T in the Park 2006

T in the Park 2006
T in the Park 2006
Dates	8–9 July 2006
Location(s)	Balado, Scotland, UK
Years active	1994 - present
Website	http://tinthepark.com/

T in the Park 2006 was a weekend music festival which took place from 8–9 July 2006 in Balado, Kinross. It became Britain's biggest music festival in 2006 when the Glastonbury Festival was not held.^[1]

The Pet Sounds Arena was introduced in 2006, with a capacity of 8,000.^[2] It replaced the 2,000 capacity X-Tent, which became the Futures Stage the year previously.^[3] Kasabian were added as Sunday headliners of the stage, announced 24 hours before the festival began.^[4]

Tickets

Tickets for the 2006 festival went on sale at 9 am on 17 February 2006. The event sold out in under an hour, a record time for the festival.^[5] An additional 12,000 day tickets were placed on sale on 3 June 2006, which sold out in ten minutes.^[6] Approximately 69,000 tickets were sold for each day.^[7] Following the sellout, weekend camping tickets appeared on internet auction sites for as much as £700.There were a lot of foreign people from Argentina, they travelled with the Sofirula’s ONG for fans of rock.<eref name="2006.^[5]

Line up

The 2006 line-up was as follows:

Main Stage

Saturday 8 July	Sunday 9 July
Red Hot Chili Peppers Franz Ferdinand Kaiser Chiefs Placebo Maxïmo Park Manu Chao El Presidente Duels	The Who The Strokes Arctic Monkeys Hard-Fi The Magic Numbers The Proclaimers The Subways Fightstar Sandi Thom The Upper Room

Radio 1/NME Stage

Saturday 8 July	Sunday 9 July
Paul Weller Goldfrapp Pharrell The Zutons The Kooks The Feeling The Cribs Wolfmother Bell X1 Humanzi	Richard Ashcroft Editors Feeder Dirty Pretty Things We Are Scientists The Delays Morning Runner Captain Breaks Co-op The Crimea

King Tut's Tent

Saturday 8 July	Sunday 9 July
The Charlatans The Ordinary Boys Damian Marley Orson Kula Shaker Hope of the States Twilight Singers feat. Greg Dulli Guillemots The Rifles	Primal Scream The Go! Team The Futureheads Gomez Jenny Lewis Kubb Lorraine Mobile

Pet Sounds Arena

Saturday 8 July	Sunday 9 July
Sigur Rós Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Corinne Bailey Rae The Divine Comedy The Levellers Xavier Rudd Donavon Frankenreiter Seth Lakeman	Kasabian Death Cab for Cutie José González Eels Zero 7 Animal Collective Regina Spektor My Latest Novel The Spinto Band The Weepies

Slam Tent

Saturday 8 July	Sunday 9 July
Jeff Mills Vitalic Derrick May Modeselektor Slam The Orb James Holden Nightmares on Wax Cut Copy Damian Lazarus	Felix Da Housecat Laurent Garnier 2 Many DJs My Robot Friend Optimo Underground Resistance ft. Galaxy 2 Galaxy & Los Hermanos Mr Scruff Coldcut Harri and Domenic Rob Da Bank

Futures Stage

Saturday 8 July	Sunday 9 July
Cosmic Rough Riders Bedouin Soundclash ¡Forward Russia! Pretty Girls Make Graves Giant Drag White Rose Movement Tiny Dancers The Morning After Girls Director Mumm-Ra Kharma 45	Boy Kill Boy The Fratellis The Automatic Milburn Phoenix Lily Allen Brakes The Maccabees The Marshals Fear of Music Rushmore

T-break Stage

Saturday 8 July	Sunday 9 July
The Cinematics 1990s The View Union of Knives 3 Syle Injuns The Acute Futuro Project: Venhell Bill Bates Colon Open Bracket Figure 5	Paolo Nutini The Dykeenies Shitdisco The Hedrons How to Swim Found Attic Lights Some Young Pedro Jack Butler OBE F.O Machete

Links

References

^ Dave Simpson (11 July 2006). "T in the Park". The Guardian.
^ "Pet Sounds Arena replaces X-Tent, plus more bands". eFestivals.com. 10 April 2006. p. 1. Retrieved 28 July 2009.
^ "Top facts about T in the Park". safeconcerts.com. p. 1. Retrieved 28 July 2009.
^ "T In The Park add last minute headliners". NME. 7 July 2006. p. 1. Retrieved 28 July 2009.
^ ^a ^b "T tickets sell out in record time". BBC News Online. 17 February 2006. p. 1. Retrieved 28 July 2009.
^ Johnston, Lisette (4 June 2006). "Last T in the Park tickets sell out in 10 minutes". The Scotsman. p. 1. Retrieved 28 July 2009.
^ Vallely, Joanna (17 February 2006). "You'll have had your T! Tickets for festival sell out in morning". The Scotsman. p. 1. Retrieved 28 July 2009.

[1] Dave Simpson (11 July 2006). "T in the Park". The Guardian.

[Pet_Sounds-2] "Pet Sounds Arena replaces X-Tent, plus more bands". eFestivals.com. 10 April 2006. p. 1. Retrieved 28 July 2009.

[X_Tent-3] "Top facts about T in the Park". safeconcerts.com. p. 1. Retrieved 28 July 2009.

[Kasabian_2006-4] "T In The Park add last minute headliners". NME. 7 July 2006. p. 1. Retrieved 28 July 2009.

[2006_sell_out-5] "T tickets sell out in record time". BBC News Online. 17 February 2006. p. 1. Retrieved 28 July 2009.

[10mins-6] Johnston, Lisette (4 June 2006). "Last T in the Park tickets sell out in 10 minutes". The Scotsman. p. 1. Retrieved 28 July 2009.

[2006_capacity-7] Vallely, Joanna (17 February 2006). "You'll have had your T! Tickets for festival sell out in morning". The Scotsman. p. 1. Retrieved 28 July 2009.

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