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85,000 people, 30,000 tents, 38,000 metres of fencing and 12000 overflowing toilets ... how T in the Park became Scotland's

By Edd McCracken

Next weekend the fifth largest town in Scotland will rise from nothing at a disused airfield in Kinross - only to disappear four days later. Every July it materialises, like the mythical village Brigadoon but with a better soundtrack.