 The festival will feature the Verve and REM |
A Conservative MSP is calling for action to be taken to combat T in the Park ticket touts. Murdo Fraser has lodged a parliamentary motion highlighting the problem of people buying passes then selling them on at inflated prices.
Tickets for the music festival at Balado, near Kinross, sold out within an hour last month.
The event will run from 11 to 13 July and features REM, the Verve and Rage Against the Machine.
Mr Fraser, an MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, said: "There are ticket touts buying tickets to make a few hundred pounds quick profit at the expense of genuine music fans.
Making money
"These ticket touts have no interest in going to the festival; instead their only interest is making money out of music fans.
"I believe that it is not right or fair for young Scottish music fans that miss out on tickets that they are then faced with having to pay hundreds of pounds extra or miss out altogether.
"Although the issue of ticket touting is reserved, I want the Scottish Parliament to tell Westminster that here in Scotland we do not want our music fans being ripped off and that action must be taken to stop this practice."
He added that the Scottish government is examining the issue of ticket touting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, and that the review could be widened to include T in the Park tickets and other music festivals.
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