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1. Usher feat Ludacris - Yeah 7:00 NEWSBEAT 2. Avril Lavigne - Complicated, 3. N*E*R*D - She Wants To Move, 4. Snow Patrol - Chocolate, 5. BUZZ OFF - Fatboy Slim - Going Out Of My Head, 6. Sugababes - Hole In The Head 7:30 NEWSBEAT 7. Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This, 8. Franz Ferdinand - Matinée, 9. Kanye West - Through The Wire, 10. No Doubt - It’s My Life 8:00 NEWSBEAT 11. Faithless - Insomnia, 12. The Rasmus - In The Shadows, 13. Coldplay - In My Place, 14. Joss Stone - Super Duper Love 8:30 NEWSBEAT 15. The Streets - Fit But You Know It, 16. The White Stripes - 7 Nation Army, 17. Urban Cookie Collective - The Key: The Secret (Tedious Link), 18. Keane - Everybody’s Changing, 19. Frankee - F**k U Right Back, 20. 50 Cent - If I Can’t 9:30 NEWSBEAT 21. D12 - My Band, 22. Room 5 feat Oliver Cheatham - Make Luv, 23. Lostprophets - Last Train Home, 24. Will Young - Your Game

So One Big Weekend is finally here and the show was celebrating that fact by coming live from BBC Radio Foyle in Londonderry this morning. That’s right, they were celebrating St Georges Day...by coming live from Northern Ireland. The team flew out there yesterday, with Dom, Chris and Aled nearly having heart attacks on the plane. This is because all three are terrified of flying and at one point during the flight (after the plane had been steadily climbing for 2/3 minutes) the aircraft suddenly dropped, there was a large bang and a sharp intake of breath from everyone on board. Chris tried to recreate the moment with a sound effect but managed to hurt himself while kicking the desk. Last night the whole team bar Chris and Exec producer Joe Graham went out for a curry, but those two had to stay at the hotel bar as they had a meeting with a very important person. They ended up staying in the same spot for the whole night, with Dom describing Chris’s mood as “drunk” when he returned. Chris was looking and feeling fine this morning though, although he said he regretted wearing the particular t-shirt he had on as it didn’t half accentuate his man breasts. Rachel’s fake tan wasn’t quite so bad this morning, Dave was up for it cos it’s his birthday eve, Aled was bopping and bouncing around saying how brilliant it was to be there - and Dom and Jules were raring to go to also. However, if you thought that all that meant the show was going to be slick and faultless then you had another thing coming...remember after all, it was an outside broadcast. The first bit of trouble was when Yeah by Usher and Ludacris (the first record) suddenly stopped halfway through. Chris flicked the mics on to apologise as he had accidentally pressed pause. At this exact moment Exec producer Joe’s phone went off. Dave tried to say it had been a slick start to the show but stumbled over his words, which was very funny. He then tried a second bite at the cherry but his phone went off as well!! To add to the technical problems, Dom’s headphones played up during the 7:00 news, he stumbled over a couple of stories and then gave out the wrong time check. Chris praised Juliette’s seamless sport but ripped into ruuubish Byrne. Chris had been given colour coded microphones to operate but it was very confusing as Dave was stuck in between Dom and Jules’ mics, which should be switched on and off together. About half an hour later Chris also somehow managed to pause and restart Hole In The Head by the Sugababes. He said he was busy checking the off air pre-fade but had hit the wrong button. Dom’s bulletin was much better at half seven (his face lit up when he pressed a One Road Travel button for the first time) and Dave said he’d give him seven out of 10 for it.
Chris - and what about Jules?
Dave - I’d give her one
(Chris plays jingle)

Bar another news bed disaster at half nine, the show ran smoothly enough from 7:30 onwards, with Chris’s mic only distorting from time to time when he shouted loudly. Chris thanked Shane and Ken the studio engineers for this, plus Irish Danny back pressing the buttons in London. Chris told Danny to open up his microphone and say hello just before the end of the show. He then told him to say “here’s Will Young” up to the vocal of Your Game.
Irish Danny (up to vocal) - Here’s Will Young, stick it out
(Chris and Rachel laugh) Chris - Well let’s hope he doesn’t

Buzz Off today was a bit of a belter, Going Out Of My Head by Fatboy Slim. The listeners were first to buzz on 2:42, Rachel next on 3:09, Dave third on 3:42 and Aled last on 3:52. Chris had a go at Aled for buzzing so late as he had been ignoring Chris’s points at the clock for about 30 seconds (the feature was overrunning badly y’see). Chris also played the Eamon response F**k U Right Back by Frankie on today’s show, which he called one huge scam and set up. I also think he was very harsh on Snow Patrol when he referred to them as the new Del Amitri...cos Snow Patrol are actually good.
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CHICKS WIN TIX:>>>> The show’s lucky totty footy lotto was back this morning with a pair of Barclaycard Premiership tickets up for grabs today for Leeds versus Portsmouth, a huge huge game taking place this Sunday morning at half eleven. At this time Chris is due to be introducing the loveGods on stage at One Big Weekend (the loveGods were the winners of Radio 1 Unsigned recently), but said he will be dashing backstage straight away to watch the game on a huge Sky screen being specially set up backstage (like at OBW in Manchester last year for the Arsenal - Leeds game). On the line to win the Leeds tickets were Leanne from Leeds, at work in York. She said Mr Dido (Alan Smith) is her favourite player and said she’d take her boyfriend to the game with her. Also on the line was Nicola from Leeds, who’s favourite player is also Smudger. She said she’d take her fiance Harvey to the game with her if she won. Nicola was on her way to her work, she works at Asda in Leeds...
Chris - Oh that’s Asda Price. Do you have to spank your arse all day?
Nicola (laughs) - No I get my boyfriend to do that for me
Chris - Wa-hey!!! Good girl!! (claps)
Dave - Also, do you have to wear protective headgear to protect you from all the falling prices?
(Chris and Nicola laugh) Nicola - No not quite
Dave (to Chris) - You know they wear hard hats on the adverts because prices are constantly falling!!
Chris (laughing) - Wow, I wasn’t aware of that Dave

Nicola did win the tickets in the end, after correctly identifying Portsmouth as Leeds opponents this Sunday (it was another tricky question from Jules).

FINAL OF THE VIP OBW COMPETITION - WITH <s>JIM BOWEN</s> CHRIS MOYLES:
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Today was the grand final of the big One Big Weekend competition that has been running on Radio 1 all week, with piles and piles of listeners in the hat for a VIP upgrade this morning. This upgrade included backstage OBW passes, VIP guest area passes, side stage views, a nice hotel suite, free transport from your house...and last but not least a free helicopter ride down onto The Prehen Playing Fields with Aled. After the plane journey yesterday, Aled said he was looking forward to getting in a helicopter as he thinks they’re safer.
Dave - Well not statistically
To eliminate all of the weeks winners from the grand final (except from two who would go head to head), the office dart board from Radio 1 had been packed on the plane for Derry. On the board in place of the numbers, were post-it notes with all the competition winners names on. This was placed on the studio wall, with a makeshift ockey constructed from a can of Stella in front of it (and how that made it past health & safety I’ll never know). Chris wanted to do the feature in a Bullseye stylee, so had asked for the theme music. It wasn’t to be found anywhere at Radio 1 so Greyhead had to go to all the bother of tracking down the music’s composer John Patrick, then borrowing and returning the tape of the music to him while he was at a meeting in London. Will put it all onto CD and this morning Chris had 3 CD’s worth of slight variations on the theme to put to use. He sure did that - completely milking it for all it was worth and more. His Jim Bowen impressions also became extremely irritating after a while, although his lines such as “Right it might be a flight, it might be a ferry - let’s find out who’s coming to Derry” were very funny. The team had a good laugh throwing in turns at the board to get rid of competition winners, although it’s fair to say that Jules was the only one who was above abysmal. Aled tried to give Chris tips on how to improve his technique...
Aled - You’ve got to do it harder!!
Chris - If I had a pound for every time I’d heard that from you


THE GRAND FINAL - EMMA VS DAMIEN:>>>
Emma Rogers from Birmingham (who won with Colin & Edith) and Damien McKeever from Enniskillen (who won with Dave Pearce) were the two contestants left going head to head for the VIP upgrade. It was the first to five on a series of OBW questions, and it was only fair Emma won as she otherwise couldn’t go this weekend, she said £200 for a flight was just too much when you’re broke. She won 5-1 and said she was looking forward to seeing The Streets and Franz Ferdinand. Damien said he was most looking forward to seeing Armin Van Buren and Faithless tomorrow (Chris played Insomnia after 8 o’clock BTW - top tune and surely one of the very best to have come out of the 90’s). Emma sounded genuinely delighted to have won the VIP upgrade and said she’d take her mate Bernard or her sister with her. Emma had been leading 4-0 in the competition when this conversation took place earlier:-
Chris - Emma, if you screw this up now how bad would you feel?
Emma - I’d whip myself
Dave (pause) - Well, that’d be great on tomorrows trail
Chris - If she’s gonna whip herself I’ll pay for the bloody flight myself!!!


PETE TONG LIVE ON THE PHONE:>>>
Tongy was on the phone after 9 to chat to Chris about the forthcoming One Big Weekend in Derry. He’s currently in London but will be flying out tomorrow for the big extravaganza at Prehen Playing Fields. He’ll be live on the air between 8:30 and 9 on Seb Fontaine’s show tomorrow, although he said he might take up Dave’s offer and pop on down to his birthday party afterwards and play a few party tunes - Whigfield, Kylie I Should Be So Lucky...you know the score. Pete is leaving Derry early Sunday morning though as he is getting back to London to go to the Spurs - Arsenal match in the afternoon, where his beloved Gooners could finally seal the title. Chris chatted to him briefly about last Friday’s Arsenal - Leeds game. Pete was there to see Leeds get thumped cos he had a week off and Lottie was filling in on the Essential Selection. Juliette said she’d never seen Lottie before and Chris told her she was a major POA (piece of ass) and as “fit as hell”. Dave told Pete to watch out for orange sheep on the car journey from Belfast Airport to Derry, as that’s what the team spotted yesterday. Aled is spending today with his friends Craig and Sam and Chris is chilling out in Derry on his own. While they’re here, Dave, Dom, Jules, Rache and Joe are all heading off to The Giants Causeway in the car. As Chris read out details on it from the t’interweb, Dom realised why Dave was so insistent on seeing it. This was because he’d been under the misapprehension that it was just a network of dual carriageways.
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The three companies left in the the race for The Chris Moyles Approved Workplace Award had all sent stuff into the show this morning. Chris said there would be no head-to-head competition on Monday, they’d simply choose the winner on the basis of the best bribe. Keenan from McLoughlin’s fruit and veg had sent in some Stella and a hamper of fruit and veg and Anne from Donley & Taggart had sent in some Guinness and some Irish brekky stuff. The legend that is Keiran from “North West Tyres!” had sent in a NW Tyres ruler, a tangerine, some Lucozade, a piece of toast wrapped in some cling film...and a clipping of the article on him in today’s Derry Journal, with the headline “Derry Man Rocks Radio 1”.

**There was no echo for Dave when he said “Let’s Get Ready To Ramble” during half time today, so he had to make do with a chamber effect by cupping his hands.
Dave - I’m cupping them now
Chris - I’m sorry to hear that
(Rachel, Dave and Dom laugh)

Aled said that when Dave says Let’s Get Ready To Ramble, his mouth makes a shape that it doesn’t ever make at any other time.
Dom - To quote Aled from last night, you look like a whale eating plankton off a seabed
(Aled explained he’d got that off Finding Nemo).**

CARPARK CATCHPHRASE:
RYAN a regional sales rep for BritVic Soft Drinks from Gillingham 2
GERARD a car salesman from Derry 1

Daves Tedious Link
James Sit Down - “Sit down” is what you might be asked to do by an air stewardess during a short period of turbulence - Turbulence can be caused when one aircraft flies into the disturbed air left by another jet - Jet from Gladiators was played by a lady called Diane Youdale - Diane Youdale shares the same christian name as Diane Modahl, who recently starred in the last series of I’m A Celebrity - Celebrity Squares on the other hand was a very different programme all together and was what you would call a gameshow - If you remove the “show” part of gameshow you’re left simply with “game”, which is a term used to describe pheasants and stuff - Pheasants shouldn’t be mistaken for peasants or even presents, which are traditionally given at Christmas time or on the occasion of ones birthday - Coincidentally on the subject of birthdays, it’s actually mine tomorrow...and that’s no secret - and if you think of the word “secret” in the context of early 90’s dance tunes which also feature the word “key” and are performed by a collective of people with a penchant for biscuits, you think of The Key: The Secret by The Urban Cookie Collective - Which links us to Urban Cookie Collective and The Key: The Secret

ONE BIG REWIND
Chris will host an extra show on Radio 1 this weekend. On Sunday he'll host a two hour highlights show from One Big Weekend in Derry, called One Big Rewind. He’ll be on air between 7 and 9pm and the show will feature all the best interviews and live performances from across the weekend, from the likes of Faithless, Ash, Avril Lavigne, Kelis, Keane and Franz Ferdinand. Don’t forget Monday morning’s show is also coming live from Derry from 6:55 till 10 o'clock.

WEEK HIGHLIGHTS:
SHOW OF THE WEEK: Wednesday
MOMENTS OF THE WEEK: Chinese karaoke stories on Monday, Uma Thurman question link and Dave and Chris’s bike argument on Tuesday, Workplace Award and bits of Uma interview on Wednesday, Moisturiser and OBW comeptition on Thursday, plus early technical disasters and half time today. (Also, don’t forget you can Listen Again to all the weeks shows by following the links from Chris’s R1 mini-site. The show is back live from Londonderry on Monday and Chris is on this Sunday night from 7 on One Big Rewind).

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