29 January 2024 , 12:22
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Radio One's Big Weekend is heading for Luton this summer and this time more than 100,000 music fans will get to see it.
Greg James revealed the location of the three-day festival on his Radio 1 Breakfast Show as Stockwood Park was confirmed for May's mega festival season lift-off. The annual curtain raiser's headline acts are yet to be announced and within weeks ticket information will be released.
It will be the first time the Big Weekend has run across three full days. Last year Lewis Capaldi, Jonas Brothers, and The 1975 topped the bill in Dundee, Scotland, are now it's destination Buckinghamshire as the town - around 20 miles from London - plays host to the incredible party. Jess Glynne, Joel Corry, Mimi Webb and Tom Grennan also appeared on stage last time and some big acts are about to be confirmed.
Lewis Capaldi wowed the crowd last time out and soon we'll know who's taking to the stage (AFP via Getty Images)Greg said: “Radio 1’s Big Weekend is our favourite time of the year and we love taking it somewhere new. This year it's bigger than ever - we're doing a really big Big Weekend. For the first time all four stages are on for all three days. This year is the turn of Luton to experience the full Radio 1 treatment. It’s a simple mission really: we just want everyone who comes along to have the best time.”
Last year, weekend tickets cost just £29.00 plus a £4.50 booking fee while Friday tickets cost £18 with an additional booking fee of £2.50. Aled Haydn Jones, Head of Radio 1, said: “Radio 1’s Big Weekend always kicks off the UK festival season in style and I’m so excited that this year, it will be a three-day, four-stage, live music spectacular for our listeners to enjoy. We have some incredibly exciting ideas in the pipeline as well as some of the biggest artists to announce in the coming months, I can’t wait to celebrate in Luton.”
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Cllr Hazel Simmons MBE, Leader of Luton Council said: “The fact that BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend, one of the UK’s largest and most popular music festivals, has chosen Luton is fantastic news for our town, especially our young people, and will showcase all the wonderful things about Luton.
“Not only will this event give a multi-million pound boost to Luton’s economy and provide a number of opportunities for local young people and businesses, with tens of thousands in attendance and millions tuning in across the BBC, it gives us an opportunity to step forward and showcase the very best of our ambitious, brilliantly vibrant, wonderfully diverse and transforming town.”