File this one under "bizarre statistics" but according to a survey by Uncut Magazine, people in the North of the UK listen to music with more BPM than those in the rest of the country.

As you can see by the musical 'map' in the picture, there is a difference of as much as 110BPM between pumped up listeners in the Scottish Highlands and the chilled out hippies of Cornwall and Devon. Northern Ireland and Scotland tend to be more avid about traditionally influenced forms of music like Folk, Celtic Rock and Country, whereas Hip-hop, RnB and Dance seem to get the most attention, unsurprisingly, in the more urbanised areas of England.

Of more interest will be the news that people tend to dance to the same music in clubs differently in opposite ends of the country. Music journo John Lewis, who performed the research for Uncut, said: "If you take jungle music, people tend to dance to it differently. It's supposed to be about 160bpm. But in London it's about half that speed with people dancing to the bass line. In Scotland they dance to it at the fast beat." No suggestions are forthcoming as to why that is the case unfortunately.

Hardly any surprise will come from the rest of the report though, with trends largely following the demographic makeup of the area that you would expect. London has the greatest musical diversity. Liverpool and Manchester enjoy indie the most. Nothing shocking there! Check out the musical map for yourself, right here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/04_02_08_musicalmap.pdf

Gkay @ 5 Feb 2008 23:44

Northern Ireland is big into thier traditional drum and bass too.

Boom boom!

I've got another coat. *legs it*