Music fans have shared memories of the first T in the Park festival on the 25th anniversary of the innagural event.

The two-day festival was launched at Strathclyde Park in Lanarkshire on July 30 and 31 1994 and organisers DF Concerts must have been delighted when the sun blazed on the first day.

The first line-up included Byork, The Levellers, Blur, Oasis, Pulp, Cyprus Hill and Rage Against the Machine and the Manic Street Preachers.

The event was moved to Balado from 1997 until 2014 and then in 2015 it was held in Strathallan Park in Perthshire, before it ended in 2016.

Glasgow Times:

Martin Graham recalls blagging his way in for free as a 'photographic assistant'.

He said: "We were in the snappers pit for the Oasis gig (this was their first big summer) and it was immense. Liam was in full static hands-behind-the-back singing-up into-the-microphone snarling pose.

"I also got in the front for One Dove. I spotted Damon out of Blur and Jarvis walking around the artists' bit."

Glasgow Times:

Gayle Baxter, from Hamilton, was delighted to have a new, live music event, just 10 minutes from her door.

She said:  "It was so exciting to have something like that on my doorstep.

"I had a brilliant time with friends. I remember I lost my glasses (temporarily - crucial, as blind without them!) jumping up and down to Blur in a tent."

T in the Park was the first music festival covered by press photographer Wattie Cheung, from Glasgow.

He said: "I was feeling quite chuffed at being in the pit and wandering around like an excited kid at being allowed into an adults party.

"I remember being deafened as the press tent was right behind the main stage  - hence the reason I've worn earplugs ever since - and getting excited at seeing Bjork on stage but annoyed at not being allowed to photograph her."

Glasgow Times:

Highlights for Nick McKerrell, a law lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University, including watching the Manic Street Preachers.

He said: "It was their first or second gig as a three piece after Richie's disappearance and they destroyed all their equipment at the end in pure rage. It was one of the best gigs I have ever seen."

Scott Burrell remembers waiting in anticipation for Cypress Hill to come onto the main stage.

He said: "I remember getting a good spot for them, then having to endure an hour of Bjork cos they were late.

"I think the set was only 30 mins long in the end after they eventually turned up. I also remember Rage Against the Machine blowing the place away as headliners."

Martin Donaldson recalled Bjork "running randomly from one side of the stage to the other before her opening song."