Digital Experiences

BBC Music Biggest Weekend

Client
BBC
Industry
Festivals
Service
Digital Experiences
Year
2018
Brief
BBC Music's Biggest Weekend 2018: four festivals staged simultaneously across Swansea, Coventry, Perth and Belfast over the May bank holiday. The weekend was the BBC's answer to Glastonbury's fallow year, with the four-site model a step up in scale from any previous BBC live music production. Radio 1 curated Swansea, Radio 2 took Coventry and Perth, and 6 Music ran Belfast, with every set going live on iPlayer alongside radio coverage from Radio 1Xtra and Asian Network and visual highlights on BBC Two and Four.
BBC Music Biggest Weekend
Backstory

In 2018, I worked on the BBC's Biggest Weekend, the largest multi-site event the BBC had ever delivered. My role focused on solving one of the biggest technical challenges: how to live-edit performances across all stages in real time while ensuring a seamless online broadcast experience. That meant designing a robust infrastructure, refining our live workflows and making sure everything held up under the pressure of a fast-moving festival environment.

I also scheduled and supported a team of over 100 people across the four sites, making sure we had agile, responsive crews ready to adapt as the show unfolded.

Twelve stages across Belfast, Coventry, Perth and Swansea, all going live across the same weekend. The team kept using the live-edit setup we built for it on later projects.

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