BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2024 will be held in Luton, it has been announced.
Stockwood Park will host the annual festival from May 24-26, where over 100,000 music fans are expected to attend.
Around 100 talented artists will perform, with the full line-up and ticket details set to be announced in the coming months.
Musicians will be spread across four stages – Radio 1 Main Stage, Radio 1’s Future Sounds, Radio 1 Dance and BBC Introducing.
In a statement, Breakfast Show host Greg James said: ‘Radio 1’s Big Weekend is our favourite time of the year and we love taking it somewhere new every year.
BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2024 will be held in Luton, it has been announced
Last year, the music festival took place in Camperdown Park in Dundee, Scotland with over 80,000 music fans attending the three-day festival over the late May bank holiday weekend (Lewis Capaldi pictured performing at the festival)
‘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.’
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.’
This year, the BBC is working closely with Luton Council to ensure the event is a safe and secure environment for all those attending.
Cllr Hazel Simmons MBE, Leader of Luton Council, says: ‘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.’
Last year, the music festival took place in Camperdown Park in Dundee, Scotland with over 80,000 music fans attending the three-day festival over the late May bank holiday weekend.
Radio 1’s Big Weekend was originally set to go to Dundee in 2020 but due to the Covid-19 Pandemic it was unable to go ahead.
On Saturday, The 1975 and The Jonas Brothers headlined, with appearances from ArrDee, Jess Glynne, Joel Corry, Mimi Webb and Tom Grennan.
Meanwhile, FLO, Headie One, Pale Waves, Romy, Rudimental, Self Esteem and The Snuts performed on the Future Sounds stage.
BBC Radio 1 will broadcast live from the festival site across the weekend, with performances and tracks available live and on demand across Radio 1’s iPlayer channel and BBC Sounds
The full line-up for Sunday included Lewis Capaldi, Wet Leg and Niall Horan headlining the main stage.
They were joined on the main stage by chart-toppers such as Anne-Marie, Becky, Nothing But Thieves and Zara Larsson.
On the Radio 1 Future Sounds stage was Arlo Parks, Ashnikko, Cassyette,Cat Burns, Inhaler, RAYE and Sub Focus.
BBC Radio 1 will broadcast live from the festival site across the weekend, with performances and tracks available live and on demand across Radio 1’s iPlayer channel and BBC Sounds.