TRNSMT music festival begins in Glasgow in scorching heat

Jonathan GeddesBBC Scotland NewsReporting fromTRNSMT, Glasgow GreenPA MediaThe first bands took to the stage within the blistering sunshineFans have flocked to Glasgow after Scotland’s largest music competition opened its gates.This 12 months’s TRNSMT is headlined by 50 Cent, Biffy Clyro and Snow Patrol over three days on Glasgow Inexperienced. Scottish singer Calum Bowie opened the occasion, with afternoon followers basking in scorching temperatures which are anticipated to proceed all weekend.Bowie advised BBC Scotland Information that he was terrified no-one would really flip as much as watch him play.Getty ImagesCalum Bowie kicked off the competition weekend at TRNSMTHe stated: “It is fairly early and the primary day of the competition nevertheless it was superb, there have been folks proper down the entrance and it crammed out throughout the remainder of the set.”Everybody was singing again, everybody appeared on good type. It [the competition} is the large one to do as a Scottish musician.”Different Friday acts embrace singer-songwriter James Bay, who sparked a sing-a-long together with his hit Maintain Again The River, and hometown heroes Twin Atlantic.Crowd chants criticising the Conservative get together broke out throughout Jamie Webster’s set on the Important Stage.Nevertheless the Liverpool singer-songwriter, recognized for making previous political statements, stated it was not a day to be political and urged the group to benefit from the competition.He advised BBC Scotland Information: “I at all times really feel welcome right here, and I am fortunate to have that relationship with Glasgow.”Festivals like this are escapism, and that is massively vital. It is an enormous competition and it has at all times been nice with me.”Sisters Kelly and Chloe Gillespie from Glasgow have solely ever missed one TRNSMTFans had been seen carrying small followers and bottles of water as they headed in to the competition web site.NHS Larger Glasgow and Clyde has requested music followers to remain protected through the weekend heatwave by guaranteeing they’re shielded from the solar and keep hydrated.Sisters Kelly and Chloe Gillespie from Glasgow, advised BBC Scotland Information that they’ve solely ever missed one version of the competition, which started in 2017.They stated: “We’re doing right now and tomorrow – we will not await Jamie Webster right now and Biffy tomorrow.”We have already obtained by way of one bottle of water fairly fast so we’ll be going to get extra.”Lesley Lapsley was there along with her son Aidan, 16, after beforehand bringing her daughter to her first festivalLesley Lapsley, who has been going to festivals since T In The Park within the Nineteen Nineties, was there along with her son Aidan, She stated: “The final time I used to be at TRNSMT was with my daughter to see Stormzy when she was 16, and now I am right here with Aidan as he is 16.”We might love a shock set from Lewis Capaldi,or somebody like that, however I do not know if that is doubtless. “It might do with a couple of extra larger acts, somebody just like the Prodigy, nevertheless it’s nice for the youthful technology.”PA MediaIt was most positively a “faucets aff” event at Glasgow GreenAlso taking part in on the Friday are indie duo Moist Leg and Confidence Man – who changed rap trio Kneecap on the King Tut’s stage after the band had been controversially dropped from the invoice.Friday headliner 50 Cent was noticed in a Glasgow bar the night time earlier than the occasion.The American and his entourage had been apparently bowling on the metropolis’s Vega venue whereas ingesting champagne.The occasion continues with Biffy Clyro, Fontaines D.C and Underworld among the many acts on Saturday.There’s one change to Saturday’s line-up – rock band Wunderhorse dropped out of their scheduled slot attributable to sickness. They are going to be changed by Miles Kane.The occasion will finish on Sunday with Snow Patrol, Gracie Abrams and former Little Combine singer Jade Thrilwell performing.