THE BBC has announced plans for a brand new one-off music festival which will take place across four different sites in Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
Dubbed ‘The Biggest Weekend’, the festival will be held from 25th-28th May and has been announced to coincide with Glastonbury’s traditional fallow year. With the Worthy Farm festival taking a year off to allow the land to recover, BBC Music have promised to bring ‘some of the biggest names in music’ to the new event which will take in four sites and four nations over four days. It is said that up to 175,000 tickets will be made available to the public.
With organisers still very much in the planning stages of the event, location has yet to be confirmed while headliners are expected to be revealed much further down the line. However, the BBC will be bringing together all of their main radio stations for the festival (Radio 1, 2, 3 and BBC 6 Music), with the aim of celebrating the diversity of music, both from around the UK and further afield.
Organisers have also said that ‘The Biggest Weekend’ is expected to be a one-off for 2018 and isn’t expected to become an annual event.
