‘Good Day, Sunshine’ belted out ironically over a random sound system, as one of several torrential downpours engulfed the T in The Park audience on the final day of the festival.
Sensible festival goers ran for cover while the hardier souls grinned and carried on partying as though nothing could stop them.
Even a bemused Debbie Harry was upstaged for a time as dozens of mud-spattered music fans immersed themselves completely launching themselves full length into the massive pool that formed in front of the main stage during Blondie’s set.
There was nothing for it but to carry on as the showers hammered down in waves on the 85,000 crowd slithering and sliding across Balado.
Understandably, the main walkways and main stage areas were churned up into mudbaths but away from the busy areas the fields remained in decent nick despite the monsoon conditions.
In true festival tradition the music continued unabated with Weezer, My Chemical Romance, You Me At Six, Bruno Mars, Tinie Tempah and Liam Gallagher’s Beady Eye doing their best to entertain sodden audiences on the two rain-drenched main stages.
Meanwhile local hero KT Tunstall was thankful for the weather, enjoying the “luxury” of being able to sympathise with the audience while enjoying the massive crowd, all glad of some shelter in the King Tuts tent.
It was disappointing for the fans after clear blue skies and sun in the morning had them anticipating sun cream and shorts, but spirits weren’t dampened.
Cara Rogers from Dundee said, “That rain was unbelievable it changed everything but it didn’t really spoil it for me. I had a brilliant time and the atmosphere was really nice.
“Beyonce was fantastic last night but today was great too. And Coldplay put on a brilliant show. Pulp was the highlight, though I thought they were amazing.”
Pop queen Beyonce had the fans singing and copying her dance moves, not to mention the paramedics and firefighters joining in down the front of the main stage on Saturday night.
Finishing off Saturday, Coldplay’s wonderful main stage show produced a laser battle with Swedish House Mafia on the NME/Radio 1 stage.
T in the Park organiser Geoff Ellis revealed Beyonce had enjoyed his hospitality after providing cup cakes and a special gift of a 17-year-old bottle of the local distillery’s Glengoyne whisky.
He said, “Beyonce I think exceeded our expectations. She fitted in so comfortably with the festival environment. Her set couldn’t have gone any better she really responded to the crowd. She was really easy to deal with and she was really nice.
“Backstage when she left the other artists lined up to give her a round of applause. She sent a message back after she left to say she had a great time.”
Geoff felt the festival’s Citizen T campaign to encourage “positive community behaviour,” launched last year, had helped to make it such a peaceful festival.
Finishing off the festival with a typically rocking set were Dave Grohl’s Foo Fighters, drawing the weekend’s most packed in crowd at the main stage of around 50,000 fans.
Deadmau5, aka Canadian electro producer Joel Thomas Zimmerman, pulled another big crowd on the second stage, before the traditional fireworks signalled the end of a muddy, but yet another great T in the Park.Click here for more of Courier photographer Kris Miller’s pictures