It was officially replaced with the TRNSMT festival which takes place on the same weekend at Glasgow Green.

[3] The festival was founded in 1994 by Stuart Clumpas and Geoff Ellis,[4] as part of a joint venture between DF Concerts and Tennent's Lager with some help from Irish promotions company MCD Productions.

However, the 2007 festival was criticised by many festival-goers who missed acts on the Friday due to huge traffic jams of 10 miles on the A91 and A977 leading to Kinross.

On the Friday, the acts were scheduled to start around lunchtime as opposed to 5 pm; and the Saturday headliners to finish at 1 am.

[16] Tennents Lager for the T in the Park weekend was specially brewed 36 hours before the festival at the Wellpark Brewery in Glasgow, 44 miles from Balado.

This was also the year that Keanu Reeves arrived on a shuttle bus to play the festival with his band Dogstar, and Joe Strummer busked in the campsite Caledonia Stage was renamed the T Break, where unsigned acts from across Scotland were given a platform to showcase their music at T in the Park.

Each year, a panel made up of music industry experts hand-picked 16 artists from over a thousand entries to platform.

Large television screens were used to allow football fans to watch the 1998 World cup final.

Tickets for the 2005 event sold out in record time, just four days after going on sale, five months in advance of the festival.

The event was overshadowed by traffic chaos on the A91 due to the closure of the main car park following heavy rain.

It was announced that the campsite would open on 10 July 2008 to avoid a repeat of the previous year's traffic problems.

As with the 2008 festival, the campsite opened on the Thursday evening to prevent traffic queues forming on the Friday.

The Stone Roses were announced as the first headline act on 8 November, three weeks before the second release tickets went on sale.

The second release tickets, equivalent to half of the venues capacity, went on sale to the general public on 2 December at 9 am, hours later allocation was exhausted.

[30] Festival director, Geoff Ellis said that he was "delighted by the response from fans" and also noted that he "can’t wait to see everyone at Balado next year."

[32] The Killers, Rihanna and Mumford and Sons headlined in 2013, alongside other large acts including Emeli Sandé, The Script, Jake Bugg, Alt-J, Of Monsters and Men, Twin Atlantic, Two Door Cinema Club and Azealia Banks.

The festival was to be the last at the Balado site due to the Forties pipeline system issue involving gas pipes that run underneath the field.

Other acts on the bill include Pixies, Ed Sheeran, Paolo Nutini, Paul Weller, The Human League, Pharrell Williams, Ellie Goulding, Tinie Tempah, Franz Ferdinand, Elbow, James and Charlotte OC.

The first headline act to be announced were The Libertines and shortly after other headliners Kasabian and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, along with other acts including Jessie J, Avicii, Hozier, Sam Smith, The Vaccines, and Twin Atlantic.

There has been a lot of negative feedback and media attention regarding the new site, with travel delays being a major issue due to the lack of trackway in grass car parks and drop off areas.

[citation needed] On 7 January 2024, an account on X, formerly Twitter, using the name "TITPofficial", posted a message stating "Guess who's back", with the hashtag "#TinThePark2026".

On 8 January, a spokesperson for DF Concerts, organisers of the event, told the BBC that "the profile is fake and is in no way associated with T in the Park".

The company's CEO, Geoff Ellis, previously commented that the festival would never return, and that it "ran its course".