Get ready Exeter, Radio 1's Big Weekend is here

It's a city that Big Weekend headliners Coldplay know well - Exeter counts Chris Martin as one of its most famous sons.

But it will be a first trip to the west country for the likes of The Weeknd, Twenty-One Pilots and Tame Impala.

Fifty-thousand people are expected at Powderham Castle, in the city over the weekend.

Mumford and Sons, Wolf Alice, Skepta are also playing at Europe's biggest free ticketed festival.

Excitement is building and the BBC weather app is being obsessively checked...

Among the bands playing in Exeter are Wolf Alice.

They will perform the In New Music We Trust stage on Sunday, but singer Ellie Rowsell says they may be a bit sleepy.

"We're stepping off the plane and going straight there, so I don't know if we will be quite human beings at that point but we are very much looking forward to it.

"It is such a good line up, especially the stage we're on it is really good."

They are sharing a stage with headliners Biffy Clyro, The Last Shadow Puppets, Skepta and Jack Garratt.

Craig David is playing his first ever Radio 1 Big Weekend.

"Yep I am a first timer," he told Grimmy as he co-hosted the Radio 1 Breakfast show on Monday.

"I've got the band and I am going to throw in a little TS5 vibe in there, just to keep things moving, yeah I am excited.

"Since I came on to MisterJam's show and we did the Fill me In/Where Are U Now freestyle and it ended up going viral, it was a pivotal moment," he said.

"Every time I have performed that live it has gone off, so that is the one I am kind of looking forward to."

The last time Biffy Clyro played a Radio 1 Big Weekend was three years ago in Derry, Northern Ireland.

"It is the start of the summer, that is how we view it, I feel it is everyone's start of the summer so we can not wait," frontman Simon Neil said.

One Republic will open the main stage on Sunday and it seems there is no place they would rather be.

"We're stoked, I'm so stoked actually, the UK in general in late May is the best time to be here," frontman Ryan Tedder told Radio 1.

He also put in a specific request backstage and he wants Grimmy to source it for him.

"I want a candle on my rider that smells like the woods outside of Kyoto after it's rained in Japan."

Got that, Grimmy?

Catfish and The Bottlemen return to the main stage after stepping up to fill in for Sam Smith last year in Norwich.

"It's always good [the Big Weekend], I think it [last year] was one of the first times we had played something big like that," frontman Van McCann tells Newsbeat.

"We love festivals because we get to play to masses and masses that are not necessarily there for you.

"Normally the first couple of thousand are just people at the barricade with their hands on their chins and are Taylor Swift fans going 'who are these guys with mullets'."

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