Category: Big Weekend
You know what really grinds my gears? How the Big Weekend over the last eleven years has failed to hit the Eastern region.
This map shows how Radio 1 has settled for many central locations since Radio 1's Big Weekend begun.
It also has notably favoured sites closer to the existing mainstream festivals such as Reading, Leeds, Glastonbury and V.
Wasn't the Big Weekend's mission statement to go to towns further away from those sort of events?
The East consistently misses out on events t [...]
BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra are working on a new special event for 2012 set to be based in London around the time of the Olympic games.
The outdoor festival is being spearheaded by Jason Carter, who has been working behind the scenes on BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend over the past few years.
Little detail has been given about the event but it is intended to deliver something "extremely special" to the young people living in the boroughs around the Olympics site in East London.
Controller of BBC Ra [...]