blissblogger
Well-known member
one of the ironies of the internet is that it is possible to immerse yourself in the past of pirate radio in a much more total, take-it-all-in way that you could at the time
i mean, unless you had more than one radio set (and i'm really not sure why it never occurred to me to do that - buy multiple cheap radio-recorders) you could only listen to one station at a time - and you were also limited to what you could pick up in your corner of London
now there's this overload of archived sets from all across the city (and elsewhere in the UK), almost to the point you could live "there/then" permanently as a listener and rarely listen to the same set twice.
incidentally in the brand new issue of the Wire, Michaelangelo Matos has done a Primer to UK Pirate Radio DJ Sets, starting around 1988 and going through to the end of the 2000s. He's done a good job framing the evolution and found a lot of gems, drawing on his formidable resources of obsessive-compulsiveness and sifting through what seems to have been an insane number of contenders
i mean, unless you had more than one radio set (and i'm really not sure why it never occurred to me to do that - buy multiple cheap radio-recorders) you could only listen to one station at a time - and you were also limited to what you could pick up in your corner of London
now there's this overload of archived sets from all across the city (and elsewhere in the UK), almost to the point you could live "there/then" permanently as a listener and rarely listen to the same set twice.
incidentally in the brand new issue of the Wire, Michaelangelo Matos has done a Primer to UK Pirate Radio DJ Sets, starting around 1988 and going through to the end of the 2000s. He's done a good job framing the evolution and found a lot of gems, drawing on his formidable resources of obsessive-compulsiveness and sifting through what seems to have been an insane number of contenders