BBC rents island in SL for one year, plans events
The BBC has rented an island in Second Life for one year for demoing bands and kicking off their big weekend:
The rented island exists in online game Second Life and will hold its first event this weekend with bands including Muse, Razorlight and Gnarls Barkley. The virtual party will mirror BBC Radio 1’s real-world, One Big Weekend event, being held in Dundee from 12 May. Radio 1 plans to use the island to debut new bands over the next year.
The article, unless I missed it, doesn’t seem to include an SLurl to get to the location, so I did some searches in the SL Find menu and came up blank there. Maybe this was intentional because they can only get up to 400 people on the sim? Any VTOR members or readers know where this island is located?
Update 9:02am PST: You can get to BBC Radio 1 island BBC Radio 1 (171,76,26) (SLurl). Go get your free headphones and BBC radio.
Hat tip to Cameron.
May 13th, 2006 • 
TD Goodliffe • 
