Music fans in Dundee have been left disappointed after it was announced Radio 1’s Big Weekend will be held in Norwich this year.
More than eight thousand people had joined a Facebook campaign to bring the festival back to the City of Discovery.
However, their efforts were in vain after BBC bosses decided the show will take place in East Anglia in May.
Many of those who had backed the campaign took to social media to express their disappointment.
Michelle Adams Brankin said: “Yet again (the) people of Dundee (have been) let down. (I will not) be listening to Radio 1 again.”
Tina Grant wrote: “That’s not fair! Why does everything go to England apart from T in the Park and Rockness?
“Hopefully things will change. Well we can always hope it will.”
However, others took a more stoic approach to the news, pointing out that the free festival had already been in Dundee in 2006.
Holly Brown said: “It has been in Dundee before and was in Glasgow recently, so can’t really grumble.
“Even when it was in Dundee (I) never got tickets because it was done on your postcode for even distribution.”
Radio 1 star Nick Grimshaw made the announcement on his breakfast show yesterday morning.
Thousands of music fans are expected to descend on Earlham Park for the station’s flagship event on May 23 and 24.
Last year’s festival in Glasgow was headlined by Coldplay and Katy Perry.
Taylor Swift, who recently topped the charts with her album 1989, is the first name on this year’s line-up.
And the multiple Grammy award winner said she was excited to perform in front of a British crowd.
“They are rowdy, insane in the best way. There seems to be a lot of jumping, which I love,” the singer-songwriter said.
“Everyone talks about the festivals in England being the best ones you can go to. I feel like I’ve been missing out. I’m really excited.”