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Herrington Country Park, Sunderland
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BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend is the UK's largest free-to-attend ticketed music festival, broadcast live across Radio 1 and BBC iPlayer. Each year it moves to a different UK city, bringing together pop, dance, and alternative acts across multiple stages…
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22 - 24 May, 2026
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Herrington Country Park, Sunderland
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Huge · 100,000
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2003, Running 23 years
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A big day out in a country park, with people on the grass between sets, drifting round a boating lake and sculpture trail, then packing into the main stage as the sun goes down and the music runs to ten.
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WHAT PEOPLE SAID
“Mixed crowd, teens to families”
“Cheap tickets, easy to move between stages”
“Some stage bottlenecking complaints”
“Surprise sets hard to get into”
“Decent food, every cuisine covered”
