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T in the Park

Scotland's biggest music festival returns with Doves, Idlewild, Kings of Leon, Blur, Killers, Snow Patrol, Franz Ferdinand, Keane, Bloc Party, Lily Allen, The Ting Tings, Manic Street Preachers, The Specials, Razorlight, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Elbow, Pendulum, Peter Doherty, White Lies and many more.

We don't have details of any future performances, if you know of some please let us know.

The Slam Tent at T in the Park

Slam dunk: The Slam Tent at T in the Park

9 Jul 2009

‘It’s nerve-wracking, as it is with any gig we’re involved in. We have such a headstrong booking policy; we’re so close to the scene and have very strong ideas about who we want to play. One of the reasons we got involved in the first place is because I…

Exposure: Dead Boy Robotics

Exposure: Dead Boy Robotics

9 Jul 2009

Edinburgh based duo Dead Boy Robotics used to be, by their own admission, pretty terrible. They haven’t even released an EP yet, but have been selected to play the T Break Stage at T In The Park. Multi instrumentalist Gregor McMillian explains how the…

Slam Tent

T in the Park: Slam Tent running times

8 Jul 2009

With the likes of Laurent Garnier, Felix Da Housecat, The Streets and Jeff Mills all scheduled to appear, we know you're going to be interested in the running times for the Slam Tent at this weekend's T in the Park.

T in the Park: Goes pop

T in the Park: Goes pop

25 Jun 2009

Nick Cave battered Kylie to death with a rock and in doing so resurrected pop. For when the implausible twain married larynxes – on 1995’s hit murder ballad, ‘Where the Wild Roses Grow’ – it caused a schism in the pop continuum. By 1996, the prince of…

T in the Park: Soundtrack to the weekend

T in the Park: Soundtrack to the weekend

25 Jun 2009

Friday The whole festival starts in considerable style with The Maccabees and ‘No Kind Words’ before shifting in gloriously mental fashion with ‘Roulette Dares’ by The Mars Volta so sing along now … ‘Exoskeleton, junction at the railroad delayed!…

First Word - Geoff Ellis

First Word - Geoff Ellis

25 Jun 2009

First record you ever bought ‘My Generation’ by The Who for 10p from a jumble sale (original 1965 release on Brunswick label and very warped). Also got ‘Band of Gold’ by Freda Payne a few minutes later at same jumble sale. First new record purchased…

T in the Park: Future music

T in the Park: Future music

25 Jun 2009

Chris Cope picks eight faces new to T in the Park eager to show some love in Balado

T in the Park: Nine Inch Nails

T in the Park: Nine Inch Nails

25 Jun 2009

Trent Reznor has always had issues. With God, with the devil, with drugs, with the record industry, with the critics, with former paramours – and now he has issues with social networking. Last fortnight, Reznor posted a missive on the nin.com forums…

T in the Park: Peter Doherty - Who's the man

T in the Park: Peter Doherty - Who's the man

25 Jun 2009

‘I first saw The Libertines at Camden Monarch in 2002,’ says Anthony Thornton, NME writer and author of the group’s autobiography Bound Together. ‘I was there to see The Vines, who were supposed to be the next big thing, but The Libertines were…

T in the Park: Simian Mobile Disco

T in the Park: Simian Mobile Disco

25 Jun 2009

‘We like our live shows to be a more austere, leaner version of our studio stuff,’says James (Jas) Shaw, one half of techno-pop duo, Simian Mobile Disco. For their recent crowd-rocking show at Primavera, Barcelona, laser lights and smoke provided an…

Exposure: Hip Parade

Exposure: Hip Parade

19 Jun 2009

They're hip. They're not a parade. That part doesn't matter though – they're The Hip Parade, and they're the indie answer to Susan Boyle, though with less hair and more guitars. For like their fellow Scot, they too finished runner-up in a telly talent…

Exposure - Tango in the Attic

Exposure - Tango in the Attic

11 Jun 2009

Despite the apparently never-ending harsh times worldwide, Tango In The Attic actually sound like they’re having a lot of fun. Bright, colourful, and straight to the point, their songs have a charm to them that could very easily be overlooked and…

News in Brief

11 Jun 2009

The Scottish Government’s ‘One Scotland’ campaign RoAR (Rock Against Racism) campaign kicks off this fortnight with local lads Franz Ferdinand, who’ll be heading to the Scottish Borders for a special RoAR gig in Selkirk’s Victoria Hall on Wed 17 Jun.

T Break

11 Jun 2009

After listening to almost 1400 entries, T Break’s judging panel have selected 16 of the finest unsigned Scottish acts to join the bill for Balado this July. Among those confirmed include artists previously seen in The List like Punch and the Apostles…

Exposure - Little Eskimos

Exposure - Little Eskimos

10 Jun 2009

Borne of the imagination found in some amateur CD-Rs made for the fun of it, Little Eskimos have crawled out their igloos to timidly take steps in the burgeoning world of the Scottish rock scene. Playing on the T Break stage at T in the Park this year…

Rockness

Festival Fever

1 Jun 2009

Each year, the glow of summer brings with it a particularly exciting string of events - the live music festivals! Here’s the low-down on the big Scottish ones you won’t want to miss

Party On

Party On

28 May 2009

Our love of a good festival is by no means new. The desire to recharge – or more often, decharge our batteries – goes back to prehistoric times when people felt confused and scared by the forces of nature, so tried to keep on their good side by…

Exposure: Dinosaur Pile-up

Exposure: Dinosaur Pile-up

20 May 2009

Coming from the ever-growing, densely populated musical stomping ground that is Leeds, Dinosaur Pile-up are a trio whose songs embrace heavier sounds besides the standard infectious melody and pace associated with many of their contemporaries. With only…

White Lies

White Lies

30 Apr 2009

Despite its grand themes of life and death, To Lose My Life or Lose My Love was the first album of 2009 to go straight in at number one. Not bad for a debut album and a cracking start to the year for London trio Whites Lies. Having begun life as punky…

Summer festivals line-up announced

Summer festivals line-up announced

16 Apr 2009

Here at The List, we can barely take a jaunt to the water cooler without another festival announcement popping into our inbox. At the offices of T in the Park (Fri 10-Sun 12 Jul) there’s been the usual flurry of activity. One of New York’s finest…

Music Festivals - Field of dreams

Music Festivals - Field of dreams

5 Mar 2009

While there were no great surprises at this year’s T in the Park launch, the programme was still hailed a success with Lily Allen (pictured) and Franz Ferdinand added to the bill, already including headliners Blur, Kings of Leon and The Killers. Snow…

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