Balado airfield for the first time. It would stay there for 18 years, becoming one of the biggest festivals in the world. Some of the biggest acts in music would head to Kinross-shire to play to one of the best crowds on the planet.
Plea to support Perthshire attractions as full cost of pandemic becomes knownOasis, Foo Fighters, REM, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Green Day, Blur and The Who were just a few of the stars who graced the stage.
In 2015 the festival moved to Strathallan, also in Perth and Kinross. But, rather than a new start, it proved to be the beginning of the end for the event.The 2015 event has already been beset by issues before the gates opened.Organisers insisted it had to move from Balado, but many fans and critics remained.
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