The festival will be returning this year across the spring bank holiday weekend in May. Full lineup and ticket info coming soon.
BBC Radio 1‘s Big Weekend will be held in Luton this year, it has been announced.
Stockwood Park will host the annual festival from May 24-26 2024, at Stockwood Park in Luton, where over 100,000 music fans are expected to attend.
For the first time, this year will see all four stages – Radio 1 Main Stage, Radio 1’s Future Sounds, Radio 1 Dance and BBC Introducing – running across all three days.
More acts have been added to the line-up for BBC Radio One’s Big Weekend 2024, with RAYE, Charli XCX and The Last Dinner Party leading the way.
Aled Haydn Jones, Head of Radio 1, added: “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.”
Last year’s Big Weekend was hosted in Dundee, where the likes of The 1975, Jonas Brothers, ArrDee, Mimi Webb, FLO, Romy and more performed.
The announcement comes after it was revealed that the organiser behind Reading & Leeds, Radio 1’s Big Weekend and other events submitted plans for a three-day festival in Luton.