THREE days, four nights, eleven stages, 80,000 fans and more than 180 artists – T in the Park returns this weekend for what promises to be one of the best in its history.
Now in its 15th year, Scotland's premier rock music festival will be pulling out all the stops to ensure its birthday celebrations stand head and shoulders above other European rock festivals.
Are you all set for rocking out? Good, because tonigh
t, reinvigorated Brit-rock heroes, The Verve, will headline the Main Stage, while light-hearted former cub scouts, Scouting For Girls, get things going on the Radio 1/ NME Stage.
Rage Against The Machine top the Main Stage's bill tomorrow night, however, the rap-metal band having played the first-ever T in the Park back in 1994.
Jack White (of The White Stripes) takes his merry band of retro blues–rockers, The Raconteurs back to Scotland for a stint on the Radio 1/ NME Stage the same evening, while former Stone Roses vocalist, Ian Brown, headlines the King Tut's Tent.
The seminal REM, meanwhile, will most likely draw the biggest crowd when they close the festival on Sunday evening on the Main Stage.
Playing a mix of old favourites and lots of new, fresh material, it will provide a fitting climax to T in the Park 2008. But this is just a small taster of this year's colourful line-up.
Elsewhere, bearded, old-school grunge upstarts, Kings Of Leon, play the Main Stage on Sunday, while perky, art-school pop-tarts, The Kaiser Chiefs, headline the Radio 1/ NME Stage on Saturday.
Arguably Scotland's most boisterous, and certainly catchiest band, The Fratellis will be getting in on the act, too, backed by a monstrous line-up of other, popular bands that include Welsh heavy rockers, Stereophonics, the best UK dance band of the last 15 years, The Prodigy, as well as The Chemical Brothers, whose block-rockin' beats always go down well at the outdoor festivals.
So, what you waiting for? Get your bags packed and get going. Your T's ready.
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