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Feels like I've been sitting through Rhianna's act for ever. Hurrah for a track I know, Umbrella. Although I'd forgotten how many songs she'd done that I knew.

Here's something you've probably not heard about. It takes all of one minute to walk from the Stage to Artist area. Rhianna decided to get in her black merc and drive there. Its something like 100 meters ...

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I did hear the Kaiser Chiefs talk about that, I think. She also got upset when her hair wasn't quite the way she wanted it to be.

i am on the radio1 site.... wooo.... kaiser chiefs signing tent! i shant tell u which is me :P

I'm intrigued, I went through them all and can't work out which one's you!

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Ah poor Vernon Kay. He stated categorically on his show he'd got to bed around midnight; then Sara Cox told a story this afternoon about seeing him staggering back to the hotel around 2.30am. Hope he wasn't being economical with the truth on live radio for any other reason, e.g. assuring Tess he'd have a quiet night... :*

Not that the voice wasn't a giveaway of course.

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Quite rightly so that Radio 1 should bang on about it for another few weeks. I mean the people of Preston and the people who went have only seen it live, they should have a chance to hear what they missed on the radio. And some tracks are definitely worth hearing again.

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Me and Hannah were talking about the whole event a few weeks ago when the RAJARs came out, and we joked they probably look at the figures and decide to go where to go based on them.

How true it is, as whilst flicking through the papers this morning in the Independant there's a page article on the Big Weekend.

Bringing free live music to Preston, a city generally sidelined in favour of nearby Manchester or Liverpool by larger touring artists, is not an entirely altruistic act. There are 250,000 young people who fall within the station's target demographic of 15-24-year-olds who live within half an hour of the event location, explains Jason Carter, head of live music and events. Radio 1 wants to turn them on to the music that the station broadcasts and raise the brand's profile in the North-west, an area where listening figures are not as high as in other parts of the UK.

"We know that we will have a huge impact in this area. When we did Dundee last year you could see it in our reach the quarter after. But that's not the driving force for what we do. It's more of a BBC public service thing, going to a place that doesn't get anything and putting the focus on that city. It's not just about Radio 1 rolling into town. In the weeks leading up to it we do lots of work talking about Preston. All last week Edith Bowman was on a tour of the North-west."

So really are us, the real fans, getting a good deal? They're trying to attract new listeners and fans, so in Radio 1's view we're not the ones that should have tickets.

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THE ENEMY’s ANDY HOPKINS was rushed to hospital after Radio 1’s big Preston gig — after someone spiked his pint.

Andy, whose band is touring with the MANIC STREET PREACHERS, said he only realised what was happening when he woke to see tiny lead singer TOM CLARKE at his hospital bedside.

He said: “It was scary. I’d only been drinking booze, it must have been spiked.

“I can’t remember any of it but the lads said I was trying to headbutt cars and jumped out of the van and headbutted the concrete.

“Then I was being sick in a corner — they had to call an ambulance. I think I scared them.”

Hope Laura wasn't trying to get her hands of those boys by messing with their drink!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,4-2007250161,00.html

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Sorry to drag this one up, but for Napster, and probably the other legal music download stores you can now download tracks from the Big Weekend.

I know Maximo Park, The Gossip and The Pidgeon Detectives have tracks up from the weekend.

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