The very first T in the Park was on the brink of being held in Ayrshire... on an island.
The festival's co-founder told a new BBC Radio 1 podcast that the Isle of Arran was under serious consideration to host the inaugural festival in 1994.
Stuart Clumpas, founder of DF Concerts and co-founder of the iconic festival told 'The Rise and Fall of T in the Park' that the idyllic North Ayrshire island was one of the early contenders in the frame to host the now legendary event.
In 1993 Clumpas and Geoff Ellis, T's other co-founder, were on the hunt to find a suitable site to host the music festival with hopes of putting the event on the following year.
But the major stumbling block for the music supremos was ferry capacity with Clumpas claiming that CalMac didn't have extra capacity to ship the thousands of revellers over to the island and back again.
Clumpas said: "We originally started looking at Arran. I used to go to Arran on all my school holidays when I was younger and I thought it would be a great place for a festival. I saw loads of bands there, Nazareth, Slade and everything.
"And we got quite far and we looked at doing the levellers but we got constrained by the ferries.
"We went to CalMac and they really didn't have any extra capacity and you're scratching your head wondering how we were going to get everyone on and off."
But the idea was binned and the festival went to Strathclyde Park instead in 1994 before moving to Balado in Perth and Kinross in 1997.
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