The BBC trying to fill Glastonbury's boots with huge new festival in 2018

The BBC's new The Biggest Weekend is described as "a music festival which will take in four sites, in four nations, over four days, with over 175,000 tickets available to the public."

The Biggest Weekend will take place 25-28 May, and will feature BBC coverage of similar to that of Glastonbury's. The "diverse" bill will feature concerts hosted by Radios 1, 1Xtra, 2, 3, 6 Music, and the Asian Network, plus televised coverage on BBCs Two and Four - with the usual catch-up stuff online to boot.

"BBC Music has a strong history of bringing the nation together for some special moments, and this is the biggest single music event ever attempted by the BBC," says Bob Shennan, Director BBC Radio and Music. "We will be celebrating the diversity of music from four different corners of the country, bringing the best UK music to the world and the best global music to the UK."

There are "no plans" for this to become an annual thing, apparently - it's just a stop-gap fest filling the void left as the Eavises take a well-deserved break.