T in the Park 2007

From last years moaning about flags I am going to try and stay positive about T in the Park 2007.

This year was the 1st year that T would be a 3 day event, fantastic gives the campers something to do on Friday night.  Only downfall I could see with this would be the amount of traffic trying to get to the site for the 4pm start.  The campsite opening at 9am meaning a lot of folk would be leaving early doors.

With this knowledge we set off about 10ish.  I am wise to the Kincardine bridge and the roadwork's there so took an alternative route through Stirling.  No traffic until we got about 2 miles from the site, then took about 2 hours to get into the car park.  This year we got in a really good carpark right beside the campsite entrance, great.

On Friday we seen bloc party and the artic monkeys.  The monkeys were not very good live, I did however enjoyed bloc party.  With the campsite a bog it took 50 minutes to get back to our tents after artic monkeys.

Saturday we had planned to start the day seeing Little Man Tate, due to Gogol Bordello not playing the times were all wrong on the NME/Radio 1 stage.  Caught a few bands here and there until the Lost Prophets were up.

Stayed in the golden circle to watch James, the lead signer was in a right moany mood going on about feedback from his earpiece.  Bit disappointing.  We then made a dash for the Pet Sounds tent, this is the 1st time I have actually been in this tent missing it out in the past.  We caught Cold War Kids who sounded great.  Came out and had some nice food from the Healthy T area and caught the end of arcade fire.

Razorlight up next stood at the back for this and seen some neds trying to start a crowd surf from way far back, all ended in tears!

Once Razorlight were over we headed back into the golden circle to see the Killers who had an excellent set and were very good and entertaing.  I did like the fact that they came back out twice and played past 11.

Onto the Sunday, strolled in early as we had a busy day of trying to catch lots of bands.  Started with the Herdons - crap.  We then headed to the Bacardi B-Live stage to catch some of Itchy sax on Paul's recommendations.  Another 1st for me as I have never been into this, great atmosphere with the floor bouncing reminds me of a nightclub when you are on holiday in Greece or Spain.  Michele had a few Bacardi which went down better than the cider or Tennets!

Michele then was wanting to see Avril so we headed into the golden circle to see some of her performance.  I have to say that the other girls on stage were highly annoying, stayed in there for the Goo Goo Dolls.  We had planned to go back and forward to see Gossip Paulo Nutini and Mika but there seemed to be too much traffic between the stages so just faffed about the main stage and watched some Paulo Nutini.

Moved round to the right of the stage for some Fratellis and the sound was god awful at the side and after a few songs made our way down to the NME/Radio1 stage to see Biffy Clyro.  After seeing them in the Barras a few months back I knew they would put on a good show.  With not many folk there we easily made our way down the front.  Another great set just seen way to short for my liking.

Back to the main stage to catch some Kings of Leon, I do like this band but I have seen them at T before and are pretty dull, left with a few songs to go and seen Jet.  Another band that once they had played their hits failed to impress me and I grew rather tiresome of their set.

Went and got some more grub, and back in for the editors we were lucky to get in as they closed the tent as we just got in.  I was supervised at how many good songs this mob have!

To the headliners snow patrol - hmm having seen them before I know they are awful live with lightbody not being able to hold a tune.  Gave them 10 minutes then headed to the King Tut's Tent to see some Queens of the Stone Age.  Gave them about 10 minutes and caught the end of Damien rice.

My problem with T this year was that there was so many bands that we missed to do being on at the same time as others.  The 4 headliners on Sunday night we could have easily watched.

Highlights - Killers set.

Lowlights - Traffic on Friday.

You can watch highlights on BBC's T channel or 301 on freeview.  Red button may also work....