{"id":2430306,"date":"2026-05-24T14:57:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T14:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2430306"},"modified":"2026-05-24T14:57:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T14:57:02","slug":"thousands-enjoy-final-day-of-radio-1s-big-weekend-in-sunderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/thousands-enjoy-final-day-of-radio-1s-big-weekend-in-sunderland\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands enjoy final day of Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Sunderland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Horan said he was “nervous” to be playing his first gig in almost a year and a half – but the audience got him through it.<\/p>\n

“You’re a lovely, hospitable welcoming people,” he said. “This is my kind of crowd.”<\/p>\n

Luton’s Myles Smith brought the sound of a US hoedown to Sunderland with feelgood stomp-clap anthems like Nice To Meet You and We Can Dance.<\/p>\n

He ran into the crowd during Gold, posing for selfies and giving high fives to the front row.<\/p>\n

“I need to go back to the gym,” he panted as the song ended. “I’m so out of breath after that.”<\/p>\n

As well as the headline acts, the weekend was jam-packed with live music and DJ sets across three different stages as well as food and drink.<\/p>\n

BBC Music correspondent Mark Savage said security guards manning the main stage were helping to give out water to the crowds in the heat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

Horan said he was “nervous” to be playing his first gig in almost a year and a half – but the audience got him through it. “You’re a lovely, hospitable welcoming people,” he said. “This is my kind of crowd.” Luton’s Myles Smith brought the sound of a US hoedown to Sunderland with feelgood stomp-clap […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2430307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2430306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Thousands-enjoy-final-day-of-Radio-1s-Big-Weekend-in.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2430308,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430306\/revisions\/2430308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2430307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}