0:00:02 > 0:00:07This programme contains some strong language.
0:00:09 > 0:00:142013 is the 20th year of Scotland's biggest music festival -
0:00:14 > 0:00:15T in the Park.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Having become one of the UK's favourite festivals,
0:00:32 > 0:00:34T is a highlight of the musical calendar...
0:00:34 > 0:00:36It's like Scotland's Christmas.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40..known for its unique atmosphere...
0:00:40 > 0:00:42It's a rock 'n' roll explosion, innit?
0:00:43 > 0:00:45..and passionate crowd...
0:00:45 > 0:00:47It's pretty wild! HE LAUGHS
0:00:49 > 0:00:52..it's gained an international name for itself.
0:00:52 > 0:00:53You know, you go anywhere in the world,
0:00:53 > 0:00:56there's always people that have heard of T in the Park so it's...
0:00:56 > 0:00:59really got a hell of a reputation.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02Its diverse line-up has seen some of the biggest names in music
0:01:02 > 0:01:04appear on its stages.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07Some even before they hit the big time.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10I even think The Verve might have been on when they were called Verve.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12Before they had a "The".
0:01:12 > 0:01:16Now one of the most important and critically acclaimed music events
0:01:16 > 0:01:22on the festival circuit, it's come a long way since it started in 1994.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25It was such a leap into the unknown.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27You know, it's a business,
0:01:27 > 0:01:32the musical equivalent of jumping off a cliff without a parachute.
0:01:38 > 0:01:42So, to celebrate T at 20, we'll be showing you some of the best
0:01:42 > 0:01:46performances from nearly two decades of live music.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04T in the Park was the idea of Stuart Clumpas,
0:02:04 > 0:02:09the founder of Glasgow-based music promotions company DF Concerts.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12With a wealth of experience putting on live gigs, Stuart,
0:02:12 > 0:02:14alongside colleague Geoff Ellis,
0:02:14 > 0:02:18decided it was time Scotland had some music alfresco.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22In the early '90s, there wasn't really an outdoor culture in Scotland
0:02:22 > 0:02:24for concerts, everyone thought it rained so much
0:02:24 > 0:02:26that nobody would go and see a show outdoors.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29The whole concept of standing in a field, you know,
0:02:29 > 0:02:32open to the elements and seeing a whole load of different
0:02:32 > 0:02:35bands on the bill was completely and utterly alien.
0:02:35 > 0:02:39And we were like, "There's a festival in Scotland?! What?!
0:02:39 > 0:02:42"There's a festival in Scotland?
0:02:42 > 0:02:45"That's one way of keeping them up there, I suppose, during June.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47"It saves them all going Glastonbury, don't it?"
0:02:47 > 0:02:51You can't wear nice clothes to a field, you know?
0:02:51 > 0:02:53I just thought festivals were for, like,
0:02:53 > 0:02:55the other generation, the older generation.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57Like, the '60s or the '70s people, like, the hippies and stuff.
0:02:57 > 0:03:02So there was a healthy bit of, kind of, scepticism.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05The initial idea was to create an event around THE festival band
0:03:05 > 0:03:09of the early '90s, The Levellers, and hold it on the Isle of Arran.
0:03:09 > 0:03:13It would have been a one-day kind of festival but we got on a ferry
0:03:13 > 0:03:15and went over to the Isle of Arran, and we just realised, you know,
0:03:15 > 0:03:18looking at the capacity of the ferries, you know, it would
0:03:18 > 0:03:21take a week to get enough people over there to make a, you know,
0:03:21 > 0:03:22a festival viable.
0:03:22 > 0:03:23So we kind of scrapped those plans
0:03:23 > 0:03:28and we came across Strathclyde Park and decided, let's go for 1994.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31Having previously worked with them on other live music events,
0:03:31 > 0:03:35DF Concerts teamed up with Tennents and Irish music promoters
0:03:35 > 0:03:39MCD to put on Scotland's first ever T in the Park.
0:03:40 > 0:03:44The 1994 line-up included some of the top acts of the time...
0:03:44 > 0:03:48# When your seven worlds collide
0:03:48 > 0:03:52# Whenever I am by your side... #
0:03:52 > 0:03:59# Someday I'll have a disappearing hairline
0:03:59 > 0:04:06# Someday I'll wear pyjamas in the daytime
0:04:08 > 0:04:11# Love to hear your song
0:04:12 > 0:04:14# On the AM
0:04:15 > 0:04:18# On the AM... #
0:04:21 > 0:04:24..and the first ever headliners were Rage Against the Machine.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26RAPS: The present curriculum
0:04:26 > 0:04:29I put my fist in 'em Eurocentric every last one of 'em
0:04:29 > 0:04:32See right through the red, white and blue disguise
0:04:32 > 0:04:34With lecture I puncture the structure of lies
0:04:34 > 0:04:37Installed in our minds and attempting to hold us back
0:04:37 > 0:04:39We've got to take it back
0:04:39 > 0:04:41Holes in our spirit causin' tears and fears
0:04:41 > 0:04:43One-sided stories for years and years and years
0:04:43 > 0:04:46I'm inferior? Who's inferior?
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Yeah, we need to check the interior of the system
0:04:48 > 0:04:50who cares about only one culture
0:04:50 > 0:04:53And that is why we gotta take the power back
0:04:56 > 0:04:58We gotta take the power back
0:05:00 > 0:05:02Come on, come on!
0:05:04 > 0:05:06We gotta take the power back!
0:05:12 > 0:05:15We knew what we were doing in terms of managing concerts,
0:05:15 > 0:05:18booking bands, marketing concerts - all that was easy bit.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20You know, getting the line-up together is the easiest bit.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22It's like, how do we actually run a festival?
0:05:22 > 0:05:26We had the doormen from King Tut's, a guy called Steve Broadfoot,
0:05:26 > 0:05:28who was our campsite manager in that very first year.
0:05:28 > 0:05:29It shows how naive we were
0:05:29 > 0:05:32because we didn't have a fence around the campsite or anything,
0:05:32 > 0:05:34we just said to people, "If you want to camp, come along.
0:05:34 > 0:05:38"It's an extra £2 to cover the security and the toilets,"
0:05:38 > 0:05:40and Steve was collecting two pound off each of them
0:05:40 > 0:05:43and then literally walking them to where to pitch their tent,
0:05:43 > 0:05:45and that's how, you know,
0:05:45 > 0:05:47organic it was in the first year, and how naive it was.
0:05:47 > 0:05:51But as the campers got ready for the second day of the festival,
0:05:51 > 0:05:53an up-and-coming band called Oasis
0:05:53 > 0:05:56were having trouble getting to the site.
0:05:56 > 0:06:00I think we'd crossed the border into Scotland, and we pulled over,
0:06:00 > 0:06:02and our mate who was driving the van...
0:06:04 > 0:06:06..filled it up with petrol instead of diesel
0:06:06 > 0:06:08so we didn't get much further after that.
0:06:08 > 0:06:12- Where's the rest of the band? - On the motorway somewhere.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15They're just, like, I don't know, they just broke down.
0:06:15 > 0:06:19We ended up arriving at T in the Park on the train,
0:06:19 > 0:06:20carrying our own equipment,
0:06:20 > 0:06:23with all the punters, and had to walk through with them.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26We had to virtually queue up to get in.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29It was probably the only festival that they didn't play as a headliner
0:06:29 > 0:06:31because after T in the Park, they got so big so quickly
0:06:31 > 0:06:33that the next time they did festivals,
0:06:33 > 0:06:34they were headlining them.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37Headlining on the Sunday night were Primal Scream,
0:06:37 > 0:06:39who had no problems getting to the festival
0:06:39 > 0:06:42but found getting to the stage slightly difficult.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44I was carried to the stage...
0:06:46 > 0:06:50..by Steve Molloy, who was a roadie.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53For a while, I thought I was carried to the stage
0:06:53 > 0:06:55because I was completely out of it
0:06:55 > 0:06:57but I think it's because it was really muddy!
0:06:57 > 0:07:00# Thieves keep thievin'
0:07:00 > 0:07:01# Whores keep whorin'
0:07:01 > 0:07:03# Junkies keep scorin'
0:07:03 > 0:07:05# Trade is on the meat rack
0:07:05 > 0:07:07# Strip joints full of hunchbacks
0:07:07 > 0:07:09# Bitches keep bitchin'
0:07:09 > 0:07:10# Clap keeps itchin'
0:07:10 > 0:07:12# Ain't no use in prayin'
0:07:12 > 0:07:15# That's the way it's stayin', baby... #
0:07:15 > 0:07:18We put on a good performance. We really gave everything.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20# Johnny ain't so crazy
0:07:20 > 0:07:24# He's always got a line for the ladies
0:07:24 > 0:07:25# Yeah, yeah, yeah!
0:07:25 > 0:07:27# Get your rocks off
0:07:27 > 0:07:29# Get your rocks off, honey
0:07:29 > 0:07:30# Shake it now, now
0:07:30 > 0:07:33# Get 'em off downtown
0:07:33 > 0:07:34# Get your rocks off
0:07:34 > 0:07:36# Get your rocks off, honey
0:07:36 > 0:07:38# Shake it now, now
0:07:38 > 0:07:39# Get 'em off downtown
0:07:55 > 0:07:57# Creeps keep crawlin'
0:07:57 > 0:07:59# Drunks keep fallin'
0:07:59 > 0:08:00# Teasers keep teasin'
0:08:00 > 0:08:02# Holy Joes are preachin'
0:08:02 > 0:08:04# Cops keep bustin'
0:08:04 > 0:08:06# Hustlers keep hustlin'
0:08:06 > 0:08:08# Death keeps knockin'
0:08:08 > 0:08:09# Souls are up for auction
0:08:09 > 0:08:12# Ain't no use in prayin'
0:08:12 > 0:08:15# That's the way it's stayin', baby
0:08:17 > 0:08:19# Johnny ain't so crazy
0:08:19 > 0:08:22# He's always got a line for the ladies
0:08:22 > 0:08:24# Yeah, yeah, yeah... #
0:08:24 > 0:08:30Pretty cosmic, erm, yeah, it was,
0:08:30 > 0:08:35it was the biggest gig we'd played up to that date in Scotland.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37# Shake it now, now
0:08:37 > 0:08:39# Get 'em off downtown. #
0:08:39 > 0:08:40Get down!
0:08:40 > 0:08:43CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:08:45 > 0:08:47'It wasn't until the Sunday night
0:08:47 > 0:08:50'that we saw how much everybody had really enjoyed the festival'
0:08:50 > 0:08:53and reviews on the Monday morning that gave us the, you know,
0:08:53 > 0:08:57the confidence to do it all again.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00So, Scotland's first ever T in the Park was off the ground
0:09:00 > 0:09:03and over the next couple of years the festival became the hottest
0:09:03 > 0:09:07ticket in town as the billings were bursting with the latest bands.
0:09:07 > 0:09:11# I don't understand how the last card is played
0:09:11 > 0:09:15# But somehow a vital a connection is made... #
0:09:15 > 0:09:16Oh!
0:09:23 > 0:09:26# But we are young
0:09:26 > 0:09:27# We get by
0:09:27 > 0:09:28# Can't go mad
0:09:28 > 0:09:30# Ain't got time
0:09:30 > 0:09:34# Sleep around if we like but we're all right... #
0:09:37 > 0:09:43# I want my love, my joy My laugh, my smile, my needs
0:09:44 > 0:09:48# Not in the star signs Or the palm that she reads
0:09:50 > 0:09:54# I want my sundrenched, windswept Ingrid Bergman kiss.
0:09:54 > 0:10:00I remember the first year I went to T in the Park, I saw Pulp playing.
0:10:00 > 0:10:04That was the year Pulp were headlining and...
0:10:04 > 0:10:07I still think that's probably one of the best festival performances
0:10:07 > 0:10:08I've ever seen.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10# See what I can do
0:10:14 > 0:10:16# I took her to a supermarket
0:10:16 > 0:10:20# I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere
0:10:21 > 0:10:24# So it started there
0:10:26 > 0:10:29# I said, "Pretend you've got no money"
0:10:29 > 0:10:32# She just laughed and said, "You're so funny!"
0:10:32 > 0:10:33# I said, "Yeah?"
0:10:34 > 0:10:37# Well, I can't see anyone else smiling in here
0:10:37 > 0:10:39# Are you sure?
0:10:39 > 0:10:42# You want to live like common people
0:10:42 > 0:10:46# You want to see whatever common people see
0:10:46 > 0:10:49# Want to sleep with common people
0:10:49 > 0:10:53# You want to sleep with common people like me
0:10:53 > 0:10:56# But she didn't understand
0:10:56 > 0:10:58# She just smiled and held my hand
0:11:00 > 0:11:04# Rent a flat above a shop
0:11:04 > 0:11:06# Cut your hair and get a job
0:11:06 > 0:11:10# Smoke some fags and play some pool
0:11:10 > 0:11:13# Pretend you never went to school... #
0:11:13 > 0:11:16Jarvis was this, kind of, lean, stark figure
0:11:16 > 0:11:19commanding these thousands of people.
0:11:19 > 0:11:20Yeah, it was pretty good.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23# I want to live with common people like you
0:11:23 > 0:11:26# I want to live with common people like you
0:11:26 > 0:11:29# I want to live with common people like you
0:11:29 > 0:11:32# I want to live with common people like you
0:11:32 > 0:11:35# I want to live with common people like you
0:11:35 > 0:11:38# I want to live with common people like you
0:11:38 > 0:11:41# I want to live with common people like you
0:11:41 > 0:11:46# I want to live with common people like you
0:11:46 > 0:11:49# You!
0:11:49 > 0:11:52# You!
0:11:52 > 0:11:54# You!
0:11:54 > 0:11:56# Oh, yeah. #
0:11:56 > 0:11:58CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:11:58 > 0:12:02Also wowing the crowd that year was Sunday night headliner Radiohead.
0:12:07 > 0:12:08It really was absolutely magical.
0:12:13 > 0:12:14# Ah, ah, ah!
0:12:17 > 0:12:22# You do it to yourself, you do
0:12:22 > 0:12:24# And that's what really hurts
0:12:24 > 0:12:27# You do it to yourself, just you
0:12:27 > 0:12:29# You and no-one else
0:12:29 > 0:12:34# You do it to yourself
0:12:34 > 0:12:40# You do it to yourself
0:12:40 > 0:12:44# Self
0:12:44 > 0:12:50# Self. #
0:13:09 > 0:13:11THOM SCREAMS
0:13:30 > 0:13:32Thank you, good night!
0:13:32 > 0:13:35But when Radiohead said "good night", it was also goodbye
0:13:35 > 0:13:39to Strathclyde Park, as the festival had to find a new site.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42There was two reasons why we moved from Strathclyde Park to Balado.
0:13:42 > 0:13:46One was that the site had been earmarked for redevelopment
0:13:46 > 0:13:48and also, we had outgrown it.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51I was just seeing an item on the news, I think, last summer,
0:13:51 > 0:13:52about Strathclyde Park,
0:13:52 > 0:13:54that the event might not be there next year
0:13:54 > 0:13:57and, obviously, I've always reckoned there was potential on the site
0:13:57 > 0:14:00for concerts of some description.
0:14:00 > 0:14:05We drove onto the site, met Douglas and it just felt right.
0:14:05 > 0:14:06It felt perfect.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09Lots of, you know, open spaces for putting stages on,
0:14:09 > 0:14:13big audiences but, also, a lot of undulating land so it didn't,
0:14:13 > 0:14:15you know, look flat and boring.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19We had a really warm reception from the local people in Kinross,
0:14:19 > 0:14:21which is the town right next to it.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24We need something to liven the place up a bit!
0:14:24 > 0:14:27About 80,000 people are going to be livening the place up.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29Dinnae tell me any more!
0:14:29 > 0:14:32The community council saw the potential.
0:14:32 > 0:14:36I do remember a few community council meetings that were a bit tetchy
0:14:36 > 0:14:40where people had misconceptions about what the festival would bring
0:14:40 > 0:14:42but they looked at this and they thought,
0:14:42 > 0:14:45"No, this is going to be good for the kids in the village and the town,
0:14:45 > 0:14:48"it's going to be good for the economy,"
0:14:48 > 0:14:51and they welcomed us with open arms.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55We have given this application due consideration
0:14:55 > 0:15:01and I move approval for the application to be allowed.
0:15:01 > 0:15:05It wasn't till we made the choice to move out to Kinross
0:15:05 > 0:15:07that we became a Scottish festival
0:15:07 > 0:15:10and suddenly people on the east coast and the north of Scotland
0:15:10 > 0:15:13were going, "Well, great, this is a, you know, a festival for Scotland."
0:15:13 > 0:15:16People in Glasgow were sceptical about us moving north
0:15:16 > 0:15:18because they thought Kinross, you know, was miles away.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20I thought, "I don't want go to Kinross,
0:15:20 > 0:15:23"why would I want to go to Kinross?" And I think I spoke for everybody.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26And our sales in Glasgow kind of dipped a little bit
0:15:26 > 0:15:29but we were selling tickets throughout the rest of Scotland.
0:15:29 > 0:15:33..and as soon as I got there, I just fell in love with the place.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35So the festival had a new home in 1997
0:15:35 > 0:15:40and that meant bigger crowds came to see the latest bands at Balado.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43That year's headliners were The Charlatans...
0:15:43 > 0:15:45# Love is hard to leave
0:15:45 > 0:15:47# And it's hard to never have
0:15:47 > 0:15:49# Can you please crawl out of your window
0:15:49 > 0:15:52# You can play with all my love Yeah, yeah, yeah... #
0:15:52 > 0:15:54..and Paul Weller.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05# I've got a grapefruit matter
0:16:06 > 0:16:08# It's as sour as shit
0:16:10 > 0:16:12# I got no solution
0:16:14 > 0:16:16# I better get used to it
0:16:18 > 0:16:21# I don't need a ship to sail in stormy weather
0:16:21 > 0:16:27# Don't need you to ruffle the feathers of my peacock suit
0:16:28 > 0:16:30# My peacock suit
0:16:33 > 0:16:35# I'm narcissus in a puddle
0:16:36 > 0:16:39# In shop windows I gloat
0:16:40 > 0:16:42# Like a ball of fleece lining
0:16:43 > 0:16:46# Dressed in my camel skin coat
0:16:48 > 0:16:52# I don't need a ship to sail in stormy weather
0:16:52 > 0:16:58# I don't need you to ruffle the feathers of my peacock suit
0:16:58 > 0:17:00# Did you think I should?
0:17:02 > 0:17:04# Peacock suit... #
0:17:04 > 0:17:07With enough open space for a new tent
0:17:07 > 0:17:10and wanting to capture the ever-popular club scene culture,
0:17:10 > 0:17:13it was time for T to get hardcore.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16Because we were experienced at running our own events
0:17:16 > 0:17:19and doing nights at the Arches, and the Sub Club,
0:17:19 > 0:17:23and the whole club feel is a continuous mix of music,
0:17:23 > 0:17:28that Geoff asked us if we could actually organise something like that
0:17:28 > 0:17:31for T in the Park and that's how the Slam Tent was born.
0:17:31 > 0:17:32It was a big tent to start off with
0:17:32 > 0:17:35and I remember looking at it at the beginning,
0:17:35 > 0:17:38and going, "Whoa, that's a big space to fill!"
0:17:38 > 0:17:41And, literally, when we opened the doors, I remember opening the doors
0:17:41 > 0:17:45to the Slam Tent and just everybody rushing in.
0:17:45 > 0:17:50It was like somebody had opened a dam and water had just splashed in.
0:17:50 > 0:17:51There was all these people just running in,
0:17:51 > 0:17:54so it was quite an overwhelming feeling.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56Just sit there and go, "This is something we just created,
0:17:56 > 0:17:58"this is something that we're behind."
0:18:02 > 0:18:04Yeah, we went down to the Slam Tent.
0:18:04 > 0:18:06The atmosphere was amazing and there was just people everywhere,
0:18:06 > 0:18:09and just everybody dancing.
0:18:09 > 0:18:13And, literally, like, the place was, like, dripping with sweat,
0:18:13 > 0:18:14which was great.
0:18:15 > 0:18:20As well as performances from Slam, the tent has hosted world-class DJs
0:18:20 > 0:18:25like Fatboy Slim, Laurent Garnier...
0:18:25 > 0:18:26and Carl Cox.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33We try and be a little bit eclectic as well.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36We've had, you know, people like Groove Armada,
0:18:36 > 0:18:38Orbital and Leftfield.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41I don't think it matters whether you're a rock band or a dance band,
0:18:41 > 0:18:42I think the same rules apply.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45You've got to give people a good riff, give people a hook,
0:18:45 > 0:18:48something that they can go, "Ah, there it is!" You know?
0:18:54 > 0:18:56You feel like the people in the Slam Tent are there for the long haul.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59They're not looking in checking who's playing in other places,
0:18:59 > 0:19:01it's like, that's the Slam Tent crowd
0:19:01 > 0:19:04and they've probably been in there since Friday night, and they just go
0:19:04 > 0:19:07away, grab a few hours' kip, then come back, and go to the Slam Tent.
0:19:07 > 0:19:11It really does feel like its own little festival within the festival.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16But dance music didn't stay in the Slam Tent.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18Over the years, it's made its presence felt
0:19:18 > 0:19:20across the whole festival.
0:19:20 > 0:19:24# I'm the fear addicted Danger illustrated
0:19:27 > 0:19:30# I'm a firestarter Twisted firestarter
0:19:34 > 0:19:37# You're the firestarter Twisted firestarter
0:19:40 > 0:19:44# I'm a firestarter, Twisted firestarter
0:19:50 > 0:19:54# I'm the bitch you hated Filth infatuated
0:19:55 > 0:19:56Yeah!
0:19:58 > 0:20:00# I'm the pain you tasted Fell intoxicated
0:20:02 > 0:20:04Intoxicated!
0:20:04 > 0:20:08# I'm a firestarter Twisted firestarter
0:20:11 > 0:20:14# You're the firestarter Twisted firestarter
0:20:16 > 0:20:21# Whoa-oa-oa, yeah!
0:20:23 > 0:20:25# Whoa, yeah... #
0:20:25 > 0:20:29It's never been just solely the preserve of rock 'n' roll.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32That's partly because to get, out of a population of five million,
0:20:32 > 0:20:35to get, you know, a festival the size of T in the Park,
0:20:35 > 0:20:38even in the early years, we couldn't be one-dimensional, musically,
0:20:38 > 0:20:42we had to, we had to appeal to a wider cross-section.
0:20:42 > 0:20:46And in 1998 one man who had a huge following
0:20:46 > 0:20:49was former boy band member Robbie Williams.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52He turned up with this, kind of, really severe Mohican haircut,
0:20:52 > 0:20:55you know, which I don't think, if truth to be told,
0:20:55 > 0:20:56did him any favours.
0:21:03 > 0:21:04# Hell is gone and heaven's here
0:21:04 > 0:21:06# There's nothing left for you to fear
0:21:06 > 0:21:09# Shake your ass, come over here Now scream
0:21:10 > 0:21:14# I'm a burning effigy of everything I used to be
0:21:14 > 0:21:16# You're my rock of empathy... #
0:21:16 > 0:21:18You know the words! Come on!
0:21:18 > 0:21:23# So come on, let me entertain you
0:21:26 > 0:21:31# Let me entertain you... #
0:21:33 > 0:21:35He went on and just won over the crowd.
0:21:35 > 0:21:36It was just absolutely fantastic.
0:21:36 > 0:21:40After being entertained by pop music from Robbie on the Saturday,
0:21:40 > 0:21:43Sunday's audiences got something very different,
0:21:43 > 0:21:46American hip-hop heroes Beastie Boys.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Whoa!
0:22:07 > 0:22:08So!
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Listen all of y'all it's a sabotage
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Listen all of y'all it's a sabotage
0:22:13 > 0:22:17Listen all of y'all it's a sabotage Listen all of y'all it's a sabotage
0:22:17 > 0:22:22RAPS: I can't stand it I know you planned it
0:22:22 > 0:22:24I'm gonna set it straight, this Watergate
0:22:24 > 0:22:27I can't stand rocking when I'm in this place
0:22:27 > 0:22:30I feel disgrace You're all in my face
0:22:30 > 0:22:33So make no mistakes and switch up my channel
0:22:33 > 0:22:35I'm buddy rich when I fly off the handle
0:22:35 > 0:22:37What could it be, it's a mirage
0:22:37 > 0:22:42You're scheming on a thing That's sabotage
0:22:42 > 0:22:44CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:22:46 > 0:22:49As the festival got bigger, some bands grew with it.
0:22:49 > 0:22:53Headliners of the future were progressing up each stage.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56The Stereophonics first played T in 1997...
0:22:58 > 0:23:02# There's no mistake The smell I smell
0:23:02 > 0:23:05# It's that time of year again
0:23:05 > 0:23:10# I can taste the air... #
0:23:10 > 0:23:12..and they became main stage headliners
0:23:12 > 0:23:13just a couple of years later.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16It's quite an accomplishment, I think,
0:23:16 > 0:23:19for three scallywags from a tiny village in Wales that has got
0:23:19 > 0:23:22one road in and one road out, and a bus terminus at the top.
0:23:22 > 0:23:30# ..train runs late for the first time
0:23:35 > 0:23:40# A pebble beach We're underneath a pier
0:23:40 > 0:23:43# Just been painted red
0:23:43 > 0:23:50# Where I hear the news for the first time
0:23:50 > 0:23:54# And all the friends lay down the flowers
0:23:54 > 0:23:58# Sit on the banks and drink for hours
0:23:58 > 0:24:02# Talk of the way they saw him last
0:24:02 > 0:24:09# Local boy in the photograph... #
0:24:11 > 0:24:12It was the year of the vest.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15Everybody was wearing vests in them days.
0:24:15 > 0:24:19I remember smashing up this guitar at the end and it took,
0:24:19 > 0:24:21it took for ever to smash this guitar.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:24:25 > 0:24:29I couldn't quite understand why an Epifoam Gibson would take
0:24:29 > 0:24:32more effort to break than a real Gibson.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34And I smashed it against the monitor about five times,
0:24:34 > 0:24:36and resorted to just throwing it in the air.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41I don't think I'd ever done that before. Smashed up a guitar.
0:24:41 > 0:24:45I haven't since either, after that effort! But it was good fun!
0:24:45 > 0:24:49It's great that these bands, you know, develop through the festival.
0:24:49 > 0:24:54It's very, very rewarding, you know, to see a festival headliner who,
0:24:54 > 0:24:57you know, maybe three years earlier were opening up a main stage.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00Another band who worked their way up the T billings were
0:25:00 > 0:25:05on the verge of global stardom when they played the main stage in 2001.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07# Look at the stars
0:25:07 > 0:25:12# Look how they shine for you... #
0:25:12 > 0:25:14And I remember seeing Coldplay,
0:25:14 > 0:25:18and it was just as their second album was going to come out.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23And I thought, "Fucking hell, that's going to be immense."
0:25:30 > 0:25:31It was just kind of them,
0:25:31 > 0:25:33just playing the music and it was fucking great.
0:25:45 > 0:25:46# It's you... #
0:25:49 > 0:25:51CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:26:22 > 0:26:24And, erm, that might be the best I've ever seen Coldplay,
0:26:24 > 0:26:26before they...
0:26:26 > 0:26:28got involved in the lasers and the wizardry and all that.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30# One, two...
0:26:30 > 0:26:31# I turn the music up
0:26:31 > 0:26:33# I got my records on
0:26:33 > 0:26:37# From underneath the rubble sing a rebel song
0:26:37 > 0:26:42# Don't want to see another generation drop
0:26:42 > 0:26:46# I'd rather be a comma than a full stop
0:26:46 > 0:26:48# Maybe I'm in the black
0:26:48 > 0:26:50# Maybe I'm on my knees
0:26:50 > 0:26:54# Maybe I'm in the gap between the two trapezes
0:26:54 > 0:26:58# But my heart is beating and my pulses start
0:26:58 > 0:27:02# Cathedrals in my heart
0:27:02 > 0:27:06# As we saw
0:27:06 > 0:27:10# Oh, this light
0:27:10 > 0:27:12# I swear you
0:27:12 > 0:27:15# Emerge blinking into
0:27:15 > 0:27:18# To tell me it's all right
0:27:18 > 0:27:25# As we soar walls
0:27:25 > 0:27:30# Every siren is a symphony
0:27:30 > 0:27:34# Every tear's a waterfall
0:27:34 > 0:27:37# Is a waterfall
0:27:37 > 0:27:40# Is a waterfall
0:27:40 > 0:27:42# Oh-oh-oh
0:27:42 > 0:27:45# Is a waterfall
0:27:45 > 0:27:48# Every teardrop is a waterfall
0:27:48 > 0:27:50# Oh-oh-oh
0:27:50 > 0:27:51# So you can hurt... #
0:27:51 > 0:27:54It was just incredible. You know, you didn't want it to end.
0:27:54 > 0:27:58# Why does it always rain on me?
0:27:59 > 0:28:02# Cos I lied when I was 17
0:28:02 > 0:28:06# Why does it always rain on T?
0:28:06 > 0:28:10# Even when the sun is shining I can't avoid the lightning... #
0:28:10 > 0:28:14Chris Martin's nod to Scotland's own Travis spotlights a band
0:28:14 > 0:28:18who'd made their festival debut in the comedy tent at the very first T
0:28:18 > 0:28:21and worked their way up to the top slot on the main stage
0:28:21 > 0:28:22in the year 2000.
0:28:26 > 0:28:31# Why does it always rain on me?
0:28:31 > 0:28:35# Is it because I lied when I was 17?... #
0:28:35 > 0:28:39We found ourselves headlining this event.
0:28:39 > 0:28:42# Even when the sun is shining
0:28:42 > 0:28:44# I can't avoid the lightning
0:28:44 > 0:28:49# Oh, where did the blue sky go?
0:28:49 > 0:28:53# Why is it raining so cold... #
0:28:54 > 0:28:57You feel your adrenaline going, "Woo!"
0:28:57 > 0:29:01It was good, everyone was kind of interacting with the band.
0:29:01 > 0:29:03Singing just about every song and every lyric.
0:29:03 > 0:29:06- CROWD:- # I can't sleep tonight
0:29:06 > 0:29:11# Everybody saying everything's all right... #
0:29:11 > 0:29:14The way they light the crowd, when they put those...
0:29:14 > 0:29:18There's lights that go across the top of...all festival stages.
0:29:18 > 0:29:21Everyone's just lit up so you see all these,
0:29:21 > 0:29:23sort of, this big sea of skin.
0:29:23 > 0:29:27Like, sort of, wee white faces all going, "Rargh!", but it's abstract.
0:29:27 > 0:29:30It just looks like this big giant thing.
0:29:30 > 0:29:35It's not an individual thing, it's just one huge, big roaring beast.
0:29:35 > 0:29:40It feels more like you're just this big soup of crazy energy.
0:29:40 > 0:29:42It's brilliant.
0:29:42 > 0:29:45# Is it because I lied when I was 17?
0:29:45 > 0:29:48# Why does it always rain on me?
0:29:48 > 0:29:53# Even when the sun is shining I can't avoid the lightning
0:29:53 > 0:29:58# Oh, where did the blue sky go?
0:29:58 > 0:30:03# Why is it raining so cold... #
0:30:03 > 0:30:05I mean, you feel the energy coming off the audience.
0:30:05 > 0:30:08That moment when you walk on stage
0:30:08 > 0:30:11and you can feel it starting to surge towards you.
0:30:13 > 0:30:17People just hear that slide guitar, the... # Doo-doo doo. #
0:30:17 > 0:30:19CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:30:19 > 0:30:22You just, kind of, see the whole place, kind of, go...
0:30:22 > 0:30:24Especially when the bass comes in.
0:30:24 > 0:30:26It's the, "Dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum."
0:30:30 > 0:30:31Woo!
0:30:31 > 0:30:35'You can just see T in the Park suddenly to start to go, like that.'
0:30:35 > 0:30:37And then it starts...
0:30:40 > 0:30:43# I don't want a lover
0:30:43 > 0:30:47# But I just need a friend
0:30:49 > 0:30:51# I don't want a lover
0:30:52 > 0:30:54# I just need a friend
0:30:54 > 0:30:56Come on!
0:30:57 > 0:30:59# You can't just leave me
0:31:01 > 0:31:03# To face life on my own
0:31:04 > 0:31:07# I know you don't love me no more
0:31:09 > 0:31:12# I knew this day it would come
0:31:12 > 0:31:15# Even when it cuts so deep
0:31:15 > 0:31:18# It's true I still want you... #
0:31:20 > 0:31:24It's like this amazing, kind of, like, relationship between,
0:31:24 > 0:31:26between you and a bunch of strangers
0:31:26 > 0:31:29but you feel like you know every single person
0:31:29 > 0:31:32and they feel that they know you cos they're singing all your songs.
0:31:32 > 0:31:35It's positive, you know? It's a positive vibe in that crowd.
0:31:35 > 0:31:38You know, the crowd are with you. Just incredible, you know?
0:31:38 > 0:31:41It's like a hometown show.
0:31:41 > 0:31:42# Shoot the runner
0:31:42 > 0:31:44# Shoot, shoot the runner
0:31:44 > 0:31:47# I'm the king and everybody sing it!
0:31:47 > 0:31:49# Dream
0:31:49 > 0:31:52# Dream again in your way
0:31:53 > 0:31:55# Always knew that you would
0:31:57 > 0:32:00# Lose yourself to the scene
0:32:00 > 0:32:03# Am I only a dream?
0:32:03 > 0:32:06# Shoot the runner Shoot, shoot the runner
0:32:06 > 0:32:10# I'm a king and you're my queen, bitch... #
0:32:25 > 0:32:28They sing the guitar lines, they sing the...
0:32:28 > 0:32:33the piano hooks, they sing, they sing every hook, you know?
0:32:33 > 0:32:34As well as every word.
0:32:34 > 0:32:37# Let's waste time
0:32:39 > 0:32:42- CROWD:- # Chasing cars
0:32:44 > 0:32:46# Round our heads... #
0:32:48 > 0:32:50CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:32:53 > 0:32:55# I need your grace
0:32:57 > 0:33:00# To remind me
0:33:01 > 0:33:04# To find my own
0:33:07 > 0:33:10# If I lay here
0:33:12 > 0:33:15# If I just lay here
0:33:16 > 0:33:22# Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
0:33:25 > 0:33:28# Forget what we're told
0:33:29 > 0:33:33# Before we get too old
0:33:34 > 0:33:40# Just show me a garden that's bursting into life... #
0:33:42 > 0:33:46There's one sing-along moment that's always stuck with Snow Patrol
0:33:46 > 0:33:47and it wasn't on the main stage
0:33:47 > 0:33:51but in their first headlining slot, in the King Tut's Tent, in 2004.
0:33:51 > 0:33:53# It's... #
0:33:53 > 0:33:55'It's lucky they were singing along because I lost the plot
0:33:55 > 0:33:56in the first two songs
0:33:56 > 0:34:00and don't think I sang a single word, and the crowd just carried it.
0:34:00 > 0:34:03I'm so nervous, I forgot the whole second verse!
0:34:04 > 0:34:08And it was just a swelling ocean of people.
0:34:08 > 0:34:11Like, I've never seen a crowd move like it before.
0:34:11 > 0:34:13It was like, they looked like they were just,
0:34:13 > 0:34:15they were all bobbing on the ocean
0:34:15 > 0:34:18and, er, I, just, was completely and utterly gobsmacked.
0:34:18 > 0:34:20Never seen a crowd like it in my life.
0:34:20 > 0:34:23Never had an experience like it in my life.
0:34:23 > 0:34:25# So what? So what?
0:34:27 > 0:34:30# We don't have time for that
0:34:32 > 0:34:38# All I want's to find an easy way
0:34:38 > 0:34:42# To get on up a little higher
0:34:48 > 0:34:51# Light up
0:34:51 > 0:34:53- CROWD:- # Light up
0:34:53 > 0:34:58# As if you have a choice
0:34:58 > 0:35:05# Even if you cannot hear my voice
0:35:05 > 0:35:09# I'll be right beside you, dear... #
0:35:09 > 0:35:15CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:35:24 > 0:35:28That first sweet, great show at T
0:35:28 > 0:35:30was probably one of the best of my memory, for sure.
0:35:30 > 0:35:33- Thank you! - CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:35:33 > 0:35:36King Tut's also holds great memories for The View
0:35:36 > 0:35:39when they headlined the tent in 2007.
0:35:39 > 0:35:43'The noise. I've never...'
0:35:43 > 0:35:46That's, like, one of the only times I've ever been nervous
0:35:46 > 0:35:47about going on stage.
0:35:47 > 0:35:49Everybody was pacing about and not even speaking to anybody
0:35:49 > 0:35:52but it was an amazing feeling. I was, like, buzzing.
0:35:52 > 0:35:54The tent, I thought the tent was going to blow up!
0:35:54 > 0:35:56It was that, like, the noise was amazing.
0:35:56 > 0:36:00# To sail away to see some sights
0:36:00 > 0:36:04# Sail away with me
0:36:04 > 0:36:06# To see some sights
0:36:06 > 0:36:10# Oh, oh, oh, oh
0:36:10 > 0:36:14# Oh, oh, oh
0:36:16 > 0:36:18# Superstar tradesman
0:36:18 > 0:36:20# Stand at the bar
0:36:21 > 0:36:23# Get a trade, son
0:36:23 > 0:36:25# You will go far
0:36:25 > 0:36:28# You have a house in the ferry
0:36:28 > 0:36:33# And a new guitar that's never been played before
0:36:33 > 0:36:35# And it never will
0:36:35 > 0:36:38# Never been played before
0:36:38 > 0:36:41# And it never will. #
0:37:01 > 0:37:04Not bad for a couple of guys who, five years earlier,
0:37:04 > 0:37:07had been in the crowd watching Oasis on the main stage.
0:37:07 > 0:37:10It was our first T in the Park, we came in, right, I remember,
0:37:10 > 0:37:12it was weird, and that, in monumental day.
0:37:14 > 0:37:16I taped it and when I got back I was just fast forwarding through it
0:37:16 > 0:37:19and I found myself on it. It was great.
0:37:35 > 0:37:40# Is it worth the aggravation To find yourself a job
0:37:40 > 0:37:44# When there's nothing worth working for?
0:37:49 > 0:37:53# It's a crazy situation
0:37:53 > 0:37:58# But all I need are cigarettes and alcohol!
0:38:04 > 0:38:08# You could wait for a lifetime
0:38:08 > 0:38:12# To spend your days in the sunshine
0:38:12 > 0:38:15# You might as well do the white line
0:38:15 > 0:38:17# Cos when it comes on top
0:38:17 > 0:38:20# You gotta make it happen!
0:38:20 > 0:38:24# You gotta make it happen!
0:38:24 > 0:38:27# You gotta make it happen!
0:38:28 > 0:38:31# You gotta make it happen!
0:38:47 > 0:38:49# You gotta, you gotta
0:38:49 > 0:38:50# You gotta make it
0:38:50 > 0:38:53# You gotta, you gotta
0:38:53 > 0:38:54# You gotta fake it
0:38:54 > 0:38:56# You gotta, you gotta
0:38:56 > 0:38:58# You gotta make it
0:38:58 > 0:39:00# You gotta, you gotta
0:39:00 > 0:39:01# You gotta rake it! #
0:39:39 > 0:39:42Oasis headlining was always guaranteed to be a winner,
0:39:42 > 0:39:45but for one Scottish band setting foot on the main stage
0:39:45 > 0:39:46for the first time
0:39:46 > 0:39:48the crowd's reaction was a revelation.
0:39:48 > 0:39:51We didn't realise that people were that into the band
0:39:51 > 0:39:54at that point as well.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57Just, like, thousands and thousands of people
0:39:57 > 0:39:59going absolutely mental and singing along.
0:40:02 > 0:40:05CROWD SING ALONG TO RIFF
0:40:16 > 0:40:18# I say don't you know?
0:40:18 > 0:40:20# You say you don't know
0:40:20 > 0:40:21# I say
0:40:23 > 0:40:25# Well, take me out
0:40:25 > 0:40:27# I say you don't show
0:40:27 > 0:40:29# Don't move, time's slow
0:40:29 > 0:40:30# I say
0:40:31 > 0:40:33# Take me out
0:40:41 > 0:40:43# I say don't you know
0:40:43 > 0:40:45# You say you don't know
0:40:45 > 0:40:46# I say
0:40:48 > 0:40:50# Take me out
0:40:50 > 0:40:52# If I wane, this could die
0:40:52 > 0:40:53# If I wait, this could die
0:40:53 > 0:40:58# I want you to take me out
0:40:58 > 0:40:59# If I move, this could die
0:40:59 > 0:41:02# Eyes move, this could die
0:41:02 > 0:41:03Come on!
0:41:04 > 0:41:06- CROWD:- Take me out!
0:41:08 > 0:41:12It was the best welcome a band could ever have.
0:41:13 > 0:41:16It was probably one of the happiest moments of my life
0:41:16 > 0:41:18and you can see it on my face as well.
0:41:18 > 0:41:23# ..I know I won't be leaving here with you. #
0:41:33 > 0:41:35CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:41:36 > 0:41:39A moment the Kaiser Chiefs never predicted
0:41:39 > 0:41:43was when they headlined the Radio One NME Stage, in 2008.
0:41:43 > 0:41:46It was a brilliant gig and Ricky ripped his trousers.
0:41:46 > 0:41:49Yeah, my trousers split down both inner seams.
0:41:49 > 0:41:51That's how good the gig was.
0:41:52 > 0:41:54# Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby
0:41:54 > 0:41:57# Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
0:41:57 > 0:41:59# Do you? Do you? Do you?
0:42:03 > 0:42:05# Know what you're doing, doing to me?
0:42:07 > 0:42:10# Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby... #
0:42:14 > 0:42:18We played really early on and I think it really helped our career,
0:42:18 > 0:42:20in terms of, like, playing in Scotland.
0:42:20 > 0:42:23I think it was our first big gig in Scotland and then we went on,
0:42:23 > 0:42:25and we've always had great gigs in Scotland,
0:42:25 > 0:42:26so it definitely helped us.
0:42:26 > 0:42:30As well as helping to establish bands, the festival itself
0:42:30 > 0:42:33was building a reputation far beyond the fields of Balado,
0:42:33 > 0:42:36as T in the Park attracted some of the biggest names
0:42:36 > 0:42:38from across the Atlantic.
0:42:38 > 0:42:39# Tonight's the night
0:42:39 > 0:42:41# Let's live it up
0:42:41 > 0:42:43# I got my money
0:42:43 > 0:42:45# Let's spend it up
0:42:45 > 0:42:47# Go out and smash it
0:42:47 > 0:42:49# Like, "Oh, My God!"
0:42:49 > 0:42:51# Jump off that sofa
0:42:51 > 0:42:52# Let's get, get OFF! #
0:42:52 > 0:42:54The Foos have, you know, played T in the Park,
0:42:54 > 0:42:57you know, several times.
0:42:57 > 0:42:59CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:43:11 > 0:43:14# What have we done with innocence?
0:43:17 > 0:43:21# It disappeared with time it never made much sense
0:43:22 > 0:43:25# Adolescent resident
0:43:28 > 0:43:32# Wasting another night on planning my revenge
0:43:32 > 0:43:34Here we go!
0:43:34 > 0:43:35# One in ten
0:43:36 > 0:43:38# One in ten
0:43:39 > 0:43:40# One in ten
0:43:42 > 0:43:44# Don't wanna be your monkey wrench
0:43:47 > 0:43:50# One more indecent accident
0:43:52 > 0:43:56# I'd rather leave than suffer this
0:43:58 > 0:44:01# I'll never be your monkey wrench... #
0:44:15 > 0:44:18I think Dave Grohl himself is the musicians' musician.
0:44:18 > 0:44:21He's the one that, you know, you say to most acts on the bill,
0:44:21 > 0:44:23"Who do you want to shake hands with?",
0:44:23 > 0:44:26or, "Who do you want to watch?" You know, it's him.
0:44:26 > 0:44:29He's a great performer and a great person, you know.
0:44:29 > 0:44:33Just hangs out, chills out, talks to all of the bands.
0:44:33 > 0:44:37# Suckers to the side I know you hate my 98
0:44:37 > 0:44:39# We're going to get you... #
0:44:39 > 0:44:41Once, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were staying
0:44:41 > 0:44:45and they'd made a separate compound out of Portakabins,
0:44:45 > 0:44:47like these, so no-one could see in.
0:44:48 > 0:44:51But one of our Portakabins, one of the windows,
0:44:51 > 0:44:52they'd try to cover it up with some paper
0:44:52 > 0:44:55but it just came off, so we're looking in on their section.
0:44:55 > 0:44:57Flea's running around in an all-in-one body suit
0:44:57 > 0:44:59and then we put up a sign, Simon's idea, saying,
0:44:59 > 0:45:02"Give us a wave, give us a wave, give us a wave now."
0:45:02 > 0:45:06And then we saw, I think it was Anthony, or Flea, one of them,
0:45:06 > 0:45:07looking at it, trying to read it...
0:45:07 > 0:45:10# Youngblood is the loving upriser... #
0:45:10 > 0:45:11..and then he went like...
0:45:13 > 0:45:15# Give it away, give it away Give it away now
0:45:15 > 0:45:18# Give it away, give it away Give it away now
0:45:18 > 0:45:20# Give it away, give it away Give it away now
0:45:20 > 0:45:23# I can't tell if I'm a kingpin or a pauper... #
0:45:23 > 0:45:27We've always been about contemporary acts in the first and foremost
0:45:27 > 0:45:31but as the festival's matured, we've been able to do some acts
0:45:31 > 0:45:34that probably weren't the obvious booking for a festival, you know,
0:45:34 > 0:45:36for T in the Park.
0:45:36 > 0:45:39So, REM were probably the first headliner that we booked
0:45:39 > 0:45:40that predated the festival.
0:45:40 > 0:45:44# So Andy did you hear about this one?
0:45:44 > 0:45:48# Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
0:45:48 > 0:45:51# Andy are you goofing on Elvis?
0:45:51 > 0:45:55# Hey, baby, are you having fun?
0:45:55 > 0:46:00# If you believe they put a man on the moon
0:46:00 > 0:46:03# Man on the moon
0:46:03 > 0:46:07# If you believe there's nothing up his sleeve
0:46:07 > 0:46:09# Nothing is cool... #
0:46:09 > 0:46:12Come on!
0:46:24 > 0:46:26Most bands that headline T in the Park have kind of
0:46:26 > 0:46:29grown through T in the Park - like Oasis, like Pulp,
0:46:29 > 0:46:31like Kings of Leon, Killers, Kasabian
0:46:31 > 0:46:35but with The Who, you know, I'm just a really massive fan of The Who
0:46:35 > 0:46:37but it wasn't a self-indulgent booking.
0:46:37 > 0:46:39I thought, "The Who will work,
0:46:39 > 0:46:42"so long as we've got very contemporary acts underneath them."
0:46:42 > 0:46:44So we had the Arctic Monkeys and The Strokes,
0:46:44 > 0:46:47who, arguably, both were bigger than The Who
0:46:47 > 0:46:50and certainly more popular amongst our demographic
0:46:50 > 0:46:52but The Strokes and the Arctic Monkeys
0:46:52 > 0:46:55would have no problem playing prior to The Who.
0:46:55 > 0:46:58And that, to me, that was a perfect kind of booking.
0:46:58 > 0:47:02# Who are you?
0:47:02 > 0:47:04# Who, who, who, who
0:47:05 > 0:47:08# Who are you?
0:47:08 > 0:47:10# Who, who, who, who she met
0:47:11 > 0:47:14# Who are you?
0:47:14 > 0:47:16# Who, who, who, who?
0:47:17 > 0:47:20# Who are you?
0:47:20 > 0:47:22# Who, who, who, who?
0:47:23 > 0:47:26# I woke up in a Soho doorway
0:47:26 > 0:47:29# The policeman knew my name
0:47:29 > 0:47:32# He said, "You can go sleep at home tonight
0:47:32 > 0:47:35# "If you can get up and walk away"
0:47:35 > 0:47:39# I staggered back to the underground
0:47:39 > 0:47:41# The breeze blew back my hair
0:47:42 > 0:47:44# I remembered throwing punches around
0:47:44 > 0:47:48# I was preachin' from my chair Who are you?
0:47:48 > 0:47:50# Who are you?
0:47:50 > 0:47:53# Who, who, who, who
0:47:53 > 0:47:54# I really want to know
0:47:54 > 0:47:56# Who are you
0:47:56 > 0:47:59# Who, who, who, who
0:47:59 > 0:48:00# Come on and tell me, who are you?
0:48:00 > 0:48:03# Who are you?
0:48:03 > 0:48:05# Who, who, who, who?
0:48:05 > 0:48:07# Because I really want to know
0:48:07 > 0:48:09# Who are you... #
0:48:11 > 0:48:14Pete and Roger Daltrey actually gave each other a big hug as they
0:48:14 > 0:48:18walked offstage, and Pete was, you know, had a grin from ear to ear.
0:48:18 > 0:48:21CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:48:22 > 0:48:24Very, very grateful.
0:48:27 > 0:48:30It's important for us to have some really good,
0:48:30 > 0:48:34kind of, heritage type acts on the bill because we can do it now.
0:48:34 > 0:48:36In the early years it was a bit more difficult
0:48:36 > 0:48:39but we've had James Brown, he was absolutely brilliant when he played.
0:48:39 > 0:48:41# I feel good
0:48:41 > 0:48:42# I feel good
0:48:42 > 0:48:44# I knew that I would
0:48:44 > 0:48:45Come here!
0:48:45 > 0:48:47# I feel good
0:48:47 > 0:48:49# I feel good
0:48:49 > 0:48:51# I knew that I would
0:48:52 > 0:48:54- # So good- So good
0:48:54 > 0:48:56- # So good- So good
0:48:56 > 0:48:57# I got you
0:48:59 > 0:49:00# I feel nice
0:49:00 > 0:49:02# I feel nice
0:49:02 > 0:49:03# Like sugar and spice
0:49:04 > 0:49:07# I feel nice
0:49:07 > 0:49:08# I feel nice
0:49:08 > 0:49:10# Like sugar and spice
0:49:12 > 0:49:13- # So good- So good
0:49:13 > 0:49:15- # So nice- So nice
0:49:15 > 0:49:16# I got you... #
0:49:19 > 0:49:22I thought most of the T in the Park audience would probably
0:49:22 > 0:49:24never have the opportunity to go and see Brian Wilson
0:49:24 > 0:49:26but if he's playing at the festival that you're going to,
0:49:26 > 0:49:29then you take time out to go and see him because you know he's a legend.
0:49:29 > 0:49:33# I'm thinking about good vibrations
0:49:33 > 0:49:36# She's giving me the excitations
0:49:36 > 0:49:40# I'm thinking about good vibrations
0:49:40 > 0:49:43# She's giving the excitation
0:49:43 > 0:49:47# Good, good, good, good vibrations
0:49:47 > 0:49:49# She's giving me good vibrations
0:49:49 > 0:49:54# Good, good, good, good vibrations
0:49:56 > 0:49:59# Close my eyes
0:49:59 > 0:50:01# She's somehow closer now
0:50:03 > 0:50:08# Softly smile I know she must be kind
0:50:10 > 0:50:16# When I look in her eyes
0:50:16 > 0:50:20# She goes with me to a blossom world
0:50:23 > 0:50:24# And I'm picking up
0:50:24 > 0:50:27# I'm picking up good vibrations
0:50:27 > 0:50:31# She's giving me excitations
0:50:31 > 0:50:34# I'm picking up good vibrations
0:50:34 > 0:50:37# She's giving me excitations
0:50:37 > 0:50:41# Good, good, good, good vibrations
0:50:41 > 0:50:44# she's giving me excitations
0:50:44 > 0:50:48# Good, good, good, good vibrations
0:50:48 > 0:50:50# She's giving me excitations... #
0:50:50 > 0:50:52There was 80,000 people in the tent, you know, from, you know,
0:50:52 > 0:50:54kids of 15, 16, right up to,
0:50:54 > 0:50:57you know, people in their forties and fifties.
0:50:57 > 0:50:59He was absolutely wonderful.
0:50:59 > 0:51:02The crowd were wonderful, clapping the whole way through
0:51:02 > 0:51:05and I just felt like I was witnessing something quite special.
0:51:13 > 0:51:15But it's not all about established bands.
0:51:15 > 0:51:18The festival has always had opportunities for new talent,
0:51:18 > 0:51:20with the likes of the BBC Introducing Stage
0:51:20 > 0:51:22and the T Break Stage,
0:51:22 > 0:51:25where many young Scottish artists made their first appearance.
0:51:25 > 0:51:27I played in the T Break tent
0:51:27 > 0:51:30and it was probably the first festival that I done,
0:51:30 > 0:51:33and then my album was just about to come out, and the tent was
0:51:33 > 0:51:36absolutely rammed, and it just felt like one of them
0:51:36 > 0:51:37really special moments,
0:51:37 > 0:51:40and it felt really emotional for me
0:51:40 > 0:51:43because this is the festival that I'd came to with my friends,
0:51:43 > 0:51:45this is the one that I dreamed of playing,
0:51:45 > 0:51:47and suddenly I was on the stage performing,
0:51:47 > 0:51:51and there was loads of people, and I was about to release my album.
0:51:51 > 0:51:54After her T Break appearance in 2007,
0:51:54 > 0:51:57Amy went on to play the main stage the following year.
0:51:57 > 0:52:00# Where you gonna sleep tonight?
0:52:00 > 0:52:02# And you're singing the songs Thinking this is the life
0:52:02 > 0:52:05# And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size
0:52:05 > 0:52:07# Where you gonna go Where you gonna go?
0:52:07 > 0:52:10# Where you gonna sleep tonight?
0:52:10 > 0:52:12# Where you gonna sleep tonight... #
0:52:13 > 0:52:16The T break competition is held before the main event.
0:52:16 > 0:52:20Wannabe bands send in their demos for their chance to play the stage.
0:52:20 > 0:52:24There was one time I worked on our demo and rather than, like,
0:52:24 > 0:52:26putting it in the post for the T Break competition, I was like,
0:52:26 > 0:52:29I'm going to hand-deliver this so they take it seriously.
0:52:29 > 0:52:31Wrote "hand-delivered" on it and everything.
0:52:31 > 0:52:33But I handed in to the actual Tennent's factory.
0:52:33 > 0:52:36I don't know what that road is? Duke Street, or something like that?
0:52:36 > 0:52:38Er, it's just in Dennistoun, Duke Street...
0:52:38 > 0:52:41So, I walked all the way along, handed it in, like, "Yes!"
0:52:41 > 0:52:44Never heard back but the next year we got invited
0:52:44 > 0:52:46and then we played the Futures Tent, then NME Stage
0:52:46 > 0:52:48and today we played the main stage.
0:52:48 > 0:52:51# So I can be free
0:52:53 > 0:52:58# So I can be free, yeah... #
0:52:58 > 0:53:01And for one band, playing the T Break stage in 2000
0:53:01 > 0:53:03was a life-changing moment.
0:53:03 > 0:53:05It was a nightmare show -
0:53:05 > 0:53:08Ben's bass drum broke, I busted all my fingers up,
0:53:08 > 0:53:11they were bleeding so bad from playing guitar, and we were just so
0:53:11 > 0:53:14excited, and we had a good time but we didn't think the show went great.
0:53:14 > 0:53:17Then afterwards, like, two days later, or something,
0:53:17 > 0:53:20it was like, "We'd like to sign you," and we were like, "What?!"
0:53:20 > 0:53:23# Your beautiful face
0:53:25 > 0:53:28# I held her tight... #
0:53:28 > 0:53:32And then we just, yeah, slowly kept creeping up in the stages.
0:53:32 > 0:53:37In 2003 I think we were scheduled to play the NME Stage, or something,
0:53:37 > 0:53:40kind of, mid-afternoon and it was the year that Jack White, I think,
0:53:40 > 0:53:42broke his finger or something
0:53:42 > 0:53:45so the White Stripes pulled out at the last minute
0:53:45 > 0:53:47and we got flung on to the main stage bill,
0:53:47 > 0:53:50which we didn't really belong to at that point.
0:53:57 > 0:54:00When we stepped on that stage, it was just totally overwhelming.
0:54:00 > 0:54:04So much so that we kind of forgot how we set up on stage.
0:54:04 > 0:54:08We felt, like, half a mile away from each other on this big stage
0:54:08 > 0:54:10and we didn't really know how to kind of do our thing on it
0:54:10 > 0:54:13so, just the excitement and the, you know, overwhelmed us
0:54:13 > 0:54:16but it was one of the greatest days of our lives.
0:54:16 > 0:54:18# She'll do, she'll do... #
0:54:18 > 0:54:20'The show felt amazing.
0:54:20 > 0:54:23'You know, we've since looked at it back and it's just three angry guys
0:54:23 > 0:54:25'falling around the stage.
0:54:25 > 0:54:28'I remember at the end, I threw Ben's drum kit or whatever
0:54:28 > 0:54:29'and knocked over all his drums.
0:54:29 > 0:54:32'None of the mics were working, the guitars were just lying around.
0:54:32 > 0:54:35'It was a punk rock moment, that's for sure.'
0:54:37 > 0:54:39You know, you learn every time you kind of play a main stage,
0:54:39 > 0:54:42you kind of learn, you know, wee tricks and things that,
0:54:42 > 0:54:44that'll work better next time.
0:54:44 > 0:54:47# Cos you tear us apart
0:54:47 > 0:54:49# With all the things you don't like
0:54:49 > 0:54:55# You can't understand that I won't leave
0:54:55 > 0:54:58# Till we're finished here
0:54:58 > 0:55:00# And then you'll find out
0:55:00 > 0:55:03# Where it all went wrong
0:55:16 > 0:55:19# Nothing lasts for ever
0:55:19 > 0:55:21# Except you and me
0:55:22 > 0:55:26# You are my mountain You are my sea
0:55:27 > 0:55:29# Nothing lasts forever
0:55:29 > 0:55:32# Between you and me
0:55:33 > 0:55:35# You are my mountain
0:55:35 > 0:55:38# You are my sea
0:55:38 > 0:55:41# I am the mountain
0:55:41 > 0:55:43# I am the sea
0:55:44 > 0:55:47# You can't take that away from me
0:55:47 > 0:55:49# I am the mountain
0:55:49 > 0:55:52# I am the sea
0:55:52 > 0:55:54# I am the mountain... #
0:55:54 > 0:55:56'It feels like it's very much in our DNA as a band.
0:55:56 > 0:55:59'We learned so many things from playing it, you know.'
0:55:59 > 0:56:03And I think it's where we've learned most of our kind of
0:56:03 > 0:56:06rock 'n' roll lessons and most of our musical lessons over the years.
0:56:06 > 0:56:08And Biffy aren't the only ones
0:56:08 > 0:56:11who've picked up a few T in the Park tricks of the trade.
0:56:11 > 0:56:13Being really well rehearsed is always good
0:56:13 > 0:56:15because you never know what's going to happen.
0:56:15 > 0:56:16You've got, got to deliver
0:56:16 > 0:56:20and shout, "T in the Park," like, more than once.
0:56:20 > 0:56:22You should be all right.
0:56:22 > 0:56:25Don't be scared of the audience.
0:56:25 > 0:56:27People are at a festival to enjoy themselves.
0:56:27 > 0:56:29Uh-huh, just don't get in their way.
0:56:29 > 0:56:32All people really want is to have a good time and they want to sing,
0:56:32 > 0:56:35and dance, and they want to have a beer, and it's not really the place
0:56:35 > 0:56:38for trying out your avant-garde B-side setlists, you know?
0:56:38 > 0:56:42The worst thing to come off a stage from a headliner is
0:56:42 > 0:56:45"We'd like to play you a new one." Don't.
0:56:45 > 0:56:50It's fucking raining, play the hits. Play the songs we know.
0:56:50 > 0:56:56I think most of the set from 2002 T in the Park was from Evil Heat,
0:56:56 > 0:56:58which was on a record that no-one had heard yet
0:56:58 > 0:57:00because it hadn't been released.
0:57:03 > 0:57:05Gerry and Rab, our managers,
0:57:05 > 0:57:07were really crestfallen when we walked off the stage
0:57:07 > 0:57:11because they felt that we'd blown a great opportunity but, you know,
0:57:11 > 0:57:14I can understand bands that just pack their set with their hits
0:57:14 > 0:57:16because people want to hear that at festivals
0:57:16 > 0:57:21but also, I think people want to see some danger and confrontation,
0:57:21 > 0:57:25and sex, and violence, and rock 'n' roll, you know?
0:57:25 > 0:57:28In its 20th year, T in the Park boasts plenty
0:57:28 > 0:57:31of rock 'n' roll moments for artists and fans alike,
0:57:31 > 0:57:35and it continues to attract the biggest names in music
0:57:35 > 0:57:37to the fields of Balado.
0:57:37 > 0:57:40But its first two decades have proved
0:57:40 > 0:57:43that it's more than just a festival. It's nurtured bands...
0:57:43 > 0:57:47It really helped take us from in the bedroom
0:57:47 > 0:57:49to the top of the bill.
0:57:51 > 0:57:54..inspired a new generation of Scottish musicians...
0:57:54 > 0:57:58I think we kind of almost officially caught the live show bug
0:57:58 > 0:57:59from playing T in the Park.
0:58:01 > 0:58:03# I got my head checked... #
0:58:03 > 0:58:07..and become part of the Scottish cultural landscape.
0:58:07 > 0:58:10The passion, the exuberance, the warmth, the friendliness,
0:58:10 > 0:58:14you know, I don't think you can quite put a name on it. It's...
0:58:14 > 0:58:15you know, it's T in the Park!
0:58:15 > 0:58:17- CROWD:- Woo-hoo!
0:58:17 > 0:58:19# And I'm pins and I'm needles!
0:58:19 > 0:58:21- CROWD:- Woo-hoo!
0:58:21 > 0:58:22# And I'm pins and I'm needles!
0:58:22 > 0:58:24- CROWD:- Woo-hoo!
0:58:24 > 0:58:26# Well, I lie and I'm easy
0:58:26 > 0:58:31# All of the time and I'm never sure why I need you
0:58:31 > 0:58:33# Pleased to meet you!
0:58:35 > 0:58:37# Yeah, yeah!
0:58:39 > 0:58:40# Yeah, yeah!
0:58:42 > 0:58:43# Yeah, yeah!
0:58:45 > 0:58:48# Oh, yeah!
0:58:48 > 0:58:51CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:58:51 > 0:58:53That's the best ever, that one. That is the best ever.
0:58:53 > 0:58:56Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd