Undoubtedly for all avid Radio 1 listeners out there, you may be having severe difficulties turning your mind set away from the fact Radio 1’s One Big Weekend will take place this weekend in Maidstone.
Plugging the festival at every ample opportunity, radio producers and DJs alike, find it increasing difficult to be subtle in their approach, devoting every other minute of their show hyping the event. The fact that the event takes place in the lower regions of the isle has now become second nature to me, and the words ‘very jealous’ spring to mind.
It was but a few years back when Britain’s biggest free ticket festival made its way up North in 2005, pitching its tents in Herrington Country Park.
The park a mere 5 minute walk from my house, saw superstar acts such as the Chemical Brothers, Foo Fighters, Jamiroquai and Gwen Stefani. Sunderland art-rockers The Futureheads, were also given a monstrous ovation as they were welcomed home by fellow wearsiders.
The defining setting afoot Penshaw Monument bare witness to what could be described as the catalyst to recent revelations in the Sunderland music scene, and no longer a far cry from that of London.
But as people in Kent are about to endure a day of herbal highs, underage drinking, loud music, and if history’s anything to go by, snow! Revellers are in for a treat.
Notions that it will be a long time before the Radio 1 team make a lap around the circuit and return are harrowing, so a bid to counter the sinking feeling means the volume on my headset will be firmly turned down.
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