Glastonbury
Every year Glastonbury brings its own chaos to the site, from wedding-ticket stunts and treadmill quizzes in the Radio 1 years to festival-themed games and call-ins continuing into the Radio 2 era. Expect a mix of features, listener stories and odd traditions tied to festival season.
Chris opened his eyes to find tribute versions of Simon Cowell, Lady Gaga and Daniel Craig waiting to soak him in Innuendo Bingo. [...]
Laura Tobin tried to protect herself from Innuendo Bingo with glasses fitted with tiny windscreen wipers, but still ended the game soaked. [...]
Scott became so fascinated by the BBC's slow-motion Wimbledon montages that he started dropping equally unexplained montages into his own show. [...]
Scott decided the music from Glastonbury had been brilliant but the emotional Facebook statuses afterwards deserved a firm “Give It A Restival”. [...]
Unlucky Gary chose an awkward photograph with Jay-Z for the bank card he would now have to produce in every shop. [...]
Mark Watson described the Fringe as Glastonbury drinking levels sustained across 26 nights. [...]
When Beyoncé’s pregnancy was announced, Scott and Unlucky Gary celebrated his earlier suspicion after she had turned down a drink. [...]
It might not seem like the first place you would think of for a celebration of the 2012 Olympics and all things British - but Hackney has been announced as the hosts for a bigger version of BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend next year.
The premise is very much the same as the Big Weekend with six tents, the live TV and radio coverage, plenty of big names, and a ticket system that favours the local people.
However, this will be different because tickets will be made available to over double the amou [...]
Scott joined the exhausted Comic Relief presenters as Greg James passed the marathon on to the next shift. [...]
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 [...]