{"id":271992,"date":"2026-01-30T13:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/271992\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:53:08","slug":"radio-1-breakfast-show-visits-sunderland-ahead-of-big-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/271992\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio 1 Breakfast Show visits Sunderland ahead of Big Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After arriving in the city via a Grand Central train on Thursday night, James and the rest of the Breakfast Show team went for a curry at Spice Empire because of recommendations from listeners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We went to Spice Empire, other restaurants are available, but this one, my god, was fantastic,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What a recommendation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Big Weekend, BBC Radio 1&#8217;s flagship event, is held in a different location each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Sunderland last hosted the Big Weekend, the line-up included Gwen Stefani, Foo Fighters and The Black Eyed Peas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year&#8217;s line up is yet to be announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After arriving in the city via a Grand Central train on Thursday night, James and the rest of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-271992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}