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Thousands of music fans are at Mote Park in Maidstone for the first day of Radio s Big Weekend. Usher kicked off the action around . pm on Saturday GMT . The biggest draw of the day will be main stage headliner Madonna as the queen of pop plays her only UK festival date of the summer. people are expected over the two days and more than half a million people applied for tickets. The event is the biggest free ticketed music festival in Europe and has previously been held in Dundee and Preston. Following a countdown by Radio DJ Edith Bowman the gates to Mote Park were opened at exactly midday. Fans at the front of the queue sprinted to get to the front of the main stage. Greg from Scouting For Girls gets in the spirit Prior to their appearance later in the day Scouting For Girls serenaded fans performing an acoustic version of their recent single She s So Lovely with the crowd joining in on the chorus. Louise from Sittingbourne was first in the queue with her mates. She told Ne! wsbeat We ve been here since half past eight this morning and it is hot. We are looking forward to seeing Madonna and Scouting For Girls. year old Chrissy from Gravesend came to the festival with her sister. She said It s the first time we ve ever been to anything like this we re waiting until the end of the show to see Madonna. The weather is beautiful. It s just a bonus really. Madonna s set list will include her current number one single Minutes and some tracks from her chart topping album Hard Candy. Speaking to Radio DJ Jo Whiley she said Obviously I want to do new stuff because I m very excited about it. Madonna is set to play songs from her new album Hard Candy I feel that s what people come to hear but I also want to do a few of my oldies but goodies. I chose Hung Up because that was the biggest hit from my last record and I chose Music because it s a crowd pleaser it s anthemic and it brings people together. She s staying tight lipped on whether she ll sneak her cu! rrent collaborator Justin Timberlake into the show. Madonna hints at guest appearance Main stage Among the bands playing on the main stage later will be Duffy The Feeling and The Fratellis who played last year s event in Preston. Singer Jon Fratelli said I think we broke some windows last year playing football. I want to do new stuff because I m very excited about it but I also want to do a few of my oldies but goodies. Madonna It was Kasabian s window we didn t mean it. We ll bring a ball again and see what mayhem ensues. Editors have the unenviable task of headlining the In New Music We Trust stage competing with Madonna for a share of the crowd. They will be joined on that stage by The Futureheads We Are Scientists and Guillemots. Guillemots singer Fyfe Dangerfield said It s the first festival we ve done in ages so we re looking forward to it. We re getting in the spirit running around and partying. Swedish pop singer Robyn is thrilled to part of it. She said We have a small band but we make a lot of noise. Our show is like a club show no m! atter where we play inside or outside in a bigger venue. It s all about getting the crowd hyped. We have a small band but we make a lot of noise Robyn An outdoor DJ stage will be headlined by Fatboy Slim ahead of his appearance at the Wireless Festival in July. The Enemy play the main stage on Sunday. Singer Tom Clark is impressed with the bands on the bill. He told Chris Moyles You ve somehow managed to get a better line up than Glastonbury I think it s amazing. I d like to see The Pigeon Detectives I ve never seen them live. The Kooks headline the main stage on Sunday with Jack White s band The Raconteurs over on the INMWT stage. E mail this to a friend Printable version Bookmark with Delicious Digg reddit Facebook StumbleUpon What are these SEE ALSO Countdown to Big Weekend begins Friday May GMT Music Hot Chip admit download confusion Thursday May GMT Music Madonna to headline Big Weekend Monday April GMT Music Radio Big Weekend line up grows Tuesday April GMT Music RELA! TED BBC LINKS One Big Weekend MOST POPULAR STORIES NOW MOST E MAILED MOST READ Great tits cope well with warming My life with coeliac disease Vatican gives Latin online boost Burma votes amid cyclone aid row Success for pygmy hog programme Most popular now in detail MOST E MAILED MOST READ Boy dies after car hits cow Thunderstorms bring flash floods Blair secretly advising Brown Tsvangirai to run in second round Week in pictures May Most popular now in detail RSS Feeds Podcasts Mobiles PDAs Interactive TV The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites

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Sex Yawn Politics Thats Hot New York Times

Skip to article Get Home Delivery Log In Register Now Home Page My Times Today s Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Style All NYT Fashion people who have transcended politics to become bona fide celebrities. As the campaign stretches into its second year in some corners it is simply seen as entertainment. You can t get much better drama than what we re seeing on the campaign trail said Charles Lachman the executive producer of Inside Edition the syndicated entertainment newsmagazine. It s the greatest reality show on television. People s fiercest competitor US Weekly has published essays by Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama interviews with Hillary Rodham Clinton and last month a three page spread pondering the question Barack Obama Is He Really Just Like Us The answer He really is When Cindy McCain discussed rumors of an extramarital affair by her husband for the first time she did so in an interview with Nancy O Dell of the celebrity television show Access Hollywood. When ! John and Elizabeth Edwards resurfaced for their first joint interview months after he dropped out of the presidential race they chose to do so in People magazine. And Mrs. Clinton allowed only pool coverage at a recent Elton John fund raiser but granted an exclusive backstage interview to Extra. There is of course what feels like unprecedented levels of interest in campaign coverage across all of the news media. But not since John F. Kennedy posed for Life magazine during the campaign tanned and windblown in his sailboat have the entertainment media been so infatuated with a presidential campaign. Since Life and Look we have not seen a nonpolitical magazine that has shown an interest in political figures as much as the gossip magazines are showing now said Samir Husni the chairman of the journalism department at the University of Mississippi and an authority on magazines. And it is mainly because they view the candidates as celebrities. It is also because having a woman and! a young photogenic man in the race hits the right notes demographically speaking the vast majority of readers of magazines like US Weekly are women. Many of those readers are for the first time paying close attention to the presidential primaries and turning politics into dinner party conversation. And for the first time in recent memory the presidential race has provided passion and drama worthy of a Hollywood catfight. When you look at the great celebrity dramas of the last few years you have Team Aniston Team Jolie Team Heidi and Team Lauren said Janice Min the editor of US Weekly. And now we have Team Hillary and Team Barack. Even at relatively minor turns in the news cycle syndicated shows like The Insider have covered the campaign relentlessly. In Tampa Fla. last month after a sermon by the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. was canceled the last reporter milling around a near empty church parking lot was Les Trent a correspondent for Inside Edition. TMZ.com the Web site that advertises itself as the official site for entertainment news celebr! ity gossip and Hollywood rumors has tracked all three candidates even posting a mundane video of Senator John McCain leaving a Beverly Hills restaurant on his st birthday. Editors and producers say that the readership and viewership numbers reveal that the demand for politics coverage has only increased as the race goes on. Producers at Inside Edition say they run at least one political story every day because the ratings are so high for those segments. Look at the crowds that Obama s attracting said Mr. Lachman of Inside Edition. That s all reflected in TV ratings. During the campaign editors hardly paid attention to Senator John Kerry or President Bush. Ms. Min of US Weekly said she ran a single spread about a celebrity fund raiser for Mr. Kerry. 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