Headliners for this summer's T in Park named
Snow Patrol and Kasabian will join The Stone Roses as headliners for this year’s T in the Park festival.
They will be joined by some of the world’s ‘must see’ acts across the weekend of July 6 to 8.
Firm favourites with festival crowds across the globe, Snow Patrol bring their epic anthems back to Balado to headline the main stage on the opening night.
Festival frontman Gary Lightbody hailed T in the Park as "the best weekend ever" when the band gave one of the most memorable T in the Park headline performances to date, in 2009.
Since T in the Park first booked an unknown Snow Patrol in 1999, the band have soared to international stardom and gone on to sell in excess of 11 million albums worldwide.
Having just completed their sold out ‘Fallen Empires’ tour of the UK and Ireland, the band are off to tour Europe and the U.S.A before heading home.
The Stone Roses will be making a hugely anticipated headline performance at T in the Park on the Saturday - their only live show in Scotland.
Kasabian will be the third headliners and are currently up for three NME Awards (best live band, best British band, and greatest music moment of the year).
The Leicester band said in a statement: "It’s an honour that we’ve been invited back to play T in the Park. It’s always been one of our favourite UK festivals and after having such a blast in 2010, we can’t wait to do it all over again."
The headliners join an already stellar group of top top acts confirmed for T in the Park this year including Florence + the Machine, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Elbow, The Vaccines, Two Door Cinema Club, The Maccabees, Frank Turner, Miles Kane, The Horrors and Maverick Sabre.
Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris, Phil Cunningham and Tom Chapman - the newly reformed New Order - will also be returning to Balado, having last performed at T in the Park in 2005.
Frontman Sumner said: "It’s been seven years since we played in Scotland, up at ‘T’, and we had a brilliant time. It was as much of a surprise to us as it was to our fans when Brandon from The Killers joined us onstage for Crystal.
"So it’s gonna be hard to top that one, but we’ll do our best to make sure it’s another memorable night for everyone."
Festival director Geoff Ellis said: "It’s really important to us that we listen to the fans and make every effort to book the bands they tell us they want to see.
"With some of the biggest bands and the greatest audience in the world, we hope the weekend of 6 – 8 July will be unforgettable for fans. Opening the campsite gates for the first time is still my favourite moment of the festival weekend."
T in the Park 2012 highlights:
(FRIDAY) Snow Patrol, Tinie Tempah, New Order, Florence + the Machine, Example, Professor Green, Kaiser Chiefs, The Temper Trap, The Darkness, Miike Snow, Labrinth, Mastodon, Pulled Apart By Horses, and Tribes.
(SATURDAY) The Stone Roses, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, David Guetta, Calvin Harris, Jessie J, The Vaccines, Two Door Cinema Club, Emeli Sandé, Ben Howard, Amy Macdonald, The Courteeners, The Maccabees, Enter Shikari, Rizzle Kicks, Peter Doherty, The Wailers, Dappy, and Alabama Shakes.
(SUNDAY) Kasabian, Elbow, Chase and Status, Skrillex, Happy Mondays, James Morrison, Frank Turner, The Enemy, Miles Kane, The Wanted, Maverick Sabre, Twin Atlantic, The Horrors, Christina Perri, Devlin, Bellowhead, Little Roy, Spector, and Band of Skulls.
The final batch of tickets go on general sale at 9am this Wednesday (February 29) from www.ticketmaster.co.uk and by calling 08444 999 990.
