Radio 1's Big Weekend
Season 2018
BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend (R1BW) is a British music festival run by BBC Radio 1. It is held once a year, in a different location within the United Kingdom each time. It was the biggest free-ticketed music event in Europe, until a fee for tickets was introduced in 2018, and always includes a host of new artists.
Where to Watch Radio 1's Big Weekend • Season 2018
51 Episodes
- OrbitalE1
OrbitalLauren Laverne and Colin Murray host a stunning live set from the reformed and rejuvenated Hartnoll brothers, British dance music royalty, with their chiming sonic landscape and stuttering beats. They got back together in 2017 and prepare to hunch over their equipment, wave their iconic torch glasses and bring awe and amazement to Belfast yet again. - BeckE2
BeckLauren Laverne and Colin Murray host Beck's live set from the 6 Music-curated, Belfast-based opening night of the Biggest Weekend. Beck and band are currently touring his thirteenth studio album, Colors, which finds the LA-based enigma in the funky form that lead to his 1994 breakthrough album Odelay. - Ed SheeranE18
Ed SheeranGraham Norton samples the Biggest Weekend experience and introduces Ed Sheeran's opening set from Singleton Park in Swansea, home to the Radio 1-curated location of the Biggest Weekend. Sheeran continues to dominant the world of pop music and, despite being in the middle of four stadium shows in Manchester, pops down to Swansea to get festivities under way. - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
E20Noel Gallagher's High Flying BirdsEdith Bowman presents the whole of the headlining set by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, flying high on the success of their third and most experimental album Who Built the Moon?, produced by DJ David Holmes, with a set that draws on all the High Flying Birds material and some cannily chosen Oasis numbers. Setlist:Fort Knox, Holy Mountain, It's a Beautiful World, In the Heat of the Moment, Dream On, Little by Little, The Importance of Being Idle, She Taught Me How to Fly, Half the World Away, Wonderwall, AKA... What a Life!, The Right Stuff, Go Let It Out, Don't Look Back in Anger, All You Need Is Love . - UnderworldE21
UnderworldLauren Laverne and Joe Lindsay bring Born Slippy to the Slipway at Titanic to bring Saturday night's Biggest Weekend coverage to a pulsating close. Underworld ruled the airwaves and dance floors at the height of the dance music boom of the mid-90s, providing the soundtrack moment of the iconic youth culture film Trainspotting. Credited with being among the first techno acts to fill stadiums, Karl Hyde and Rick Smith's live sets are legendary for their energy and connection with festival crowds - Florence + The MachineE23
Florence + The MachineClara Amfo and Alice Levine present Florence + The Machine's live headlining set from Singleton Park, Swansea. Rapidly becoming a veteran headlining act after her stunning performance at Glastonbury in 2015, Florence Welch and her band mix songs from her upcoming fourth album High As Hope, as well some of her many anthems from across her unfolding career. - Liam Gallagher
E24Liam GallagherJo Whiley presents Britain's favourite rock 'n' roll star and his full headlining set from Radio 2's curated day in Coventry as part of the Biggest Weekend. Gallagher is on a roll after the success of debut solo album As You Were and a series of swaggering live shows across the nation, which blend songs like Wall of Glass with Oasis classics. - Nigel KennedyE41
Nigel KennedySuzy Klein and Lloyd Coleman present Nigel Kennedy's headlining set from the Radio 3-curated day in Coventry for the Biggest Weekend. Kennedy performs with the BBC Concert Orchestra and his own group, with extracts of Kennedy's updated take on Vivaldi's Four Seasons and his breathtaking arrangements of the songs of Jimi Hendrix.