Full stage times for all four stages and all acts have now been confirmed. They are:
Main stage
1.00 – 1.30 – The Money
2.00 – 2.30 – Sam Duckworth
1.00 – 1.30 – The Money
2.00 – 2.30 – Sam Duckworth
3.00 – 3.30 – Justin Currie
4.00 – 4.45 – Cast
4.00 – 4.45 – Cast
5.15 – 6.00 – Eliza Doolittle
7.00 – 8.00 – Blondie
9.00 – 10.30 – Scissor Sisters
Jagermeister stage
12.30 – 1.00 – Harleighblu
1.30 – 2.00 – Royal Gala
2.30 – 3.00 – Swimming
3.30 – 4.00 – Romance
4.45 – 5.15 – The Virgin Mary
6.00 – 6.30 – Dog is Dead
7.00 – 7.45 – The Bluetones
8.15 – 9.15 – Feeder
Courtyard stage
1.30 – 2.00 – Jake Bugg
2.30 – 3.00 – Gallery 47
3.30 – 4.00 – Luke Bingham
4.30 – 5.00 – Allie Moss
5.30 – 6.00 – Cecille Grey
6.30 – 7.15 – The Petebox
7.45 – 8.45 – Scott Matthews
The Funhouse comedy stage
Compere: Nick Page
2.00 – 2.30 – Patrick Monahan
3.00 – 3.30 – Dan Evans
4.00 – 4.30 – Roger Monkhouse
5.00 – 5.30 – Wes Zaharuk
6.00 – 6.30 – Andy White
Doors open at 12noon on Sunday 24th July. Please be aware that no alcohol should be brought on the site – searches will be carried out.
Those travelling by public transport can catch a bus leaving the Victoria Centre or Upper Parliament Street in Nottingham city centre every 15 minutes from midday. These buses, marked ‘Wollaton Park – special event’ are in addition to the normal Wollaton bound 30 service from the same stops.
Shuttle buses will be taking festival goers back into the city centre from 10.30pm onwards every few minutes.
NCT have introduced a special half price group rider ticket, at just £4 for two adults and three children for the event.
If you’re driving to the festival site, traffic signs will lead you through to the Lime Tree Avenue entrance to the Park. Car parking is priced at £5 for the day.
It’s early in the evening and I head over to the main stage to watch Tom Jones. He tells the crowd about when he used to sing gospel songs with Elvis in Las Vegas. Tom comes on and belts out a gospel inspired repertoire of his greatest hits, no one can quite believe he can still sing like that. Then I head over to the Radio 1/NME stage to get a good spot for White Lies and Pendulum, where to my delight I discover Twin Atlantic, a Glaswegian alt rock band that I’m sure will be headlining T in the Park in the near future, ‘Crash Land’ –an absolutely brilliant song. Now time for White Lies and I’ve secured a comfortable place near the stage, the London three-piece play with precision and force, influenced by the likes of Talking Heads and Joy Division their music has a melancholic feel and dark undertone but is nevertheless very danceable, putting synthesizers to good use. They even get a bit of a mosh pit going from the third song ‘To Lose My Life’ whose lyrics: ‘that our dead love is buried beneath the mud’ are quite fitting for the occasion. Now its time for tonight’s Radio 1/NME stage headliners: Pendulum. I get as up front as possible, the mighty Aussies start off with ‘Salt In Wounds’ making the crowd go into a dancing frenzy but I end up paying the price for being in the front row when half an hour into Pendulum I feel a warm trickle down my leg, I turn around and see a lovely young man whose aim was terrible, peeing right behind me. Oh well, that wasn’t going to dampen my spirits or make me stop dancing. Pendulum kept the crowd dancing and moshing through the whole set. They were unquestionably one of the highlights at T in the Park, well-known for their electric live performances. The crowd was blown away with the sheer power of their flavourful fusion of heavy rock, drum and bass and electronica. One on the most unique, inventive and interesting bands to surface in recent years. If you were there and didn’t see them, you missed out big time.
