TRNSMT (pronounced "Transmit") is a music festival staged at Glasgow Green in Glasgow, Scotland, organised by DF Concerts.
History An early line-up for the first TRNSMT festival was revealed in January 2017, two months after the announcement that T in the Park (also organised by DF Concerts) would not be staged that year. The first festival took place over three days in July 2017 and the organisers said that 120,000 people attended.
Shortly after the first festival concluded, a second event was announced for the following year. In November 2017, the festival organisers announced a change of date. The 2018 event was held over six days, split over two weekends. In 2019 the event returned to being three days covering a single weekend, with a daily capacity of 50,000.
On 24 April 2020, it was announced that the 2020 festival would not go ahead due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Awards TRNSMT was named 'best new festival' in December 2017 at the UK Festival Awards in London.
Criticism The Musicians' Union criticized the 2019 lineup for only 20% of the acts being female. In response the festival announced they would have a female-only 'Queen Tut's' stage. When the first acts were announced for the 2020 festival the head of DF Concerts, Geoff Ellis, defended the lack of female acts announced, saying "we'd love there to be a higher representation of females but there isn't, certainly on the acts we're announcing today, it will be a while until there's a 50/50 balance" and "we need to get more females picking up guitars, forming bands, playing in bands”.
Headliners For full lineups see TRNSMT festival line-ups
2017 – Radiohead, Kasabian, Biffy Clyro 2018 – Stereophonics, Liam Gallagher, Arctic Monkeys, Queen + Adam Lambert, The Killers 2019 – Stormzy, Catfish and the Bottlemen, George Ezra 2021 – Courteeners, Liam Gallagher, The Chemical Brothers 2022 – Paolo Nutini, The Strokes, Lewis Capaldi 2023 – Pulp, Sam Fender, The 1975 2024 – Liam Gallagher, Gerry Cinnamon, Calvin Harris 2025 – 50 Cent, Biffy Clyro, Snow Patrol, The Script, Fontaines D.C., Gracie Abrams 2026 – Richard Ashcroft, Kasabian, Lewis Capaldi
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