BBC radio 1 big weekend 2025

[jasonb212]

New music stage being announced tonight

[nathanh]

Hes just mentioned full New Music on Jack tonight but who knows he also said that sh*t yesterday 😂

[jasonb212]

1 minute ago, FestivalJamie said:

The poster should come out in a minute so let’s see

Where do they put the poster? I couldn’t find yesterdays

[FestivalJamie]

btw what is this about getting ahead of the queue with the bbc sounds app?

[finn_with_1_n]

[FestivalJamie]

New music stage is complete : aitch & aj Tracey headlinign

[nathanh]

You know what the day has a very distinct sound on Main stage, all different but sonically have similarity, should be a decent day even if not exactly to my tastes.

[finn_with_1_n]

[nathanh]

Could definitely see tomorrow being a big pop day though

[FestivalJamie]

I’m glad they’ve put aitch / aj Tracey on bbc sounds.

 

wolf Alice / blossoms / Tom Odell / Sam fender will be a nice run of acts in the same genre .

 

if I get tickets to the Saturday I’d just stay at the main stage all day

[FestivalJamie]

3 minutes ago, nathanh said:

Could definitely see tomorrow being a big pop day though

Lola young and wet leg are already confirmed now for main stage tomorrow so I would only expect 3 or 4 decent sized names including the headliner.

 

It’s looking like it will most likely be a female pop headline , there are a lot of complaints on Instagram about the lack of female names .

[NickisGinger]

Have they saved the best till last..let’s hope. 

[nathanh]

Could we be seeing something like 

 

Chappell Roan / Wet Leg / Olivia Dean / Lola Young / Jungle

[nathanh]

Actually we could be in for a shout of JADE and Rizzle Kicks as Jade said they are doing both doing some of the same festivals this summer

[FestivalJamie]

Just now, nathanh said:

Could we be seeing something like 

 

Chappell Roan / Wet Leg / Olivia Dean / Lola Young / Jungle

Jungle aren't coming,  he said yesterday that anyone he had played before the announcement wouldn't be on it and Back on 74 was played directly beforehand.

 

Lola & Wet Leg will certainly be main stage. The question is who the headliner will be.

 

Given this is seemingly a much weaker year than the last few years, I would bet on Charli xcx, as she's big but not absolutely massive.

[FestivalJamie]

1 minute ago, nathanh said:

Actually we could be in for a shout of JADE and Rizzle Kicks as Jade said they are doing both doing some of the same festivals this summer

Seen a lot of rumours surrounding JADE so I would expect that to be the case.

 

Fri/Sat are heavily male weighted so there is a reason to believe that Sunday could be a 'female' weighted day, something like Mighty Hoopla in London, especially with Wet Leg and Lola Young being held out for the Sunday.

 

JADE is definitely up there in with a chance, also Pixie Lott.

 

The other possibility for the headliner is Kesha, no one has really been mentioning her but she's around at the end of May and beginning of June in the UK.

[nathanh]

1 minute ago, FestivalJamie said:

Jungle aren't coming,  he said yesterday that anyone he had played before the announcement wouldn't be on it and Back on 74 was played directly beforehand.

I think that is only in correlation to that days lineup because I could have sworn he also played acts like Jordan Adetunji yesterday

[nathanh]

1 minute ago, FestivalJamie said:

Seen a lot of rumours surrounding JADE so I would expect that to be the case.

 

Fri/Sat are heavily male weighted so there is a reason to believe that Sunday could be a 'female' weighted day, something like Mighty Hoopla in London, especially with Wet Leg and Lola Young being held out for the Sunday.

 

JADE is definitely up there in with a chance, also Pixie Lott.

 

The other possibility for the headliner is Kesha, no one has really been mentioning her but she's around at the end of May and beginning of June in the UK.

Could it be JADE main stage and Rizzle Kicks as New Music Stage headliner that seems like it could work

[WhoOdyssey]

43 minutes ago, Stuart1000 said:

Baffling. I don’t think I’ve heard Radio 1 support him at all over the years, other than playing Another Love once it went viral.

 

A Main Stage slot?! Either they’re pulling out a big headliner and a lot of these names are same PR company and used as a bargaining chip “You can have xxxx but you also need to book Tom Odell and Artemas”, or it’s just a weak year for them. 

I believe they playlisted Tom's 'Black Friday', which went viral last year.

[nathanh]

Definitely think tomorrow will have more females because over the two days announced so far we only have

 

Jazzy 

Nia Archives

Katy B

(some of) Wolf Alice

(some of) Confidence Man

 

Which given the years female artists have had that feels completely baffling

Edited March 11, 2025 by nathanh

[FestivalJamie]

5 minutes ago, nathanh said:

Could it be JADE main stage and Rizzle Kicks as New Music Stage headliner that seems like it could work

Jade, Rizzle Kicks, Kesha. It's possible

[nathanh]

1 minute ago, FestivalJamie said:

Jade, Rizzle Kicks, Kesha. It's possible

Have they playlisted Kesha recently? Dont get me wrong I would love that lineup SO MUCH but I dont know if its in keeping with R1

[FestivalJamie]

1 minute ago, nathanh said:

Have they playlisted Kesha recently? Dont get me wrong I would love that lineup SO MUCH but I dont know if its in keeping with R1

No they haven’t it’s just she’s around and I think based on the current line up I’m not sure if they have enough capacity to be booking Olivia Rodrigo.

 

The line up is considerably weaker than last year, even on the undercard and bbc sounds there are way less well-known names. 

[gfa]

18 hours ago, jj200 said:

Olivla is free on that weekend 

Yeah but she has no european dates around that time and is playing in the US early June. Seems unlikely shes in Europe and very unlikely to come over just for one big weekend gig

[FestivalJamie]

21 minutes ago, gfa said:

Yeah but she has no european dates around that time and is playing in the US early June. Seems unlikely shes in Europe and very unlikely to come over just for one big weekend gig

Also based on the current line up being weaker than last year I would say that it won’t be Olivia , they must be struggling with bookings or budget or a combination of both.

 

Charli is a lot more likely as her US leg is over , although she played last year. Didn’t stop them putting Tom grennan as headliner though.