{"id":290769,"date":"2025-11-18T10:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/290769\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:03:12","slug":"radio-1s-big-weekend-2026-announced-for-sunderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/290769\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2026 announced for Sunderland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, about 100,000 music fans attended the event in Sefton Park in Liverpool, which was dubbed “Scouse Coachella<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Tom Grennan, Sam Fender and Mumford & Sons topped the bill, while Ed Sheeran made a surprise appearance and JADE, from Little Mix, got teary on stage.<\/p>\n

About 90% of the tickets for the most recent Big Weekend went to locals, but Liverpool City Council had to defend spending \u00a3250,000 on hosting the event<\/a>, saying the funding was from its events budget and the festival was great publicity for the city. <\/p>\n

In 2023, the event generated nearly \u00a37m for Luton’s economy<\/a> following half a million pounds of investment.<\/p>\n

Radio 1’s Big Weekend is the latest in a string of music events being held in the north-east of England after the Mercury Prize and Mobo Awards were hosted in the north earlier this year. <\/p>\n

Sunderland City Council is working closely with the BBC to make sure it is a “safe, inclusive and enjoyable event”, according to the broadcaster.<\/p>\n

Leader of the council, councillor Michael Mordey, said it was “a fantastic opportunity to show people who haven’t been to Sunderland, what a brilliant city it is and how much is happening here”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, about 100,000 music fans attended the event in Sefton Park in Liverpool, which was dubbed “Scouse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-290769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}