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| T in the Park festival tops 2.5 million tickets in 20 years | T in the Park festival tops 2.5 million tickets in 20 years |
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| Scotland's T in the Park festival has sold more than 2.5 million tickets in the past 20 years, event organisers have revealed. | Scotland's T in the Park festival has sold more than 2.5 million tickets in the past 20 years, event organisers have revealed. |
| The three day music extravaganza starts next Friday at Balado in Perth and Kinross, two decades after the first festival in Strathclyde Country Park. | |
| Headline acts for 2013 include Mumford & Sons, Rihanna and the Killers. | Headline acts for 2013 include Mumford & Sons, Rihanna and the Killers. |
| So far, it has not sold out this year but festival bosses were still hopeful all the tickets would go. | So far, it has not sold out this year but festival bosses were still hopeful all the tickets would go. |
| 'Best atmosphere' | |
| T in the Park director Geoff Ellis told BBC Scotland the event had gone from 17,000 people a day in its first year to a capacity of 85,000. | |
| Mr Ellis said the move to Balado had opened up the festival to the whole of Scotland and beyond. | |
| "We do attract a lot of people from outside of Scotland," he said. "About 20% of our crowd comes from outside Scotland and about 2% from outside the UK but the real passionate element is the Scottish crowd. | |
| "Scots are passionate about everything, music, sport, politics - they're not shy about saying how they feel - and I think at T in the Park, put them in front of a load of great bands those bands definitely feed off the crowd and play better sets | |
| "People think it's a cliché to say Scotland's the best place to play live music but that audience reaction, I've seen it round the world from China to the States - you go down to an English festival and people say 'it's not like T in the Park' and that's true. | |
| "Speak to someone like Noel Gallagher he'll tell you T in the Park's got he best atmosphere out of every festival they've played." | |
| Mr Ellis said he was confident the event would still sell out, especially as the weather forecast was looking more sun cream than wellies. | |
| "This time last year we still had tickets on sale, I'm sure we'll sell out, we're almost there," he added. "It's a sign of the times, it was the same last year and there's a lot more competition out there." |