After another hectic week of work I’ve finally had a chance to round up some more of the coverage that 230 Miles of Love has received. Seems like it’s all good news basically, apart from one guy who said it sounded like Terry and June. I’m not sure whether he meant the concept of a satcom or the show, neither seems particularly T+J to me but then again neither would I take the comment as a criticism particularly, Terry and June rule, jauntiest theme tune ever.
- Kick-starting the whole thing was this review by Helen Pidd in The Guardian. Seemed she thought it was funny and she said that it made her lol all the way up to Lancaster (where her journey ended). I have to admit that this was a tremendous relief on two fronts 1) a bad review of the actual show would probably have made me cry and 2) Helen was basically the first person to try 230mol out in the real world. I’ve never driven it and listened to it in action because I don’t drive on motorways. There’s a one pound reward for anyone who can spot the irony in that situation.
- From the review it basically went onto several blogs which reported on her report and it’s weird how far these things go – the story even got picked up by American radio station NPR who discussed it and made a web vs motorway “traffic” gag – pffft!
- The Times put it in their web watch comment next to a piece on Nine Inch Nails, which meant that I was briefly on the front page of Nine Inch Nails website. Rrrrrrrock!
- Knitware Blog did an interview wherein I say hilarious things, such as “low-grade nob gags” and “almost certainly be in jail”.
- Fifth Gear, the Channel 5 motoring show did a bit on it and illustrated their piece with a picture that I’m going to guess is the M5? Any other offers? Around J4?
- Hilariously a few Chris Rea blogs picked it up, because one of the actors in the show is also called Chris Rea, my spidey sense is suggesting that there’s a Road To Hell joke there.
- Best of the bunch though, top of the tree, king of the swingers is that it was featured in the b3ta newsletter. I’m not even joking when I say that this is a lifetime ambition realised. A screen grab of the email is now my desktop background and do you know I actually cheered when I saw it. I cheered. I stood up and said “Yessssss!” and pumped my fist in a pseudo-aggressive manner. I really need to leave the house more often.
One interesting consequence of this is that I’ve got a meeting coming up between me, the wonderful charity Motivation and one of the biggest satnav manufacturers on the market, with a view to doing wonderful things together. Obviously it could all blither into nothingness but there’s an outside chance that something interesting and potentially wonderful might happen…
