By Alan Wilson and Eric Nicolson

ORGANISERS AND emergency services were delighted with the party attitude of the T in the Park crowd and this year’s event was looking like being the best behaved yet.

About 30,000 tickets for next year’s festival on July 7 and 8 will go on sale tomorrow morning at this year’s prices and are likely to be snapped up in a record time.

Festival organiser Geoff Ellis was as upbeat as ever after yet another overwhelming success for T in the Park.

“I think the landowner summed it up when he said, ‘That’s not rain, that’s mist with attitude,’ ” he laughed.

“We say it every year but I think again it’s been the best ever. With so many additions and the increased capacity it’s all worked out.

“The weather didn’t really dampen the spirits, I think right from Friday night people came with the attitude that they were going to get on and enjoy it.

“Crime figures are down, the amount of people needing medical treatment is down and I think the extra security, with the big fence and CCTV, has worked well. We’ve had a zero tolerance policy with anybody who has turned up without a ticket or camping pass and that helped as well.

“I thought the Chilis were the best I’ve ever seen them, the Kooks drew a massive crowd at the Radio 1 stage on Saturday and the Arctic Monkeys and The Proclaimers had huge crowds as well.

“We’re looking to extend the campsite next year—we had 50,000 people camping and we have the room to cater for another 10,000, so we’ll have a look at that.

“We’ll probably look at the capacity again as well. I think it’s worked really well with the increase this year and there’s not really been any problems for people moving around.”

Tayside Police Chief Superintendent Matt Hamilton had high praise for the crowd’s behaviour and said, “Despite the rain yesterday the spirits of the crowd did not seemed to be dampened.

“There was much less activity in the camp site and in total there were 35 people arrested since the first campers arrived on Friday, which is substantially lower than last year.

“This has been another fantastic event and there have been few problems.”

Ian Golding, head of medical services, said, “While the rain didn’t seem to affect too many people it did mean that most went back to their tents straight after the last band.

“We were fully prepared for adverse weather conditions and we did heat a few people up in our warm up tents.

“From the start of the event until now (early evening), the on- site hospital has seen 258 people, mainly for minor injuries. Twenty-one of those were sent off site to NHS facilities but most are expected to be discharged this morning.

“Again, a good number of the people treated were those who attempted to gain entry to the event by scaling the fortress fence.”