THEY can't sing and they can't play but in around 18 weeks' time they will take to the stage at T in the Park for their first ever gig.

Fingers crossed, they will go a long way.

Here at Sunday Herald HQ a very special challenge has been born: take five journalists, give them an instrument they have never played before and four-and-a-bit months in which to learn it. Take them to Balado in Perthshire on July 6 and given them a guest slot (yes, the organisers of the music festival actually agreed to allow them to play) and let them rock. Hopefully.

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