T In The Park line-up announced

Mumford & Sons and Rihanna are to co-headline Scotland’s T In The Park festival, which celebrates its 20th birthday between July 12 and 14 next year.

The first batch of acts to be unveiled also includes The Script, Alt-J, Paloma Faith, Jake Bugg and Of Monsters & Men.

While no announcement has been made yet, Hot Press understands that promoters MCD have been gearing up for an imminent confirmation of the return of the Oxegen festival, most likely as a two-day event. Whether this will be in its traditional slot, on the same weekend in July as T In The Park, remains to be seen however.

For many years, the bill for T In The Park was a powerful indicator of the likely Oxegen line-up, and vice versa,with acts doubling up between the two festivals. However that pattern was broken in 2012, with a series of gigs in the Phoenix Park utilising the availability of many of the bigger acts – a scenario which might prove attractive to the promoters again this year, and which would leave MCD free to run Oxegen slightly later in the summer calendar.

To celebrate T In The Park’s impending birthday a limited number of tickets will be available on Friday December 7 from www.tinthepark.com at 1993 prices.