The previous one was in Dundee, according to the article posted.
Royal Blood fans will remember that one...
www.thenational.scot
Wrong,Said no one, until now it seems...
Radio 1's Big Weekend: Coldplay join Raye and Chase & Status as headliners
Becky Hill, Aitch, Sabrina Carpenter and Rudimental will also perform at the three-day festival.www.bbc.co.uk
tastethepunch.com
Middlesboro was about 5 years ago i think
2019. Props to Radio 1 for taking these events to places that don't normally get them.
Ah I misread - it was the first post-Covid one in Cov. Dundee is also pretty dismal though!
Strictly speaking that's not Luton - Luton Hoo is a country estate several miles south of the town and about as far removed from it as you can get. I went to a corporate event there once. They had clay pigeon shooting. In Luton proper they don't bother with the clay - or the pigeons.Wrong,
I've had a big weekend in Luton. 1997 Tribal Gathering festival at Luton Hoo to be precise. Still the best dance music line up ever curated IMO which featured, in no particular order, and only from what I can remember:
Kraftwerk
Eddie Izzard (pre Suzy) telling jokes
John Peel playing Status Quo in the middle of a DJ Set
Chemical Brothers
Daft Punk
Faithless
Carl Cox
Jeff Mills
Orbital
Pete Tong
Deep Dish
and loads of others.
This 1997 Line-up at Luton Hoo would still be a block buster today
Whilst searching the web to see if our future headliners Faithless had been to our splendid town of Luton before, we started to uncover not only that they had, but also a whole list of other incredible acts had once performed here too! Way back in the late 90's a festival popped up called Tribal
