T in the Park manage King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow. He organised the first T in the Park festival in 1994 with a smattering of bands playing to 17,000 people at its original site at Strathclyde Park, Lanarkshire. The festival was held there for three years until 1997, where it was held at the disused Balado airfield, Kinross-shire. After moving to Balado the festival grew larger and by 2003, the festival was attracting up to 255,000 people; 110,000 over the weekend. The festival was originally a two-day event until 2007, when the Friday became a mainstay event for live music. However, the
Opera in Scotland a lack of political will to start implementing it. The site in Castle Terrace was eventually leased for office development in 1988. Subsequently Festival opera has found its home in large traditional Edinburgh venues, renovated in turn to bring them up to modern standards. For some years in the 1980s it was the Playhouse with its impressive official capacity of 2900. Since 1994 the Festival Theatre (formerly The Empire) has been used both for the Festival and by Scottish Opera on their visits to Edinburgh. Elsewhere in Scotland, operas are also staged in a wide range of multipurpose theatres/performance spaces