This was the post-party scene at T in the Park a “ghost” campsite left behind by the festival-goers.
Despite pleas by the organisers to take their belongings home, thousands of people opted to abandon their tents.
Captured in dramatic fashion from the air, the mammoth clean-up operation swung into action as soon as the event was over.
Squads of staff were drafted in from Monday morning to clear up the litter, tents and lost items belonging to the 85,000 revellers.
The huge amount of debris and the extensive nature of the site will mean it could be two more weeks before the site is returned to normal.
The scale of the task did not faze the organisers, who have got used to the clean-up operation over the years the event has been staged at Balado.
“We spend a lot of time, effort and finance on litter control and we ask festival-goers to play their part in keeping the site and the local environment as tidy as possible,” a T in the Park spokesman said.
Despite evidence to the contrary, they felt the audience actually heeded the appeal and left less belongings than in previous years.
The scale of the headache left in the wake of such a big event will do little to allay the fears of people who live near the site of next year’s T in the Park at Strathallan Castle near Auchterarder.
A local couple have launched a legal challenge against moving the site.
Mark and Kim Liddiard, of North Mains Farm, Strathallan, have written to Scottish ministers asking for a review of the planning process.Homeless charity feels the benefitMeanwhile, many returning from T in the Park donated nearly 1,000 sleeping bags to a Glasgow charity for the city’s homeless population, it has been revealed.
The Invisibles, a group dedicated to helping homeless charities, appealed throughout the three-day music festival for revellers to donate their unwanted bags before leaving.
They started collecting at Buchanan Bus Station in Glasgow and hauled in a whopping 700 sleeping bags, with several hundred more donated by camping specialists Tangerine Fields.
Invisibles spokesman Thomas Lamb, 44, said: “We’ve been absolutely stunned by the reaction of people and their generosity in donating their bags.
“More bags are still coming in all the time and we’ve got people coming up to us to take bags to clean and then bring them back, even though we’ve never met before.
“We’ve had a lot of kids come to hand over their bags, it’s just been an amazing response and we want to get in touch with T in the Park for next year as it’s something that we’d like to keep going on for years to come.
“We’re quite a young group and we’ve only been running for about eight months so we’re not a registered charity but we do help out other charities.”
Invisibles founder Dermot Hill said: “On Sunday night we got a few but not that many. Then Monday morning was absolute mayhem. The kids were absolutely brilliant.
“Without a word of a lie I had a tear in my eye and I wasn’t the only one. I was completely taken aback at the number of sleeping bags donated.”