BBC Radio 1's Biggest Weekend review – icy Taylor Swift leads pop panoply

Swift was imperious and Liam Payne icky, while Years & Years and Christine and the Queens were truly transportingTo the right of the main stage at BBC Radio 1â€™s Biggest Weekend is a hillside lined with terraced houses. Itâ€™s strangely moving to see the globeâ€™s biggest pop stars juxtaposed against the Swansea suburbs, a surreal manifestation of how radio brings bring different worlds into remote enclaves â€“ by turns thrillingly transgressive and profoundly humdrum.Nobody...

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20:42 on May 27 2018

Biggest Weekend: Taylor Swift plays the hits then runs in Swansea

BBC News - UK — The US pop star plays a brief, but hit-packed, show at the BBC Music Biggest Weekend festival. more info

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14:04 on May 28 2018

BBC Radio 1's Biggest Weekend review – icy Taylor Swift leads pop panoply

Guardian Music — Swift was imperious and Liam Payne icky, while Years & Years and Christine and the Queens were truly transportingTo the right of the main stage at BBC Radio 1â€™s Bi... more info

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