T party attracts 75,000
T party attracts 75,000
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Saturday, 08, Jul 2006 07:38
About 75,000 music fans were at today's opening day of T in the Park at Kinross, Scotland's biggest musical festival.
Shrugging off unseasonably mild showery weather, revellers enjoyed performances from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kaiser Chiefs and Maximo Park, as well as sterling efforts from homegrown favourites Franz Ferdinand and El Presidente.
Tickets for the 13th annual festival sold out within an hour of going on sale, but the event was juxtaposed by a protest at international trade law that hinders developing countries, a year on from the G8 summit at Gleneagles.
Following an attempt to get a record amount of drummers playing around the country, Scottish hobbit Billy Boyd, star of The Lord of the Rings, addressed the crowd.
"250,000 people took to the streets to say, 'it's wrong that a child dies every three seconds from poverty'," he said.
"We all said it was wrong. We need trade justice. It's wrong if we know that we're not getting trade justice."
Fans at tomorrow's closing day can expect to enjoy sets from festival-stalwarts The Who and The Strokes, while teenage sensations Arctic Monkeys are also set to perform.