Unexciting news: Kings of Leon, Snow Patrol and Katy Perry set for T in the Park

Yes, T in the Park today announced the first three acts on its 2009 line-up:
Kings of Leon, Snow Patrol and Katy Perry.
It’s all a matter of taste of course, but by any standards this is a paltry way to raise the curtain on Scotland’s biggest music festival.
Kings of Leon may now be one of the [...]

Connect 2008: roving report

On top of the ‘live’ blogging I was doing for The Skinny while in the muddy environs of Inverary last weekend, I’ve also cooked up another series of rehashed mini gig reviews for the magazine. This covers pretty much everything I saw, with the exception of The Roots, who were so disappointing in the acoustically [...]

T in the Park: Saturday roving report

With memories of a litter-strewn airstrip and 80,000 dancing, drinking, singing, colliding, wretching, cavorting, exposing, stumbling, pissing people fading as fast as my sunburn, it’s time I posted my second annual T in the Park roving report…
Straight off the trusty shuttle bus – via the bar, of course – we decide to sample some sounds, [...]