So this weekend I was at Scotland’s biggest music festival/gathering of scum, T in the Park.This marked the first time I’ve been to the site in Balado, Kinross and to be perfectly honest - I won’t be back. The site itself was ok; what you’d expect from a festival really. Big grassy fields, loads of toilets (disgusting toilets, yes, but again, it’s what you expect) and loads of decent bands.

I had the pleasure of catching some established bands like Rage Against The Machine, Bowling for Soup, Amy Winehouse, REM, as well as little known bands like Ghost of a Thousand, Departures and Cancer Bats. I was lucky enough to have backstage passes for the event, and if it wasn’t for that I’d have gave up on the Saturday, and went home.

The problem with festivals is always the food prices, the manky toilets and more often than not the weather. But this time, for me and a whole lot of other people if festival forums are anything to go by, the worst thing about this years festival was guy’s and girl’s pissing everywhere. And I mean everywhere.

By the time Saturday afternoon had hit, you couldn’t look anywhere and not see a guy or girls bits on show. Worst of all, these people were not just going to the perimeter fence to do it. No no. They were quite happy to just stand up (from their drunken stooper) and take a leak where they were, only to sit down in it again - even if the toilets were right beside them. I actually saw one guy peeing ON a porta-loo. WTF!?!

The level of alcohol consumed was frightening. I mean, I had my fair few, but there were people of both genders sprawled out across the field like the aftermath of a battle. How you can possibly enjoy any of the bands in that state is beyond me. Speaking to a mate on the phone that didn’t go, he told me Glasgow was a ghost town - “that explains it” I said to myself.

The other major bug-bear of my festival experience was the security. These guys were from about three different companies and didn’t communicate with each other which meant if you went past one gate, you had little or no chance getting back in - even with my Access All Areas pass.

The security staff were rude, unwashed and lazy. Here’s a photo that sums up these guys performance over the weekend:

In conclusion; I don’t reckon I’ll be going back to T in the Park unless the security stop people pissing everwhere, which is a shame because you get to watch some really good bands.