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I’m writing in relation to the piece in the PA that looked back on T in the Park over the summer.

As I read about the so-missed music festival, both when it was held at Balado and when it was held for a short time at Strathallan, what was noticeable about both locations is that they both were once airfields.

Balado was a wartime airfield while Strathallan, for a number of years, was home to the Strathallan Aviation Museum.

It was indeed a pity that T in the

Park moved from Balado for, to us in Perth and Kinross, it was Scotland’s equivalent of Glastonbury and, as specified in the article, so many of the big names played at the Kinross venue.

One big disappointment was when the late David Bowie had to pull-out due to health problems.

I thought of that when I recently saw a repeat of his Glastonbury performance on the television.

As for Strathallan, as stated, rather than a new start it was the beginning of the end for the event.

One of the drawbacks for Strathallan, I think, was the narrow roads. This was the case in the aviation days as well. I also recall reports of nesting ospreys nearby.

It is such a shame Perth and Kinross has lost such an event.

I love pop music just as I do our traditional music.

For myself, my lasting memory from when I was a teenager was seeing Jimi Hendrix live in London at a venue called Bag o’ Nails.

If only Hendrix had been alive in the T in the Park era. I can so imagine his famous rendition of the American national anthem at Woodstock. He may have done the same in Scotland with Flower of Scotland at T in the Park.

I do hope it returns.

Thomas Brown

Garry Place

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