818 State Constitution

Welcome to 818 State. This blog is run by four wizards who drive a magic bus powered by mountains of spaghetti . . . wait a minute . . . in fact, this is the blog of BBC Music Interactive, a team that has the privilege to sit at the hub of the BBC's world-beating music production teams, promote their work through www.bbc.co.uk/music and occasionally pitch in and help make some of it happen. Highlights from an ordinary week at BBC Music include a fascinating Pink Floyd documentary on Radio 2, Richard Hawley in 6 Music's hub, loads of Radio 3 broadcasts from the London Jazz Festival, an extended interview with Radiohead on Radio 1 , a typically eclectic line-up on Later featuring Manu Chao, Kano and James Blunt(!) and a fantastic new documentary series on Brazilian Music. Feeling a wee bit envious yet?

As well as peeling up the corner of the BBC's own music, um, doormat, we will also be offering you glimpses into all that's new, wonderful, weird, relevant or utterly pointless in the world of web music that we have the somewhat odd privilege of calling our second home. (Think of this as a slightly draughty holiday home in a picturesque part of the world which is struggling under the effects of rapid development brought on by an influx of nouveau-riche tourists. Or something.)














And we'll even occasionally indulge ourselves by ranting at indecent length about what's pressing our personal music buttons at the moment. (For me, it's all about Luíz Gonzaga after a screening of Brasil, Brasil at the Brazilian Embassy where a fabulous performance of one of his songs by a man in a funny T shirt on his front porch transported me from a very rainy Wednesday night in London to the arid north of Brazil . . . tune in on BBC Four tonight and you'll see what I mean.)

See you soon.