This morning on the Radio 1 Breakfast Present, Greg James revealed that celebrity Sam Fender might be headlining Radio 1’s Huge Weekend 2025 which might be held in Sefton Park, Liverpool from Friday 23 Might – Sunday 25 Might. Myles Smith, Moist Leg, Blossoms and Lola Younger (following her debut UK #1 with ‘Messy’ as introduced on Radio 1’s Official Chart final Friday) had been additionally introduced as the primary acts set to carry out.
Over the course of the weekend, round 100 acts will take to the stage, from the most important artists on the earth to thrilling new and rising artists, performing throughout 4 levels: Radio 1 Foremost Stage, Radio 1 New Music Stage, Radio 1 Dance and BBC Introducing. With over 100,000 music followers anticipated to attend, the occasion guarantees to be an unforgettable music spectacular.
The primary artists to be introduced are (in alphabetical order):
- Blossoms
- Lola Younger
- Myles Smith
- Sam Fender
- Moist Leg
Radio 1’s Huge Weekend, the station’s flagship stay music occasion, kicks off the UK’s competition season by bringing among the greatest UK and worldwide artists to cities that won’t in any other case host such a big scale occasion. From Taylor Swift in Norwich, Miley Cyrus in Middlesbrough, Stormzy in Exeter, Lana Del Rey in Hull, Ed Sheeran in Coventry, Bruno Mars in Derry/Londonderry, The 1975 in Dundee, and Sabrina Carpenter in Luton, music followers across the UK have seen celebrity acts carry out on their doorsteps. The competition shines a lightweight on the encircling space and offers a serious enhance to the native economic system, with enormous demand for tickets making certain the occasion sells out virtually instantly yearly. Final 12 months’s competition generated £7 million for the host metropolis of Luton.
This 12 months, the BBC is working intently with Liverpool Metropolis Council to make sure that Radio 1’s Huge Weekend 2025 is a protected and safe surroundings for all these attending the competition.
Sam Fender says: “Excited to announce we’re coming to Liverpool for Radio 1’s Huge Weekend in Might. Thanks for inviting us – see you there!”
Blossoms say: “We’re delighted that Radio 1 have invited us to play at this 12 months’s Huge Weekend. Much more so as a result of it’s happening in Liverpool, a metropolis near our hearts, the place we’ve labored and recorded each single one in every of our albums since our debut in 2016. It’s going to be a very particular weekend and we will’t wait to carry out.”
Lola Younger says: “I can’t wait to play Radio 1’s Huge Weekend. It’s going to get Messy! Me + the Liverpool crowd = One Huge Weekend… see what I did there!!”
Myles Smith says: “That is unreal. Huge Weekend was all the time a dream of mine, and to be on the line-up once more is insane. Thanks to everybody who’s been listening, supporting, and coming to reveals. I couldn’t have finished this with out you. See you there!”
Greg James says: “FINALLY…Radio 1 HAS COME BACK…to Liv…er…pooool!
“The final time I used to be there I used to be doing a giant recreation of Conceal and Search and was hidden within the Liver constructing for per week so it’ll be good to see some daylight and luxuriate in it correctly this time. We will’t wait to deliver the most important artists on the earth to this sensible metropolis in Might. Everybody’s going to LOVE the line-up!”
Aled Haydn Jones, Head of Radio 1, says: “We’re thrilled to deliver Radio 1’s Huge Weekend 2025 to Liverpool. Liverpool’s vibrant music scene and wealthy historical past make it the proper setting for this iconic occasion. With unbelievable artists already introduced and extra to be introduced within the coming months, it’s set to be an unmissable weekend.”
Councillor Liam Robinson, Chief of Liverpool Metropolis Council, says: “Radio 1’s Huge Weekend has discovered the proper house this 12 months in Liverpool. Our music, our audiences and our historical past of delivering world class main occasions add up to what’s sure to be an unbelievable three days this Might.”
Additional details about Radio 1’s Huge Weekend 2025, together with headliners and full line-up and ticketing particulars might be introduced on Radio 1 within the coming months.
BBC Radio 1 will broadcast stay from the competition website throughout the weekend, with performances and tracks accessible stay and on demand throughout Radio 1’s iPlayer channel and BBC Sounds.
Radio 1 and Liverpool Metropolis Council might be working collectively to try to make this essentially the most sustainable outside stay music occasion ever produced within the metropolis in keeping with the BBC’s Sustainability programme and Liverpool’s standing as the primary UN Accelerator Metropolis for local weather motion. For extra details about Liverpool please head to the Go to Liverpool web site.
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