T In The Park, Balado, Kinross
Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party, Lily Allen, Razorlight, Jamie T, Kooks
Scotland's biggest summer music festival goes for three days in 2007, and stars the likes of Snow Patrol, Arcade Fire, Brian Wilson, Amy Winehouse, Jet and Tori Amos.
T In The Park is Scotland’s biggest summer music festival, and the 2007 event will be the first time that it has been held over three days. Held at a disused airfield in Balado near Kinross, T In The Park has been going since 1994, and it is now a firm fixture on the British summer festival scene, rivalling the like of Glastonbury and the V, Reading and Leeds Festivals.
80,000 people have got tickets for the 2007 event, with some camping out all weekend, and between Friday 6th July and Sunday 8th July, Balado will become the 6th biggest city in Scotland.
For those still trying to get a ticket – tough luck, it’s sold out (although you never know what you may be able to find on internet auction sites…)
What is mighty impressive, however, is the line-up that the 2007 festival has attracted.
T In The Park, Balado, Kinross, Scotland – Friday bands
The main stage on Friday features Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party and Lily Allen, as well as The Coral.
T In The Park, Balado, Kinross, Scotland – Saturday bands
The action really starts to hot up on Saturday. The Killers, Johnny Borrell’s Razorlight, indie stalwarts James and Montreal’s Arcade Fire are all playing live on the Main Stage. Meanwhile, the Radio One/ NME stage has concerts from my emo-rockers Chemical Romance, Brighton’s The Kooks and Rehab-shunning soul throwback Amy Winehouse. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Wimbledon’s Jamie T star in King Tut’s Tent, while legendary Beach Boy Brian Wilson, Rufus Wainwright and Sinead O’Connor are playing the star gigs in the Pet Sounds Arena.
T In The Park, Balado, Kinross, Scotland – Sunday bands
The festival winds down on Sunday, but that doesn’t mean that those who have camped out all weekend are going to be starved of entertainment. Amongst the hot tickets on the last day of 2007 T In The Park are stadium ballad-wielders Snow Patrol, tight-trousered Scissor Sisters, Paulo Nutini, Glasgow’s The Fratellis and Kings of Leon on the main stage. Headliners on the Radio One/ NME Stage include New York gloom-rockers Interpol, modern day Happy Mondays Kasabian, the somewhat camp chart-topping Mika and Maximo Park from Newcastle.
King Tut’s Tent has a bizarre mix of heavy rock from Queens of the Stone Age and poppy UK urban act Just Jack, with ballast provided by AC/DC wannabes Jet and Britpop survivors Ocean Colour Scene. Things are a bit softer in the Pet Sounds Arena, with fans treated to the incessant wailing of Tori Amos as well as coffee-table tunes from Air, Badly Drawn Boy and Damien Rice.
