Natasha hits top spot in US.(DOOLEY'S DIARY)

Remember where you heard it: Another week, another British artist at number one in the US. Following James Blunt's Hot 100 chart-topping exploits a few weeks back, Natasha Bedingfield's Unwritten has now climbed to one on Billboard's Pop 100 chart. She's going great guns on the Hot 100, too, rising 7-6 ... Staying Stateside, in South By South West news, Dooley hears from Stephen Budd, that he actually did make a return journey to La Zona Rosa, where he famously broke his arm last year--for the Arctic Monkeys show. Ever the blagger, he even managed to sweet talk his way past the queue of 500 people outside and get himself and four other Channelfly friends with him ... It was an eventful week for many. BMI's Nick Robinson returned home to have his plaster taken off his broken arm and find that it was, in fact, a "broken radial head", whatever that is ... He wasn't the only one to endure a mishap. One delegate woke up in the middle of the night to find a member of the hotel staff standing in the doorway with his wife, who had gone for a short sleep-walk--completely starkers ... Dooley can report of genuine nightmares returning from SXSW last weekend, after Dallas was the subject of massive thunderstorms and floods, which grounded all flights in and out. Among those stranded in Dallas for 24 hours and more, with alternate fights the following day already rammed with returning delegates, included your own Dooley correspondent as well as representatives from MTV, NME, The Observer and many others. Some poor souls were redirected to New York--only to find themselves delayed there too. Nightmare ... Despite the announcement of tour dates and planned new releases, Radiohead are staying very quiet on any new recording deal, though apparently Parlophone execs are not jumping up and down in a panic. "The band's focus is entirely on recording and on the forthcoming tour," according to their management company Courtyard. Whatever the eventual outcome of any deal, one Parlophone figure will definitely be involved in the project--its director of press Murray Chalmers is now handling PR for the band through his own operation Infinite, which he is running in parallel with his continued Parlophone role ... Last week was a belter for secret gigs. Not only did The Streets play a gig in London's only lighthouse--with an invited audience including Kelly ...