Category: Pirate Radio
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Music Industry’s Never-Ending End Of Days?
Newsweek concluded their article on what they called “rock’s doldrums” by reminiscing about the “good old days” when Elvis Presley and the Beatles created excitement by providing an identifiable center to the pop music world, recording music that the various segments of the pop music audience could all share. According to Newsweek, Elvis and the…
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All Loud in the Lloydbrary
Radio Clash co-host and contributor Ian Fondue has recorded his first podcast ‘The Lloydbrary: Visit One’ and it’s mighty fine too, going from XTC to Axelrod, Fred Falke to the Fresh Prince, Dick Dale to McClusky, Burial to Breakage. I hope to hear more from these in the near future! Subscribe/download here.
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John Peel’s Record Collection
It’s been floating around the blogotwitfaceosphere since Monday, but only really had a look now at the John Peel’s Record Collection site. Love the videos and photos, and small peek into his amazing collection. I hope at some point they allow access to the entire archive as a database, I’m sure some really good uses…
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Before Pump up the Volume: Pirates of London
Listening to ‘On The Run’ – a documentary about London Pirate Radio from the closure of the pirate ships in 1967 to the opening of the first commercial radio stations in 1973, made at the time it’s a fascinating piece of mostly long-forgotten history. Covering the likes of Radio Jackie, Radio Free London and the…
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The original boats that rocked – Pirate ships ahoy!
Preparing for a new show I stumbled across these films of the original pirates satellites – the offshore broadcasting Pirate Radio ships and forts such as Radio Caroline, Radio London, Radio 270, the fort radio stations of Radio 390, Radio Invicta, Radio City, and Radio Essex aka Sealand – and the most dramatic of all…