T in the Park 2005 T in the Park 2005 T in the Park 2005 is a weekend music festival which took place from 9–10 July 2005 in Balado, Kinross. Tickets for the 2005 event sold out in record time, just four days after going on sale, five months in advance of the festival. The event saw around 69,000 people a day watching more than 170 bands over 10 stages. It was named best festival in that year's UK Festival Awards, beating the Glastonbury Festival for the first time. Some of the bands performing included Green Day, who headlined Sunday night, Travis, The Killers, Keane,
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