Radio 1Xtra Live is the biggest and most important British hip-hop event of the year. Once again the BBC have pulled it out of the bag and shown that they are capable of celebrating the entire spectrum of music: classical and jazz as much as hip hop and pop. BBC Radio 1Xtra live is the place to be if you are a true hip-hop head, showcasing the best of British and worldwide hip hop talents, all doing what they do best.
There is such a special atmosphere at this event because things like this rarely happen: there is a real sense of something important going on. For anyone with an even passing interest in Hip Hop, this will be surely the show of the year. Make sure you don’t get left out in the cold by buying your tickets through our easy to use service. Don’t miss out on this: it’s going to be the best.
Radio 1Xtra is true a badge of quality, a hallmark that shows this event is definitely going to be up there with the greats. As a radio station it has brought us the best in urban and hip hop, trailblazing the likes of grime, garage, dubstep, and hip hop through the airwaves. The radio station is unique in it’s focus being solely on this type of music, and presenters include such legends as “Trevor Nelson”, “Tim Westwood” and “DJ Benji B”.
This year the event is to be held in the suitably huge venue the Wembley Arena, giving a stadium setting to the power of Hip Hop. This will surely give the music an exciting new angle that is usually reserved for rock bands. This combined with the festival atmosphere is going to make this event something totally out of this world.
This year sees such incredible acts performing, such as the pop-hop of N-Dubz, the lyrical starhood of Tinchy Stryder, the wonderful “Jason Derula”, the hugely successful Tinie Tempah, the unsurpassed Roll Deep, the reggae antics of “Gyptian”, the hugely talented “Labrinth”, the chilled out rappings of “B.o.B.”, the beautiful and successful “Katy B” and the grime-laden sounds of “Devlin”. With such an awesome line up you really can’t afford to be anywhere else on the 25th of September. And why would you want to? So get tickets and head down to the UK’s biggest celebration of hip hop, reggae, urban and grime.