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T in the Park occurs as Scottish music festival, held annually since 1994. Known as when its independent sponsor, a Scottish brewer Tennents and the fact it was originally held at Strathclyde Park, touching Motherwell. Acts for that opening month involved Primal Scream, Oasis, Blur and The Manic Street Preachers.

A as a result month it sold out by having Kylie Minogue who performed with Nick Cave, Alanis Morissette, Black Grape and Supergrass playing in hot dog temperatures.

Inside 1996 Radiohead, Pulp and No Doubt played then within 1997 it moved to its present site of Balado, Kinross when local developers wanted to use Strathclyde Park for more purposes.

Since moving it has expanded within size & popularity sustaining the mix of elastic like Travis, Texas, Garbage, Moby, Iggy Pop, Stereophonics, REM, The Proclaimers, The Darkness, Muse, The Polyphonic Spree, and The Chemical Brothers. Inside recent years, a festival has shared lot of its lineup using Oxegen, which is on the same weekend, however around County Kildare, Ireland.

2004 festival
A 2004 editiin attracted approximately 60,000 population on two a Saturday & Sunday. Them large stages existence a Main Stage & a NME Stage, along with quartet collapsible shelter which involved a Slam Tent & a King Tuts Tent.

British acts performing at 2004 involved Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Chemical Brothers and The Libertines, along with such international acts when The Strokes, Kings of Leon, Scissor Sisters and The Pixies to name however two or three.

2005 festival
Tickets for the 200Phoebe event sold call at record period only Foursome years when running low, 5 months ahead of the festival. This edition of T in The Park saw in 69,000 population the day shift additional than 170 elastic all over X stages.

A bit of of the elastic performing involved Green Day, Travis, The Killers, Keane, The Prodigy, New Order and The Subways.

2006 Festival
T In a Park was the foremost UK festival to sell some limited total of tickets for the ensuing month after that season's festival got finshed. 2006 is no exception and tickets stand sold swell. A organisers come today looking for expanding a festivals capacity and so it could seriously challenge Glastonbury Festival.

T in the Park
Official site for the two day music festival, which was host to over 100 bands in 2000.

Done and Dusted
Streaming video from around the festival.

Armed gang rob rock promoter
The organiser of rock festival T in the Park is tied up and robbed by raiders at his home in central Scotland. [BBC News]

Iced T in the Park
The seventh T in The Park festival was another unbridled success - for those battle-hardened enough to brave the weather. [BBC News]

T In The Park in pictures
BBC News Online captures the action as thousands of music fans gather for Scotland's biggest music festival.

Rain fails to dampen festival spirits
Despite the heavy rain, T In The Park proves a big hit with the fans, drawn to the biggest festival in Scotland's rock calendar. [BBC News]

Music festival 'Ts' off
Thousands of music fans descend on a former airfield for the first day of Scotland's T In The Park festival. [BBC News]

T In The Park security check
The organisers of Scotland's biggest music festival review security after the tragedy at Roskilde in Denmark. [BBC News]






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