This evening (Tuesday), the phones suddenly went mad with fans of Dizzee Rascal, who's at the Pavilions tomorrow night. They'd heard that his gig is cancelled.
Any other day, we'd have been able to respond to this straight away, but today we were doing things a little differently. The Events team started the day with Health & Safety stuff like Fire Alarm drills, and finished it with an off site business planning session. So when the guys back at base rang us at 8pm and told us the phones were going beserk, we didn't have the answers.
A quick internet search via a mobile phone revealed Dizzee had cancelled tonight's gig due to a throat infection. However, upon further scrutiny, that was a story from a couple of years ago! I eventually got hold of the number for Dizzee's representative, who is on the road with him. Tonight, they're in Brighton. When I explained what we'd heard, she told us that some troublemaker made a rogue posting to Facebook this morning. From that the rumour grew to Twitter. And then to radio stations.
It's not true. Dizzee Rascal will play Plymouth tomorrow evening. But we've experienced the power of social networking, in the negative message that spread today, followed tonight by Dizzee's personal message on his Twitter site putting the record straight.
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