It may have taken some time to get the train to Hampden Park, with queues snaking around Central Station as fans waited to make in time to the national stadium, but Bruce Springseen's own locomotive inside the crammed stadium was running just fine, thank you very much."Woo woo" whooped the audience during crowd-pleasing rockabilly number Johnny 99, before The Boss and Steve Van Zandt indulged in s
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"So are we going to have it or not?" asked Lily Allen before her early evening NME Stage set.Well no, apparently not. Not that there was anything tremendously ghastly about her appearance, but it just seemed a bit lazy in comparison to yesterday's fellow pop starlets Lady Gaga and Katy Perry.The laconic singer said that as she'd played 12 festival shows in 14 days she was planning on getting dr...
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Confusion swirled the campsite as news spread of Blur's delay - were they even going to play? Snow Patrol had their own set put back to reduce the sizeable gap from when the main headliners were supposed to play, and when they actually took to the stage.Thankfully, at 10.15pm - a full 1 hour and 25 minutes after the Britpop legends were supposed to start - Blur took to the stage decked out in b...
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Regina Spektor's in dazzling form in King Tut's Wah Wah Tent, and I don't mean literally, even if she is wearing a sparkling black top that shimmers under the spotlight...The singer, pianist and all-round musical genius looks set to transcend her status as cult icon and transform into a fully fledged mainstream star with new album Far, and she played a well chosen set heavily dependent on her most
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"This is a cigar box with a piece of wood on it and four strings," explained Seasick Steve of his custom-made string instrument that he's holding onto, a strange implement which somewhat resembles a guitar. "And it's a piece of s***..."Not that it stopped the crowd from adoring his lovably shambolic set of stomping blues-rock. Steve subsequently unveiled his three-string guitar, then his one-pi...
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With the rain starting to lash down, festival goers start taking shelter under the lid of the dome-like BBC Introducing Stage where they're in for a fine treat with Findo Gask opening proceedings.Singer Gerard Black has gone for a fetching purple polo shirt/orange cardigan combination, and sounds for all the world like Morrissey caught moonlighting at choir practise, back when he a prodigiously ta
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There I was, minding my own business and making my way innocently back to the media area from Katy Perry, when all this skanking suddenly got in my way. Drat!Turns out it was The Specials providing an ideal set for a stupendously sunny Saturday teatime, soon seen dedicating A Message To You Rudy to all those lucky "rude bois" in the crowd.Before I knew it, my head was bobbing up and down like t...
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Foals are doing fandabadozy in the King Tuts Wah Wah Tent, the spritely math-rock upstarts finding a decent fanbase with their tightly honed tunes that have plenty of sing-a-long moments.Not as many as Katy Perry though, who provides a sweet All-American contrast to Lady Gaga - well, at least when she isn't swearing her cutesy-pie little mouth off.The stage decked out in pink, complete with a rath
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Thanks to a delayed set by Jane's Addiction I only wander onto The Killers as they joylessly parp out The World That We Live In, the band a previously seeming a solid lynchpin for a headline Saturday set.However, though they were likely to later wheel out all the hits there was something unmistakably lacklustre about the American camp indie kings as they started out on the Main Stage.Perhaps if th
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An ominous warning on the giant video screens precedes the Jane's Addiction show: "Be aware organised pickpockets are operating at T in the Park".It's especially timely, given that 90s alt-rock legends Jane's Addictions are gearing up to take to the stage and play biggest hit Been Caught Stealing. However, at first it was the band themselves who were robbed of time: 35min late into an hour set¸...
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