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TPN Rock Live #1: After Action Report (and the Podcast)

Posted on May 19, 2007
Filed Under Broadcast Radio, Digital Music, Multimedia, Podcasting, Web 2.0 (Observations) |

So TPN Rock Live (or at least, the first TPN Rock Live is over), and it’s time to look at the results, and maybde have a bit of discussion around the issues. First of all, the primary goal was ‘to test the internet streaming system for Leith FM before the station starts simulcasting.’ Managed that with flying colours, even with the bitrate opened up to 128kbit stereo (and I doubt Leith FM will ever go about about 48kbit).

The second goal was to have a bit of an experiment, push the envelope and do some multi-media landscaping. The stream itself (mp3 stream, accessible through a playlist file, nice and open, no DRM) opened up at 10pm (UK Time), but not to myself. No it opened up with an hour of Mark Hunter and the Tartan Podcast. Mark’s previously ran a streaming server from his house, but the chance to compare this to a ‘preofessional’ setup was worth the hoops we jumped through to get him on the stream. Always nice to have a marker for comparison.

Ewan Spence, Pdocaster, Let’s Rock with TPN Rock Live

The top of the hour approached, and I took over the stream from Mark, and I’m into an interesting warm-up section. Because not only do I need to be on the boil almost immediatly, I need to get the audience fired up as well. Thanks to the stream being a fully registerd, official, MCPS/PRS/PPL registerd cast my whole library was open to me. So everyone got Thunderstruck, along with Iron Maiden’s version of My Generation, and one of the ultimate mosh pit fillers in The Sweete’s Teenage Rampage?

And how could I not introduce to the strains of Take It Off The Top by The Dixie Dregs?

After that it was on with the show (which you can hear below, or by doing the whole RSS Thing with TPN Rock) and that was interesting noetheless. because as I’m going through the playlist of the weeks picks of the Unsigned, Unknown and Under-Appreciated, the listeners are boucning back instant feedback while the track is playing. Now I know that might not seem a big deal to some, the fact that even though I normally record TPN Rock ‘as-live’ in one take, there was an even bigger edge now that everyone was actively involved. Has it helped the show? I’ll watch the comments and find out!

So all in all, a very successfull night, that did what it set out to do, and then some more - once the recording was over, I sat and jammed some dedications, requests and classic tracks till we all had better things to do.

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