T in the Park 2013

[Muddyfields]

Been watching highlights and seems more like a big t4 on the beach rather than a 'proper' festival. I cant believe ratm headlineda few years ago!

[blue6field]

Fuckin depressing how it's turned out!

Beady eye headlining a stage!! Dreadful

Edited July 13, 2013 by blue6field

[Chiefski]

Not too surprised about Kraftwerk not having a full crowd really, without similar acts, they were never going to pull a huge crowd, especially against Calvin Harris who will probably have one of the biggest crowds of the weekend, MBV were probably the same tonight. Two minds about it all, most of the highlights have not changed my mind on most things, but at the same time, because id put myself in that 'regular' bracket, im a but gutted not being in that crap filled field

Edited July 14, 2013 by Chiefski

[CraigI]

As bad as the headliners are I still wish I had been there all weekend after seeing some of the highlights and the weather.

That said I turned on the highlights once on Friday and once on Saturday and had no idea who it was on the main stage.........

Heading down for the day today though to catch Deap Vally, OCS, The 1975, Editors, Foals and then Yeah Yeah Yeahs's.

Not a day of music I can complain about!

Edited July 14, 2013 by CraigI

[Chiefski]

As bad as the headliners are I still wish I had been there all weekend after seeing some of the highlights and the weather.

That said I turned on the highlights once on Friday and once on Saturday and had no idea who it was on the main stage.........

Heading down for the day today though to catch Deap Vally, OCS, The 1975, Editors, Foals and then Yeah Yeah Yeahs's.

Not a day of music I can complain about!

[she bangs the drums]

http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/review-kraftwerk-t-in-the-park-2013.1373673446

LIKE a well-oiled machine, somehow both ritzy and functional, Kraftwerk, on their maiden T in the Park voyage, blitz through their 90 minute headline set in a triumph of strobe light and 3D.

At the door, each audience member is handed a pair of cardboard 3D glasses and we stand, anticipation mounting, as the four famous keyboards are lined up, side by side.

The stage darkens, the minutes tick by. Finally, Kraftwerk, in all their 43-year-old glory, are on stage in a field in Kinross-shire, the sheep dozing in nearby fields and their particular brand of rigid electro-pop pulsing and pounding into the country air.

The crowd stand mesmerised, still. We Are The Robots is backed by an extraordinary 3D display of four Ken doll-like men in suits who move virtual arms that somehow sweep over the audience. At other points musical notes fly out into the arena, numerals for others. A man next to me, as well-oiled as Kraftwerk but by beer, not discipline, is gently bamboozled by this turn of events. He swipes a hand repeatedly, trying to catch the 3D pictures, eventually giving up and heading off somewhere simpler.

What do Kraftwerk see when they look at us all in our 3D specs? The glasses must add a pleasing touch of uniformity for a band so peculiarly uniform.

Autobahn and Tour de France are both visually and aurally perfect. The set is completely without flaw. But the band are possibly a poor choice for T in the Park. The King Tuts tent is a quarter full, perhaps a third, if you're an optimist. People listen intently but no one moves or dances.

Couples intertwine and slither together like well oiled slugs. But this is not music to smooch to.

It is a brilliant set and faultless but a little wasted in Balado.

Almost to the stroke of midnight Kraftwerk finish. "Goodnight", they say. "Auf wiedersehen."

[blue6field]

Stereophonics looked in good form

[thewayiam]

Been watching highlights and seems more like a big t4 on the beach rather than a 'proper' festival. I cant believe ratm headlineda few years ago!

[thewayiam]

Stereophonics looked in good form

[thewayiam]

That is so so sad. That is where all the regulars who are not attending this year would have been. But if GE targets a nedfest as his demographic and then puts on acts that none of them will know then that's what's going to happen. Even so I thought that it would be rammed in there as the 3D show has had so much hype.

[craig94]

Also as a added note after the killers Geoff came out and did his buy tickets on Friday thing then he said there would be a treat before then

[Johnny Mac]

Wasn't going to go this year but got offered last minute free tickets and with the good weather decided to head along.

Lineup as has been discussed at length on here was horrific, the main stage in particular.

A few gems in amongst a raft of terrible pop/dance nonsense cluttering up the charts.

The Healthy T section food was pretty good though although everthing is vastly overpriced from soft drinks to car-parking to buses.

I wouldn't have been happy paying £200 for a weekend ticket.

Mr Ellis is going to have to rethink his booking policy I think (or put all the pop crap away on its own stage somewhere).

I remember the pop act used to be the novelty in the early afternoon, not the entire lineup.

Maybe I'm just getting old

[Wanderer1995]

What happened to the Kaleidoscope Club this year? Has the festival lost another venue?

[blue6field]

I'd now in the position to tell you that its not. It was superb! Best weather t has ever had

[cobaltstargazer]

had a ball all weekend, picked and chose the bands i wanted to see and avoided mostly the ones i didnt. i think it was the the best T i have been too. Highlights for me were The Killers, OCS , The Script (suprisingly) proclaimers, deacon blue amongst lots of others. The Weather sublime, the atmosphere also. Roll on next year.

[Paulk2904]

Just home now burnt to a crisp. Best performance of the weekend was the killers by a country mile, absolutely phenomenal.

Kraftwerk being empty doesn't surprise me, was a Calvin Harris and he had one of the biggest crowds I've ever seen at the NME stage.

Travis was phenomenal in king tuts. Should have headlined the tent.

Surprise of the weekend was Rihanna for me. Got dragged along and she was surprisingly good, thoroughly enjoyed her set and any talk of her not being headline worthy is absolute nonsense.

Afterburner was exactly what the campsite has been missing. Great way to end the night.

[a_n_other]

Where to start....Friday......kraftwerk were outrageous, we were centre on the barrier. Phoenix were excellent a very high energy performance, reminded of how I felt last year at reverend and the makers. The proclaimer a were same as every time I seen them Texas were m'ehhhh as were of monsters and men.

Saturday was pish, with the exception of frightened rabbit who were amazing, again we managed to get front and centre. We were back in our tent by ten.....

Sunday was ok although we had a lot of clashes. Frank turner was really good as were Bastille. The Stereophonics and the killers were proper festival bands, but then you would expect nothing less from them, they have played so often.

The thing that struck me was the amount of T virgins, who noy only couldn't handle drink, had no idea what was happening. The scary thing is they have done it now, it'll be even more next year. I won't be back, unless the line up is significantly better. Healthy T was great and the weather was stunning...

I will be posting a lot of videos on my YouTube channel, pm me for my username and I will let you know, some great kraftwerk, although they don't do the 3d justice.

[Samyeeeezy]

Had a great time.

Highlights if the weekend were: The Killers, Phoenix, Palma Violets, Tyler The Creator and Frank Ocean

[harryomatic]

Just back, really enjoyed myself.

Highlights happened to all be Scottish bar one. We have a good musical country.

Calvin Harris on Friday was really good fun. Just a massive party atmosphere.

Travis on Saturday blew my mind. They were far, far better than I expected. My fully grown male friend broke down in tears halfway through.

Twin Atlantic straight after were also amazing. My 6th time seeing them and they still wow me. New songs sounded great.

Roman Nose were good fun. Huge tunes and I spent the set dancing with Ally MacCrae and Jen Long from BBC introducing.

Chvrches lived up to all my expectation. Really really excited for their album in September now.

The killers were just epic. Enough said.

[bee cee]

The weekend was very good overall , obviously the weather helped. I had my ticket since the early sales last year thinking the line up would be great for the 20th birthday, it wasn't but I kept the faith and still went and it was a good weekend, brilliant sets from Imagine Dragons, Kraftwerk, Alt J, Snoop and the Killers with honourable mentions to Editors, Miles Kane,Deacon Blue and Jake Bugg. Just a few observitions though.

The crowds for superb headliners Kraftwerk and Alt J were very poor, suppose it says alot about what the majority of the t in the park crowd is about now,saying that it was a good friendly crowd at both and was able to be at the front comfortably.

Saturday was horrific atmosphere wise around the main stage and radio one, with loads of growers and just general idiots, again the crowd noticeably changed going into Tuts and the smaller arenas, huge idiot elements in the crowd for The View in particular, horrible,wish these belters would just gtf and let fowk enjoy the music. As it got cloudy and threatened to rain the knuckle draggers were out in force, we seen 4 fights in the space of an hour and a half, if the place was a washout like last year it would have been an absolute disaster for t,possibly the beginning of the end, the festival has probably been saved this weekend by the weather.

Sunday was better atmosphere wise the Killers delivered one of the best sets ive seen,more than worthy of the headline status although it was a bit spoiled by my missus getting barged over by a running battle, again I wish these chunts would just gtf.

Overall it was a good weekend but No early bird ticket for me this year, still I will go but it is very much going to depend on the line up for me, if its a line up that is going to appeal to the idiot element of the so called demographic i'll pick a day or give it a miss.

[devilman]

The thing that struck me was the amount of T virgins, who noy only couldn't handle drink, had no idea what was happening. The scary thing is they have done it now, it'll be even more next year. I won't be back, unless the line up is significantly better. Healthy T was great and the weather was stunning...

[thecommon]

This was the first T i have missed in a decade and must admit i was regretting it on Friday. Watching the highlghts though I wasn't too fussed about not being there, seeing The Script and Rihanna close the Main Stage on the Saturday night as well as Beady Eye headlining the Radio 1 stage justifiied a lot of people not gong.

Usually there's a group of around 20 of us and no one wanted to go with the Line-Up this year. Usually there's enough to keep you going over the weekend but there wasn't enough to justify the price this year I didn't think.

Hopefully just a miscalculaton on Geoff's part though since T's line up usually hold its own against most in the UK.

Or maybe this pop stuff will now be the norm and I'm just getting old?

[Gingo]

Had a superb weekend mainly helped the weather

Every act i saw over the weekend were great especially kraftwerk, the proclaimers, travis, texas, twin atlantic, hacktivist, stereophonics, ruen brothers, miles kane, hurts, snoop dogg...

But the best by a mile were the killers really outstanding performance although they scrwed up the pipers mic at the end so flower of scotland wasnt sung which was really annoying

Atmosphere was really friendly this year and the afterburner and lords of lightning were great additions

Some of the placements this year were really poor, snoop dogg should have headlined radio 1 on sat and swapped with beady eye, the beady eye crowd was one of the most embarassingly small crowds i have ever seen for a headliner i would say less than 5000 ppl and im sure i witnessed liam gallaghers ego crash to earth in a burning flame as at the end he said 'thanks you's have been the bollocks, we're going to head off now, thanks for coming to see us and sticking around, we do feel silly', also travis should have swapped with alt j and headlined tuts the tent was rammed and the singalong was majestic

Overall so glad i went was a fantastic weekend, hopefully a return to form for the lineup next year to make it perfect

[thewayiam]

Had a superb weekend mainly helped the weather

Every act i saw over the weekend were great especially kraftwerk, the proclaimers, travis, texas, twin atlantic, hacktivist, stereophonics, ruen brothers, miles kane, hurts, snoop dogg...

But the best by a mile were the killers really outstanding performance although they scrwed up the pipers mic at the end so flower of scotland wasnt sung which was really annoying

Atmosphere was really friendly this year and the afterburner and lords of lightning were great additions

Some of the placements this year were really poor, snoop dogg should have headlined radio 1 on sat and swapped with beady eye, the beady eye crowd was one of the most embarassingly small crowds i have ever seen for a headliner i would say less than 5000 ppl and im sure i witnessed liam gallaghers ego crash to earth in a burning flame as at the end he said 'thanks you's have been the bollocks, we're going to head off now, thanks for coming to see us and sticking around, we do feel silly', also travis should have swapped with alt j and headlined tuts the tent was rammed and the singalong was majestic

Overall so glad i went was a fantastic weekend, hopefully a return to form for the lineup next year to make it perfect

[harryomatic]

I noticed the number of T (and just live music in general) virgins. So many times the music tempo was perfect for jumping, but everyone was just clapping. I glanced around me a few times during The Killers and was shocked at how few people were singing along with some of the big singles.