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So i gave them a chance. This morning i switched on Moyles around 9.35 and it started well, he was playing some stuff to do with the kareoke and Aled interviewing the sugababes which was funny. However i asked for too much, i must of heard 3 trailers within 10 mins about 1 big weekend. And to pi$$ me right off i heard a lovely live version of Franz Ferdinand from the weekend. So i wont be listening to much radio 1 this week. It was not Moyles' fault, but i can feel a pi$$ take coming on.

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If I hear the words "One Big Weekend" or "Dundee" again this week, I think I will hit something. It's getting extremely irritating. But I give it about 3 minutes before the One Big Weekend thing is brought up again...

Dundee may have the biggest tent in Europe and the UK's biggest free music festival but Brighton has the Ladyboys of Bangkok! Go Brighton.........

'Forget happiness I'm fine, I'll forget everything in time'

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They mentioned Mark & Lard so that was good, they are in the studio where they used to do their show from note that bango on the wall and the Man City shirt. However that does not excuse this one big weekend crap. I have switched off and am going down the gym.

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I think soon my dreams will include the words "Radio 1's One Big Weekend in Dundee". The Chili Peppers thing irritated me a lot as well, the way they brought it up even after the gig had happened, for no reason. Why do the BBC advertise themselves so much when people are already watching or listening anyway? Sometimes I feel like going back to commercial stations just for some variety in the advertising - I tend to station surf during commercial breaks.

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it's in these last 3 years i have found radio 1 have really started to take this pi*s with overpromotion. it dosent help me in the fact that the type of music that they always choose to promote, i mostly deteste. last year with the kaiser cheifs and recently with the artic monkeys has really wound me up. 5 years ago i could of never imagined switching radio 1 off for nothing. however now it's common for me to do it, one of the shows i avoid altogether. with mills i have to grit it out becuase i know there is an upside to it all. it happens the least in moyles' show i think becuase he can always find different things to talk about. as for whiley, and colin & edith as soon as they start on it i switch off.

it's hard to find things to talk about, i am a dj myself. however there are some mad things that happen in the world. if anyone is good for picking things up like that is sara cox, like when she found the story of the kids' dad selling their presents on ebay.

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it's in these last 3 years i have found radio 1 have really started to take this pi*s with overpromotion. it dosent help me in the fact that the type of music that they always choose to promote, i mostly deteste.

You're a bit screwed from the start then.

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