{"id":441707,"date":"2026-05-23T14:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/441707\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T14:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:33:08","slug":"radio-1s-big-weekend-in-sunderland-has-carnival-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/441707\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio 1&#8217;s Big Weekend in Sunderland has &#8216;carnival&#8217; atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Day two of Radio 1&#8217;s Big Weekend is under way in Sunderland with Swedish pop star Zara Larsson set to headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The festival, which is the radio station&#8217;s flagship event, is this year taking place at Herrington Country Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 100,000 people are expected to attend across three days and Radio 1 presenter Vick Hope, who was born in Newcastle before her family moved to Northumberland, described it as having a &#8220;carnival&#8221; atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, some attendees reported issues with buses on Friday and, in response, Sunderland City Council said it would bring in &#8220;a continuous shuttle operation running between the event site and all transport hubs for those who have booked the service&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Day two of Radio 1&#8217;s Big Weekend is under way in Sunderland with Swedish pop star Zara Larsson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-441707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}