It’s official: after delighting crowds in Dundee last year, 2024’s Radio 1 Big Weekend is landing in Luton.
This morning (January 29), Radio 1 Breakfast Show host Greg James announced that the annual festival will be happening on Friday, May 24 in the Luton’s Stockwood Park. He told listeners that Big Weekend 2024 will be ‘bigger than ever’, as it’s the first time that it will run across three full days. That means that a generous 100,000 tickets will be up for grabs.
We don’t know the line-up yet but you can certainly expect some big names. The 2023 edition was played by the likes of Lewis Capaldi, the Jonas Brothers and The 1975 while previous years have seen such massive headliners as Taylor Swift, Stormzy and Miley Cyrus.
Details on how to get tickets will be released over the next few weeks. Last year, tickets cost just £29 plus a £4.50 booking fee and tickets for the Friday were even cheaper at £18.
Hazel Simmons, leader of Luton Council, celebrated the announcement: ‘The fact that BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend, one of the UK’s largest and most popular music festivals, has chosen Luton is fantastic news for our town, especially our young people, and will showcase all the wonderful things about Luton.
‘Not only will this event give a multi-million pound boost to Luton’s economy and provide a number of opportunities for local young people and businesses, with tens of thousands in attendance and millions tuning in across the BBC, it gives us an opportunity to step forward and showcase the very best of our ambitious, brilliantly vibrant, wonderfully diverse and transforming town.’
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