It’s a tough time to be an independent musician. For every major label artist who makes it onto the Radio 1 A List, there are literally hundreds of others who would happily step over their own mothers for one humble...
Hello, and welcome back to Quickfire Questions! The idea of this feature is pretty simple: we take one amazing musician, ask for five minutes of their time, and then try...
It’s easy to see why some people are getting fed up with festival line-ups. ‘It’s the same old bands playing every year’, they say. ‘I’m getting a bit sick of it’, they moan. ‘Nobody’s willing to take a chance on...
Radio 1 kicked off the festival season in style BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend is one of the UK’s biggest music festivals, and it’s almost certainly one of its best. We went down to Exeter’s Powderham Castle to check out this...