I thought I would write a review/diary of T in the Park. I went there this year as a group of us from the band were working there. Good work Stu.
We got there fairly late and the staff campsite was already brimming with Scotch folk and some people that Stu knew. The Bens in the band were planning to share a tent. I wish I had taken a picture of the tent they were planning to share, because it is funny in a way only a picture can describe. If I just say "the tent was 'two-man' but could only fit two men if they slept a lot closer together than either of them could reasonably expect or should reasonably want to", that would be an accurate description but not really enough to be as funny as it was.
Throughout the pre-amble and journey and pre-festival chat I was referring to Scottish people as 'the Scotch', an idea from Lee and Herring origin. I was hoping that by saying Scotch enough I would manage to make one of the group use the word Scotch, preferably in front of someone Scottish, the resulting encounter hopefully being humourously confrontational. Stu put up some resistance, which probably came naturally after my previous failed attempts throughout the year to get the band to try "18 minute post rock jams" and "punk covers" using a similar technique. This method of repeating words or ideas in an attempt to get others to copy them has worked before - I had once managed to get one of my classmates to say "Plutto" instead of "Pluto" in front of the whole class. I was 11 years old.
The work was a twelve hour day of exchanging tickets for wristbands. It was long, cold and dull. It was a low point.
The next day, despite threats of more work, we got to enter the arena. Some of the posse were doing the thing of filling of their festival timetable with stuff to see for the whole time. I couldn't be bothered especially as T has a rather large arena to walk around - not quite as big as Glasto but bigger than Reading or Leeds as far as I could tell - so I just picked three bands that I really wanted to see and was lazy the rest of the time. It worked well.
The first band were Kula Shaker. I saw them. They played at T in the Park. Thats where I was. So I went to see them. They were good. This is a picture what I took of them.
Then the next band were the Go! Team. They were also at T in the Park which is where I was so I went to see them too. They were good. I didnt take a picture of them.
The last band was Sigur Ros. They were at T in the Park too. Which is where I was. So I saw them. They were good. This is a picture what I took when they took a bow at the end.
I saw other bands too and other stuff did happen.
That is my review of T in the Park 2006. Good eh? Will I return for 2007? Probably not unless theres some bands I really want to watch.
