“We live in dark times and hope is crushed; but cast aside despair people – we are men in tight costumes and we are ready to fight. We are The Darkness, and we bring you light.” That wasn’t the intro the band used tonight, but it should have been. Words …

With Scotland’s biggest music festival, T In The Park, on hiatus, Glasgow’s TRNSMT has become the most high profile event in the live music calendar north of the border. Words: Ian Sutherland, Pictures:Mark Ritchie and Ryan Buchanan Based in Glasgow Green in the centre of the country’s largest city, it …