Ahead of the forthcoming Isle of Wight Festival coverage you’re going to get next month, here’s a few observations of the big one from last weekend (Radio 1 Big Weekend, Preston). Firstly, this wasn’t really a festival, more of a promotional push to get social networking sites to push eyeballs and eardrums* to Radio 1 and a good reason to justify all those digital BBC TV channels that spunk out endless episodes of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.
As much as we would have liked to see Kasabian, The View, Gossip and CSS, we couldn’t bring ourselves to go. Why? It was in Preston, spiritual home of Primark and the headliners were The Stereophonics. We watched it on telly and laughed at how Kelly Jones now looks strangely like Charlene Spiteri when she dressed up as Elvis for her Inner Smile music video.
Other highlights included Jo Whiley getting dressed up as Scissor Sister only to end up like a fat lipped porn star and Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac shamelessly making up the numbers for the Why Don’t You esque BBC3 broadcast. We hoped that The View would dedicate Face for The Radio to her, but no, they didn’t. Instead, Annie tried to do her best at presenting using a camera rather than a mic and resorted to interviewing fellow radio DJs when most bands assumed she was part of the local security team or a groupie seeking group sex with Kasabian.
Chris Moyles appeared, threw some shapes and although he’s as funny as cancer of the bollock on radio, he has now become a modern day Keith Chegwin on TV. Just watch the clip and say it ain’t so. Tim Westwood was also there, though we’re saving all our good jokes until he hits the obituary pages and is given a funeral at his dad’s church.
*We didn’t read the internal memo to alldjs@bbc.co.uk but we’re imagining that’s what it said.
The YouTube Clips!
Jo Whiley interviewing Annie Mac or vice versa, we're not sure
Jo Whiley goes backstage - no drugs, no groupies, just Mika getting a pedicure
Tim Westwood rocks 'the baby blue'
Annie Mac attempts to initiate Kasabian roasting session
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