T IN THE PARK
T IS THE MAGIC NUMBER Dazzle your friends with these nuggets of T in the Park trivia
1994 CAPACITY: 17,000 PER DAY 2013 CAPACITY: 85,000 PER DAY THE FIRST LINE UP THE INCLUDED RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, BJORK, CYPRESS HILL, INCLU LL,
BLUR, MANIC STREET PREACHERS, PULP AND OASIS
DURING THE FESTIVAL, T IN THE PARK BECOMES SCOTLAND’S DUR ’S S FIFTH LARGEST TOWN
IN 2010 THE FESTIVAL SOLD OUT IN JUST
90 MINUTES THE LONGEST QUEUE AT THE SIGNING TENT WAS FOR KYLIE IN 1995
THE LONGEST OVATION IN THE FESTIVAL’S HISTORY WAS FOR THE PIXIES IN 2004
BEST BUSKER:
Joe Strummer played an impromptu set on the campsite in 1996
UNLIKELIEST ARRIVAL:
Keanu Reeves played in 1996 with his band Dogstar. He arrived on a double decker bus
BEST RIDER REQUEST: James Brown
requested a 1950s salon hairdryer for his dressing room when
he played in 2005
T IN THE PARK: THE MOVIE: In 2010 Scottish filmmaker David Mackenzie made a feature film, You Instead, set during
the festival and filmed
in just 5 days (see David’s T in the Park
memory, below)
NAME CHANGES:
In 1994 a little-known band called Glass Onion took to the
stage, they would later
change their name to Travis. In 1997 Polarbear made their debut at the festival, later becoming Snow
Patrol
FESTIVAL NUPTIALS:
in 2008 one couple chose to tie the knot at the festival. In 2005 a competition winner who got to meet New Order backstage got a helping hand proposing
to his girlfriend when frontman Bernard
Summer announced it
live onstage
FESTIVAL MEMORIES
FILMMAKER AND DIRECTOR OF T IN THE PARK FILM YOU INSTEAD DAVID MACKENZIE
‘The madness of trying to shoot a 90-page comedy drama script over four days in a wild and totally uncontrollable festival will forever be etched on my memory – it was all an amazing blur as we tumbled through the circumstances and opportunities to complete an impossible
schedule. There were many great experiences, but the highpoint for me came on the last night when the festival was over. We were still shooting in amongst the mud and litter in the empty stage area. People were already packing things up and a team of cleaners were advancing in a long line picking up all the rubbish. It was ghostly quiet until, as the dawn spread across the sky, thousands of seagulls
swarmed on to the site. The sound was unbelievable and in our exhausted state we were just gobsmacked by the beauty of the sunrise over this apocalyptic scene. Of course there was no time to waste, so we reconfigured the scene we were shooting to take advantage of the seagulls. It’s one of my favourite scenes in the film and it was such a joy to be able to capture something so spontaneous and unprepared.’
22 THE LIST 13 Jun–11 Jul 2013