{"id":2163994,"date":"2025-11-18T09:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2163994"},"modified":"2025-11-18T09:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:12:16","slug":"radio-1s-big-weekend-2026-announced-for-sunderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/radio-1s-big-weekend-2026-announced-for-sunderland\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2026 announced for Sunderland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last year, about 100,000 music fans attended the event in Sefton Park in Liverpool, which was dubbed “Scouse Coachella<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Tom Grennan, Sam Fender and Mumford & Sons topped the bill, while Ed Sheeran made a surprise appearance and JADE, from Little Mix, got teary on stage.<\/p>\n

About 90% of the tickets for the most recent Big Weekend went to locals, but Liverpool City Council had to defend spending \u00a3250,000 on hosting the event<\/a>, saying the funding was from its events budget and the festival was great publicity for the city. <\/p>\n

In 2023, the event generated nearly \u00a37m for Luton’s economy<\/a> following half a million pounds of investment.<\/p>\n

Radio 1’s Big Weekend is the latest in a string of music events being held in the north-east of England after the Mercury Prize and Mobo Awards were hosted in the north earlier this year. <\/p>\n

Sunderland City Council is working closely with the BBC to make sure it is a “safe, inclusive and enjoyable event”, according to the broadcaster.<\/p>\n

Leader of the council, councillor Michael Mordey, said it was “a fantastic opportunity to show people who haven’t been to Sunderland, what a brilliant city it is and how much is happening here”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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