Today, BBC Radio 1 kicks off its annual free flagship event, Radio 1's Big Weekend, from Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent, live to listeners across the weekend. Today's line-up is topped by the Queen of Pop, Madonna (pictured), who headlines tonight. Joining Madonna are some of the biggest artists around performing throughout the day, such as Usher, The Fratellis, Duffy, Robyn, The Feeling, Scouting For Girls, Editors, Ting Tings, The Futureheads and many more.
Nihal launches the proceedings at 7am with his weekend breakfast show live from London, looking forward to what listeners and viewers can expect to hear and see on BBC Television throughout the day. Nihal hands over to Vernon Kay at 10am for a Radio 1's Big Weekend warm-up show from London, with some live phone-ins from Radio 1 DJs.
Vernon hands over to Annie Mac at 1pm to kick off the live coverage from the Radio 1's Big Weekend site itself. Annie brings listeners live highlights from the event and also chats to bands backstage and reflects what's going on around the site and on-stage. There are also acoustic sets from the day.
Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates take the reins at 4pm, with the low-down on what's been happening on-stage throughout the day and some behind-the-scenes gossip, plus acoustic sets from the site. Scott Mills and Trevor Nelson take over at 7pm for the big run-down of the day's highlights in Mote Park across all the stages, with artists and Radio 1 DJs dropping in. At 9.15pm, Madonna comes live from the Main Stage with an exclusive performance of six tracks from her new album, Hard Candy, including the No. 1 single, 4 Minutes.
At 11pm, Radio 1 is live from Radio 1's Big Weekend Official Aftershow at Studio 5 at Maidstone TV Studios for a massive dance party. Pete Tong and Annie Mac host the official Aftershow tonight with a six-hour special bringing listeners a DJ set every hour from Pete Tong, Laurent Garnier, Nic Fanciulli, Annie Mac, Danny Rampling and Simian Mobile Disco until 5am.
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