TRNSMT 2026— Tickets, Lineup & Dates

TRNSMT exists because T in the Park did not. T in the Park, founded in 1994 and run by DF Concerts under Geoff Ellis, had been the dominant Scottish festival for two decades, operating first at Strathclyde Country Park and then at Balado in Kinross from 1997 to 2014. When pipeline infrastructure beneath the Balado site forced the festival to relocate, the move to Strathallan Castle for the 2015 and 2016 editions ran into a long series of planning, traffic and safety challenges that culminated in DF putting the festival on hiatus after the 2016 weekend. The response, announced in early 2017, was TRNSMT. The new festival was deliberately built as the opposite of T in the Park's late-stage problems. Where T in the Park had been a rural greenfield camping festival with a difficult access road and a complicated relationship with its host community, TRNSMT would be a non-camping city festival on a public park, with audiences arriving by train and bus from Glasgow itself and from across central Scotland. Glasgow Green — the city's oldest park, on the north bank of the Clyde at the eastern edge of the city centre — provided exactly the right scale and the right location. The first edition, in July 2017, ran across three days with Radiohead, Kasabian and Biffy Clyro headlining. It was a measured first outing, deliberately not pushing capacity, and it was well received. DF added a fourth day in 2018 and expanded the site footprint. Lewis Capaldi played early in his arc and returned later as a headliner. Stormzy, The Strokes, Liam Gallagher, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Sam Fender and The Killers all closed the main stage across the festival's first several years. The booking sheet has skewed towards British rock, indie and pop, with rap and electronic headliners woven in as the bill has matured. The wider context is Glasgow's status as a music city. Glasgow has the SSE Hydro, the OVO Hydro, the Barrowlands, King Tut's Wah Wah Hut and a long-running indie venue ecosystem that has produced and platformed artists from Belle and Sebastian through to Mogwai, Chvrches and the wider Glasgow Music City Tourism Strategy. TRNSMT plugs into that ecosystem in a way T in the Park, at Balado or Strathallan, never quite did. The festival is in the city, run by a city promoter, played by acts that the same promoter books year-round at the Hydro and the Barrowlands, and absorbed into Glasgow's summer tourism economy in a way that has earned it political and community support that its predecessor struggled to secure in the same form.