Who is playing at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2017? Full line-up and TV coverage for Hull festival
We have everything you need to know about this annual festival
IT’S one of the musical highlights of the year and one of the many great British music festivals that takes place over the summer.
Ahead of the Spring bank holiday festival, BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend released its full all-star line-up, with details of who's playing when and where you can watch it all on TV... and we have the lowdown.
When is the BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend being shown on TV?
Coverage of the festival will be shown on BBC Four on Sunday 28 May from 8pm, and will include performances from
Kings of Leon, Stormzy, Lorde, Rag N Bone Man, Biffy Clyro, Christine And The Queens and many more.
All performances from across the weekend will be available to watch live and on demand at the .
In addition, highlights will be broadcast on BBC One on Monday 29 May at 11.30pm.
The festival will also be streamed in vision at the .
What is the BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend?
It is a music festival run by BBC Radio 1, now in its fourteenth year, which was previously known as One Big Weekend.
It is held once a year, in a different location within the UK and is the biggest free ticketed music event in Europe.
It follows Radio 1's 'One Big Sunday', where every Sunday during July and August, a different town would host the roadshow, usually next to a beach or in a large park.
Where and when is Radio 1 Big Weekend taking place this year?
This year, the festival is being held at the Burton Constable Hall in Hull, which has been named City of Culture for 2017.
Burton Constable has been home to the Chichester-Constable family for the last 700 years.
It is a large Elizabethan country house inside a 300-acres park where the festival will be held.
It's running from Saturday May 27 2017 to Sunday May 28 2017.
Who is playing at Radio 1's Big Weekend?
Here's the full lineup for the festival ...
Saturday May 27 2017
Main Stage
- Katy Perry (headliner)
- Biffy Clyro
- Emeli Sandé
- Galantis
- Imagine Dragons
- James Arthur
- Kasabian
- Lorde
- Zara Larsson
Where It Begins Stage
- Haim (headliner)
- JP Cooper
- Lana Del Rey
- London Grammar
- Plan B
- Rag 'n' Bone Man
- The Amazons
- Two Door Cinema Club
- You Me At Six
Sunday May 28 2017
Main Stage
- Kings of Leon (headliner)
- Bastille
- Clean Bandit
- Little Mix
- Rita Ora
- Sean Paul
- Shawn Mendes
- Stormzy
- The Chainsmokers
Where It Begins Stage
- Alt-J (headliner)
- Anne-Marie
- Blossoms
- Christine And The Queens
- Circa Waves
- Dua Lipa
- Mura Masa
- Royal Blood
- Twin Atlantic
Can I still get tickets to Radio 1's Big Weekend?
In total, 50,000 free tickets for BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend Hull 2017 were released during the Radio 1 Breakfast Show at 9.10am on Monday 10 April.
And 25,000 tickets were available for each day of the two-day event and they sold out in under an hour.
For this year’s event, more Big Weekend tickets than ever were made available for people living locally.
Of the geographically weighted tickets, 70 per cent were reserved for residents living within the area covered by Hull City Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council, 25 percent were reserved for people living in the surrounding areas, defined as those with York (YO) or Doncaster (DN) postcodes but living outside the area covered by the two councils above; and anyone within a Lincoln (LN) postcode.
The remaining five percent of tickets were made available to other audiences across the UK.
Have extra security precautions been added for Radio 1's Big Weekend?
Following the devastating terrorist attack that unravelled in Manchester earlier this week, event organisers are determined to keep their guests safe.
A spokesperson for Big Weekend said: "After conducting a full review of the festival, in conjunction with the police and partners, various extra security measures have been put in place to ensure the safety of those attending.
"As part of this, everyone that enters the site will go through two rounds of thorough searches – one round conducted at transport hubs where police will be present, and a second round of security procedures at the entrance gates.
"We ask for the patience and cooperation of anyone coming to the event on the weekend and that they allow extra time to pass through security."
