Radio 1 Big Weekend 2023

[SleepingGiants]

On 1/5/2023 at 4:47 PM, incident said:

Only one of those is in the North West though

Well who said it was definitely in the north west. Sheffield & Liverpool two big cities with great music heritage, bit odd they've not hosted it.

[incident]

5 hours ago, SleepingGiants said:

Well who said it was definitely in the north west.

The (now removed) page that @stanh linked to said that.

Not definite, by any stretch, but as far as I can tell it's the best we have to go on so far.

[Mezhyp1]

This is in Dundee 

[Jack.194]

1 hour ago, Mezhyp1 said:

This is in Dundee 

How certain are you?

[Mezhyp1]

1 hour ago, Jack.194 said:

How certain are you?

However certain you'd like me to be. I mean I won't be offering any compensation if it isn't, but it's in Dundee 

Edited January 16, 2023 by Mezhyp1

[Muppetmark]

1 hour ago, Mezhyp1 said:

However certain you'd like me to be. I mean I won't be offering any compensation if it isn't, but it's in Dundee 

thanks reserved a refundable hotel in case. Shame trains dont run late enough.

[Mr Carbohydrate]

What date is it due to be? Went to the last big weekend in Dundee in 2006 I think

[stanh]

21 minutes ago, Mr Carbohydrate said:

What date is it due to be? Went to the last big weekend in Dundee in 2006 I think

Expected to be 27-28 May for the 2 main days, and potentially the Friday (26th) if they do a dance night too. 

[Paul ™]

100% Dundee. May bank holiday weekend 

[gfa]

could see the dance friday being scrapped. far smaller amount of people live nearby Dundee vs the coventry one 

[Aech2ElectricBoogaloo]

They've had it before!? Hell would freeze over before I got a decent festival in Northamptonshire. God forbid doing it in a town people can easily travel to. They couldn't sell out Coventry with £10 tickets until Harry got announced nvm Dundee. 

Edited January 19, 2023 by Aech2ElectricBoogaloo

[Thestylishkidintheriot]

Was obviously massively disappointing it being cancelled in 2020 - glad they're gonna do the city a massive favour bringing it here because it will make business' a small fortune. 

On 1/19/2023 at 11:24 AM, Aech2ElectricBoogaloo said:

They've had it before!? Hell would freeze over before I got a decent festival in Northamptonshire. God forbid doing it in a town people can easily travel to. They couldn't sell out Coventry with £10 tickets until Harry got announced nvm Dundee. 

Dundee is at most just over an hour away on a train from 6 of the other 7 cities in Scotland and folk from all across the country will be more than keen. I think this will sell better than you think.

[stanh]

10 minutes ago, Thestylishkidintheriot said:

Was obviously massively disappointing it being cancelled in 2020 - glad they're gonna do the city a massive favour bringing it here because it will make business' a small fortune. 

Dundee is at most just over an hour away on a train from 6 of the other 7 cities in Scotland and folk from all across the country will be more than keen. I think this will sell better than you think.

Coventry had sold out anyways, all 3 days... Don't really know what the comment about them not being able to sell it out was all about tbh. Expect Dundee will have no issue shifting tickets either, R1BW never really seem to do, always a stacked lineup and a very low price point.

[NickisGinger]

1 hour ago, stanh said:

Coventry had sold out anyways, all 3 days... Don't really know what the comment about them not being able to sell it out was all about tbh. Expect Dundee will have no issue shifting tickets either, R1BW never really seem to do, always a stacked lineup and a very low price point.

Depends if Festival Republic decide to hike price up, hopefully not. 

[gfa]

2 hours ago, stanh said:

Coventry had sold out anyways, all 3 days... Don't really know what the comment about them not being able to sell it out was all about tbh. Expect Dundee will have no issue shifting tickets either, R1BW never really seem to do, always a stacked lineup and a very low price point.

It did eventually but given it has Reading headliners for £20 it should fly

2 hours ago, Thestylishkidintheriot said:

Dundee is at most just over an hour away on a train from 6 of the other 7 cities in Scotland and folk from all across the country will be more than keen. I think this will sell better than you think.

https://www.tomforth.co.uk/circlepopulations/

Within 60km of Coventry theres 6 mil people (more than the entire scottish population)

Within 60km of Dundee theres 1.3 mil people

Obviously a bit of a silly comparison but its like comparing London to Glasgow for instance. Will see what happens, with big headliners will be completely fine of course.

[Aech2ElectricBoogaloo]

3 hours ago, stanh said:

Coventry had sold out anyways, all 3 days... Don't really know what the comment about them not being able to sell it out was all about tbh. Expect Dundee will have no issue shifting tickets either, R1BW never really seem to do, always a stacked lineup and a very low price point.

Local tickets for the Sunday were available for ages after they went on sale, Harry Styles wasn't announced until later and I'm not sure whether they'd sold out by then or not. Obviously it should be selling out immediately and they really just need to adjust the catchment areas.

Edited January 25, 2023 by Aech2ElectricBoogaloo

[Paul ™]

11 hours ago, NickisGinger said:

Depends if Festival Republic decide to hike price up, hopefully not. 

FR have nothing to do with the finance of this event, they run the production side of things.

The BBC control the budgets.

[loikju]

Looks like we're getting the location reveal on Monday

[jj200]

1 hour ago, loikju said:

Looks like we're getting the location reveal on Monday

I think we already know it's Dundee or it's two locations

[stanh]

Hannah Laing has self-confirmed. Also confirms the Dance night will be back too.

 

[loikju]

1 hour ago, jj200 said:

I think we already know it's Dundee or it's two locations

Well confirmed then I suppose haha

First few names will be confirmed too

[jj200]

2 minutes ago, loikju said:

Well confirmed then I suppose haha

First few names will be confirmed too

My acts are AM, circa waves, you me at six, the 1975, Bastille and Kasabian 

 

[gfa]

On 1/27/2023 at 3:25 PM, stanh said:

Hannah Laing has self-confirmed. Also confirms the Dance night will be back too.

 

Good spot

[loikju]

Dundee confirmed and first acts announced

[Muppetmark]

Surprised the 1975 are doing this and trnsmt