Signed up for tickets to Radio 1's Big Weekend? Get the strange phrase "Frozen Indigo Angel" in your registration confirmation?
Been watching Paul Denchfield's Twitter feed, reading his blog and wondering why the recently sacked R1 producer is getting dogged by the same nonsensical phrase?
Surely it's not a BBC multi-platform Alternate Reality Game? If so, this is large-scale, people. Through a public service provider. What with this and the eco-focussed World Without Oil, 2007 is looking like the year the medium comes of age.
To review FIA (for those who have no idea what I'm talking about):
The thick plot goes that Denchfield (a real guy) was fired by Auntie Beeb for daring to bring to the corporation's attention the strange phrase on one of his R1 websites (see the first video here). Signposts have been popping up all around the UK, from Glasgow to Cornwall, attached to radio personalities from Scott Mills to Colin Murray, and to BBC properties like Dr. Who and pop stars like the Arctic Monkeys, yet still Denchfield's been unable to get the BBC to admit that something's going on. After spending the past week or so causing a stink on various Web 2.0 platforms, he was finally able to make an appointment to meet with R1 Controller Andy Parfitt to discuss his unfair dismissal. According to the latest video, at the appointed time and place he was given only a mobile phone and a cryptic note from an FIA insider.
Now what? Well, let the gaming begin.
The clues are coming thick and fast. You can catch up on the latest at Metafilter, as well as at ARG-hotspot Unfiction.
Paul's Twitter is here, his blog is here and YouTube is here.
