Smuggled Sounds: Breakbeat goes sky high: Spinnaker Tower show 2006

Annie Nightingale, Radio 1's first female DJ, is nowadays known as 'Queen of Breaks'. She has pioneered breakbeat music for the past eight years, her show becoming one of Radio 1's biggest on-line successes, attracting a growing international audience via the 'Listen Again' radio player. Annie made a historic live broadcast from the top of the BT Tower in London. Entitled 'The Last Summer Sunrise' party of 2004, this all-nighter and webcast featured top breaks artists such as Meat Katie, Friendly, DJ Hyper, also starred US superstar DJ BT who flew in from Los Angeles especially. The show became Radio 1's biggest specialist music show of the year on-line. In September 2005, Annie set her sights on another tower - this time the TV Tower in Berlin. Leading German breakbeat players Circuit Breaker and B-Phreck played live from the venue, as well as rising stars Splitloop from Dublin.In September 2006, Radio1 hoisted the Spinnaker for Annie Nightingale's third annual broadcast from the top of a famous tower. After London and Berlin , Radio1 went to Portsmouth and its brand new landmark - The Spinnaker Tower.