This may be slightly of interest to some
www.bbc.co.uk/bigscreens/about.shtml

there are big screens up in various cities across the UK. A video featuring my band's music and a dancing girl is going to be shown on them 4 times a day for a month or something.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:57, 20 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

User generated content on our fucking streets.
Oh great.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:58, Reply)

it's part of some arts thing
and not all user-generated content is bad...
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 10:00, Reply)

Whenever I see the words "Thinking of submitting some content?"
I am reminded of this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E10Bp_mPXXA
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 10:02, Reply)

lamentably
youtube is one of the few things I can't see at work.

I think the deal with the screens is that they are vetted by people before the crap gets played on them, so in theory there is some quality control.

The video with us in it and our song was not planned, made or edited by us, so it's not too shit ;-)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 10:05, Reply)

are you seeking approval from the Internet?
Relax and be smug. From what I heard on MySpace, your band are good. And now I feel soiled for giving such reassurances on the Internet.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 10:09, Reply)

not really
I have trouble accepting it when people say we are good. always feel like they are taking the piss!

feel free to slag me off if it will help you feel better ;-)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 10:10, Reply)

We've got a big screen in Liverpool
So I shall look/listen out for it.
What's the song?

(I love the big screen. I like when they broadcast ballet and opera live from That London. They put all seating up, and I go with my nana and have booze, snacks and culture, for free.)
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 10:15, Reply)

the song is called Blind
it's a bluesy number. Video is of a girl dancing round an empty pub.

it's on our myspace as well as those big screens.

I do like the idea of the sort of broadcast you are talking about. showing sporting events and quality things on big screens is a good idea if you ask me.

it's like going to the cinema, but you can smoke spliffs while you do it
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 10:19, Reply)

I saw that and liked it muchly.
in fact I was hoping it was Blind because that's the one I liked the most. It reminds me of lots of songs I like, but not in a rip-off way. Like Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing by Chris Isaac. I may have already said this...

I don't like the big screen when there's a footy riot and Town gets closed for the afternoon.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 10:21, Reply)

good stuff :-)
don't remember you saying it was like a Chris Isaac song. I shall have to check it out. wonder if it's on the album I have...

I can appreciate that a riot wouldn't be much fun. Fortunately Exeter City are so bad that no one is in a position to riot.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 10:23, Reply)

is in a position to riot. watches
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 11:16, Reply)

I agree that the video was smart.
And the dancing girl was my kind of pretty.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 10:32, Reply)

mine too
she's a really lovely person too. fuck knows what she is doing with our singer!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 10:32, Reply)

I liked her mooooves

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 10:39, Reply)

We have a big telly in Hull
It cost the council £625k, the Labour leader at the time pushed it through with the help of two other councillors rather than getting the full council to vote on the idea properly. They then erected it using a post-dated retrospective (or whatever the proper item is) planning permission.

They said they would make at least 50% of the outlay back in sponsorship deals. Bear in mind there are some reasonably large companies based in Hull that could've been approached... Reckitt Benckiser, Smith & Nephew, Croda Chemicals, Rank Hovis (at the time) and a good few others.

It never happened, the screen only shows BBC News 24 along with local news Look North and the very occasional sporting event such as Wimbledon and the highlights of the Olympics. In 2008, when Hull City (who had climbed 92 places over the last few years from the depths of the league to the top of the championship) went to Wembley for the play-offs and managed to move up into the Premiership (for the first time in the club's 104 year history), did the council cough up for the rights to show the game to what would've been a very large audience? Did they fuck.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 10:36, Reply)

I remember when I went home
last year. I was walking by the Queen Victoria statue and went "What the FUCK is that" rather loudly.
Someone said "you're not from around here are you"...........
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 17:30, Reply)

We currently have random pianos in Bristol
set up all round the city with notes on them saying "play me" and the suchlike.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 11:50, Reply)

Have you got a link?
Are they going on tour? We had loads of brilliant interactive things like that in Liverpool last year. They really do make people talk to each other and have a nice time. I want to play choppity choppity chopsticks with a passing stranger.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 11:53, Reply)

Here ya go:
theatrebristol.net/2009/9/4/street-pianos-come-to-bristol
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 12:22, Reply)

How cool.
Looks like I've missed 'em.
There's always 2010...
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 12:51, Reply)