T in the Park 2009 was the sixteenth T in the Park festival held since 1994. Held on the weekend of Friday, 10 July – Sunday, 12 July, at Balado, in Perth and Kinross, and Scotland. Bands like Kings of Leon, Snow Patrol, Blur and The Killers headlined. 2009 was the first time the festival had seen four headliners. In the 2009 festival, the campsite officially opened the first day of the festival (a Thursday evening) to prevent traffic queues forming on Friday.

Build Up The first batch of "early bird" tickets sold out in ten hours on 15 July 2008. On 27 February 2009, NME announced that camping tickets for the event had already sold out.

Festival organiser Geoff Ellis announced that the festival would feature more than 120 acts, playing to an audience of 85,000 people. On 31 January 2009, the first acts for the 2009 festival were confirmed as Katy Perry and Bloc Party, with Kings of Leon and Snow Patrol confirmed as Friday and Sunday night headliners respectively. The Killers were confirmed to headline Saturday, with Blur announced to be joint-headliners of the final night. This marked the first time that the festival had been billed as having four headline bands.

The Festival

Inside the Arena The Main Stage, Radio 1/NME Stage, King Tut's Wah Wah Tent, Slam Tent and the T-Break Stage all returned for the festival. The Futures Stage also returned but was renamed to the Red Bull Bedroom Jam Futures Stage. The Pet Sounds Stage did not return. New to the festival was the BBC Introducing Stage, where relatively new and unsigned acts performed.

The Ceilidh Tent also returned, hosting traditional Scottish music, as did the Bacardi B-Live Tent featuring a cocktail bar and dance floor with electronic music.

Due to its popularity the previous year, the Healthy T arena was retained for the festival, hosting numerous stalls supplying nutritious and healthy food in comparison to the various fast food vans that operate throughout the main arena.

Performances The Horrors, who were due to play early on the Saturday, pulled out late due to one of the band's members falling ill.

On the Sunday, several of the earlier bands had to change their time slots by roughly an hour to cover the non-appearance of The Game. Ladyhawke also pulled out of her slot due to flu-like symptoms and was replaced by a second performance by Dundonian band The Law. The festival was put into further disarray in the evening with the possibility that Blur would pull out at the last minute due to guitarist Graham Coxon being apparently ill in hospital with food poisoning. Rumours circulating at the time suggested that the band had in fact fallen out before their set, but this was later denied. The festival times were pushed back by one and a half hours for Snow Patrol and Blur. It was announced by Blur once they had taken stage that their performance would be the last time they would play together and that this was the reason Coxon left the hospital to play.

Line-up

Main Stage Friday 10 July Saturday 11 July Sunday 12 JulyKings of Leon Franz Ferdinand Maxïmo Park James MorrisonThe Killers Razorlight The Specials James Paolo Nutini Lady Gaga Calvin Harris Björn AgainBlur Snow Patrol Elbow Bloc Party The Script Seasick Steve Squeeze The Parsonage

Radio 1 / NME Stage Friday 10 July Saturday 11 July Sunday 12 JulyNick Cave and The Bad Seeds Yeah Yeah Yeahs Idlewild The Mars VoltaNine Inch Nails Jane's Addiction The Ting Tings Katy Perry White Lies Starsailor You Me at Six The Horrors (cancelled) That Petrol EmotionKeane Pendulum Lily Allen Doves Eagles of Death Metal The Game (cancelled) The Dykeenies The Gaslight Anthem In Case of Fire

King Tut's Tent Friday 10 July Saturday 11 July Sunday 12 JulyThe View The Courteeners Jamie T Edwyn Collins The MaccabeesManic Street Preachers Glasvegas Jason Mraz Foals Friendly Fires The Noisettes M83 Iglu & Hartly Mumford & SonsPet Shop Boys TV on the Radio Mogwai Peter Doherty Regina Spektor The Saturdays Daniel Merriweather Gary Go Carolina Liar

Slam Tent Saturday 11 July Sunday 12 July2 Many DJs Laurent Garnier Green Velvet Felix da Housecat Slam Mr Scruff Beardyman Claude VonStroke Silicone SoulJeff Mills The Streets Dave Clarke Simian Mobile Disco Tiga Boys Noize Ben Sims Joris Voorn Funk D'Void

Futures Stage Friday 10 July Saturday 11 July Sunday 12 JulyCrystal Castles The Twang Go:Audio Camera Obscura Vagabond Will and the People Saving AimeeFlorence and the Machine Of Montreal Twin Atlantic Metronomy Fight Like Apes The Virgins Dinosaur Pile-Up The Hours Delphic My Passion Lady LykezThe Airborne Toxic Event Ladyhawke (cancelled) Jack Peñate Patrick Wolf Little Boots Passion Pit Hockey VV Brown General Fiasco The Auteur The Tunics

T Break Stage Friday 10 July Saturday 11 July Sunday 12 JulyThe Phantom Band Pearl and the Puppets The Temper Trap Ming Ming and the Ching Chings Dead Boy Robotics Maple Leaves Homework1990s Wallis Bird Hip Parade Sucioperro Priscilla Ahn Jill Jackson Healthy Minds Collapse Punch and The Apostles Trapped In Kansas Bronto Skylift The French Quarter Mike Nisbet Gong FeiTommy Reilly We Were Promised Jetpacks Iain Archer The Big Pink Cassidy Paper Planes Pulled Apart By Horses My Cousin I Bid You Farewell Brother Louis Collective Barn Owl Little Eskimos Tango In The Attic G1FT

BBC Introducing Stage Saturday 11 July Sunday 12 JulyTelegraphs Broken Records Cathouse Answering Machine Young Fathers The Locals Unicorn Kid The Law My Luminaries Lowkey Alex GardenerDananananaykroyd Seal Cub Clubbing Club Hitchcock Milk Kan Alto Elite Decimals Dally King Ezra Bang & Hot Machine The Twilight Sad Leni Ward Findo Gask

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