BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend

BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend
Genre	Pop, rock, dance, grime, hip hop, R&B
Dates	Varies
Location(s)	United Kingdom (touring)
Years active	2003–present
Founded by	BBC Radio 1
Website
bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend

BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend (previously known as One Big Weekend, and for 2012 as Radio 1's Hackney Weekend) is a music festival run by BBC Radio 1. It is held once a year, in a different location within the United Kingdom each time. It is the biggest free ticketed music event in Europe and always includes a host of new artists.

The festival is a spin-off of Radio 1's 'One Big Sunday', where every Sunday during July and August, a different town would host the roadshow, usually next to a beach or in a large park. These were also free, but non-ticketed.

Both the 'One Big Sunday' and 'One Big Weekend' events are successors to the Radio 1 Roadshow which toured the country during every summer from 1973 until the 1990s.

Originally a 'One Big Weekend' would run twice a year. The Saturday was dedicated to dance music and the Sunday to bands. But since 2005, the dance day has been replaced by a second day of bands. In 2005, the dance music took place on a second stage on the Saturday only^[1] and in 2006 it took place off site at a club on the Saturday night.^[2] The 'Saturday' of dance music was effectively reinstated for the 2013 event in Northern Ireland, but with the day of dance being held on the Friday of the weekend.

The Big Weekend was replaced by a larger festival in 2012, named 'Radio 1's Hackney Weekend', with a crowd capacity of 50,000. The event took place over the weekend of 23–24 June 2012 in Hackney, East London.^[3]

In 2013 the Big Weekend was, for the first time, a three-day event, and it was held in Derry, Northern Ireland. It was the first time that the Big Weekend had been held in the same city for a second time - having previously visited the city in April 2004.

The 2015 Big Weekend location was revealed to be Norwich on Nick Grimshaw's Breakfast show on 23 January 2015. The event took place on 23 and 24 May 2015.^[4]

The 2016 Big Weekend location is Powderham Castle, Kenton near Exeter on 28 and 29 May.

Venues

Venue	Date	Website
Heaton Park, Manchester, England (Cancelled due to adverse weather)	3–4 May 2003[5]	www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onebigweekend/2003/manchester
Cardiff, Wales	13–14 September 2003	www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onebigweekend/2003/cardiff
Prehen, Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland	24–25 April 2004	www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onebigweekend/2004
Perry Park, Birmingham, England	18–19 September 2004	www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onebigweekend/birmingham
Herrington Country Park, Sunderland, England	7–8 May 2005	www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend05
Camperdown Park, Dundee, Scotland	13–14 May 2006	www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend06
Moor Park, Preston, Lancashire, England	19–20 May 2007	www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend/2007
Mote Park, Maidstone, Kent, England	10–11 May 2008	www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend/2008
Lydiard Park, Swindon, Wiltshire, England	9–10 May 2009	www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend/2009
Faenol Estate, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales	22–23 May 2010	www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend/2010
Carlisle Airport, Carlisle, Cumbria, England	14–15 May 2011	www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend/2011
Hackney Marshes, Hackney, London, England	23–24 June 2012	www.bbc.co.uk/events/e9wmxj
Ebrington Square, Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland	24–26 May 2013	www.bbc.co.uk/events/e82wrz
George Square and Glasgow Green, Glasgow, Scotland	23–25 May 2014	www.bbc.co.uk/events/ep3g9r
Earlham Park, Norwich, England	23–24 May 2015	www.bbc.co.uk/events/ewh8q9
Powderham Castle, Exeter, England	28–29 May 2016	www.bbc.co.uk/events/e2f9rz

Tickets

Tickets to the festival are, notably, free (except the small booking fee which was introduced from the 2012 event onwards) but are usually now restricted to one pair per person. Prior to 2006, a ticket booth would be set up in an easy location in the centre of the hosting city, and anybody who wished to obtain a pair of tickets would queue up, before a Radio 1 DJ gave them out (pairs of tickets for the Saturday given away on a Saturday and on the following day for the Sunday), on a first-come first-served basis. The theory there was that the majority of tickets would go to local residents, as people from further away would not make the journey. However, as more and more 'non-local' residents came to the giveaways, and the capacity at the events grew year-on-year, it was decided that a different system was needed. From 2006, therefore, pairs of tickets have been given away through an online lottery. People wishing to attend register on the BBC Radio 1 website and pairs of tickets are then randomly allocated and given out. In order to make sure that those who live locally get the majority of tickets, the applications are split into categories of 'local postcodes' and 'other postcodes' and the majority of the tickets (usually 95%) are reserved for the former.

Despite the tickets being free, some people often attempt to sell them on eBay, and in recent years this has meant that various security measures have been introduced, most notably the barcodes on tickets which are scanned at the gate, the rule that the person whose name is registered on the ticket has to be in attendance and, from 2012, passport-style pictures being required as part of the application process. Tickets are also given away as prizes via various competitions held on Radio 1 (and now 1Xtra) in the weeks running up to the event, which is usually the only way in which members of the public can obtain passes for both days of the event. For the 2013 event, no pre-registration was necessary, and instead all tickets were given away on a 'first come first served' basis - albeit still with the skewing of 90% of tickets being held back for residents of Northern Ireland. After an initial 24-hour delay due to technical difficulties, the tickets all sold out within an hour. 2014's event in Glasgow saw the 'first come first served' ticket release return with no pre-registration needed. 50% of tickets were reserved for residents within the boundaries of Glasgow City Council with a further 45% reserved for those in the rest of Scotland. However, for the first time ever, members of the public could obtain tickets to all three days of the festival. This led to complaints from some disappointed fans who were left without tickets to any day while others bagged tickets for the entire weekend.

For the 2006 event in Dundee, less than half of the tickets were given to local residents,^[6] and allegations were made of postal workers stealing tickets.^[7]

2016

The event will be held in Powderham Castle, Kenton near Exeter on the 28th and 29 May. Coldplay are headlining the second and final night, with other acts announced so far being Bring Me the Horizon, Chase & Status, Ellie Goulding and Craig David.^[8] On March 1, it was announced that The 1975 and Jake Bugg had been added to the lineup.^[9] Ticket information was announced on Monday 21 March.^[10] Tickets will go on sale at 8am on Monday 4th April. As usual, the tickets themselves are free, but there is a £8.50 administration fee with each ticket. This year, 60% of the tickets will be reserved for residents living in areas covered by Exeter City Council and Teignbridge district council. A further 35% will go to residents in surrounding areas of Exeter, including those with any other Exeter (EX) and Torquay (TQ) postcodes and those with Truro (TR), Plymouth (PL), Taunton (TA) and Dorchester (DT) postcodes, whilst the remaining 5% of tickets will be available to the rest of the UK.^[11] The full line-up will be announced in April 2016.

Line-up

Line-up
Saturday 28 May	Sunday 29 May
Main Stage
Mumford & Sons Bastille Jake Bugg Chase & Status Jess Glynne Nick Jonas Tom Odell Sigma Meghan Trainor	Coldplay The 1975 Iggy Azalea Catfish & The Bottlemen Ellie Goulding Kygo OneRepublic The Weeknd Years & Years
In New Music We Trust
Bring Me the Horizon Craig David CHVRCHES Fetty Wap Flume Stormzy Tame Impala Twenty One Pilots	Biffy Clyro Alessia Cara Alesso Jack Garratt Panic! At The Disco Skepta The Last Shadow Puppets Wolf Alice

2015

On 23 January, Nick Grimshaw announced on the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show, that the 2015 event would be held at Earlham Park in Norwich, Norfolk, next to the University of East Anglia, taking place on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24 May. On 31 March, 50,000 tickets went on sale and sold out within 40 minutes. The full lineup for main stage and the INMWT tent was announced on 20 April, Muse will headline on the Saturday and Foo Fighters on the Sunday. The majority of acts for the BBC introducing stage were announced on 22 April with the remaining acts announced on 4 May.

Line-up

Line-up
Saturday 23 May	Sunday 24 May
Main Stage
Muse Florence and the Machine David Guetta Fall Out Boy Ben Howard Charli XCX The Vaccines 5 Seconds of Summer	Foo Fighters Taylor Swift George Ezra Imagine Dragons Rita Ora Catfish and the Bottlemen Clean Bandit Olly Murs
In New Music We Trust Stage
Rudimental Jess Glynne Hozier Years & Years Circa Waves Ella Eyre Mallory Knox Snoop Dogg Slaves	Jamie T Alt-J Sigma James Bay Jungle Lethal Bizzle SOAK Raury Lower Than Atlantis
BBC Introducing Stage
Port Isla Laurel HUNTAR Context Ted Zed Fickle Friends Amber-Simone Get Inuit Ruen Brothers KLOE The Hearts Kill It Kid	Laura Doggett Star.One HONNE Hot Cops Formation Will Robert Harry Edwards Best Friends Cash+David Franko Fraize Youth Club Claws

• Due to his vocal cord operation, Sam Smith's performance on Sunday was cancelled and replaced by Catfish and the Bottlemen.

2014

On 30 January, Nick Grimshaw, Rita Ora and Paolo Nutini announced that the 2014 event would be held in Glasgow to celebrate the 2014 Commonwealth Games. For the first time, the event will take place in two different locations in the same city. The Friday night of the event will be held in George Square and will be dedicated to dance music.^[12] The remaining two days will follow the traditional format of the Big Weekend and will take place at Glasgow Green. Coldplay, Rita Ora, Paolo Nutini, Pharrell Williams and The 1975 will perform. On 31 March, 60,000 weekend tickets for the event sold out in 30 minutes.^[13] The Main Stage lineup was announced on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show on 28 April 2014. It was announced that Katy Perry will headline on the Sunday night while One Direction and Kings of Leon will open the Main Stage on the Saturday and Sunday respectively. Local Scottish band Baby Stange is set to perform on the BBC Introducing Stage.

Line-up

Line-up
Friday 23 May	Saturday 24 May	Sunday 25 May
George Square Stage	Main Stage
Tiesto Martin Garrix Pete Tong Zane Lowe Annie Mac Danny Howard<	Coldplay Calvin Harris Ed Sheeran Lily Allen Jake Bugg Pharrell Williams Bastille One Direction	Katy Perry Paolo Nutini Tinie Tempah The 1975 Rita Ora John Newman The Vamps Kings of Leon
	In New Music We Trust Stage
	Example Clean Bandit Lorde Bombay Bicycle Club Katy B Twin Atlantic Wilkinson The Kooks	Kasabian Sub Focus You Me at Six London Grammar Sam Smith Chvrches Klaxons Gorgon City
	BBC Introducing Stage
	Catfish and the Bottlemen Honeyblood XO Darlia A-L-X KARI Lyger Saint Raymond Sega Bodega COASTS Model Aeroplanes Racing Glaciers	Indiana Little Shoes Big Voice RHODES Shy Nature Leon Else MDNGHT Royal Blood Baby Strange Juce Rosie Lowe Algernon Doll

Headline Sets

Coldplay 

1. "Paradise"
2. "Charlie Brown"
3. "Magic"
4. "Yellow"
5. "Clocks"
6. "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall"
7. "True Love"
8. "Viva la Vida"
9. "Oceans"
10. "A Sky Full of Stars"

Encore

11. "Fix You"

Katy Perry 

1. "Roar"
2. "Part of Me"
3. "Wide Awake"
4. "Dark Horse"
5. "I Kissed a Girl"
6. "The One That Got Away" (with small excerpts of "Thinking of You")
7. "Unconditionally"
8. "Walking on Air"
9. "Teenage Dream"
10. "California Gurls"
11. "Birthday"

Encore

12. "Firework"

2013

The new Radio 1 Breakfast Show host Nick Grimshaw announced that the Big Weekend would return to Derry in May 2013 to celebrate its title of UK City of Culture 2013, the same city that hosted the first of the two 2004 Big Weekends (although the actual site is different). For the first time, the Big Weekend extended to a third day - which focused on dance music. Alongside that initial announcement were the confirmation of the first two acts, Olly Murs and Two Door Cinema Club, with the rest of the line-up being announced by Grimshaw during another Radio 1 Breakfast Show on Monday 6 May. Both of the stages were in Ebrington Square - unlike recent Big Weekends there was no BBC Introducing Stage or Live Lounge Tent at this event. The '1Xtra' and 'In New Music We Trust' stages from Hackney 2012 were combined into a single venue.

Line-up

Line-up
Friday 24 May	Saturday 25 May	Sunday 26 May
Main Stage
Calvin Harris Chase and Status Dizzee Rascal Rudimental Pete Tong B.Traits Zane Lowe Danny Howard Toddla T MistaJam	Biffy Clyro The Vaccines Two Door Cinema Club Labrinth Foals Ellie Goulding Conor Maynard The Saturdays	Bruno Mars Paramore Thirty Seconds to Mars The Script Olly Murs Jake Bugg Wretch 32 Little Mix
1Xtra Arena/In New Music We Trust Stage
Rita Ora A$AP Rocky J Cole Wiley Maverick Sabre Katy B AlunaGeorge Angel Haze	DJ Fresh Kendrick Lamar alt-J Bring Me the Horizon The 1975 Iggy Azalea Kodaline Laura Mvula Frightened Rabbit	Vampire Weekend Disclosure Bastille Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Everything Everything Jessie Ware Miles Kane We Are The Ocean HAIM

• Due to issues at Heathrow Airport, two acts on the bill for Friday were unable to attend the event: those being Angel Haze and AlunaGeorge. Further acts also had their performances affected by the flight disruptions but were still able to appear: J Cole was forced to substitute his band for a backing track, and Rudimental's equipment was stuck in London, forcing them to use the equipment of Chase and Status.
• The above tables do not always represent the stage orders - for example, Two Door Cinema Club opened the Main Stage on Saturday, as opposed to The Saturdays, who in fact performed second on the day. Similarly, 30 Seconds To Mars opened the Main Stage on Sunday.

Headline Sets

Calvin Harris 

1. "Spectrum"
2. "Awooga"
3. "We Are Your Friends"
4. "Reload"
5. "Flashback"
6. "Bounce"
7. "Monkey See Monkey Do"
8. "Drinking From The Bottle"
9. "Here We Fucking Go"
10. "We Found Love"
11. "Be Strong"
12. "Ladi Dadi"
13. "You Got The Love"
14. "Yeahhh"
15. "In My Mind"
16. "We'll Be Coming Back"
17. "Epic"
18. "Feel So Close"
19. "Metropolis"
20. "Promises" (cover of Nero)
21. "Move"
22. "Rage"
23. "Need U 100%" (cover of Duke Dumont)
24. "Million Voices"
25. "Turn It Up"
26. "I Need Your Love"
27. "One More Time" (cover of Daft Punk)
28. "Sweet Nothing"
29. "Bura"
30. "Let's Go"

Rita Ora 

1. "Radioactive"
2. "Facemelt"
3. "Love and War"
4. "Hot Right Now"
5. "Shine Ya Light"
6. "Roc the Life"
7. "Hella Good"
8. "She Wants To Move"
9. "How We Do (Party)"
10. "R.I.P."

Biffy Clyro 

1. "Stingin' Belle"
2. "The Captain"
3. "Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies"
4. "Biblical"
5. "Sounds Like Balloons"
6. "God & Satan"
7. "Who's Got A Match?"
8. "Bubbles"
9. "Spanish Radio"
10. "Opposite"
11. "Glitter and Trauma"
12. ""Many of Horror"
13. "That Golden Rule"
14. "Black Chandelier"
15. "Mountains"

DJ Fresh 

1. "The Feeling"
2. "Gold Dust"
3. "Talkbox"
4. "Hypercaine"
5. "Levels" (cover of Avicii)
6. "Hip Hop"
7. "Paradise" (cover of Coldplay)
8. "Lassitude"
9. "Seven Nation Army" (cover of The White Stripes)
10. "The Power"
11. "Fire Over Water"
12. "Hot Right Now"
13. "The Edge"
14. "Skyhighatrist"
15. "Forever More"
16. "Louder"

Bruno Mars 

1. "Locked Out Of Heaven"
2. "Natalie"
3. "Treasure"
4. "Marry You"
5. "Runaway Baby"
6. "When I Was Your Man"
7. "Grenade"
8. "Just The Way You Are"

Vampire Weekend 

1. "Cousins"
2. "White Sky"
3. "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"
4. "Diane Young"
5. "Step"
6. "Holiday"
7. "Unbelievers"
8. "Everlasting Arms"
9. "A-Punk"
10. "Ya Hey"
11. "Campus"
12. "Oxford Comma"
13. "Giving Up the Gun"
14. "Walcott"

2012

On 23 May 2011, it was announced that for 2012, Radio 1 would be replacing the Big Weekend with a 'Hackney Weekend' to form part of the London 2012 Festival, in the buildup to the 2012 Olympics.^[3] The festival duly took place on the Hackney Marshes over the weekend of 23 and 24 June 2012.

50,000 people attended each of the two days in 2012, meaning a total of 100,000 people visited the site over the weekend: more than double the previous highest attendances (40,000 across the weekends in each of 2010 and 2011). Due to the upgraded scale of the festival, the number of stages were increased (from four to six) and, for the first time, the Main Stage was outdoors rather than inside a tent.

Florence + The Machine were initially announced as playing on Saturday 23 June, but a double booking at another European festival meant that they actually performed on Sunday 24 June.^[14]

The Ting Tings were initially announced as to be playing on Saturday 23 June, but due to logistical reasons beyond their control they had to pull out of the bill.^[15]

On both days of the festival, a number of unannounced special guests performed with artists on the bill, the most noteworthy of which were Rihanna, M.I.A. and Kanye West appearing as part of Jay-Z's headlining set on Saturday; and, in turn, Jay-Z went on to return the favour and make a special multiple-song contribution during Rihanna's own headlining set the next day.

Line-up

Saturday 23 June

Line-up
Saturday 23 June	Sunday 24 June
Main Stage
Jay-Z Kasabian Nicki Minaj Ed Sheeran Example Rizzle Kicks Leona Lewis	Rihanna Dizzee Rascal Florence + The Machine Tinie Tempah Jessie J Plan B Professor Green
In New Music We Trust Stage
Jack White Lostprophets The Vaccines The Maccabees Rudimental Delilah Michael Kiwanuka Rita Ora Jessie Ware	Chase & Status Magnetic Man Lana Del Rey Enter Shikari Sub Focus Ben Howard Santigold Bombay Bicycle Club
1Xtra Arena
Sean Paul Flo Rida will.i.am D'banj Trey Songz Tinchy Stryder Chip Boy Better Know DJ Fresh Emeli Sandé Dappy	Nas Wretch 32 B.o.B Gyptian Taio Cruz Azealia Banks Maverick Sabre Devlin Sway Lethal B Mindless Behavior Labrinth
Dance Arena
Swedish House Mafia Deadmau5 Calvin Harris Eric Prydz Nero Annie Mac	David Guetta Andy C Madeon Pete Tong Flux Pavilion & Doctor P Zane Lowe
DJ Stage
Nihal Robbo Ranx Semtex Benji B Mosca Rob da Bank Moyles vs Westwood DJ Target DJ Cameo Tim Westwood	DJ Edu Nihal Robbo Ranx Toddla T Friction B.Traits Skream & Benga Vernon vs Charlie Sloth MistaJam Tim Westwood
BBC Introducing Stage
Random Impulse The Skints In Search Of Isaac Danquah Lil Simz My Panda Shall Fly Paigey Cakey Cheekie Bugga UD Vocal Collective Xploder	Arthur Beatrice Driving Lolita Joe Black Kersha Bailey Lola King and The Kickstarts Pepstar Project Hackney Collective Savages Stevie Neale ShezAr

Headline Sets

Jay-Z 

1. "Run This Town" (with Rihanna)
2. "Dirt Off Your Shoulder"
3. "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)"
4. "PSA"
5. "Where I'm From"
6. "Jigga What, Jigga Who"
7. "U Don't Know"
8. "99 Problems"
9. "'03 Bonnie & Clyde"
10. "Girls, Girls, Girls"
11. "On to The Next One"
12. "Dead Presidents"
13. "Swagga Like You"
14. "Paper Planes" - Performed by M.I.A.
15. "Bad Girls" - Performed by M.I.A
16. "Izzo (H.O.V.A)"
17. "Empire State of Mind"
18. "Otis" (featuring Kanye West)
19. "Gotta Have It" (featuring Kanye West)
20. "Who Gon Stop What?" (featuring Kanye West)
21. "No Church in the Wild" (featuring Kanye West)
22. "Lift Off" (featuring Kanye West)
23. "Niggas in Paris" (featuring Kanye West)

Rihanna 

1. "Only Girl (In the World)"
2. "Disturbia"
3. "S&M"
4. "Cockiness (Love It)"
5. "Birthday Cake"
6. "What's My Name"
7. "Rude Boy"
8. "Love the Way You Lie (Part II)"
9. "Man Down"
10. "Where Have You Been"
11. "Wait Your Turn"
12. "Hard"
13. "Don't Stop the Music"
14. "Run This Town" (featuring Jay-Z)
15. "Talk That Talk" (featuring Jay-Z)
16. "Umbrella" (featuring Jay-Z)
17. "We Found Love"

2011

The announcement of location and dates for Radio 1's Big Weekend 2011 was made by Scott Mills on 30 March 2011, with his breakfast show (he was covering for Chris Moyles that week) being broadcast from Trinity School, Carlisle that morning. Over 750,000 people applied for tickets to the event.^[16]

20,000 pairs of tickets were available for the two-day event with the usual allocation policy applying. It was announced that the priority areas for tickets would be the borders of Carlisle, Cumbria, the Scottish Borders and the North East of England.

As usual, competitions to win VIP tickets were run on various Radio 1 shows in the weeks leading up to the Big Weekend.

Line-up

Line-up
Saturday 14 May	Sunday 15 May
Main Stage
Foo Fighters The Black Eyed Peas Tinie Tempah Chase & Status Nicole Scherzinger Plan B Ellie Goulding Jessie J Arctic Monkeys	Lady Gaga My Chemical Romance Taio Cruz The Script Katy B Professor Green Olly Murs The Wombats Bruno Mars
In New Music We Trust Stage
Swedish House Mafia Friendly Fires Nero Panic! at the Disco Everything Everything Cage the Elephant The Joy Formidable Wretch 32	The Strokes Magnetic Man Noah and the Whale Devlin Two Door Cinema Club The Vaccines Yasmin Pulled Apart By Horses
BBC Introducing Stage
Friends Electric Aaron Delahuntly Rizzle Kicks Yaaks Luke Bingham Fiona Clayton Saturday Night Gym Club Baron Van Alias Birds vs Planes	MOPP MyElectrik Masters in France DJ Vimto vs Jah Digga Linc Polarsets Among Brothers Let's Buy Happiness Colt 45
Outdoor Stage
Zane Lowe Jaymo and Andy George Judge Jules Pete Tong Riva Starr Pete Tong vs Vernon Kay Rob da Bank MistaJam Annie Mac vs. Nick Grimshaw Target Cameo Westwood	Skream and Benga Annie Mac Toddla T Fabio and Grooverider Kutski Kissy Sell Out Calvin Harris Westwood vs. Moyles Jaguar Skills Zane vs. Fearne Dev DJ Semtex Westwood

Headline Sets

Foo Fighters 

1. "Bridge Burning"
2. "Rope"
3. "All My Life"
4. "My Hero"
5. "Learn to Fly"
6. "White Limo"
7. "Times Like These"
8. "The Pretender"
9. "Walk"
10. "Cold Day in the Sun"
11. "Best of You"
12. "Monkey Wrench"
13. "Everlong"
14. "This Is a Call"
15. "Tie Your Mother Down"

Lady Gaga 

1. "Born this Way"
2. "Bad Romance"
3. "Telephone" / "Poker Face" / "Alejandro"
4. "Orange Colored Sky"
5. "Speechless"
6. "The Edge of Glory"
7. "You and I"
8. "Americano"
9. "Just Dance"
10. "Judas"

TV & radio coverage

Radio 1's Big Weekend 2011 was streamed live on the Radio 1 website. The headliners of each day (Foo Fighters and Lady Gaga on Saturday and Sunday respectively) were broadcast live on BBC Three and BBC HD. The Big Weekend was also broadcast live on BBC Radio 1. Highlights of the event were also broadcast on BBC Three and BBC HD during the week following the Big Weekend.

2010

On 24 February 2010, it was announced on The Chris Moyles Show that the 10th Big Weekend would take place on the Faenol Estate near Bangor, Wales on Saturday 22 May and Sunday 23 May 2010. Pixie Lott also performed on the show and was announced as the first act on the bill and Lostprophets was announced while they were on tour. Jaguar Skills announced on his website that he would be playing at the event, but he was not on the announced line-up. On the morning of 26 April 2010, the full main stage and INMWT stage listings were announced during the Fearne Cotton Show (which was hosted by Annie Mac, as Cotton was on vacation).

20,000 pairs of free tickets were made available to the public for each day of the weekend. Applicants were able to register for tickets to the event on the Radio 1 website from 26 April 2010 until 3 May 2010.

Line-up

Saturday 22 May^[17]

Main Stage	In New Music We Trust Stage	BBC Introducing Stage	Outdoor Stage
Florence & The Machine	Faithless	Frankie & The Heartstrings	Westwood + Kelly Rowland
Dizzee Rascal	MGMT	The Joy Formidable	Target & Cameo + Roll Deep
Alicia Keys	Ellie Goulding	What Would Jesus Drive?	Ras & Seani B + Chiddy Bang & Skepta
Lostprophets	Tinie Tempah	Menis	MistaJam + Professor Green, Blame & Wiley
Cheryl Cole	Bombay Bicycle Club	I Am Austin	Pete Tong vs Vernon Kay
Chipmunk	Hadouken!	The Wonder Villains	Faithless DJs
Thirty Seconds to Mars	Stornoway	Alan Pownall	Zane Lowe
Justin Bieber	Example	Y Promatics	Rob da Bank
Scouting For Girls		Pegasus Bridge	Toddla T & Alex Metric
			Annie Mac

Sunday 23 May

Main Stage	In New Music We Trust Stage	BBC Introducing Stage	Outdoor Stage
Pendulum	Vampire Weekend	Beatbullyz	Westwood + Scorcher
Rihanna	You Me At Six	Envy	Semtex & Robbo Ranx
Biffy Clyro	Sub Focus	Tempa T	Bailey & Fabio
Kesha	Plan B	UTE	Rampage & MistaJam + Devlin & McLean
JLS	Marina & The Diamonds	My Tiger My Timing	Chris Moyles vs Westwood
Paramore	Crystal Castles	Pete Lawrie	Tiesto
Jason Derulo	Kids In Glass Houses	We Are Animal	Judge Jules
Paolo Nutini	Delphic	Django Django	Jaymo & Andy George
Pixie Lott		Yr Ods	Kissy Sell Out
			Huw Stephens

Live Lounge Tent

Diana Vickers

Ellie Goulding

Lostprophets

Joe McElderry

Florence and the Machine

Example

Biffy Clyro

Taio Cruz

Kate Nash

2009

The 2009 event was held in Swindon.

Line-up

Saturday 9 May

Main Stage	In New Music We Trust Stage	Outdoor Stage
Snow Patrol	Basement Jaxx	Annie Mac
Kasabian	Jack Peñate	Nerm and D-Code
Dizzee Rascal	Doves	Kutski
The Script	Friendly Fires	Pete Tong vs Vernon Kay
Calvin Harris	Deadmau5	2ManyDJs
Chris Moyles	Florence and the Machine	Zane Lowe
The Wombats	The King Blues	Rob da Bank
Daniel Merriweather	Fightstar	Tim Westwood
The Saturdays

Sunday 10 May

Main Stage	In New Music We Trust Stage	Outdoor Stage
The Prodigy	The Enemy	Judge Jules
Lily Allen	Maxïmo Park	Jaymo and Andy George
Ne-Yo	Gossip	Kissy Sell Out
Franz Ferdinand	Enter Shikari	Chase & Status (DJ set)
Akon	Tinchy Stryder	David Guetta featuring Kelly Rowland
Scouting for Girls	Chase & Status	Chris Moyles vs Tim Westwood
Alesha Dixon	Ladyhawke	Fabio & Grooverider
N-Dubz	White Lies	BBC Radio 1Xtra - MistaJam featuring Wiley, Skepta, Bashy, Chipmunk and Doneao
	Little Man Tate	Trevor Nelson and Jaguar Skills

2008

In 2008, the festival was held over the weekend of Saturday 10 May and Sunday 11 May, at Mote Park in Maidstone, which can hold up to 20,000 people.^[18] 85% of tickets went to people living in Kent, 10% went to those living in areas bordering Kent, including parts of Sussex, Surrey, Essex and London, and the other 5% were handed to others living across the United Kingdom.^[19] Concern was raised after a large number of locals commented that even those living within the close vicinity of the park did not receive tickets, with some in the Medway towns winning multiple times.^[20]

Line-up

The full line-up (except for Paramore) was announced on BBC Radio 1 on Monday 21 April 2008.^[21]

Saturday 10 May

Main Stage	In New Music We Trust Stage	Outdoor Stage	BBC Introducing Stage
Madonna	Editors	Fatboy Slim	White Lies
Usher	The Futureheads	Chris Moyles vs Judge Jules	James Yuill
The Fratellis	We Are Scientists	Zane Lowe vs Scott Mills	Magistrates
Scouting for Girls	Foals	Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso	AG Dolla
Duffy	Vampire Weekend	Count & Sinden	Fighting With Wire
The Feeling	Paramore	Dave Spoon	Natty
Robyn	The Ting Tings	Annie Mac	It Hugs Back
The Hoosiers		Nic Fanciulli	Folk Face
		Eddie Halliwell	Jaguar Skills
		Kissy Sell Out

Sunday 11 May

Main Stage	In New Music We Trust Stage	Outdoor Stage	BBC Introducing Stage
The Kooks	The Raconteurs	Zane Lowe	Golden Silvers
The Enemy	The Zutons	Pendulum (DJ Set)	Twisted Wheel
Nelly (ft. Kelly Rowland)	The Wombats	Justice (DJ Set)	Ebony Bones
Goldfrapp	Hot Chip	Vernon Kay vs Pete Tong	Outl4w
The Pigeon Detectives	Gallows	Dave Pearce	Chipmunk
Newton Faulkner	Pendulum	Basshunter	Kate Goes
OneRepublic	Justice	Rob Da Bank	Tom Williams & The Boat
Adele	Black Kids	Kutski	Wing
		MistaJam
		Wiley
		H "Two" O ft. Platnum
		Jodie Aysha
		Cameo vs DJ Q

The national newspapers had also reported that Justin Timberlake could be a special guest - performing with Madonna.^[22] Although this later turned out to be untrue. Pendulum were hailed as one of the festivals' best acts, outshining even Madonna and packing the INMWT tent.^[23]

• On the main stage on 10 May 2008, Paul Schrader, Chris Carmack and Rachel McAdams appeared whilst doing promotional work for Tarzan.

Headline sets

Madonna 

1. "Candy Shop"
2. "Miles Away"
3. "4 Minutes"
4. "Hung Up"
5. "Give It 2 Me"
6. "Music"

2007

On Saturday 19 May and Sunday 20 May, Radio 1's Big Weekend was held in Moor Park in Preston.

For the first time in the history of the event, all tickets had barcodes and were scanned on arrival at the park. The barcodes contained information such as name and address of the winner of the tickets. Having the barcodes meant that Radio 1 could cancel lost or stolen tickets and issue new ones to those affected. In an effort to stop people buying tickets from eBay or through other mediums, the public was told they would be asked to prove their home address if their tickets were thought to be suspect.^[24] However, the BBC decided to scrap this idea on the day as they thought it would cause angry scenes if people were to be turned away.

At the close of entry on 8 May 2007, over 450,000 people registered for a chance to get tickets for the 2007 festival. On Tuesday 8 May on The Chris Moyles Show, Chris announced that a further 5,000 tickets will be available taking the total for both days being 35,000.

Tickets were also given away in an alternate reality game online using Radio 1 fan forums. The situation surrounded a man called Paul Denchfield who was supposedly sacked from the station. Throughout the run up to the event 'Frozen Indigo Angel' would appear in various places online and on-air, with it being the player's mission to hunt down tickets.^[25]

The line up was as follows:

Line-up

Saturday 19 May^[26]

Main Stage	In New Music We Trust Stage	Outdoor Arena
Scissor Sisters	Groove Armada	Westwood
Razorlight	Gossip	MistaJam
Kasabian	LCD Soundsystem	Seamus Haji
The Fratellis	CSS	Meck
The Fray	Biffy Clyro	Groove Armada (DJ Set)
Natasha Bedingfield	Cold War Kids	Judge Jules
The Twang	The Pigeon Detectives	Tim Deluxe vs The Audio Bullys
Jamie T		Simian Mobile Disco
		Annie Mac

Sunday 20 May^[27]

Main Stage	In New Music We Trust Stage	Outdoor Arena
Kaiser Chiefs	Bloc Party	Bobby & Nihal
Stereophonics	Maxïmo Park	Rob Da Bank
Mika	Klaxons	Zane Lowe & Mark Ronson
The View	Dizzee Rascal	Klaxons (DJ Set)
Rihanna	Get Cape Wear Cape Fly	Pete Tong & Vernon Kay
Mark Ronson	The Enemy	David Guetta
Just Jack	CSS	Trophy Twins
Calvin Harris	M.I.A	Fergie
		Tylor Leigh
		Dave Pearce

2006

In 2006, the Big Weekend was held in Camperdown Park, Dundee on 13 and 14 May 2006 and featured artists which included:

Line-up

Saturday 13 May

Main Stage	In New Music We Trust Stage
Paolo Nutini	The Fratellis
Corinne Bailey Rae	Mystery Jets
Gnarls Barkley	Boy Kill Boy
Orson	Dirty Pretty Things
Razorlight	Bloc Party
Muse	Primal Scream
The Streets
Snow Patrol
Mylo

Sunday 14 May

Main Stage	In New Music We Trust Stage
The Feeling	The View
The Ordinary Boys	Hot Chip
Sugababes	We Are Scientists
Feeder	Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Editors	The Kooks
Pink	The Zutons
Keane
Franz Ferdinand (Surprise Guests)

Many of the BBC Radio 1 DJs including Pete Tong, Tim Westwood and Chris Moyles attended too, and held a number of competitions so that people could win tickets. In addition, Radio 1 also created a virtual festival experience in the virtual reality application Second Life.^[28] Avatars on the BBC Radio 1 islands could watch the event on live screens while the audience could see their virtual counterparts on massive stage side screens at the real event in Dundee. The event was hailed as the first ever festival with a professional line-up to take place in a virtual universe.^[28]

2005

On 7 and 8 May 2005, the Big Weekend was held at Penshaw Monument in Herrington Country Park, Sunderland, and featured artists included:

Line-up

Saturday 7 May

Main Stage	Second Stage
Foo Fighters	Mauro Picotto
Kasabian	Pete Tong
Natalie Imbruglia	Judge Jules
Chemical Brothers	Fergie
Battle	Shapeshifters
KT Tunstall
Rooster

Sunday 8 May

Main Stage	Second Stage
The Black Eyed Peas	The Futureheads
Gwen Stefani	Maximo Park
Kaiser Chiefs	Interpol
Feeder	The Magic Numbers
Basement Jaxx	The Subways
Jamiroquai	Do Me Bad Things
The Bravery
Lemar

September 2004

On 18 and 19 September 2004, the final 'One Big Weekend' under that name - and the second of that calendar year - was held at Perry Park, Birmingham. It featured the following line-up:

Line-up

Saturday 18 September

Main Stage	Second Stage
Tiesto	Groove Armada
Fat Boy Slim	David Guetta
Deep Dish	Darren Emerson
Judge Jules	Xpress 2
Dave Pearce	Yousef
Steve Lawler	Mylo
Nick Fanciulli	Behrouz
	Mutiny
	Josh 'Rinse' Roberts

Sunday 8 May

Main Stage	Second Stage
Lostprophets	Kasabian
Goldie Lookin' Chain	22-20's
Mouldy Lookin' Stain	The Music
Joss Stone	The Departure
Damien Rice	13 Senses
Razorlight	Skinnyman
Estelle	Exist
Natasha Bedingfield
Broken Dolls

April 2004

On 24 and 25 2004, the penultimate 'One Big Weekend' under that name - and the first of two in that calendar year - was held at Prehen Fields, Derry. It featured the following line-up:

Line-up

Saturday 18 September

Main Stage
Faithless
Pete Tong
Seb Fontaine
Judge Jules
Fergie
Armin van Buuren
Agnelli & Nelson
Tall Paul

Sunday 8 May

Main Stage
Keane
Ash
Avril Lavigne
The Streets
Franz Ferdinand
Kelis

September 2003

On 13 and 14 September, the One Big Weekend held in Cardiff.^[29]

Saturday 13 September	Sunday 14 September
Basement Jaxx	Pink
The Chemical Brothers	Travis
Erick Morillo	Dido
Seb Fontaine	The Darkness
Lottie and Yousef	Starsailor
Sander Kleinenberg	The Thrills
Hybrid	Kosheen
Time Flies DJ

May 2003

On 3 and 4 May, the One Big Weekend was held in Manchester.^[30]

Saturday 3 May	Sunday 4 May
Judge Jules	The White Stripes
Paul van Dyk	Dirty Vegas
Rob Tissera	Aqualung
Eddie Halliwell	The Coral
Good Greef Crew	Feeder
	Badly Drawn Boy
	Stereophonics

Notes

1. BBC - Radio 1 - Radio 1's Big Weekend
2. BBC - Radio 1's Big Weekend 2006 - Dance Party
3. "Radio 1's Hackney Weekend 2012". BBC. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ewh8q9. Missing or empty |title= (help); External link in |website= (help);
5. BBC - Radio 1 - One Big Weekend
6. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2006/05/11/newsstory8325400t0.asp
7. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2006/05/11/newsstory8325423t0.asp
8. "Nick Grimshaw announce the Big Weekend 2016 lineup!". BBC Radio 1.
9. "The 1975 are added to Radio 1's Big Weekend in Exeter, Devon". Newsbeat.
10. "Radio 1's Big Weekend 2016". BBC.
11. "Ticket Information". BBC.
12. "Newsbeat - Radio 1's Big Weekend 2014 to take place in Glasgow". BBC. 2014-01-30. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
13. "BBC Newsbeat". Retrieved 1 April 2014.
14. Live Live Shows. "Live". Florence and the Machine. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
15. "news". The Ting Tings. 2011-11-14. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
16. "Radio 1's Big Weekend 2011 - FAQs". BBC. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
17. "Radio 1 - Big Weekend - 2010 - Line Up". BBC. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
18. Big Weekend venue announced
19. BBC - Radio 1's Big Weekend - Tickets - FAQs
20. Kent Online (via Wayback Machine)
21. Unofficial Mills | Radio 1's Big Weekend 2008 Line-Up
22. Unofficial Mills | Justin to join Madonna at the Big Weekend?
23. Skiddle|Pendulum outshine Madonna
24. BBC - Radio 1's Big Weekend - Tickets FAQs
25. Unofficial Mills | Frozen Indigo Angel?
26. BBC - Radio 1's Big Weekend - Artists
27. BBC - Radio 1's Big Weekend - Artists
28. "BBC starts to rock online world". BBC News. 12 May 2006. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
29. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/08_august/29/big_weekend_cardiff.shtml
30. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onebigweekend/2003/manchester/

External links

• BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend at BBC Online