T In the Park Review

Overall Rating

Fantastic atmosphere, well designed site

Weekend without camping....
I have never seen such slow moving queues for the toilets at one of these events. Mainly cause only half the toilets ever were occupied as I learned when I stopped waiting in the queues and started looking for empty cubicles.

I went to T having acquired tickets off someone who couldn't go. Sadly they were weekend without camping so required us to camp 4 miles up the road. The facilities there were lovely but the 4 mile hike on Saturday night in the rain was abysmal.

Having said that, everything else about this festival was brilliant. I go to at least a couple of music festivals every summer and I've never experienced as friendly and happy an atmosphere at any festival. This is what Glastonbury is supposed to be like but is not. People were polite, talkative and a lot of fun. The bands were varied and with something like 6 stages there was always something to see from the mainstream bilge of Hard-Fi to the manic strangeness of Animal Collective. You'd be hard-pressed to not find a band you liked, unless you were a metalhead.

We had 2 days, basically, friendly fun, fantastic music, highlights of which for me were Eels, despite appearing 50 minutes late, delivering a remarkable rock set; the celebratory dancing of Alex Ounsworth of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the lush beauty of the Guillemots and the urgent indie pop of the On Offs.

If you wanted more than music there were plenty of rides, stalls and really just wandering about talking to people was good fun too. This was a fantastic festival in every way, well organised, well-executed and well attended. I am only sorry that I didn't have the £115 necessary to buy a ticket in the pre-sale for next year cause I will definitely be attending T in the Park again.

Members' Comments onWSD's Review

• Clair on 22nd Aug 2006

  I like your review and believe you summed up the excellent crowd and line up, only things I didn't agree with is your thoughts on Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (each to their own), however the on/offs where superb. One other point I would like to make is your comment on the toilets, I guess you weren't at V this year as they were the worst toilets in the world and the queues where 10 times worse.