As fans queue up outside Belfast's hotels awaiting a glimpse of their music idols, BBC Newsline's Natasha Sayee looks at the backstage preparations ahead of this weekend's MTV European Music Awards in Belfast.
At one point they had to ban video games backstage at the WWE because guys were playing too much and almost missing their cues to go into the ring.
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Oasis split up three years ago after an argument backstage at a concert in Paris.
One night, the group sneaks backstage at a local radio show and run into a producer.
She says she came up with the idea while talking with cellist Yo-Yo Ma backstage at a graduation ceremony.
As one of the very first acts we sauntered backstage at the village arena to discover organised chaos.
"It's a big step, " acknowledges a soft-spoken Jibreel backstage at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
Heck, even the Surface Pro reared its head backstage at the show.
Backstage at SAG, Day-Lewis was hardly ready to predict a third Oscar win.
He said some of his temper tantrums (the latest backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards), stem from that moment.
Put it this way: Backstage at Westminster, few little children wandered up to pet the Dobermans, instead saving their love for the St.
Sitting backstage at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, waiting to catch another preview of her 15-song debut as a Broadway lyricist and composer, Lauper is both nervous and humble.
During a later stop at the Senate to vote on the budget, the Illinois senator confirmed reports that he and Clinton had run into each other backstage at the AIPAC conference.
According to a published report, Mr. Woodard was involved in an altercation in 2004 with a security guard for the singer Usher backstage at a concert at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas.
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Starting in 1955, Brubeck ended up playing the Newport festival more than any other musician, and the celebration ended with trumpeter Jon Faddis and Chris Brubeck on trombone blowing up a storm on "Blues For Newport, " a tune Brubeck composed backstage at the festival.
These are often as small as an invitation to a reception, a discount in a museum shop or a backstage tour at the Royal Opera House.
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So some airlines have taken to occasionally wining and dining them and monitoring FlyerTalk, Twitter and blogs, responding directly to customers who post problems and coddling online communities with special sales and, in extreme cases, CEO dinners and backstage access at airports.
He appeared uninvited onstage at the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards, walked out of the 2004 American Music Awards after losing in the Best New Artist category and reportedly threw a backstage tantrum at the 2007 VMAs because he did not perform on the main stage.
Take Research in Motion 's (nasdaq: RIMM - news - people ) BlackBerry, a Tinseltown favorite on offer at this January's Backstage Creations Golden Globes suite.
Hunt, also nominated for supporting actress at the Oscars, was coy backstage about what she'll be doing before Hollywood's big night.
The two stories Beane is telling are brilliantly connected by John Lee Beatty's rotating set, which takes viewers both backstage and in the seats at a burlesque theater, as well as inside the apartment of Lane's Chauncey Miles.
Later, he asked for some tonic water backstage, according to a photographer at the event.
An unexpected treat at MEET was talking airplanes with actor Morgan Freeman backstage.
"I was thinking about the beautiful dinners and the charades she and her friends play, and the great performances they see at the end of the night, " Stuart said backstage.
We continued to a backstage area where mail trucks shared space with production crews at banks of monitors tracking the party already under way, as well as Mr. Craig's progress.
"They couldn't wait until the next year so they could be together again, " Trupo said, recalling the backstage scene before their production of "Legally Blonde" at Lyndonville High School last spring.
"I was at T In The Park a few years back and managed to blag it backstage, " he explained.
Now Shadley is in Tinseltown for a different kind of industry-related project: designing the Architectural Digest green room -- the backstage area where stars can relax while the show runs -- at the 81st Annual Academy Awards.
Current prized include the America's Cup ride-along, two VIP tickets and backstage passes to a Lady Gaga show, tickets to see Stevie Wonder at the U.N.
To see CNN national correspondent Alina Cho's interview with Bibhu Mohapatra and for more coverage of New York Fashion Week, tune in to Fashion: Backstage Pass, airing on CNN on Saturday, Sept. 15, at 2:30 p.m.
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