BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend
June 23, 2012 - 12:00pm - June 24, 2012 - 5:00pm
Radio 1 will hold the BBC's biggest ever free ticketed live music event, on Hackney Marshes on 23-24 June 2012, as part of the London 2012 Festival. The event will feature six BBC stages, and 100,000 people will be able to attend.
The event will be broadcast on Radio 1, Radio 1Xtra, BBC Three, and there will be full coverage right here on bbc.co.uk/radio1 The first acts on the bill have already been announced.
Locals Leona Lewis and Plan B will perform, and are also special ambassadors for the event. They join our other two event ambassadors 1Xtra's Trevor Nelson and Olympian Phillips Idowu, who were both born in Hackney.
Location
Hackney Marshes
Homerton Road
London E9 5PFUnited Kingdom
51° 33' 6.1344" N, 0° 1' 39.4032" W
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