[foot-loose]

I'll bear that in mind. Whats the address?

The Local
The Way Home
Cornwall

?

[claradooblue]

Hang on. I didn't say the marriage was unhappy. Though cider is a fine drink, particularly if it's a home made scrumpy type affair.

[Boboff]

In the spirit of keeping it friendly what is the best Pub name you have seen.

In Plymouth we have the following

Pheasant Plucker
The Dog House
No Place Inn
The Who'd a thought it.

[Ballbag]

The C0ckwell Inn has always been a favourite of mine.

[Boboff]

? that isn't clear, as flip it might work

[claradooblue]

The Fighting C0cks near me is a goodun. There used to be a few strange named ones in Brighton. "No man's an island", which was situated on a traffic island was a favourite of mine.

[Mcqueen_]

There's an article in the Independent today a la Big Weekend - http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article2586983.ece

Thought this bit was interesting

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."

Should Radio1 choose a place where there are less listeners than other places to try and gain new listeners, whilst annoying regular listeners? Or should they reward the people who are actually regular listeners?

[foot-loose]

I don't see any harm in them going to slightly different places to try and both increase the awareness and maybe bring a type of event to an area that wouldnt usually see anything like it.

They should stop bloody going on about it as much as possible though. We can get the picture without them making as much of a fuss about it as they do.

[Mcqueen_]

The "going to a place that doesn't get anything and putting the focus on that city" is good idea, but it hasn't happened in practice.

They make out they chose Preston because it misses out due to being near to Manchester. But where was the first OBW? Manchester! Where's the logic in that.

Cardiff, Birmingham also hosts to OBW, also big city's where bands tour.

[foot-loose]

That may be a change from the One Big Weekends to Radio One's Big Weekend where they only do one each year.

How would you do it differently? Still have the weekend but make it a fair allocation of tickets up and down the country?

[Sten]

Yes.

[foot-loose]

Yes.

indeed.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

I like the fact the talk about Preston as the back of beyond. I can't remember who said it (possibly Noel Gallagher) but Radio 1 used to be very London focused and as this has changed I think more people outside of London find it accesible.

[Walter Sobchak]

Just as a matter of interest, does anyone know if there have been any significant free festivals in the south / south-west?

[Boboff]

Yes they did a gig in plymouth about 4 years ago, just before I stared listening, My sister came down from Poole, on the Hoe ! And no gas, It;s a place not a large prostitute!

[claradooblue]

Shambala was a good festival, but not free. There's been a good few free ones too over the years. Though not really any radio 1 stuff.