{"id":129514,"date":"2025-05-25T02:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T02:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129514\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T02:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T02:16:16","slug":"bbc-radio-1-big-weekends-sam-fender-says-sorry-as-makes-nervous-admission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129514\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend’s Sam Fender says ‘sorry’ as makes ‘nervous’ admission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Fender issued an apology live on stage<\/p>\n

21:42, 24 May 2025Updated 21:42, 24 May 2025<\/p>\n

\"SamSam Fender performs at BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend at Sefton Park, Liverpool. Photo by Colin Lane(Image: Colin Lane\/Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n

BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend headliner Sam Fender issued an apology to fans during his set. The singer appeared flustered as he toyed with his guitar while dealing with what he described as “technical difficulties”.<\/p>\n

Big Weekend takes places each year in a different location across the UK, with a superstar line-up curated by the radio station. Some of tonight’s musical heavyweights include Sam Fender, Wolf Alice, Blossoms and Aitch B2B AJ Tracey.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u200c\u200cAround 100,000 fans are expected to visit the festival during the weekend – and this afternoon there were plenty of stylish arrivals heading through the gates<\/a> ready to enjoy a day of incredible live performances.<\/p>\n

Sam opened his set with charting topping hit ‘Getting Started’ which was followed by ‘The Boarders’. During his performance, the North Shields singer could be seen toying with his ear piece and guitar wires.<\/p>\n

\"SamSam Fender headlined Radio 1’s Big Weekend on Saturday night(Image: Daily Record)<\/p>\n

Early into the gig, Sam said: “I’m absolutely s****** it. Sorry for the vast amount of technical difficulties.” It is unclear what “technical difficulties” Sam was dealing with at the time.<\/p>\n

After a few more songs, Sam said: “I’m spinning out. This is the most nervous I think I’ve ever been and I don’t know why.”<\/p>\n

Despite his frustrations, the performance appeared to run smoothly from the crowd and for viewers watching at home. Fans could be seen on each other’s shoulders, singing and dancing along to the music.<\/p>\n

\"SamSam Fender headlined Radio 1’s Big Weekend on Saturday night(Image: pa media)<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s line-up will see four stages graced by a whole new host of singers, bands and DJs.<\/p>\n

Tate McCrae<\/a>, Lola Young and Mumford & Sons are just some of the big names gracing the Main Stage<\/a> with exciting array of acts across the Dance Music<\/a>, BBC Introducing<\/a> and New Music stages.<\/p>\n

\"SamSam Fender performs at BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend at Sefton Park, Liverpool. Photo by Colin Lane(Image: Colin Lane\/Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n

Sunday’s headliners include Wet Leg, Haim and Mumford & Sons who will bring the festival to a close.You can see the entire Radio 1 Big Weekend schedule here.<\/a><\/p>\n

You can find all our stories and updates from the festival this weekend on our dedicated BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend<\/a> festival page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Fender issued an apology live on stage 21:42, 24 May 2025Updated 21:42, 24 May 2025 Sam Fender…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[192,15118,15119,748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-129514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-bbc-radio-1","10":"tag-bbc-radio-1-big-weekend","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114566069255332299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}