Music

'Big Weekend' fake passes invalidated

Published Thursday, May 11 2006, 00:31 BST | By Miriam Zendle
Radio 1 has issued a warning after fake backstage passes for the upcoming Big Weekend festival were put up for auction on eBay.

Bids on the counterfeit products went up to £7000 on the auction website before Radio 1 were able to invalidate them, ordering the ticket tout in question to stop the sale.

NME says around 30,000 people will attend the Dundee festival.

The full line-up for the event:

Saturday May 13
Muse
Snow Patrol
Mylo
The Streets
Razorlight,
Gnarls Barkley
Orson
Corinne Bailey Rae
Paolo Nutini
Primal Scream
Bloc Party
Dirty Pretty Things
Boy Kill Boy
Mystery Jets
The Fratellis

Sunday, May 14
Keane
Pink
Feeder
The Ordinary Boys
Sugababes
Editors
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Kooks
The Zutons
We Are Scientists
Hot Chip
The View
The Feeling
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