BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend is coming to Dundee for 2023 but when is it, who is performing and how do you get your hands on tickets?
Tens of thousands of people are expected to descend on Dundee this summer, to watch some of the biggest names in music perform at Big Weekend.
Dundee was due to host the festival in May 2020 but it was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Here is everything we know so far.
When is Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Dundee?
This year’s Big Weekend will be held between May 26 and 28.
Where is it?
It will be held in Camperdown Park.
The first Big Weekend event Dundee held in 2006 also took place there and it was due to host the cancelled 2020 festival.
Who’s playing?
The line-ups for all three days – Friday, Saturday and Sunday – have now been confirmed.
Dundee DJs Hannah Laing and AmyElle are among those performing on the Friday night alongside other dance acts like Pete Tong, Jamie XX and LF System.
The 1975 will headline on Saturday with artists such as Jess Glynne, the Jonas Brothers, Tom Grennan, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Joel Corry and ArrDee also appearing on the main stage.
Self Esteem, Scottish rockers The Snuts and Rudimental are among the bands performing on the Future Sounds stage on the Saturday.
Lewis Capaldi will headline on the Sunday and will be joined on the main stage by Anne-Marie, Niall Horan, Zara Larsson, Wet Leg, Becky Hill and Nothing But Thieves.
Inhaler, Raye and Arlo Parks are among the Future Sounds acts.
Last year’s event in Coventry, the first held in person since the pandemic, hosted more than 100 performers.
How do you get tickets to Big Weekend Dundee 2023?
About 85,000 tickets have been made available for Radio 1’s Big Weekend.
Tickets for the Saturday and Sunday of the festival are now sold out.
Fans can still access tickets for the Friday night online.
Can you sell tickets or buy resales?
Fans who have bought tickets but can no longer attend will be able to sell them on for face value – just over £30 – via Ticketmaster’s fan-to-fan resale function.
The sale of tickets through all other means is banned.
What transport is available for Big Weekend?
There will be no parking available at Camperdown Park during the festival with a series of road closures in place.
However, shuttle buses will be running between Slessor Gardens and a designated area at Dunsinane Industrial Estate, close to the park’s entrance.
There will also be a car park on Riverside Drive playing pitches, with a bus service transporting fans to Big Weekend.
What can you take to the festival?
Stringent security measures will be in place at the festival and people only allowed to bring one A4-sized bag each.
The BBC has published a list of things people are allowed to bring, these include:
- Clothes for all weathers
- Sun cream
- Empty re-usable plastic or metal bottles
- Debit cards or another method of contactless payment
- Valid forms of ID including passport and driving licence
- Medication
A number of items are banned from the event, including:
- Drugs
- Knives
- Drones and professional photography equipment
- Selfie sticks
- Chairs (except for registered access customers)
- Flags
- Fireworks, flares, gas canisters and smoke canisters
- Laser devices
- Megaphones and air horns
- Balloons and Chinese lanterns
- Glass and cans
- Blow torches
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