I love BBC Radio

So, I've been criticized for my short posts. Some have called them "limited, terse," and maybe even "empty." Ha. In an attempt to appeal to the bookworms and advanced readers of the blogosphere, I have decided to spend a few sentences talking about how much I enjoyed listening to Radio 1's coverage of their free music festival this past weekend. The event, hosted in Dundee, Scotland http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=dundee,+scotland&om=1 . But how did we listen to something overseas? http://www.sirius.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Sirius/CachedPage&c=Channel&cid=1121444083985 The beauty of Sirius' broadcast is that they delay by 5 hours, which synchronizes the GMT show with EST. Anyway, I enjoyed it and especially enjoyed Pete Tong's essential selection which he apparently played live from some club called London - http://www.london-nightclub.com/

No I'm not really an anglophile. It's easy to assume that. Honestly, I just like the format of the station, the chatty friendliness of the on-air personalities, and the fact that they do not have bombastic promotional commercial breaks every 10 seconds. Maybe it's the understatedness that I appreciate.

In case you want to check it out and you don't have Sirius, you can listen live or to any show from the past 7 days here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/listen/

I recommend:
The Essential Selection
Annie Mac
Colin and Edith
and I guess the Chris Moyles Show

Their little player lets you jump ahead by 5 or 15 minutes, which is nice. Oh, and bitrates go as high as 128k. BBC are on top of the US market and host mirror streaming servers out of NYC which seem to only be a few hops away with average 14ms latency. Amazing!

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.99.99.1
2 20 ms 16 ms 15 ms er1.nyc1.speakeasy.net [66.92.53.1]
3 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms 220.ge-0-1-0.cr2.nyc1.speakeasy.net [69.17.83.201]
4 14 ms 14 ms 13 ms rt0-fe2-1.thny.bbc.co.uk [198.32.160.24]
5 14 ms 15 ms 14 ms rmclip1.thny.bbc.co.uk [212.58.240.195]

OK. I'm done.

Oh, Royksopp are amazing. Trust me.