Cheeky Besom: 'I Have Been to More T in the Parks Than I Can Remember, but That's Beer Group Pressure for You'

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SO VUVUZELAS have been banned from T in the Park. That's one less reason to avoid it, I suppose. Although last year I would've loved a large plastic horn to drown out Brandon Flowers' whining. Is it enough to make me go next weekend? I'm not knocking Scotland's premier music festival; I have a more general music festival malaise. I know people say they have a brilliant time; I'm just not sure that I'm one of them.

On the one hand I don't want to miss a moment of pop prowess, (but, on the other, I don't really want to get doused in some unidentified liquid from a pint pot lobbed 20ft above my head. Proper festival-goers don't worry about trifles such as this, they revel in the mayhem. They don't think: "Live is good, but I'd be just as happy listening to the CD while floating in a bubble bath." Unfortunately I do. I may have been to more T in the Parks than I can remember, but that's beer group pressure for you and maybe it's time for me to grow up.

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Cheeky Besom: 'I Have Been to More T in the Parks Than I Can Remember, but That's Beer Group Pressure for You'

If I do go, I know I'll spend my time in a frenzy of running between stages, queuing for toilets and avoiding eye c...

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