At a music festival starring some of the biggest DJs in the world, a sixteen year-old Belfast DJ could well steal the show! Radio 1 DJ Fergie has given Jordan McCuaig, aka Jordan X, the last half hour of his primetime DJ slot at Planet Love at Shane's Castle, Antrim, on Saturday 9th September. As well as playing to a 10,000 strong home crowd from the main Love Arena, Jordan's set will also be broadcast live on Radio 1 across the UK and world, as the station will broadcasting live from Planet Love this year.

"I'd like to say I see a lot of myself in Jordan but I wish I'd been as clever," said DJ Fergie.

"He's so ahead of his game. He's doing so much that I still don't even do! He's making his own tracks. He has so much more to offer than what I offered at my time. Someone like that deserves a chance. If he'd been from England I'd still have given him the chance."

Ironically, DJ Fergie rose to fame via a similar opportunity, when at the age of 14 he was taken under the wing of Tony DeVit. Nowadays Fergie is listed in the DJ Top 100 World DJs and currently hosts a weekly show on BBC Radio 1.

"It goes back to years ago when Radio 1 started the search for a DJ project," Fergie continued. "I was a judge and picking up the entries. I was sat in the office going through CDs with Matt Priest who was the executive producer of Radio 1 at that time. We heard Jordan's CD and thought it was great. Then we read the letter and saw that he was nly 14! This spurred us on. Most of the other entries were from people aged 16 and 17."

Jordan, who is a 6th form student of Belfast High School in Jordanstown, says of the opportunity: "I'm really blown away to be playing in the Love Arena at Planet Love AND aside a Radio One line up which includes Fergie, Jules, Mauro Picotto, the world's number one DJ Paul Van Dyk - and peak time to over 10,000 clubbers! Half the UK's dance fraternity will be listening on their radios on the way to clubs, at hme, wherever. It's just unbelievable. And it's at home!"

"I have utmost respect for Fergie," he continues. "He's possibly the most successful DJ to have emerged from this country, and definately one of the most genuine... His Radio One show is coming to an end this summer, and it has been, for the last 3 years, based around giving new talent opportunities, and this is the ultimate example of putting this into practice."

Jordan will play from 11pm until 11.30pm. Dancestar champ US DJ Christopher Lawrence will follow him.