Big Weekend
Radio 1's Big Weekend is the station's free music festival, held in a different part of the UK each year. Here's our coverage of Scott Mills and the team at Big Weekend over the years.
Lynette had to cut short her Tinder judging to make a hearing appointment, while a Maya Jama Big Weekend rumour went into Real or No Real and Bangers travelled to Crieff. [...]
Solent University explained why Scott had been given an honorary doctorate, premium listener Lorna developed a crush on the man fixing her Sky box and extra-long Rasputin split the audience. [...]
Stephen Fry recalled being taken off Radio 1 in 1982, explained how “spuffle” spread through voiceover studios and was pitched an unlikely Taylor Swift collaboration at Big Weekend. [...]
Scott and Chris took over Radio 1 Breakfast, Chappers returned to referee a football rivalry using rock, paper, scissors and a dog delivering wine became one of lockdown’s most useful key workers. [...]
Big Weekend’s move to Dundee triggered another Stark Guide, angry DJs returned with more nightclub complaints and Scott became fascinated by the people paid to occupy empty celebrity seats at awards shows. [...]
Jordan and Chris tested whether cows had regional accents with Leicestershire cow Helga, Bangers became a festival special and Chris finally met one of his own superfans. [...]
Joel Corry had to identify which of three accusations was genuine before apologising to friend Jake, while the show’s fearless intern secretly caught Scott and Chris refusing to correct people who used the wrong names. [...]
Scott and Chris imagined Freya Ridings as a garage artist, celebrated a personal Sean Paul tweet and sent Megan home with a Stark Guide to Norwich after Big Weekend. [...]
Scott and Chris handed Anne-Marie’s interview to Lewis Capaldi, who asked whether she sweated when putting clothes on and proved he could be as entertaining interviewing a pop star as being interviewed himself. [...]
Scott and Chris returned from Middlesbrough with lost voices, Jax Jones disguised himself as “Jake from Newsbeat” to ask festivalgoers about his own set and Huw Edwards joined for a post-Big Weekend interview. [...]