This is more like it – the acts have been announced for the under card at this year’s Big Weekend and Radio 1 have given us some seasoning for our gruel.
Headlined this year by Editors* and The Raconteurs, the somewhat awkwardly-named ‘In New Music We Trust’ stage will also feature appearances from *Foals, The Futureheads, Vampire Weekend and Justice over Saturday the 10th and Sunday the 11th of May.
Elsewhere, the outdoor DJ stage hosts, most notably, Fatboy Slim, Herve & Sinden, Pendulum and, again, Justice though there’s also the musical black hole opening up in the middle of Pete Tong and Vernon Kay’s versus set to navigate if you’re to have any chance of coming out of the Big Weekend alive.
As well as that, industry champions Twisted Wheel and White Lies will do battle for their paymasters on the Introducing Stage. It’s all below:
Saturday the 10th of May
In New Music We Trust stage
Editors
The Futureheads
Guillemots
We Are Scientists
Foals
Vampire Weekend
The Ting Tings**
Outdoor DJ stage
**Fatboy Slim
Chris Moyles vs Judge Jules
Zane Lowe vs Scott Mills
Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso
Herve & Sinden
Dave Spoon
Annie Mac
Nic Fanciulli
Eddie Halliwell
Kissy Sell Out**
Sunday the 11th of May
In New Music We Trust stage
The Raconteurs
The Zutons
The Wombats
Hot Chip
Gallows and Lethal Bizzle
Pendulum
Justice
Black Kids**
Outdoor DJ stage
**Pete Tong vs Vernon Kay
Pendulum
Justice
Zane Lowe
Dave Pearce
Tim Westwood
Rob da Bank
Kutski
Basshunter
Cameo vs DJ Q and Mistajam**
Both days: Introducing Stage
**Twisted Wheel
White Lies
James Yuill
Kate Goes
Fighting with Wire
Natty
Outl4w
Golden Silvers
Chipmunk
AG Dolla
and more TBA**
Radio 1's Big Weekend takes place this year in Mote Park, Maidstone, Kent. You can register for tickets - of which there are 30,000 - here.