket to gain access to the festival camping site on Thursday, the day before the musicians perform. The festival is promoted by DF Concerts .
The festival attracts up to 85,000 people per day, including up to 70,000 campers.
history
The festival was founded in 1994 as part of a joint venture between DF Concerts and Tennent's Lager, with some help from Irish promotional company MCD Productions . The current festival director Geoff Ellis was involved from the start. Ellis came in 1992 to Scotland to the club King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow manage. He organized the first T in the Park festival in 1994 with a few bands in front of 17,000 people at its original location in Strathclyde Park, Lanarkshire . The festival was held here for three years, until 1997, before moving to the disused Balado airfield in Kinross-shire . Since moving to Balado, the festival has grown steadily and since 2003 has attracted up to 55,000 people a day, up to 110,000 visitors over the entire weekend.
The festival was originally a two-day event until 2007, when Friday became the main day of live music. However, the performances at the Festival 2007 on Friday were missed by many festival goers because they were stuck in traffic jams of up to ten miles on the A91 and A977 motorways .
In order to avoid a repetition of the traffic chaos, the organizers allowed access to the festival campsite as early as Thursday from 2008 in order to reduce the number of vehicles on the streets. By expanding to a full three days, the festival began to grow rapidly and soon became the second largest green space festival in the UK, and the fifth largest in the world.
In 2013 over 250,000 people from all over Europe attended the three-day festival. According to DF Concerts, 20% of the crowd is made up of visitors from outside Scotland, with about 2% attending from overseas. According to DF Concerts, 20% of the visitors came from outside Scotland, around 2% of them from overseas. In recent years the festival has shared much of its program with Oxegen , a festival that took place over the same weekend in County Kildare , Ireland . The artists usually played one day at T in the Park and the next at Oxegen , or vice versa. In addition to the seven main music stages, there were large camping areas for the majority of festival goers who stayed for the duration of the event. There were also various concessions for stalls and shops, as well as other attractions, such as a large fair complete with a Ferris wheel .
The T in the Park 2013 festival took place from July 11-14, 2013. It was the twentieth edition of the festival. The Killers , Rihanna and Mumford & Sons were the headliners.
Neds and antisocial behavior
The festival has a reputation for attracting Neds : young men associated with hooliganism , inappropriate, overly casual sportswear, and a healthy dose of stupidity.
A journalist described T in the Park in the newspaper The Scotsman as "premier gathering of neds" (about "leading gathering of Neds "). In addition to general misconduct and disorder, Neds were also responsible for more serious criminal acts during the festival. The organizers were aware of the presence of the Neds and stressed that they would be “not welcome” to the event. While many saw the festival as a haven for Neds , there were some who felt that the presence of Neds during the event was exaggerated.
Facts
- During the festival, T in the Park became Scotland's fifth largest city.
- The longest queue at the signing tent was at Kylie Minogue in 1995
- The Pixies received the longest ovation in festival history in 2004.
- T in the Park was the only music festival in the UK with two stages in support of local music and artists, the T-Break Stage and the Céilí Tent.
- The dance tent was introduced in 1995 and became a slam tent in 1997
- The X tent was introduced for the tenth birthday and became the futures stage in 2005 .
- Tennent's Lager beer was always brewed just under 36 hours before the festival opened at Wellpark Brewery , 44 miles from Balado. Almost all of the lager beer was specially brewed for the music festival. More than 3 million pints of the lager have been consumed since 1994.
- An innovative mortgage - Recycling system was introduced of 2006. When paying a deposit of 10 pence per pint jar, the deposit could be redeemed at special recycling points.
- 330,000 meters of fence was used at T in the Park , including over 8,500 meters for the fencing and 472 flags.
- 85,000 people were expected on each festival day, as well as over 70,000 campers over the entire three days and was carried out smoothly by 7,000 employees.
1994 festival
The first T in the Park opened on Saturday, July 30th, 1994 and ran through Sunday, July 31st. It took place in Strathclyde Country Park, which was attended by up to 17,000 people on each of the two days. Only 2000 visitors had the opportunity to go camping.
The Caledonia stage was introduced to present new bands. Among other things, a band called Glass Onion played that weekend , later better known as Travis .
Main stage
| Saturday July 30th | Sunday 31st July |
King Tut's Wah Wah tent
| Saturday July 30th | Sunday 31st July |
1995 festival
The T in the Park 1995 took place from August 5th to August 6th 1995 at Strathclyde Country Park. This was the first year that a day was completely sold out. Noel Gallagher performed together with Paul Weller . Kermit of the Black Grapes broke his ankle before the performance but refused to go to the hospital and played with the band while sitting on stage.
The dance tent was introduced that year, but no official line for it was found and so it became the slam tent in 1997.
Main stage
| Saturday 5th August | Sunday 6th August |
King Tut's Wah Wah tent
| Saturday 5th August | Sunday 6th August |
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1996 festival
T in the Park 1996 took place from July 13, 1996 to July 14, 1996 and was the last time at Strathclyde Country Park. Saturday was already sold out in advance for the first time. Radiohead headlined the main stage on Saturday and Pulp on Sunday. That year, Keanu Reeves came on a shuttle bus to play at the festival with his band Dogstar , and Joe Strummer was playing at the campsite.
The Caledonia stage was renamed the T-Break stage . Hitherto unknown bands from all over Scotland played on it. Each year, the 16 artists were handpicked from thousands of applicants by a panel of music industry experts.
Main stage
| Saturday July 13th | Sunday July 14th |
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New Musical Express stage
| Saturday July 13th | Sunday July 14th |
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Dance tent
| Saturday July 13th | Sunday July 14th |
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King Tut's Wah Wah tent
| Saturday July 13th | Sunday July 14th |
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1997 festival
In 1997 the music festival moved from Strathclyde Country Park to its current home, Balado , an abandoned airfield near Kinross . It took place from July 12th to 13th, 1997. This year the slam tent was opened for the first time. Over 25,000 visitors came to the new campsite throughout the weekend.
Main stage
| Saturday July 12th | Sunday July 13th |
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New Musical Express stage
| Saturday July 12th | Sunday July 13th |
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Slam Muzik tent
| Saturday July 12th | Sunday July 13th |
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Radio 1 Eve Sesh
| Saturday July 12th | Sunday July 13th |
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1998 festival
T In the Park 1998 took place in Balado from July 11, 1998 to July 12, 1998. Large screens were set up to show football fans the 1998 World Cup final.
The program included:
Main stage
| Saturday July 11th | Sunday July 12th |
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New Musical Express stage
| Saturday July 11th | Sunday July 12th |
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Slam tent
| Saturday July 11th | Sunday July 12th |
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Radio 1 Eve Sesh
| Saturday July 11th | Sunday July 12th |
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1999 festival
T in the Park 1999 took place from July 10, 1999 to Sunday, July 11, 1999 . More than 50,000 visitors came every day. Two days before, only the remaining stocks of tickets were available. The program included:
Main stage
| Saturday July 9th | Sunday 10th July |
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Stage 2
| Saturday July 9th | Sunday 10th July |
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Slam tent
| Saturday July 9th | Sunday 10th July |
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King Tut's Wah Wah tent
| Saturday July 9th | Sunday 10th July |
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2000 festival
The T in the Park 2000 took place between July 8th and 9th, 2000 in Balado. It was the first time that an unknown band, Travis, headlined the main stage. All Saints' had their last live performance here in Scotland.
A week before the event, there was an accident at the Roskilde Festival in which nine people died. After the incident, the security precautions were checked and every effort was made to rule out a similar incident.
The program included:
Main stage
| Saturday July 8th | Sunday 9th July |
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Stage 2
| Saturday July 8th | Sunday 9th July |
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Slam tent
| Saturday July 8th | Sunday 9th July |
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King Tut's Wah Wah tent
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2001 festival
T in the Park 2001 took place from Saturday 7th to Sunday 8th July 2001, with around 50,000 visitors each day.
2002 festival
The 2002 event drew around 50,000 music fans each day.
2003 festival
T in the Park 2003 was attended by an estimated 55,000 people a day, headlined by REM and Coldplay .
2004 festival
The 2004 edition of the festival was attended by an estimated 60,000 people on both days. The two largest stages were the main stage and the New Musical Express stage, along with four other tents and the like. a. including the Slam Tent and the King Tutenchs Wah Wah Tent.
2005 festival
Tickets for the 2005 event sold out in record time, just four days after they went on sale, five months before the festival. At the event, around 69,000 people saw more than 170 bands on 10 stages every day. It won the UK Festival Awards as the best festival of the year , beating Glastonbury Festival for the first time.
2006 festival
Tickets for T in the Park 2006 went on sale February 17, 2006 at 9:00 am and the event sold out in less than an hour, a record for the festival. An additional tranche of 12,000 tickets were sold from June 3, 2006 and were sold out within ten minutes. About 69,000 tickets for each day were sold. After the sale, weekend camping tickets went on sale on internet auction sites for £ 700.
2007 festival
The T in the Park 2007 took place for the first time on three days, July 6th, 7th and 8th, 2007. The first 35,000 tickets went on sale shortly after T in the Park ended in 2006 and sold out within 70 minutes. The last batch of tickets, offered on March 9, sold in less than 20 minutes. The event was overshadowed by the traffic chaos on the A91 due to the closure of the main parking lot after heavy rain showers.
2008 festival
The 2008 festival took place on July 11, 12 and 13, 2008, again over three days. It was announced that the campsite would be open on July 10th, 2008 to avoid repeating the traffic chaos of the previous year. The 2008 event headliners were Rage Against the Machine , The Verve and REM on the main stage and The Chemical Brothers , Kaiser Chiefs and The Prodigy on the Radio 1 / New Musical Express stage.
2009 festival
The 2009 festival took place on the three days between July 10th and 12th, with over 180 performances in front of a crowd of 85,000 people. As at T in the Park 2008 , the campsite opened on Thursday evening to avoid the queues in traffic. The first batch of early bird tickets could be sold in ten hours on July 15, 2008 and February 27, 2009, New Musical Express announced that camping tickets for the event were already sold out.
2010 festival
The tickets for the 2010 event were available from February 26, 2010 and were completely sold out within 90 minutes. Muse , Eminem and Kasabian were the headliners.
2011 festival
The 2011 festival took place between July 7th and 11th, 2011. Arctic Monkeys , Coldplay , Foo Fighters and Beyoncé headlined the weekend. it was the eighteenth edition. The Strokes played on the Radio 1 / New Musical Express stage on Saturday. Blink-182 had to cancel its appearance due to production dates. Beyoncé was added to the program on May 5th and played on Saturday July 9th, 2011. Other artists such as Deadmau5 and Pendulum also played at T in the Park 2011 .
2012 festival
The 2012 festival took place between July 6th and 8th, 2012. As usual, pre-sale tickets went on sale shortly after the 2011 event closed. The Stone Roses were announced as the first headliner on November 8th, three weeks before the second batch of tickets went on sale. On November 30, VIP Vodafone customers were able to purchase tickets in a special advance sale. The next day was T-Lady - subscribers and last festival visitors also purchase tickets in advance. The second batch of cards, which corresponded to around half the capacity, went on sale on December 2, 2011 and was sold out within hours. Festival Director Geoff Ellis said he was "delighted with the response from fans" and "can't wait to see them all in Balado next year".
He later said, "The response to the Stone Roses announcement has been fantastic and the rest of the list is beautiful too - we can't wait until February to share it with the best audiences in the world." On December 10, 2011, Geoff stated Ellis: "There will likely be an announcement about headliners at the beginning of the new year." In an interview with Express.co.uk he confirmed that there would be an announcement shortly about how they had just managed to increase capacity Reaching 10,000 visitors on Friday. The total number of visitors, including Friday, would allow larger headliners to be booked for Friday evening. In early 2012 it was announced that the third and final batch of cards would be on sale on February 29, 2012. On February 21, 2012, a week before the tickets went on sale, Noel Gallaghers headlined High Flying Birds , Florence + the Machine , The Maccabees , The Horrors , Simple Minds , Miles Kane , The Vaccines , Maverick Saber , Frank Turner and Two Door Cinema Club confirmed. Another announcement on February 23rd confirmed the remaining two headliners Snow Patrol and Kasabian . Other performers were announced at the same time: Jessie J , David Guetta , The Enemy , Kaiser Chiefs , Amy Macdonald , Nicki Minaj , The Darkness , Calvin Harris , Skrillex and Elbow .
2013 Festival 'T 20'
The 2013 festival took place from July 11-14, 2013. 'Early bird' tickets were available from Friday, July 13, 2012 at 9 a.m. on the Ticketmaster website. The Killers , Rihanna and Mumford & Sons were headliners in 2013, alongside other big acts such as Emeli Sandé , The Script , Jake Bugg , Alt-J , Of Monsters and Men , Twin Atlantic , Two Door Cinema Club and Azealia Banks . The second series of tickets went on sale from December 7th, 9am. The last tranche was offered from February 22nd, 9 a.m. On February 13, 2013, the German band Kraftwerk was added to the program.
See also
- T in the Park 2012
- T in the Park 2011
- T in the Park 2010
- T in the Park 2009
- List of music festivals
- List of major rock concerts and festivals
Web links
- T in The Park - Official Website
- Organizer Geoff Ellis on the future of the festival l
- T in the Park at Virtual Festivals
Individual evidence
- ^ T in the Park begins first festival at Strathallan Castle. BBC News . July 10, 1015. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
- ↑ a b T IN THE PARK v GLASTONBURY; T IN THE PARK . Daily Record . July 10, 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2013.
- ^ A b c Maureen Ellis: Geoff Ellis, the man who created T in the Park . Evening Times . July 11, 2013. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
- ↑ Traffic chaos hits T in the Park , BBC. July 6, 2007. Retrieved August 13, 2013.
- ↑ Earlier camping for T in the Park , BBC. February 14, 2008. Retrieved August 13, 2013.
- ^ The Worlds' Biggest Music Festivals . CNBC . Retrieved August 13, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d e T in the Park: facts and figures . The Herald . July 11, 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2013.
- ↑ John Clarke: T In The Park 2008 . The Fly . July 14, 2008. Archived from the original on January 3, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
- ↑ Natasha Radmehr: Live review: T in the Park 2011 . The Pop Cop . July 14, 2011. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
- ^ Gavin McInally: The Big One: T In The Park 2010 . Virtual festivals . July 2, 2010. Archived from the original on January 3, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
- ^ A b Elliot Batte: T in the park to combat presence of 'neds' . Stereoboard.com. February 24, 2011. Retrieved July 28, 2013.
- ↑ a b Rick Fulton: DJ Edith Bowman on taking her baby son to T in the Park . Daily Record . July 4, 2009. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
- ^ A b Bands, burgers and queues: Balado at its best . The Scotsman . July 14, 2003. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
- ^ Neds make it into the dictionary . BBC News . June 9, 2005. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
- ↑ Neds 'not welcome' at T in the Park festival . BBC News . February 23, 2011. Retrieved July 28, 2013.
- ^ Doug Johnstone / Andrew Eaton: Love, loathing and T in the Park . The Scotsman . July 5, 2007. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
- ↑ Paul English: Watchit; A week on the box with Saturday's Paul English . TheFreeLibrary.com . July 13, 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2013.
- ↑ a b c T in the Park 2013: Facts, statistics and trivia on the Scottish music festival . The List . June 6, 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2013.
- ^ Doug Johnstone / Andrew Eaton: Love, loathing and T in the Park . The Scotsman . July 5, 2007. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
- ^ T Break - Tennent's camp. Retrieved June 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Crowds' T'd up for park life. Retrieved June 4, 2015 .
- ^ T In The Park security check. Retrieved June 4, 2015 .
- ↑ a b T tickets sell out in record time , BBC News Online . February 17, 2006, p. 1. Retrieved July 28, 2009.
- ^ Lisette Johnston: Last T in the Park tickets sell out in 10 minutes , The Scotsman . June 4, 2006, p. 1. Retrieved July 28, 2009.
- ↑ Joanna Vallely: You'll have had your T! Tickets for Festival sell out in morning , The Scotsman . February 17, 2006, p. 1. Retrieved July 28, 2009.
- ↑ T In The Park tents sell out . NME . February 27, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2009.
- ^ Eminem and Muse to headline T In The Park Festival 2010 . NME . February 23, 2010. Retrieved March 11, 2010.
- ^ T In The Park Festival 2010 sells out within 90 minutes . NME . February 27, 2010. Retrieved March 11, 2010.
- ^ T In The Park Line-Up Announced . Xfm . February 23, 2010. Retrieved March 11, 2010.
- ↑ EUROPEAN 2011 TOUR DATES RESCHEDULED. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 23, 2011 ; Retrieved June 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Beyonce added to T in the Park festival bill this July. Retrieved June 4, 2015 .
- ↑ THE STONES ROSES CONFIRMED TO HEADLINE T IN THE PARK 2012. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 4, 2012 ; Retrieved June 4, 2015 .
- ↑ T in the Park 2012 Tickets on Sale Tomorrow. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 27, 2014 ; Retrieved June 4, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ T in the Park 2012 Christmas early-bird tickets sell out. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 27, 2014 ; Retrieved June 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Geoff Confirms “Next announcement will be early 2012”. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 26, 2014 ; Retrieved June 4, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ T in the Park announcement. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 10, 2012 ; Retrieved June 4, 2015 .
- ^ T In The Park 2013 tickets on sale now. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 2, 2013 ; Retrieved June 4, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
