the all time british pirate radio list

[fused]

Stumbled upon this old usenet newsgroup post t'other day - that really took me back...

 

Funny thing is I can vividly recall at least 4 or 5 of those old studio numbers like yesterday!

[Pirate Life]

Hey everyone! I only just found this post while searchin the net (as you do) and i can say Maxstyle's post on the Manchester Pirate's is pritty good. My cuz is Snowy from Buzz fm in Manchester, although he goes by the name of Snowman now, has done since bout 2004. Buzz was still on air up until last year (Feb 2009) and Snow was still goin strong on the Friday night's. Infact i think it was his 10th or 11th year on the Friday show! I hear that Buzz is due back on soon aswel. He now runs a website online that is dedicated to ALL uk pirate stations. They have video's, downloads from up coming artist's, live stream, forums ect, and also live show's from ex and current pirate dj's at selected times. There is a post in the forums on there which has pics from Frontline and Soul Nation too, and a Manchester Pirate section with various station info. Im sure they are looking for more people to share thier experiences of thier pirate memories ect from alover the uk. Hope that helps a lil? Great post by the way, let's not forget what the pirate's have given to the uk music over the years!

 

The site address is http://www.towerblockradio.com

 

And the direct link to the Manchester Pirates Thread is:

 

http://www.towerblockradio.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?92

[poohoo]

at some point when cyndicut went off air there was Flash FM run by Magic, tms1

pretty sure it was on same frequency and by same people

1996? maybe

i remember Unity and Cyndicut were the first stations i could pick up

really got me into the music, good times

[Phokus]

Wicked little documentary: http://www.palladiumboots.com/exploration/london-pirate-radio

[FuZion]

Wicked little documentary: http://www.palladiumboots.com/exploration/london-pirate-radio

 

That qas quality Phokus. Mmories flooding back from my Kool FM days setting up & taking down each weekend. Kool Midlands only broadcast weekends, Friday afternoon to Sunday night. Good days.

 

FuZion.

[Phokus]

Another documentary, radio 4 this time: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00t28d4/Do_Pirates_Rule_the_Air_Waves/

[Phokus]

Another little documentary on pirates:

[antidote]

Bailey started out on Energy FM 87.9

Warlock was on Pulse FM 90.6

 

Pretty certain Energy used to have gabba on there at one point. Could be wrong though

[DeeJayBudd]

Just seen this thread! Here's a quality station we always used to tune into most evenings. Obviously it's in need of more input, it's amazing how quickly you can forget!!

 

name: Touchdown FM

freq: 94.1FM

area: London (??)

known years running: 1991-1993

basic style genre: Hardcore, House & Garage

known dj's: Kenny Ken, Tony J, Blue Dread, Steve Nut-Nut Monster

 

 

One day I'll get round to ripping some of the tapes I recorded... :rolleyes:

[Miss Wicked]

I dunno, today's pirate stations are nothing like they used to be! I can only pick 2 or 3 up where I am and not that well either, nevermind.

 

Back in the day I used to listen to these:

 

Touch FM:

 

Based on the Isle of Sheppey

Can't remember the frequency now, they transmitted for a few months from about Oct '93 until spring 1994 then went off air never to return for some reason.

Main styles were hardcore/ drum & bass and jungle.

DJs were: Paradise & Nugget (the twins) Cashin, Al, Bowler and Budboy. Oh and DJ Pooch.

They were on air earlier in '93 as Pleasure FM playing hardcore.

When Cashin was on the sets were always heavy on the scratch attack.

 

Wicked FM 91.8FM

 

Whitstable based station. This was a pukka station, only got the one tape of this staton recorded christmas day 1993. They transmitted throughout the day and about 90% of the tunes they played were dark as you like!

Main styles were hardcore/ jungle/ drum & bass, and some garage.

DJs were DJ Time, 386 amounst others.

 

Cyndicut 100.4FM

 

Essex Based, everyone knows this one. Got 2 tapes of this station from Jan '94 one of which got mostly taped over by accident. (gutted) Still need to post some clips of some of the tunes for ID off those tapes - the ones I still need on 12"

DJs on the tapes are Daz (who apparently goes under another name now??) and Fusion Beat - what's he up to these days???

DJ Daz did a live ad for Club Raw (Raw 4 '94) at the Red Lion, Crete Hall Rd, Gravesend starting 15th Jan '94 just before the start of his set on the tape. Wicked mike skills, the man.

 

A couple of obscure London pirates that I can't find info on:

 

Shockin'

Transmission 1

 

Usually nearly all pirates have 'FM' at the end of their names, these 2 didn't. A couple of pretty wicked stations circa 1994-95 playing upfront Jungle only. Loads of live ragga chanting bo's, and MC rhyming done really well (not annoying),and played some wicked obscure tunes as well.......

 

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HI I loved Wicked fm, I was 15 back then and wish I had more of the music, possibly one cassette remains! Can you list the DJs? Also my nephew was from Surrey and he gave me a tape of Redeye fm which was amazing....

[eze g]

name: Sweet fm

freq: unknown

area: Essex area

known years running: 9?-94

basic style genre: Hardcore\Jungle

known dj's\mc's: Stetly, mc Spangler G

 

 

name: Charge fm

freq: unknown

area: Essex area

known years: running: 96-9?

basic style: genre: House\Jungle

known dj's: Sinister, slick

[Coiza]

name: Flight Fm/Style Fm

 

Freq: 100/88.4

 

Area: Norwich and Norfolk area

 

known years running : 98 - 2002 ish

 

Basic style : DnB/Garage/Hard House/Reggae

 

Known djs - Lex & G (Bomb Squad),Naturalist,Flux,Perfection,Dimension,Venom,Big D (Bladerunner),Al Royal,Vinyl Vera,Mr Explicit

 

Started out as Flight 100 fm and then in around 1999 Style 88.4 emerged and they broadcast alongside each other for a short while.

Flight came off the airwaves and the majority of their dj's switched over to Style 88.4 but sometime later 2001 ish they changed frequency to 100 and might of even changed again after.

[Ian_s]

Other stations I can think of:

 

Awesome FM - became Raw FM with Slipmatt, Lime, Freestyle, DJR

 

Dream FM (Leeds)

 

Radio Active that was mentioned earlier was ran by Terry Turbo IIRC

 

Pressure FM

 

Freek

 

Format

 

Konflict - owned by Mark Ryder with DJs like Uncle Dugs

[djkryptonn]

Elite 105.0FM (Essex)

Not sure when it started but I was listening to it in 1996 and 1997

It played drum & bass

Originally on 104.7FM but later moved to 105.0FM

DJ's - Sinister, Keety, I think Friction played on it for a bit too

MC's - Easy, Spangler G

 

Hypnotic 92.9FM (Kent)

On air in 1996 playing jungle, drum & bass and happy hardcore

MC Free N Easy is the only notable name I remember on the station

 

Force 98.4FM (Essex probably??)

On air during 1994 playing jungle, drum & bass and happy hardcore

DJ's - Quest, TMS 1, Mystery P, Kaskade, Moomin, Sherbet B, RPM, Omen

 

Spirit 98.4FM (Essex probably??)

On air during 1995 playing jungle and drum & bass

DJ's - OB1

 

Force 106.4FM (Essex)

On air from 1995 - 1997 playing jungle, drum & bass and happy hardcore

DJ's - DNA, Assassin, Big Bite, Red Lid, H, Barn Owl, Easy L, Amusement

 

Force 106.4FM later came back on in the late 90's and early 00's as a predominately garage station but played old skool hardcore and jungle on Monday nights with Big Bite, Amusement, and MCA

 

Wispa 99.2FM (Southampton)

On air from 2000-2002 playing drum & bass, garage and hip hop

Drum & Bass DJ's - Mazda, Bassis, Knockout, Darkside

Drum & Bass MC's - Fize, Greenie, Smokey, Trax

 

Charge FM mentioned above in the thread was on 90.8FM

[djkryptonn]

Urban Rainbow 93.8FM (Kent)

On air during 1996 playing jungle and Drum & Bass

DJ's - Munchie, Loudmouth, Naz, Stomper

[Djpeekay25]

all remembered from memory so lots will have to be added later.

 

 

don fm

dj's: ed rush, eazy b,rugged vinyl,lucky spinn cru,lady a,gussy,nut e 1

 

kool fm

dj's: trace,brockie, ash,smurf,times two,mampi swift,redant?,kane,probe,profile,funky flirt,eady d,phaze 3,

mc's: ragga twins,navigator, remadee,skibbadee,moose & five o, rhyme time,stingray,

 

trance fm

dj's: wise,boots hi fi, sonic,wonder,gussy

mc's: dark angel & dark heart,zuki banton,bigatron

 

weekend rush

dj's: funky flirt,

mc's:shabba d

 

dream fm

dj's: wise,swiftlee,influence,fiaz,energy,grave yard shift cru,

mc's: suicide,boots hifi,zuki banton,ruff,

 

defection fm

dj's: mixmaster max(must find my tapes of him)

mc's mikey general?

 

fantasy fm

dj's:hype, kenny ken?,ellis dee?,dj rap,

 

energy fm (surry)

dj's:mystery,step one,ruffneck,force(not dj force from essex)

 

Wasn't Red Ant on Weekend Rush? Funky Flirt, Sparks, Remarc, Dj Crystal, SL, Brainkillers, Vitamin, Shabba, Chatter B, Lt. Stitch, Rusher and Fox were all on Rush too

[Djpeekay25]

Don FM DJ's & MC's taken from a posting on B2VOS :

 

DJ Demo

EzeeD

DJ Atmosphere

DJ C-O-D

DJ Charlie Brown

DJ Nut E1

DJ Overdose

DJ Trace

Ed Rush

Lady A

Lucky Spin Crew

DJ Oshi

RType

 

MC Nasty

MC Ryme Time

MC Screwface

 

Alvin Dee

Dj Gunshot

[Djpeekay25]

 

 

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roar 2007 @ the same venue

 

bigups !

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Supposedly Andy C had a graveyard shift on Cyndicut back in 1993

[djkryptonn]

Supposedly Andy C had a graveyard shift on Cyndicut back in 1993

 

Yeah. Andy C used to play on Cyndicut during 93 with Red One on the mike. They referred to themselves as the Mindrise Crew. It wasn't graveyard shifts though - it was prime time Sunday evening sessions.

[Danny E7]

The Rude ones should be listed like this

 

Rude FM - 104.3 FM. 1994 - 1997 (I think)

DJs: Dylan, Smokey Joe, Chillum, Syras

MCs: Eksman, Herbz, Evil B

 

Rude FM - 88.2 FM. 1997 - ???

DJs:

MCs: Evil B

 

Ruud Awakening - 104.3 FM. 1997 - present

DJs: Smokey Joe, Ill Logic, Cab-e, Chillum, Syras

MCs: Eksman, Herbz

 

I think we could do this using the database listing the DJs that played with liks to their discographies as well as listing the years that they played on the station

[Danny E7]

Rude FM originally started off as RAW FM close to the Kool FM dial range, it caused obvious problems so moved to 104.3 and renamed to Rude FM..

 

Original members, DJ’s & MC’s:-

 

Reckless B (Recki)

Goldseal (RIP)

T

Mc Speedy

Mc Excellence

C.I.5 crew (DJ Darkeye,DJ Lickshot,MC Smilee, MC Automatic)

DJ Staff

Dylan

Syrus

Loads more others that came n went

 

Great times..

 

I then went on to play on Underground FM and then Weekend Rush on the later years..