Carter, who is taking a break from his day-to-day job to concentrate on the Weekend, also revealed that the festival would not be the only way that Radio 1 marked the London 2012 Olympics, explaining there will be a number of "other significant events" that the station would stage.

Carter spoke to Music Week after the BBC launched what it carefully named as "the BBC's biggest ever free-ticketed live music event", taking place on Hackney Marshes on June 23 and ...