Articles tagged with: Radio 1
What's the first thing you should do when you play a concert, other than plug stuff in and check your flies? That's right, you work out which town you're playing. The fastest way to alienate any crowd is to go onstage, mistakenly blurt out a greeting meant for another town located more than 250 miles away and get booed by the crowd because you're obviously a dick. Perhaps someone should have pointed this out to Usher before his performance at the Radio 1 Big Weekend festival in Maidstone, where he bounded out onstage and bellowed "Hello Manchester!" to a chorus of boos. Usher should be thankful he got away that lightly. This was Maidstone, after all - he's lucky a pregnant 12-year-old didn't stab him in the eye with a sawn-off bottle of Bacardi Breezer.
It’s that time of the year again when music lovers gather in a field to celebrate the thing they love, live music.
There are all sorts of festivals to cater for all sorts of musical tastes in all four corners of the world. The main ones kick off at this time of year and hecklerspray is here to tell you all you need to know about each festival, who the essential people are to see and which act to avoid so you can queue up for the overflowing shit-filled portaloos.
We begin with the first big festival-type affair of the year, this weekend's Radio 1’s Big Weekend down in Kent. This particular bash doesn’t have a fixed location, but over the years it has proved to be a popular event for all who can get a ticket.
BBC Radio 1 has made the decision to censor the word 'faggot' from Kirsty MacColl and Shane McGowan's yuletide anthem Fairytale Of New York.
Inevitably, various groups are up in arms at this display of censorship, calling it political correctness gone mad and everything else you'd probably expect it to. However, the real outrage isn't that Radio 1 has censored the word 'faggot' from Fairytale Of New York, or that it's even playing a song that originally contained the word 'faggot' - no, the real outrage is that Radio 1 is playing a song that's about three times older than its average listener in the first place.
