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Category: T In The Park

By Luke Lewis

Posted on 13/07/09 at 01:09:59 pm

T In The Park is the anti-Glastonbury.

There's no baby yoga. "Healing yurts" are thin on the ground. You'll search in vain for an artfully dilapidated stall selling organic buckwheat pancakes for £7 a pop.

No, the Scottish bash is all about the music. Well, that and the drinking. And the inflatable penises.

Happily, this year's event was as incident-packed and unpretentious as ever.

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By Tim Chester

Posted on 10/07/09 at 01:07:16 pm

Glastonbury aside, this is The Big One. 120 bands, three days and 85,000 insane punters. Kings Of Leon, The Killers and Blur at the top of a bill that includes Maximo Park, Pendulum, Lily Allen and Doves.

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By Emily Wright

Posted on 13/07/08 at 09:20:26 pm

NME.COM managed to speak to R.E.M frontman Michael Stipe, mere hours before the band are due to take to the stage as T Festival headliners! Watch the interview in which Stipe reveals all about performing at the Scottish festival and much more, exclusively to NME.COM's video team.

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By Emily Wright

Posted on 13/07/08 at 06:22:49 pm

NME.COM has been trawling the fields and artist haunts backstage, all weekend, to bring you the best from T In The Park Festival 2008.

We catch up with Scottish icons Glasvegas, Aus drum and bassers Pendulum, rock veterans The Charlatans and alt-indie punkers White Lies in exclusive filmed interviews.

Plus – we spend some time with Ian Brown before his headlining show at the Scottish festival and even manage to sneak up onstage with him. Watch the footage below.

Scroll down through the blog entries for more interviews - including MGMT and The Music.

White Lies

Glasvegas

Pendulum

The Charlatans

Ian Brown

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By Martin Robinson

Posted on 13/07/08 at 03:11:18 pm

Immediately after playing his set with the Makers yesterday, the Reverend Job McClure took his acoustic outside to play more songs for the crowd. He didn't think it through…

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By Emily Wright

Posted on 12/07/08 at 11:46:14 pm

Watch an exclusive interview with Stone Roses legend and T headliner, Ian Brown, plus trawl the festival site with Brooklyn hot-shots MGMT, in our exclusive interviews below...

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